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Barb's Honourary Doctorate Convocation Speech

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Long Live Books!!!

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By Barb Minett

How a 5 year old girl whose mother took her to the library every Saturday ended up on this stage is a mystery to me.

June 21 - National Indigenous People's Day

This Wound is a World

By Billy-Ray Belcourt, Micheline Maylor

In the store

Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. Just won the Griffin Prize for Poetry.
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

By Leanne Simpson

In the store

Once you're read one of Leanne Simpson's books you will want to read them all.
Heart Berries: A Memoir

By Terese Marie Mailhot

In the store

Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation.
Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story

By Scott B. Henderson, David Alexander Robertson

In the store

A residential school story which may be read by the whole family.

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