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#NotYourPrincess: voices of Native American women /edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale. Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change.
An anthology of monsters: how story saves us from our anxiety /Cherie Dimaline ; [foreword by Sarah Wylie Krotz].An Anthology of Monsters is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves–both the excellent and the horrible–can help reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and ultimately survive. Dimaline choreographs a deeply personal narrative about all the ways in which we cower and crush through stories.
Before the usual time: a collection of Indigenous stories and poems /Darlene Naponse, editor. A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land and that explore community in relation to time. Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now and time that comes.
Braiding sweetgrass for young adults: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants /Robin Wall Kimmerer ; adapted by Monique Gray Smith ; illustrations by Nicole Neidhardt. Kimmerer’s best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children’s author Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Building a dream: how the boys of Koh Panyee became champions /Darshana Khiani, Dow Phumiruk. In the Thai village of Koh Panyee, a team of boys builds their own football pitch on top of the Phang Na Bay.
Carving space: the Indigenous Voices Awards anthology /selected by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon. The Indigenous Voices Awards have nurtured the work of Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. A selection of standout works of the Indigenous Voices Award have been collected in an anthology that highlight some of the most groundbreaking Indigenous poetry, prose, and theatre in English, French, and in Indigenous languages.
Colorful Mondays: a bookmobile spreads hope in Honduras /Nelson Rodríguez, Leonardo Agustín Montes ; illustrated by Rosana Faría & Carla Tabora ; translated by Lawrence Schimel. When a bookmobile visits Luis’ neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.
Factfulness: ten reasons we’re wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think /Hans Rosling ; with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective, from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think.
Friend of numbers: the life of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan /written by Priya Narayanan ; illustrated by Satwik Gade. This picture book biography follows a South Indian mathematician whose love of numbers spurred him to ask big questions and make incredible discoveries. The book’s back matter includes an author’s note, a glossary of Ramanujan’s world, and mathematical content about number patterns and magic squares. This captivating biography follows the short but brilliant life of a man recognized as a genius in his time and our own. With bright, occasionally amusing art and compelling back matter, Friend of Numbers is an unforgettable portrait of one of history’s most incredible mathematical minds.
Human flourishing in a technological world: a theological perspective /edited by Jens Zimmermann. TWU AUTHOR. Human Flourishing in a Technological World addresses fundamental questions about human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. It includes the text of a lecture by virtual reality engineer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and a discussion between Lanier and other contributors.
I lay my stitches down: poems of American slavery /written by Cynthia Grady ; illustrated by Michele Wood. This rich and intricate collection of poems chronicles the various experiences of enslaved people in the United States. Named for traditional quilt block patterns like Log Cabin, Cotton Boll, and Schoolhouse, each poem–ten lines of ten syllables each–mimics the square shape of a quilt block. Readers experience slavery in America through fourteen different perspectives. Brought to life by vivid, expressive artwork from Michele Wood, this stirring and eloquent book offers a timeless witness to the hardship endured by enslaved men, women, and children. Each poem is supplemented by historical information and notes on quilting, musical, and spiritual references in the text.
Introduction to Christian worship /James F. White ; L. Edward Phillips, general editor and contributor. White’s classic Christian worship text, revised and updated. This new content brings the original up to date, filling significant gaps since the original publication on topics like technology, arts, embodiment in and of worship, pluralism and multiculturalism, denominational changes, and changes in the spaces and forms of worship, including worship in the age of pandemics.
Killing the Wittigo: Indigenous culture-based approaches to waking up, taking action, and doing the work of healing : a book for young adults /by Suzanne Methot. A powerful book that uses plain language to talk about colonial trauma and transformational change. Killing the Wittigo talks about the effects of colonization and the healing work being done by young Indigenous people toward individual and systemic change, through song lyrics and first-person accounts of their own journeys of decolonization and healing. Killing the Wittigo shatters the isolation and shame to talk about everything from managing triggers to what young people are asking of their parents and their leadership. Full of bold graphics, this book is a much-needed resource for young Indigenous people and those who work in the helping professions.
Naked economics: undressing the dismal science /Charles Wheelan ; foreword by Burton G. Malkiel. This revised and updated edition includes commentary on hot topics such as automation, trade, income inequality, and America’s rising debt. Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, Naked Economics examines how policymakers managed the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Demystifying buzzwords, laying bare the truths behind oft-quoted numbers, and answering the questions you were always too embarrassed to ask, the breezy Naked Economics gives you the tools to engage with pleasure and confidence in the deeply relevant, not so dismal science.
On the trapline /David A. Robertson, Julie Flett. A boy and Moshom, his grandpa, take a trip together to visit a place of great meaning to Moshom – where Moshom grew up. As they embark on their northern journey, the boy finds himself imagining what life was like two generations ago — a life that appears to be both different from and similar to his life now.
Overcoming suicidal thoughts for teens: CBT activities to reduce pain, increase hope & build meaningful connections /Jeremy W. Pettit, PhD Ryan M. Hill, PhD. If you or someone you love is dealing with a crisis right now, please call 988 (in Canada) to reach the Suicide Crisis Helpline.This gentle and effective guide will help teens overcome suicidal thoughts by reducing emotional pain, increasing hope, and building meaningful connections. Readers will learn specific skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), including how to establish safety plans, identify and manage intense emotions, limit stress, find purpose, and ultimately take control of their suicidal thoughts to move forward into a more optimistic and hopeful future. If you or someone you love is dealing with a crisis right now, please call 988 to reach the Suicide Crisis Helpline.
The Great Bear /David A. Robertson. In this second book in the Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series, Eli and Morgan travel back to Misewa, only to realize they’ve travelled back farther than expected. At school, Eli is being bullied, and while he tries to hide what’s happening to him from Morgan, she knows something is wrong. They turn to the place where they know they can learn the most, and make the journey back to the village to visit their anthropomorphic teachers.
The king of jam sandwiches /Eric Walters. Thirteen-year-old Robbie leads a double life. It’s just Robbie and his dad, but no one knows that his dad isn’t like most parents. Sometimes he wakes Robbie up in the middle of the night to talk about dying. Sometimes he just leaves without telling Robbie where he’s going. Robbie was scared of telling anyone in case he was put into foster care. Until one day when Robbie has to show the tough new girl, Harmony, around school and she punches Robbie in the face. Eventually they come to realize that they have a lot more in common than they thought.
The paper girl of Paris /Jordyn Taylor. Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II.
The proudest blue: a story of hijab and family /by Ibtihaj Muhammad with S.K. Ali ; art by Hatem Aly. Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
The sasquatch, the fire and the cedar baskets /Joseph Dandurand with illustrations by Simon Daniel James. Deep in the thickest part of a cedar forest there lived a young Sasquatch… So begins this charming story for children by Kwantlen storyteller Dandurand. The Sasquatch, spirit of the great cedar forest, eludes human hunters, falls in love, fathers a lovely daughter and saves his little family from a forest fire by dousing the flames with water stored in baskets carefully woven by his mate.
The soul of civility: timeless principles to heal society and ourselves /Alexandra Hudson. Hudson sheds light on how civility can help bridge our political divide. From classical philosophers like Epictetus, to great twentieth-century thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr., to her own experience working in the federal government during one of the most politically fraught eras in US history, Hudson examines how civility transcends political disagreements. The Soul of Civility empowers readers to live tolerantly with others despite deep differences, and to rigorously protest wrongs and debate issues rather than silencing disagreements.
Undoing hours /Selina Boan. Boan’s debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan’s poems emphasize sound and breath; they tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak, and of learning new ways to express and understand the world around her. Boan turns to language as one way to challenge the impact of assimilation policies and colonization on her own being and the landscapes she inhabits. These poems consider the ways language impacts the way we view and construct the world around us. Boan also explores what it means to be a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) woman actively building community and working to ground herself through language and relationships.
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