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• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Berry Pickers

  Peters, Amanda

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  A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that remains unsolved for nearly fifty years. The Berry Pickers is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• VenCo

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  One of the most powerful witches in North America, Meena has been called to bring together seven special witches and seven special spoons -- infused with magic and scattered to the four directions more than a century ago -- to form a magic circle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• River Meets the Sea

  a Novel

  Moorthy, Rachael

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  A spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins. An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five Little Indians

  Good, Michelle

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  Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.

• Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

  Stories

  Vowel, Chelsea

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  Inspired by classic and contemporary speculative fiction, Buffalo Is the New Buffalo explores science fiction tropes through a Metis lens: a Two-Spirit rougarou (shapeshifter) in the nineteenth century tries to solve a murder in her community and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Grandmother Begins the Story

  a Novel

  Porter, Michelle (Poet)

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  Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel.

• Màgòdiz

  Calderón, Gabe

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  Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Minor Chorus

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray

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  An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Return of the Trickster

  Robinson, Eden

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  All Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie, his hard-partying, gun-toting, literal witch of a mother, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions.

• Probably Ruby

  Bird-Wilson, Lisa

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  This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by a white couple who understand little of her Indigenous heritage. Growing up Ruby longs to know where she comes from and who her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Horse

  Wagamese, Richard

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  Saul Indian Horse, having hit rock bottom in a treatment centre for alcohol addiction, wants peace. He sees the only way to find it is to tell his life story as a Northern Ojibway with all its joys and sorrows. As he journeys back he comes to…Read moreRead more of this annotation