It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad...
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- Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
Joanne Kilbourn investigates the murder of a prostitute whose client list included the name of Joanne's new husband, Zach.
- Author:Stegner, WallaceSummary:
Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from place to place, seeking a living. The conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the American dream gives the book great resonance and...
- Author:Bingaman, SandraSummary:
In Storm of the Century: The Regina Tornado of 1912, author Sandra Bingaman recounts one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history--the rare F4 tornado that obliterated a broad swatch of Regina, Saskatchewan 100 years ago. With...
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Stories of the road allowance people are old men's stories, translated by Maria Campbell and given to you in the dialect and rhythm of her village and her father's generation. In the M¿Æis oral tradition, these stories must be...
- Author:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSummary:
Please note: legislation affecting adults in special-care homes may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please...
- Author:Pacholik, BarbSummary:
- Author:Caron, MaiaSummary:
This historical novel reimagines the North-West resistance of 1885 through the Métis women of Batoche, and in particular the rebellious outsider, Josette Lavoie. When Riel arrives from Montana, he discovers that Josette is the...
- Author:Doig, NoelSummary:
Most people know that in 1962 Saskatchewan became the "birthplace of Medicare" and that the rest of Canada soon followed. But few people today remember the political fight that the people of the province and its doctors waged in...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Danny wants to be a farmer. He only wishes that the town bully, Zach, would leave him alone. Is there any way Danny can protect himself?
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths with the...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
Scattered Bones is a story of the complicated, fragile and sometimes fatal relations between Indigenous people and settlers in Northern Saskatchewan in the 1920s. Aboriginal spiritual traditions are beginning to cross paths...
- Author:Armstrong, NickySummary:
Saving Jesse is based on a diary Nicky started when she was asked by physicians to record the frequency and duration of Jesse's seizures. It became much more than a simple log. Told at the pace of a well plotted novel, Saving Jesse is a...
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- Author:Millar, RuthSummary:
Twelve amazing Saskatchewan men and women: Kathleen Rice, Ernest Dufalt (alias Will James), Charlie Parmer, Big Tom Hourie, Norman Falkner, Morris "Two-Gun" Cohen, Jean Ewen, Gladys Arnold, Father John Claffey, Joan Bamford...
- Author:Waiser, W. A.Summary:
Written in commemoration of the centennial celebrations in 2005, Saskatchewan: A New History tells, above all, the engaging stories of the people of Saskatchewan. Their wisdom, foresight, bravery, toil, and eternal optimism gave birth...
- Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
Daphne sees her teacher plummet from the belfry at the top of her school and is plunged into a spine-tingling mystery in which she and her friends are all that stand in the way of a truly horrible crime.
- Author:Henderson, NormanSummary:
In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the...
- Author:Dueck, AdeleSummary:
It's 1908, and twelve-year-old Erik faces the challenges of adapting to pioneer life on the Canadian prairie and understanding what's really going on in his family.
Erik never wanted to leave his grandfather's farm, and the...
- Author:Dhillon, JaskiranSummary:
"In 2016, Canada's newly elected federal government publically committed to reconciling the social and material deprivation of Indigenous communities across the country. Does this outward shift in the Canadian state's approach to...