12-year-old Ella is surprised by an unusual birthday gift from her father: a Brownie camera and the advice to seek pictures of things that 'don't belong'. This is how Ella first notices Billy, a boy at her school. When Ella's mother's...
Saskatchewan
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Author:Draper, PennySummary: -
Author:Johnson, Harold R.Summary:Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a...
- Author:Dahlgren, KalebSummary:
An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural...
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Author:Johnson, HaroldSummary:Eighty years have passed since flash floods, droughts, and tornadoes have ravaged the North American landscape and mass migrations to the north have led to decade-long wars. In the thriving city of La Ronge, George Taylor and Lenore...
- Author:Warren, DianneSummary:
Juliet, Saskatchewan sits at the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. The heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people, and their stories bring the prairie desert and the town to vivid and enduring life....
- Author:Downe, PamelaSummary:
This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in what has been called Canada's "HIV hot zone."
- Author:Bell, Eric, Reder, Deanna, Nest, Michael WallaceSummary:
A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada...
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Author:Wheeler, Jordan, Jackson, DennisSummary:Three city kids increase their survival skills and their understanding of the North when they go to their Mushum's cabin for Christmas
At Christmas time in Northern Saskatchewan, three Cree kids - Talon, Raven and T-Bear - visit...
- Author:Vitaris, MarkSummary:
The book is a photographic discourse on the country that straddles the forty-ninth parallel from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the grasslands of Saskatchewan and to the western Dakotas. It depicts the land metaphorically...
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Author:Warwaruk, LarrySummary:Bone Coulee: In old age, Mac Chorniak is burdened by the memory of a racist crime in his past. Through acts of penance both official and personal, Mac struggles to find redemption.
As teenagers, in a drunken incident Mac Chorniak...
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Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:There are too many stories about Indigenous women who go missing or are murdered, and it doesn't seem as though official sources such as government, police or the courts respond in a way that works toward finding justice or even...
- Author:Siggins, MaggieSummary:
For over 200 years, Pelican Narrows Indian Reserve in northern Saskatchewan has endured a torturous relationship with the encroaching European culture, from the Hudson{u2019}s Bay Company factors and Oblate missionaries of earlier times...
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Author:Summary:For over 100 years, the Regina Public Library has served its community with innovative programming, but the full story of this venerable institution has never been told-until now. From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured...
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Author:Dalgarno, KenSummary:There can be few places in the world where the visual impact of the landscape is as hauntingly captivating as the Badlands of the Northern Great Plains. Encompassing Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Montana, these amazing regions...
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Author:McGrane, DavidSummary:Allan Blakeney believed in government as a force for good. As premier of Saskatchewan, he promoted social justice through government intervention in the economy and the welfare state. He created legal and constitutional structures that...
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Author:Kerr, DonSummary:Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...
- Author:Coutts, RobertSummary:
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
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The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of The Last Crossing, August Into Winter is an epic story of crime and retribution, of war and its long shadow,...
- Author:Kuchinka, JenniferSummary:
Jennifer Kuchinka was a new mother in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, struggling with postpartum depression when she ran out of the hospital, onto the highway, and was hit by a tractor-trailer truck. Jennifer survived that harrowing...
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Author:Mehlmann, GloriaSummary:Adam's Tree is a fictional account of life on the Cowesses First Nation in Saskatchewan during the 1940's and 50's. This period in history finds forces like regulatory policy, World War II, systemic racism, and the long reach of the...
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