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2025"Tareq Baconi crafts a deeply intimate, unforgettable portrait of how a political consciousness -- desire and resistance -- is passed down through generations. In 1948, Tareq's grandmother, Eva,…Catalogue Item
Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead2025"[A] look at that most elemental force, water, and through Indigenous stories, tradition, and thinking, suggest[ing] a powerful path for the future. For many years, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson took…Catalogue Item
Building the Dams, Mines and Megaprojects That Run Our World2025"This Rare Earth is a graphic account of twenty-five years working for some of the largest mining and engineering companies in the world. Much of this work was conducted in in conflict zones where…Catalogue Item
The Triumph and Tumult of NPR2025"An epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media empires. Founded in 1970, NPR is…
Sophie Kinsella 1969-2025
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A Novel2019'Tis the season for change and Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is embracing it, returning from the States to live in the charming village of Letherby and working with her best friend, Suze, in the gift…Catalogue Item
A Novel2023"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen…Catalogue Item
A Novel2024"Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the…Catalogue Item
A Novel2020"Call Ava romantic, but she thinks love should be found in the real world, not on apps that filter men by height, job, or astrological sign. She believes in feelings, not algorithms. So after a…
Yes, We Have Large Print Books for Kids!
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2025Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other…Catalogue Item
2024"Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They each feel disconnected, from their culture…Catalogue Item
2024"Ask Simon O'Keeffe why his family moved to tiny Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, and he'll tell you they were driven out of Omaha by alpacas. In Simon's version of the story, a blessing of the animals…Catalogue Item
2024Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren't her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she's…
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