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  • My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell

    by Arthur Bear Chief, Frits Pannekoek, Judy Bedford ...
    Series series Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
    My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a simple and outspoken account of the sexual and psychological abuse that Arthur Bear Chief suffered during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. In a series of chronological vignettes, Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun and then later relived in the traumatic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Going Solo

    The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience.Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Waking Up White

    and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

    by Debby Irving ...
    Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Children of the Broken Treaty

    Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

    by Charlie Angus ...
    Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country’s history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of “five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.”All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Backlash

    The Undeclared War Against American Women

    by Susan Faludi ...
    A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyondWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, Backlash is, most of all, true.”—NewsdayFirst published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

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  • Dream Hoarders

    How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

    by Richard V. Reeves ...
    Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent?we are the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The XX Factor

    How The Rise Of Working Women Has Created A Far Less Equal World

    by Alison Wolf ...
    For most of history, being female defined the limits of a woman’s achievements. But now women can be successful careerists equal to men. In Norway, women legally must constitute a third of all boards; in the U.S.A., women have gone from being 3 percent of practising lawyers in 1970 to 40 percent today. Currently, more than seventy million educated women work alongside men. ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Tilly, a Story of Hope and Resilience

    by Monique Gray Smith ...
    Tilly has always known she’s part Lakota on her dad’s side. She’s grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn’t until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too—a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby.Tilly feels her mother’s pain deeply. She’s always had trouble ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Resistance and Renewal

    Surviving the Indian Residential School

    by Celia Haig-Brown ...
    One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School(KIRS) in the British Columbia interior. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents of KIRS, form the nucleus of the book, a frank depiction of school life, and a telling account ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speaking Our Truth

    A Journey of Reconciliation

    by Monique Gray Smith ...
    ★"Smith's book is an effort that returns, offering diverse voices that invite the world into the reconciliation experience. Absolutely necessary.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewCanada's relationship with its Indigenous people has suffered as a result of both the residential school system and the lack of understanding of the historical and current impact of those schools. Healing and repairing that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Richer Sex

    How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

    by Liza Mundy ...
    A REVOLUTION IS UNDER WAY.Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what surprising adjustments will have to be made along the way, and how both men and women will feel surprisingly liberated in the end.The bestselling author and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Medicine Unbundled

    A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care

    by Gary Geddes ...
    "We can no longer pretend we don't know about residential schools, murdered and missing Aboriginal women and 'Indian hospitals.' The only outstanding question is how we respond."—Tom Sandborn, Vancouver SunA shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer's ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD