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  • The Black Baptist Experience in Canada

    Edited by Gordon L. Heath, Dudley A. Brown ...
    Series Book 19 - McMaster General Studies Series
    This groundbreaking book is a history of the Black Baptist experience in Canada. It includes diverse and informative chapters on events, themes, and organizations such as the underground railway, gender, architecture, literature, civil rights, empire, and associations. It also focuses on several key early churches from the West Coast to the East Coast, along with important personages such as ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ghost in My Brain

    How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back

    by Clark Elliott ...
    The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumasIn 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Ghost in My Brain, The

    How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back

    by Clark Elliott, Ph.D. ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 14 min

    The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas.In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence to a humbled man struggling to get through a single day. At times he couldn’t walk across a room, or ... Read more

    $49.46 CAD

  • Where Beauty Survived

    A Memoir of Race, Family Secrets, and Africadia

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    A vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke’s early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centred in Halifax, Nova Scotia.As a boy, George Elliott Clarke knew that a great deal was expected from him and his two brothers. The descendant of a highly accomplished lineage on his paternal side—great-grandson to William ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Traverse

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    From Toronto's poet laureate (2012–15) comes a new book that is a tour de force in confessional verse. This autobiographical sequence in 980 lines contains 70 stanzas of "skeletal sonnets" composed, astonishingly, in one day and one evening. Traverse is a web of intersecting, crisscrossing impulses, a great burst of imaginative energy and aesthetic reflection that celebrates a 30-year period of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Heart Forgery 10th Anniversary Anthology

    Edited by Georgia Atkin ...
    Open Heart Forgery is a Halifax-based grassroots organization that aims to give voice to Nova Scotia poets and to build a local community of writers and readers who love the written word.Since its creation in March 2010, Open Heart Forgery has published more than 1700 poems and lyrics by over 450 local writers. Run entirely by volunteers, the organization releases free monthly issues both online ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Motorcyclist

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    Just start your engine. Go.Carl Black is an intellectual and artist, a traveller, a reader and an unapologetic womanizer. A motorcyclist. He burns for the bohemian life, but is trapped in a railway porter’s prosaic—at times humiliating—existence. Taking place over one dramatic year in Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Motorcyclist vividly recounts Carl’s travels and romantic exploits as he tours the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extra Illicit Sonnets

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    Extra Illicit Sonnets chronicles a love affair between a man and a woman of different complexions, cultures, continents, and generations, Sonia Fuentes of Andorra and Luca Xifona of Canada. She is Spanish in heritage; and he is Maltese. She is a Boomer and he is of Generation Y-Not. The poetry consists mainly of unrhymed – or blank – sonnets. It is transcendent and dangerous verse because it ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Viola Desmond’s Canada

    A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

    by Graham Reynolds ...
    Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction! The Miramichi Reader’s best non-fiction book of 2016In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.Most Canadians are ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Using African American Literature to Teach ELA Standards Preschool-2nd Grade

    by Mary Clark-Elliott ...
    Using African American Literature to Teach ELA Standards (Preschool-2nd Grade) is a practical, standards-aligned instructional guide designed to help educators teach reading and writing through culturally responsive practices.This resource provides ready-to-use lesson plans, comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, and writing activities that support early learners in building strong ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Luminous Ink

    Writers on Writing in Canada

    by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M. G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...
    Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an introduction by the editors, Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, and Tessa McWatt.Contributors include: ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism

    E.J. Pratt’s Epic Ambition, ‘Race’ Consciousness, and the Contradictions of Canadian Identity

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    Series Book 1 - The Pratt Lectures
    In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a ‘National’ Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt’s poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And while Pratt’s epic poems, such as Brebeuf and His Brethren and Towards the Last Spike, stand as lofty poetic achievements, the poet is never able to escape his own identity and speak convincingly for all ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD