Canada Reads 2018

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Wapiti Regional Library

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Out Standing In The Field: A Memoir By Canada's First Female Infantry Officer Book By Sandra Perron, ('tp')

Some books are catalysts. Shake Hands with the Devil was one. For 2017, that book is Out Standing in the Field . In her memoir, Sandra Perron describes her experience of the Canadian Military - one of the most important institutions of our nation. What she has to say is exactly what the top brass has been paying lip-service to for years, and doing nothing to improve. In 2016, the Auditor General''s Report noted that the military had no strategy to recruit women, even though they are r...

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Connection | Scoop.it

Interview with Cherie Dimaline: After winning the Kirkus Prize and Governor General's Award for The Marrow Thieves, author gives her take on moving forward and surviving the past

Seven Fallen Feathers

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Dance, Gladys, Dance Book By Cassie Stocks, ('tp')

"Beautiful old phonograph for sale. Excellent condition, Gladys doesn't dance anymore. She needs the room to bake." Dance, Gladys, Dance: A Novel by Cassie Stocks. Pinner writes: "The uplifting story of a woman whose uncanny connection with a kindred spirit causes her to see her life in a new way — as anything but ordinary."

Fiction Books Worth Reading

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The Clothesline Swing by Ahmad Danny Ramadan

The Measure Of A Man

Measure Of A Man

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Penguin Random House

"The Measure of a Man" by JJ Lee - shortlisted for the 2012 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize

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Encore -- Scarborough / Catherine Hernandez

"Scarborough" by Catherine Hernandez

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Availability: Tomboy survival guide / Ivan E. Coyote.

Ivan's memoir recounting the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in the Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.

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Brother by David Chariandy | Penguin Random House Canada

Brother by David Chariandy, recipient of the 2018 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize

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Suzanne | WorldCat.org

Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, translated from the French by Rhonda Mullins (Canada, Coach House). Shortlisted.