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    Our Home and Treaty Land

    Revised and Expanded Edition
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    Our Home and Treaty Land addresses the critical need for non-Indigenous peoples to face their past with honesty in order to navigate a harmonious way forward. In this revised edition, co-authors Ray Aldred and Matthew Anderson take you on an...

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    Nomenclature Of An Idle Thought

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    "And the irony of life was how long it took me to realize how short it is." In this unflinching collection of aphorisms, Isheiko Cleare reflects on love and loneliness, power and faith, childhood and identity. With a voice that’s inquisitive,...

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    The Making of a Radical Immigrant

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    The radical immigrant in the title of this book, Edo Jardas, was a young Croatian who arrived in Canada in May 1926 and worked for several years as a lumberjack in the hinterland of British Columbia. He was a loyal member of the Communist Party...

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    TIZITA

    A Memoir of Perseverance and Enchantment
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    Traversing personal narrative and broader social themes, this memoir will resonate with anyone who’s ever felt compelled to do good in the world, whether in person or by donation. Vivid descriptions, historical context and personal insights offer...

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    Climate and the Courage of Leadership

    Science, Policy and the Need for Heroes
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    We are rapidly approaching the point of no return on climate change. Climate and the Courage of Leadership addresses this critical moment with clarity and urgency. It explores why current political systems struggle to act and presents four...

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    Love for Sale

    Chronicles of a Canadian Call Girl
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    Sometimes hilarious and sometimes horrifying, this darkly candid memoir is guaranteed to educate and entertain. From precocious pre-pubescent to troubled trollop, Sandi takes you on a deep dive to her rock bottom that will leave you gasping for...

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    Holding HIV

    Poems of HOPE
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    What could an HIV cure mean? Holding HIV shares the raw, poetic voices of 27 San Francisco community members living with or affected by HIV. Born from the HOPE Research Collaboratory’s Community Arts Integrated Research program, this collection...

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    In the Event

    Living with an Earthquake
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    Dive into the frantic fight for survival in this riveting, firsthand account of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in 2011. In the Event: Living with an Earthquake takes readers onto the heaving, rolling streets as...

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    Stumbling Blindly Toward Grace

    A messy and miraculous memoir
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    You can’t be blind and drunk. Well, you can, but it’s messy. In Stumbling Blindly Toward Grace, Yvonne Garvey shares a raw, unflinching, and darkly funny account of her descent into addiction, heartbreak, and the slow unravelling of her vision....

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    Healing

    Lynn's Story - Getting My-Self Back The Woman's Revolution
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    In this their second book, feminist activists Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald share the story of Lynn, one of many women they supported, who was able to heal from more than four years of spousal non-state torture, human trafficking, and...