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• In the Upper Country

  Thomas, Kai

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  Winner of the Governor General's Literary Prize, In the Upper Country is about "The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act--intertwine in this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hold My Girl

  a Novel

  Carr, Charlene

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  Hold my Girl by Nova Scotia based author Charlene Carr is "A heart-wrenching novel about two women whose eggs are switched during IVF" and explores the complexities of motherhood.

• Body So Fluorescent

  Cordner, Amanda,

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  Body So Fluorescent a play by Toronto-based playwright Amanda Cordner. The story is about the difficult relationship between two friends and their efforts to retrace their steps after a heated night of fighting. "Body So Fluorescent is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Races

  the Trials & Triumphs of Canada's Fastest Family

  Jerome, Valerie (Valerie E.),

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• Bedroom Rapper

  Cadence Weapon on Hip-hop, Resistance and Surviving the Music Industry

  Pemberton, Rollie, 1986-

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• Son of Elsewhere

  a Memoir in Pieces

  Abdelmahmoud, Elamin

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  Culture writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud debuts with a moving and candid exploration of the challenges and joys of coming-of-age as an immigrant.

• Africanthology

  Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets

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  This stunning anthology brings together some of Canada’s most distinguished dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices.

• I Am Because We Are

  An African Mother's Fight for the Soul of a Nation

  Akunyili-Parr, Chidiogo

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  In this innovative and intimate memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.

• Book of Wings

  a Novel

  Evanson, Tanya, 1972-

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  In this lyrical novel, an artist embarks on a global journey with her lover. Along the way, their relationship falls apart, but the artist finds herself on a path of personal and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Disorientation

  Being Black in the World

  Williams, Ian, 1979-

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  Scotiabank Giller Award-winning writer Ian Williams brings new insights to today's urgent conversation on race and racism through candid and thought-provoking essays born from his own experience as a Black man moving through the world.

• Gutter Child

  a Novel

  Richardson, Jael Ealey, 1980-

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  Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child reveals one young woman’s journey through a fractured world of heartbreaking disadvantages and shocking…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saga Boy

  My Life of Blackness and Becoming

  Downing, Antonio Michael, 1975-

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  Raised by his indomitable grandmother, Downing grew up in a tiny village in the tropical forests of Trinidad. But following her death, he and his brother move to rural Canada to live with their Aunt Joan.Richly evocative, Saga Boy is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Until We Are Free

  Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada

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• The Midnight Bargain

  Polk, C. L. (Chelsea L.)

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  A fast-paced, richly detailed historical fantasy set in a magical Regency England. Beatrice dreams of becoming the world's first great sorceress, but is bound by familial duty to be married off.

• Butter Honey Pig Bread

  a Novel

  Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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  Told through the interwoven stories of twin sisters and their mother, this is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Said This Would Be Fun

  Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

  Martis, Eternity

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  A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus. Using her award-winning reporting skills, Martis connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today.

• Burning Sugar

  Poems

  Blain, Cicely Belle, 1993-

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  In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies.

• Willie

  the Game-changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player

  O'Ree, Willie, 1935-

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  He broke hockey's colour barrier. Just as his hero, Jackie Robinson, had done for baseball. Inspiring, frank, and shot through with the kind of understated courage and decency required to change the world, Willie is a story for anyone willing to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Response of Weeds

  a Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies

  Bickersteth, Bertrand, 1969-

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  Bertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical.

• They Call Me George

  the Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada

  Foster, Cecil, 1954-

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