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DreadfulWater : a mystery / by King, Thomas,1943-author.; revision of:GoodWeather, Hartley.DreadfulWater shows up.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Ex-police officers; Cherokee Indians; Photographers; Murder; Community activists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wenjack / by Boyden, Joseph,1966-author.; Richardson, C. S.,designer.; Monkman, Kent,illustrator.;
"An Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School. He realizes too late just how far away home is. Along the way he's followed by Manitous, spirits of the forest who comment on his plight, cajoling, taunting, and ultimately offering him a type of comfort on his difficult journey back to the place he was so brutally removed from." Written by Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Joseph Boyden and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed artist Ken Monkman, Wenjack is a powerful and poignant look into the world of a residential school runaway trying to find his way home.--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Indians of North America; Native peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Close to the bone / by Ray, Lisa,1972-author.;
Lisa Ray is one of India's first supermodels. She's also an actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins through surrogacy. Close to the Bone is an unflinching, deeply moving account of Lisa Ray's life, tracing her childhood in Canada as the biracial daughter of an Indian man and a Polish woman, her rise as a popular Bollywood star, and her battle with a rare, incurable cancer.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Ray, Lisa, 1972-; Motion picture actors and actresses; Models (Persons); Cancer;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography / by Warner, Andrea,1979-author.;
Includes bibliographical references, a discography and index."A powerful, intimate look at the life and music of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie's first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting). Since her groundbreaking debut, 1964's It's my way!, the Cree singer-songwriter has been a trailblazer and a tireless advocate for Indigenous rights and freedoms, an innovative artist, and a disruptor of the status quo. Establishing herself among the ranks of folk greats such as Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, she has released more than twenty albums, survived being blacklisted by two U.S. presidents, and received countless accolades, including the only Academy Award ever to be won by a First Nations artist. But this biography does more than celebrate Sainte-Marie's unparalleled talent as a songwriter and entertainer; packed with insight and knowledge, it offers an unflinchingly honest, heartbreakingly real portrait of the woman herself, including the challenges she experienced on the periphery of showbiz, her healing from the trauma of childhood and intimate partner violence, her commitment to activism, and her leadership in the protest movement."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Sainte-Marie, Buffy.; Singers; Composers; Cree Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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To save the man / by Sayles, John,author.;
"In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, one of America's greatest storytellers sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the 'cultural genocide' experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School ... In September of 1890, the academic year begins at the Carlisle school -- a military-style boarding school for Indians run by Captain Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt's motto, "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" is enforced in the classroom as well as the dorm rooms: speak English, forget your own language and customs, learn to be white. While the students navigate survival, they hear rumors of a ceremonial dance sweeping tribal lands reservations in the west -- the "ghost dance," whereby desperate Native Americans engaged in frenzied dancing and chanting hoping it will cause the buffalo to return, the Indian dead to rise, and the white people to disappear. Local whites panic, and the government sends in troops to keep the reservations under control. When legendary medicine man Sitting Bull is killed by native police working for the government troops, each Carlisle resident is faced with the question: Whose side are you on? And what will you risk to gain your freedom?"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Ghost dance; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples; Residential schools;
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The shape of family : a novel / by Gowda, Shilpi Somaya,author.;
The Olander family embodies the modern American Dream in a globalized world. Jaya, the cultured daughter of an Indian diplomat and Keith, an ambitious banker from middle-class Philadelphia, meet in a London pub in 1988 and make a life together in suburban California. Their strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem, the light of their home. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family's foundation cracks as each member struggles to seek a way forward. Jaya finds solace in spirituality. Keith wagers on his high-powered career. Karina focuses relentlessly on her future and independence. And Prem watches helplessly as his once close-knit family drifts apart.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; East Indian Americans; Families; Suburban life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The guilt pill / by Dave, Saumya,author.;
Maya Patel has it all--her own start-up, a sexy, doting husband, influencer status, and now, a new baby. Or does she? Because behind closed doors, Maya's drowning. Her newborn's taking a toll on her marriage, her best friend won't return her calls, and her company's hanging on by a thread. The worst part? It's all her fault. If she could just be a better boss, mother, wife, daughter, friend ... Maybe she wouldn't feel so guilty all the time. Enter: #Girlboss Liz Anderson, who introduces her to the "guilt pill," an experimental supplement that erases female guilt. At first, it's the perfect antidote to Maya's self-blame and imposter syndrome, and she finally becomes the unapologetic woman she's always wanted to be. But there's a catch: for Maya to truly "have it all," she needs to be ready to risk it all. And as Maya falls deeper and deeper down the pill's guilt-free rabbit hole, her growing ruthlessness could threaten everything she's built for herself--and the family she's worked so hard to protect. Electric, taut, and sharply observed, The Guilt Pill is a feminist exploration of motherhood, race, ambition, and how the world treats women who dare to go after everything they want.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; East Indian Americans; Families; Guilt; New mothers; Pills; Women, East Indian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The great divide [text (large print)] : a novel / by Henríquez, Cristina,1977-author.;
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Barbadians; Cultural pluralism; Fathers and sons; Malaria; Scientists; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The train / by Callaghan, Jodie,1984-; Lesley, Georgia.;
Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her conversations with survivors--including her own grandmother's experience at Indian day school, and memories shared with her by a man she interviewed by the train tracks that transported children to residential school in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Jodie's story for The Train was first recognized as the winner of the Mi'gmaq Writer's Award in 2009, a contest organized by the Mi'gmawei Mawiomi Secretariat to encourage and develop Mi'gmaq storytellers.LSC
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Separation (Psychology); Off-reservation boarding schools; Indians of North America; Railroad trains;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Wandering stars [sound recording] / by Orange, Tommy,1982-author.; Taylor-Corbett, Shaun,1978-narrator.; Andrews, MacLeod,narrator.; Cuervo, Alma,1951-narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young, Charley Flyte."Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.); Indigenous children; Indigenous peoples; Indigenous peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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