15.
Series:
News at Noon
1st edition
Paperback
Anietie Isong
9781913090838
$21.95
FICTION
Jan 11, 2024
The new satire from the author of Radio Sunrise.Who will be the next president of the Society of Journalists in Lagos? Who is qualified to lead the esteemed body of journalists and help uphold professional ethics in the state? Will honesty and integrity be able to beat charisma and misinformation?When a sick man flies in from a neighbouring country, he becomes Nigeria’s first ebola case—patient zero. As the cases rise and journalists across the country vie for the lead in reporting the news on the imminent pandemic, Ifiok and his colleagues mus...
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17.
Series: Legacy of Orisha
Children of Blood and Bone
Paperback
Tomi Adeyemi
9781250294623
$19.99
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 14 - 18
Aug 29, 2023
Instant New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Children's Books of 2018 TIME Top 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2018NPR's Book Concierge 2018 Great Reads List Buzzfeed's 24 Best YA Books of 2018Bustle's Top 25 Best Young Adults Books of 20182018 Kirkus Prize Finalist YALSA William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Paste Magazine’s 30 Best YA Novels of 2018Newsweek’s 61 Best Books from 2018Boston Globe’s Best Children's Books of 2018Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2018School Library Journal Best Books of 2018 With five starred...
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19.
Series: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series
Come My Children
Paperback
Hekmat Al-Taweel
9781772126761
$24.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jul 13, 2023
Hekmat Al-Taweel (1922-2008) was a native Palestinian Christian from Gaza City whose narrative provides an unfamiliar perspective on Muslim–Christian relationships in Gaza, highlighting shared history, culture, customs, and traditions. In relating her life story, continuing education after marriage, volunteer work, activism, and aspirations, she invites readers to understand her experiences in a way that contradicts widespread Western orientalized stereotypes of Arab women. She also shares insights into life in Gaza during the British Mandate p...
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23.
Series: Do You Know My Name?
She's a Mensch!
Ten Amazing Jewish Women
Paperback
Anne Dublin
9781772603200
$22.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
May 23, 2023
From the poorest neighborhoods in Kenya to the halls of the Canadian Supreme Court, the Jewish women found in these pages have accomplished remarkable feats. Some survived the horrors of the Holocaust while others had more peaceful childhoods, but all of them saw unfairness in their world and decided to do something about it. Despite living in hiding throughout the Second World War, Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti went on to win four Olympic gold medals at age thirty-five. South African Ruth First used her privilege as a white woman to battle he...
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24.
Series:
Phoenix ani’ Gichichi-i’/Phoenix Gets Greater
Dual-language edition in English and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe)
Hardcover
Marty Wilson-Trudeau
9781772603248
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
May 23, 2023
Phoenix loves to play with dolls and marvel at pretty fabrics. Most of all, he loves to dance—ballet, Pow Wow dancing, or just swirling and twirling around his house. Sometimes Phoenix gets picked on and he struggles with feeling different, but his mom and brother are proud of him. With their help, Phoenix learns about Two Spirit/Niizh Manidoowag people in Anishinaabe culture and just how special he is. Based on the childhood experiences of her son, Phoenix, Marty Wilson-Trudeau demonstrates the difference that a loving and supportive family ca...
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25.
Series:
Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold
Paperback
Jessica Outram
9781772603187
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
May 16, 2023
It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it. Inspired by her beloved Mémèr’s stories of their Métis family’s adventures and hardships, Bernice takes the treasure map the stranger left behind and sets out in a rowboat with nothing more than her two dogs for company and the dream of changing her family’s fo...
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26.
Series: Do You Know My Name?
World Shakers
Inspiring Women Activists
Paperback
Helen Wolfe
9781772603224
$22.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
May 16, 2023
What does it take to change the world? Whether it was the rule that forced Muslim women athletes like Ibtihaj Muhammad to choose between competition and wearing hijab or Indigenous women like Mary Two-Axe Earley to lose their official Indigenous status when they married white men, these women fought against it. Sometimes, they used their voice, like disability rights activist Judy Heumann, and Alicia Garza, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter. Sometimes, they led by example, like the STEM-loving Afghan Dreamers. All of them had the courage to ...
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27.
Series: Adventures of Salma
Salma Makes a Home
Hardcover
Danny Ramadan
9781773217611
$24.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
May 09, 2023
Charming, creative Salma takes on big feelings with even bigger ideas as she navigates life in a new country, Syrian identity, family changes and new friendships in this engaging and heartfelt early chapter book series. After a year, eleven months, and six days apart, Salma’s dad is finally joining her family in their new home. Salma is so happy to see her baba–but she’s also worried. What if he misses Syria so much that he leaves them again? She throws herself into showing him around the city and helping him learn English, but as Baba shares m...
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28.
Series: Adventures of Salma
Salma Makes a Home
Paperback
Danny Ramadan
9781773217628
$9.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 9
May 09, 2023
Charming, creative Salma takes on big feelings with even bigger ideas as she navigates life in a new country, Syrian identity, family changes and new friendships in this engaging and heartfelt early chapter book series. After a year, eleven months, and six days apart, Salma’s dad is finally joining her family in their new home. Salma is so happy to see her baba–but she’s also worried. What if he misses Syria so much that he leaves them again? She throws herself into showing him around the city and helping him learn English, but as Baba shares m...
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29.
Series:
Vee in Between
Hardcover
Valerie Kaiyang Wood
9781772603101
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
May 09, 2023
Vee’s favorite bedtime story is the night she met her parents. When Vee was nine months old, they flew to China to bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class and a woman at the grocery store makes Vee feel like she doesn’t belong, her white parents don’t always understand. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it’s hard when it feels like she has to choose. With help from another adoptee, can Vee find a way to celebrate being in between?
31.
Series:
I Am BIG
Hardcover
Itah Sadu
9781772603125
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
May 02, 2023
In the middle of the ice, a young Black hockey player finds joy in his talent and confidence in the cheers of his family, his coach, and the other players. Their support gives him the power to face down those who see him as a threat and to focus on the thrill of the game.
32.
Series:
The Most Beautiful Thing I Have Ever Seen
Hardcover
Nadia Devi Umadat
9781772603149
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 8
May 02, 2023
A little girl sees her mother’s fear when war comes to their home. Fear is replaced with hope when they board a huge, shiny airplane. When it lands, they are somewhere new, and slowly, it comes to feel like home. There are many new experiences, like the beautiful, fluffy snow. And the shrill school bell that reminds the little girl of the noises of war her family left behind. But with time and love, her family embraces their new life, and it is the most beautiful thing she has ever seen.
33.
Series:
Indigiqueerness
A Conversation about Storytelling
Paperback
Joshua Whitehead
9781771993913
$19.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Apr 25, 2023
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead’s energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.
39.
Series:
Pride and Joy
A Story About Becoming an LGBTQIA+ Ally
Hardcover
Frank J. Sileo
9781839975264
$24.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 100
Apr 21, 2023
Joy loves her big brother, Noah. He's the best brother, skateboarder and cookie baker there is! So, when Noah is teased for being gay, Joy wants to help. But how?Joy decides to become an ally - someone who supports others through their words and actions. With her best friend, Elliott, Joy takes action, baking 'Pride and Joy' cookies to raise money for the local LGBTQIA+ center. But when the bully tries to put an end to the bake sale, Joy learns that being an ally means using your words, too.Written by an award-winning author team, and with char...
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50.
Series:
Âmî Osâwâpikones (Dear Dandelion)
Hardcover
SJ Okemow
9781773217406
$23.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
May 23, 2023
A debut picture book that celebrates self-love, care, and resilience with one of the most widespread plants—the dandelion.Both a love letter to the dandelion and a call to love ourselves in a difficult world, Âmî Osâwâpikones reminds us that we are not defined as others see us. Following our young protagonist and the dandelions through the seasons, we are reminded that we are resilient, we are healers, we are funny, and we are loved.
51.
Series:
Uiesh / Somewhere
Paperback
Joséphine Bacon
9781772015140
$14.95
POETRY
Apr 18, 2023
Vital bilingual poetry by Innu Elder Joséphine BaconUiesh / Somewhere consists of short poems that speak directly to the reader, without artifice or pretension. They arise from Joséphine Bacon’s experience as an Innu woman, whose life has taken her from the nomadic ways of her Ancestors in the northern wilderness of Nitassinan, or Innu Territory, to the clamour and bustle of the city. Wherever she is, the poet and Elder is attentive to the smallest details of her environment … from the moon and the stars, the aurorae borealis, the falling snow,...
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52.
Series:
W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk
A Graphic Interpretation
Paperback
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
9781978824652
$24.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Age (years) from 16 - 99
Apr 14, 2023
There is a growing urgency, in classrooms as well as in publishing at large, to encompass the African American experience, African American thought and culture. Much of the recent headway has been made in the superhero framework, including Black Panther, but not only there. The tremendous success—in sales and prizes—of March, the trilogy based upon the life of Congressman John Lewis, is arguably a landmark. No greater figure exists in African-American thought, the shaping of modern narratives, than W.E.B. Du Bois, even after the nearly six deca...
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