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  • Copper Woman

    And Other Poems

    by Afua Cooper ...
    Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics and flights of fancy. The contents move back and forth between the past and the present, and project into the future, envisioning a new world/a new creation. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home.“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.” — Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The IllegalThe Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In the Light of Dawn

    The History and Legacy of a Black Canadian Community

    by Marie Carter ...
    Series series The Henry and Mary Bibb Series in Black Canadian Studies
    Illuminating two hundred years of lost Black History through the lens of an iconic abolitionist settlementIn the Light of Dawn shines a spotlight on the Dawn Settlement, a historic abolitionist community in rural Ontario led by Reverend Josiah Henson (the real “Uncle Tom” of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s landmark anti-slavery novel), and reveals how the town’s scope and impact eclipses previously narrow ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Black Matters

    by Afua Cooper, Wilfried Raussert ...
    Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates Raussert’s photos into poetry, painting a profound image of what disembodied historical facts might look like when they are embodied in contemporary ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Black Writers Matter

    Revised Edition

    Edited by Whitney French ...
    "Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, Truculent, Urgent, Vivacious, Wicked, X-ray sharp, Yearning, Zesty. And so, they matter!" —George Elliott ClarkeAn anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writers Matter offers a cross ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • My Name Is Henry Bibb

    A Story of Slavery and Freedom

    by Afua Cooper ...
    Often shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper's novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and founder of a Black newspaper. Cooper takes painstakingly researched details about slavery and weaves an intimate story of Bibb's young life, which is overshadowed by inconceivable brutality.At nine ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • My Name Is Phillis Wheatley

    A Story of Slavery and Freedom

    by Afua Cooper ...
    This is the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, who is born into an African family of griots, or storytellers, but captured by slave raiders and forced aboard a slave ship, where appalling conditions spell death for many of her companions. Numerous sharks follow the ship, feeding on the corpses of slaves thrown overboard.Weakened by the voyage and near death in a Boston slave market, Wheatley is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dear Canada: Hoping for Home

    by Brian Doyle, Rukhsana Khan, Paul Yee, Afua Cooper, Ruby Slipperjack, Irene N. Watts, Kit Pearson, Jean Little, Shelley Tanaka ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life.In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Black Writers Matter

    Edited by Whitney French ...
    "Black Writers? African, Bluesy, Classical, Disrespectful, Erudite, Fiery, Groovy, Haunting, Inspiring, Jazzy, Knowing, Liberating, Militant, Nervy, Optimistic, Pugnacious, Quixotic, Rambunctious, Seductive, Truculent, Urgent, Vivacious, Wicked, X-ray sharp, Yearning, Zesty. And so, they matter!" —George Elliott Clarke An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writers Matter offers a cross ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    The Underground Railroad

    Next Stop, Toronto!

    by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
    Narrated by Keda Edwards Pierre ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 57 min

    Stories of the hopeful, brave people who fled slavery and made Toronto their home.“An engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s.” — Lawrence Hill, bestselling author of The IllegalThe Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! explores Toronto’s role as a destination for thousands of freedom seekers before the American Civil War. This new edition ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Behind Enemy Lines

    The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany

    by Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden ...
    Narrated by Kirsten Potter ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    Marthe Cohn was a young Jewish woman living just across the German border in France when Hitler rose to power. Her family sheltered Jews fleeing the Nazis, including Jewish children sent away by their terrified parents. But soon her homeland was also under Nazi rule. As the Nazi occupation escalated, Marthe's sister was arrested and sent to Auschwitz and the rest of her family was forced to flee ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook