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A National Crime

The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

by John S. Milloy ...

Series Book 11 - Critical Studies in Native History
WINNER Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books, 2005WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, 1999“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”—Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)"[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential ... Read more

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WINNER Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books, 2005WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, 1999“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.”—Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)"[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential
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A National Crime

The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

by John S. Milloy ...

Series Book 11 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

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“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children
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The Plains Cree

Trade, Diplomacy, and War, 1790 to 1870

by John S. Milloy ...

Series Book 4 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870.Milloy describes three distinct eras, each characterized by a paramount motive for war—the wars of migration and territory, the horse wars during the ... Read more

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The first economic, military, and diplomatic history of the Plains Cree from contact with the Europeans in the 1670s to the disappearance of the buffalo from Cree lands by the 1870s, focussing on military and trade relations between 1790 and 1870.Milloy describes three distinct eras, each characterized by a paramount motive for war—the wars of migration and territory, the horse wars during the
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A National Crime

The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

by John S. Milloy ...

Narrated by Wesley French ...

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17 hours 40 min

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children ... Read more

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“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923)“[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948)For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children
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A More Perfect Union

by Tammye Huf ...

Narrated by Gary Furlong, Chanté McCormick, Patryce Williams ...

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9 hours 15 min

Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined…Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and heads south to Virginia, seeking work as a ... Read more

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Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined…Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and heads south to Virginia, seeking work as a
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The World Turned Upside Down

A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

by Yang Jisheng ...

Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

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26 hours 19 min

As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he ... Read more

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As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong's ultra-leftist politics. Reacting in part to the Soviet Union's "revisionism" that he regarded as a threat to the future of socialism, Mao mobilized the masses in a battle against what he
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The Reckoning

Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal

by Mary L. Trump PhD ...

Narrated by Mary L. Trump PhD ...

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5 hours 31 min

This program is read by the author.The instant New York Times and USA Today bestsellerAmerica is suffering from PTSD—The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an “other” or an enemy. Women were ... Read more

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This program is read by the author.The instant New York Times and USA Today bestsellerAmerica is suffering from PTSD—The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps us begin the healing process.For four years, Donald J. Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an “other” or an enemy. Women were
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The Willow Wren

A Novel

by Philipp Schott ...

Narrated by Brian Webber ...

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10 hours 17 min

The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy.Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies, ... Read more

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The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy.Ludwig is an odd and introverted child, growing up in Hitler’s Germany. While Ludwig’s father, Wilhelm, is a senior Nazi and a true believer, Ludwig escapes the unfolding catastrophe by withdrawing into nature and books. Eventually, when the Allied bombing campaign intensifies,
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Singapore Sapphire

by A. M. Stuart ...

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld ...

Series Audiobook 1 - A Harriet Gordon Mystery
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10 hours 48 min

Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way.**Singapore, 1910--**Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule ... Read more

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Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way.**Singapore, 1910--**Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule
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Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

by Kristina McMorris ...

Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney ...

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13 hours 46 min

An "impeccably researched and beautifully written" novel about a California marriage threatened by the Japanese internments of WWII (Karen White, New York Times–bestselling author of The Sound of Glass).Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable elegance of a Bach concerto. Then she fell in love with Lane Moritomo.Her brother's best friend, Lane ... Read more

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An "impeccably researched and beautifully written" novel about a California marriage threatened by the Japanese internments of WWII (Karen White, New York Times–bestselling author of The Sound of Glass).Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable elegance of a Bach concerto. Then she fell in love with Lane Moritomo.Her brother's best friend, Lane
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Unreconciled

Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

by Jesse Wente ...

Narrated by Jesse Wente ...

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6 hours 53 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read."—Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read."—Thomas King, author of The Inconvenient Indian and
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A Bend in the Stars

by Rachel Barenbaum ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Thérèse Plummer ...

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13 hours 11 min

All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries.In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing ... Read more

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All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries.In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing
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