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  • Tracking the Caribou Queen

    Memoir of a Settler Girlhood

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    In this challenging memoir about her formative years in Yellowknife in the ’60s and ’70s, author Margaret Macpherson lays bare her own white privilege, her multitude of unexamined microaggressions, and how her childhood was shaped by the colonialism and systemic racism that continues today. Macpherson’s father, first a principal and later a federal government administrator, oversaw education in ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Canadian Political Bundle

    Nellie McClung / William Lyon Mackenzie King / John Diefenbaker/ René Lévesque / Maurice Duplessis / James Douglas / John A. Macdonald / Joey Smallwood / Wilfrid Laurier

    by Arthur Slade, Roderick Stewart, Margaret Macpherson, Marguerite Paulin, Ged Martin, Ray Argyle, Julie H. Ferguson, lian goodall ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting nine titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich political history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential lives. Profiled are: prime ministers John Diefenbaker, John A. Macdonald, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Wilfrid Laurier; suffragette Nellie McClung; and provincial leaders ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tilting Towards Joy

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences, unexpected conflicts, and shifting relationships.Among the characters we meet are an empty ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Nellie McClung

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    Series Book 10 - Quest Biography
    Writer, activist, and politician Nellie McLung (1873-1951) was a strong and effective voice for the women’s movement. She was one of the Famous Five suffragists from Alberta whose court challenge in the Persons Case led to women in Canada being declared to be legal "persons" in 1929.|Margaret Macpherson holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and has ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Body Trade

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    Body Trade weaves together two stories of survival. The main narrative follows Rosie and Tanya, two young Canadian women who decide to leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America. The story takes a life-defining twist when their search for freedom and adventure beings them into contact with predators of the Central ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Perilous Departures

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    A small-town Bill Clinton look-alike agonizes over whether to accept a tempting offer from the CIA; an obese young woman finds love in a prairie cafe; a lonely child encounters a supernatural being; a teenage girl struggles with a sexual predator as she hitchhikes on the autobahn; a newly divorced man tries to return his adopted children; two brothers and a sister take their father's ashes back to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Released

    by Margaret Macpherson ...
    A yellowed newspaper clipping about a recently released prisoner who has saved a drowning boy triggers a wrenching journey into memory for middle-aged Ruth Callis, forcing her to confront the events of her past and, ultimately, her own act of forgiveness.Growing up in the far North, Ruth is attracted to the young missionaries working in her town and becomes increasingly involved in the activities ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    by Monique Polak ...
    Series series Orca Currents
    Inspired by real-life events, Hate Mail examines the transformative power of speaking out against prejudice.Jordie’s cousin Todd has moved back to Montreal and is attending Jordie’s high school. Todd has autism and requires an aide. Todd has not been welcomed in the school. He’s known as a freak, and even other parents seem to resent Todd’s special needs. Jordie does everything he can to distance ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Girl in the Wall

    by Alison Preston ...
    Series Book 5 - A Norwood Flats Mystery
    After leaving the Winnipeg Police force, former Inspector Frank Foote has gone into home renovations. Tearing down a wall on a Norwood Flats job one day, he and his partner come across the skeleton of a small female who has been imprisoned there. They alert the police, who confiscate their tools and remove them from the crime scene. Frank doesn’t tell them about the photograph he’s found tucked in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Clock of Heaven

    by Dian Day ...
    Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life—a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy—as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing. Eccentric and enigmatic, Esa’s childhood has prepared her to deal with the world with endurance and resilience, but not with joy. She remains “mystified by kindness” and the friendship offered to her by her employer, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Some Girls Do

    by Teresa McWhirter ...
    In prose that’s as sharp as broken glass and shot through with poetry, Teresa McWhirter unlocks the extraordinary subculture of urban adults in their twenties and early thirties. Most startling of all are the portraits of young women—tough, independent party girls who are strong enough to say “no” to love and smart enough to know why.Praise for Some Girls Do:“Some Girls Do is a sharp, poetic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Five Little Indians

    A Novel

    by Michelle Good ...
    WINNER: Canada Reads 2022WINNER: Governor General’s Literary Award for FictionWINNER: Amazon First Novel AwardWINNER: Kobo Emerging Author PrizeFinalist: Scotiabank Giller PrizeFinalist: Atwood Gibson Writers Trust PrizeFinalist: BC & Yukon Book PrizeShortlist: Indigenous Voices AwardsNational Bestseller; A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year; A CBC Best Book of the Year; An Apple Best Book of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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