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Taapoategl & Pallet: a Mi'kmaq journey of loss & survival
Par Peter J Clair. 2017
This novel tells the story of two Mi'kmaq individuals, two centuries apart. A girl named Taapoategl shows incredible faithfulness to…
culture and family in the most difficult of circumstances during the mid-18th century colonization by European settlers. A boy, Pallet, in the mid-20th century, embarks on a five-year wilderness quest for personal and cultural identity during which he enters an altered reality and encounters the storytelling foundation of his world. The stories of Taapoategl and Pallet converge in a dramatic and unforgettable way. 2017.Take us to your chief: and other stories
Par Drew Hayden Taylor. 2016
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to…
feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed against First Nations. A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs. Drawing inspiration from science fiction legends like Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, Drew Hayden Taylor frames classic science-fiction tropes in an Aboriginal perspective. 2016.Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends
Par Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.Tales of burning love
Par Louise Erdrich. 1997
Travelling to attend his funeral, four former wives of Jack Mauser are stranded in a blizzard in North Dakota. They…
share stories about their lives, their dreams and their passions. 1997.Sex in the city: London (Destination Erotica - London Ser.)
Par Maxim Jakubowski. 2010
Song of Batoche
Par Maia Caron. 2017
A historical novel about the Riel insurrection of 1885, largely from the point of view of the Métis women. It…
offers an interesting account of the lives of the Métis women as they move to support their husbands in the battle with Middleton. This includes Marguerite, Riel's wife, and Madeleine, Dumont's wife. There is also a good portrayal of Louis Riel and his struggle to create a homeland for the Métis on the South Saskatchewan and also to create a new Catholic religion, and an interesting account of Dumont as he struggles to stay loyal to Riel as he begins to realize what Riel's new religious views mean. 2017.Still here
Par Linda Grant. 2002
Alix Rebick is a survivor of the sexual revolution, but at forty-nine is resigned to spending the rest of her…
life alone. Returning to the bedside of her dying mother, Alix receives a final message that forces her to uncover family secrets that lie in pre-war Dresden. Joseph Shields, an American architect, is in a war - with Liverpool's underworld, with his wife back in Chicago who has left him and with memories of his time as a combat soldier. He is not interested in an affair with the woman who unlocks the city's secrets for him and is consumed with desire. Strong language. Descriptions of sex. 2002.Smoke River
Par Krista Foss. 2014
After a proposed subdivision becomes the site of a Mohawk protest -- the land, which has long formed a kind…
of neutral border between a reserve and the neighbouring town, is contested -- tensions escalate through three sweltering summer months, exposing old wounds, as well as forging new and surprising connections. The story is told in the voices of several characters, from the restless young Mohawk woman dreaming of adventure and fame in the wider world; to the successful businessman who has made good use of his position between two communities; to the high school hero whose inner life would shock his admirers; and to the unexpected lovers, who must weigh happiness against history and fierce pride. 2014.Spending: a utopian divertimento
Par Mary Gordon. 1998
Monica Szabo is a moderately successful New York artist when she meets B, a wealthy commodities trader who volunteers to…
be her muse, and lover. Although Monica worries about being a kept woman, she uses B as her model and eventually becomes a celebrity. Suddenly B, however, loses his fortune. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.Soldier girls
Par Yolanda Celbridge. 2001
Stripped of her uniform for sexual outrage, soldier-nurse Lise Gallard is forced to endure corporal punishment in the Foreign Legion…
women's prison. But she is spotted there by dominatrix Dr Crevasse, who engineers Lise's release for her own flagellant purposes. Can Lise hope to escape her cruel mistress? Or will she in turn learn to wield the cane? Contains very explicit sexual content, strong language and violence. 2001.Son of a trickster (Trickster trilogy. #1.)
Par Eden Robinson. 2017
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary…
mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, and now she's dead. Bestseller. 2017.Slave of the Haida
Par Doris Andersen. 1974
Kim-Ta, son of a Salish chief, is captured by the Haidas. Afraid that he may become a sacrificial victim at…
one of their feasts, Kim-Ta plans his escape. Grades 4-7. 1974.Six Micmac stories (Peeper)
Par Anne Cameron, Ruth Holmes Whitehead. 1989
These stories provide a glimpse of the physical and spiritual world of the Micmac people. Grades 5-8 and older readers.…
Taped with: How Raven freed the moon by Anne Cameron. This Northwest Coast myth tells how Raven, the trickster, freed the moon from the old fisherwoman's cedar chest. Grades 3-6. Taped with: Orca's song by Anne Cameron. This Indian myth tells how Orca, the killer whale, got its black-and-white colouring and its beautiful song. Grades 3-6. c1989.S.E.C.R.E.T. revealed: a novel (S.E.C.R.E.T. novel. #3.)
Par L. Marie Adeline. 2014
The only thing that Cassie Robichaud has ever really wanted is Will Foret, the love of her life. But when…
Will discovers that Cassie is part of S.E.C.R.E.T., an underground group devoted to helping women experience their deepest fantasies, Will breaks it off. Heartbroken, Cassie dries her tears and devotes herself to helping the latest S.E.C.R.E.T. recruit, Solange Faraday. Cassie also reignites her relationship with bad-boy Jesse, even if he can never love her as deeply as Will did. The final book in the trilogy. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T shared". 2014.S.E.C.R.E.T. shared: a novel (S.E.C.R.E.T. novel. #2.)
Par L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Still wounded from a recent heartbreak, Cassie Robichaud throws herself into service with S.E.C.R.E.T., the mysterious organization that changed her…
life last year by bringing her deepest fantasies to life, one step at a time. Now it’s Cassie’s turn to guide the group’s newest candidate, Dauphine Mason, recruiting men to execute a new set of fantasies. While it gets Cassie’s mind off Will, the man she truly loves, it also gives her the chance to help watch S.E.C.R.E.T. work its magic on someone new. Sequel to "S.E.C.R.E.T.". Bestseller. 2013.S.E.C.R.E.T
Par L. Marie Adeline. 2013
Cassie Robichaud's life is filled with regret and loneliness after the death of her husband. She waits tables at the…
rundown Café Rose in New Orleans, and every night she heads home to her solitary one-bedroom apartment. But when she discovers a notebook left behind by a mysterious woman at the café, Cassie's world is forever changed. The notebook's stunningly explicit confessions shock and fascinate Cassie, and eventually lead her to S∙E∙C∙R∙E∙T, an underground society dedicated to helping women realize their wildest, most lurid fantasies. Includes sex and strong language. 2013.Sanaaq: an Inuit novel (Contemporary studies on the north ; #4)
Par Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk, Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, Peter Frost. 2014
An Inuit family negotiates the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in…
the mid-nineteenth century. 48 episodes recount the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in northern Quebec. Here they live their lives hunting seal, repairing their kayak, and gathering mussels under blue sea ice before the tide comes in. Marriages are made and unmade, children are born and named, violence appears in the form of a fearful husband or a hungry polar bear. The spirit world is alive and relations with non-humans are never taken lightly. And under it all, the growing intrusion of the qallunaat and the battle for souls between the Catholic and Anglican missionaries threatens to forever change the way of life of Sanaaq and her young family. 2014. Uniform title: Sanaaq.Regarde-moi (Crossfire. #2)
Par Sylvia Day, Agathe Nabet. 2013
Gideon Cross était l'incarnation de l'homme idéal. Mais je n'étais pas dupe, moi qui savais désormais quels tourments dissimulait cette…
perfection. De son passé, j'ignorais presque tout et son entêtement à le garder secret me blessait. Tout ce que j'imaginais attisait ma jalousie et sapait la confiance qu'il exigeait de moi. Être ensemble était parfois douloureux. Ne pas l'être était pire. Attirant et dangereux, il me consumait dans un abîme de plaisirs charnels. J'étais son obsession. Lui, l'objet de tous mes désirs. Serions-nous unis par la destinée ? Suite de "Dévoile-moi", suivi de "Enlace-moi". Best-seller. 2013. Titre uniforme: Reflected in you.Rose's run
Par Dawn Dumont. 2014
Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some…
self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that would be for her to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty years, smokes and initially has little motivation, she announces her intention to run the race. But one strange and unforeseen outcome of her decision is that she will have to do battle with an old inadvertently conjured demon that feeds off the strength of women. She is a truly mean old spirit who can invade other women and have them do her bidding and in no time has the Rez in an uproar. As Rose discovers, the old demon has been unintentionally called forth by Rose's teen daughter, Sarah, which complicates Rose's life just a little more. Winner of the 2015 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. 2014.Rookie season (Sports stories ; #42)
Par Jacqueline Guest. 2000
Leigh Aberdeen is determined to win the hockey championship with her new all-girl team, the Chinooks. Then her dad, who's…
also the coach, adds a know-it-all boy to the team which makes Leigh furious, and her best friend Tina, the goalie, starts mysteriously dropping practices just as the Chinooks show they can win. Leigh realizes that the team will need to overcome their problems on and off the ice before they can get it together and win. Grades 4-7. 2000.