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  • Shoot
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    A fictionalized account of the McLean Gang, halfbreeds who terrorized the Canadian West in the 1870s. The novel traces their idealistic beginning--stealing cattle and guns with the intention of starting an Indian rebellion--to their...
  • Nevers
    Author:
    Cassidy, Sara
    Summary:

    "In this magical middle-grade novel, Odette unlocks a mysterious spell."--
  • He who dreams
    Author:
    Florence, Melanie
    Summary:

    In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a soccer star surprises everyone by signing up for Indigenous dance classes.
  • From scratch
    Author:
    Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
    Summary:

    In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery. Owning a bakery isn't just about making dough.
  • E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake : collected poems and selected prose
    Author:
    Johnson, E. Pauline
    Summary:

    E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a...
  • Caprice
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    In the mid 1890s, a whip toting cowgirl is bent on getting revenge on the man who murdered her brother. In the rough country outside Kamloops, B.C. she comes face to face with his killer.
  • Burning water
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in...
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