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Five little Indians
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25242
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Good, Michelle
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 05.2 G59f
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- Author
- Good, Michelle
- Responsibility
- Michelle Good
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Harper Perennial
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 293 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- First Nations
- Racism
- Abstract
- Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. Fuelled by rage and furious with God, Clara finds her way into the dangerous, highly charged world of the American Indian Movement. Maisie internalizes her pain and continually places herself in dangerous situations. Famous for his daring escapes from the school, Kenny can't stop running and moves restlessly from job to job - through fishing grounds, orchards and logging camps - trying to outrun his memories and his addiction. Lucy finds peace in motherhood and nurtures a secret compulsive disorder as she waits for Kenny to return to the life they once hoped to share together. After almost beating one of his tormentors to death, Howie serves time in prison, then tries once again to re-enter society and begin life anew. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward. (from publisher's website)
- ISBN
- 9781443459181
- Accession Number
- P2020.7
- Call Number
- 05.2 G59f
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Harking : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25264
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Publisher
- [Canada] : George Mercer,
- Call Number
- 05.2 M46h
1 website
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Responsibility
- George Mercer
- Publisher
- [Canada] : George Mercer,
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 282 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Bears
- Bears, Grizzly
- Abstract
- After her parents’ divorce and the discovery of a series of cryptic notes left behind after her father is killed in an avalanche, Harking Thompson struggles to come to her own understanding of love, loss and what really matters. Caught up in a battle to save a mother grizzly bear and her cubs, Harking’s fight to protect the wildlife and wild places she loves teaches her a brutal truth: sometimes saving a life might mean losing another you love even more (from Good Reads website)
- ISBN
- 9780987975485
- Call Number
- 05.2 M46h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Author's website
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Native air : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25656
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
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- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
- ISBN
- 9781950584901
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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