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In Sight

By (author) Julia Levy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gender bias in order to achieve academic and professional ...

Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a

By (author) Katłıà
Categories: Fiction

Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłıà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark ...

Identifying as Arab in Canada

By (author) Houda Asal
Translated by Mary Foster
Categories: History

Using archival research, media analysis, laws and statistics, and a series of interviews, Asal offers a thorough examination of the institutions that Arab migrants and their descendants built, and the ...

Jeannie’s Demise

By (author) Ian Radforth
Categories: History

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out ...

Approaching Fire

By (author) Michelle Porter
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and ...

Dammed

By (author) Brittany Luby
Categories: History
Series: Critical Studies in Native History

Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral ...

Controlled Damage

By (author) Andrea Scott
Categories: Drama

Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary ...

Suitcase/Adrenaline

By (author) Ahmad Meree
Categories: Drama

These two powerful plays, in Arabic and English, examine the effects of war and the refugee experience. Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience ...

The Bomb in the Wilderness

The Bomb in the Wilderness contends that photography is one of the principal ways that Canadians have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945. John O’Brian puts nuclear ...

Falling Into Flight

By (author) Kaija Pepper
Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Falling into Flight offers insight into a life experienced through the arts: first as a young enthusiastic dancer, then as a thoughtful dance critic. After her parents die, Kaija starts psychotherapy ...