Big island, small

Sola is confused the first time she sees Judith, a fair skinned woman with dreadlocks dancing to reggae music. Meeting her gaze, Judith thinks Sola is judging her for appropriating Black culture. A few days later, up against an interlocking fence, Judith kisses Sola. Onlookers hurl stones and rac...

Sugar kids

A coming-of-age novel set in the iconic nineties rave scene.

Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (raised somewhere else)

During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households.Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal and provocative narrative ...

The unlikely redemption of john alexander macneil

Shortlisted for the 2017 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award!John Alexander MacNeil is eighty years old. Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, he lives alone in rural Cape Breton, but he still cooks breakfast for his wife, who’s been dead for thirty years. He silently starts to question his own mind after...

He who would walk the earth

Felix walks alone through a decaying world until he is challenged to remember his past and build his future — an anti-colonial western exploring trauma, memory, and healing.

Turn us again

Called to his dying father’s bedside, Gabriel Golden’s life is turned upside down after receiving his mother’s journal. The journal chronicles his mother’s life in post-war Britain, her genteel upbringing and her eventual marriage to Gabriel’s father, a complicated man raised in an aggressive, Je...

The daughter who walked away

Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons’ annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to do...

Making a home

This book documents Jen Powley’s fight for young disabled people to live in the community rather than being institutionalized in nursing homes.

Under the bridge

“There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are … brittle.”When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax’s North E...

Grist

Shortlisted for the 2015 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction“This is the story of how you were loved,” Penelope MacLaughlin whispers to her granddaughter.Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. Nonetheless she remains determined to make th...

Firekeeper

A healing journey through fire and water.

Land-water-sky / ndè-tı-yat’a

Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłįà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious i...

The lost teachings / panuijkatasikl kina’masuti’l

Illustrated by Dozay (Arlene) Christmas; Translated by Yolanda Denny and Elizabeth PaulOne day as the great Eagle flew high above the forest he came upon a small bundle containing seven teachings, teachings that will bring balance, harmony and peace to all who practice them. But the teachings com...

Live from the afrikan resistance!

Live from the Afrikan Resistance! is the first collection of spoken word poetry by Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, El Jones. These poems speak of community and struggle. They are grounded in the political culture of African Nova Scotia and inherit the styles and substances of hip- hop, dub and cal...

Burnley “rocky” jones revolutionary

“The life, work and activism of Rocky Jones are central to African-Canadian history and the civil rights movement in Canada. Canadians lost a great soul, with the recent death of Rocky Jones, but his autobiography – co-written by James Walker, a close friend of Rocky Jones and one of our foremost...

Enough

Three Iranian women from different generations working at Toronto City Hall respond to institutional racism while the city champions inclusion.

Exiled for love

Finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/BiographyAll orders of Exiled for Love are 30% off. Use discount code exiled30 during checkoutTo be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country’s harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individua...

Holocaust to resistance, my journey

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she ga...

Sacred feminine

“To all the young girls in care and women in corrections, never give up hope. I was once where you are. Life gets better. Be blessed.”— Jackie TraverseSacred Feminine is a colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse.The beautiful and intricate works of art within depict images of strengt...

Atacama

Firmly rooted in true historical developments and covering themes related to class, gender, trauma and survival, Atacama is the story of two fictional characters of disparate backgrounds but connected by a profound understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments and by their unwavering commit...

Rebellion’s daughter

In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a rebellion against the elite-ruled government.

Grey eyes

Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature!In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. W...

Doug knockwood, mi’kmaw elder

R is for reparations

Coming out of the innovative Book-in-a-Day event facilitated by the Global Afrikan Congress – Nova Scotia Chapter, R Is for Reparations invites readers to listen to the voices of young activists as they share their hopes and dreams about the global demand for redress, compensation and restitution...

Chocolate cherry chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage and tradition for a life of experience and adventure — proving to herself, and her mother, that she is anything but a typical Indian girl. After diving with sharks in the Philippines and a sordid breakup amidst the b...

Tailings of warren peace

A corrupt mining company, repossessed gravestones, a man’s fractured past, mysterious notes posted to lampposts and murder deep in the highlands of Guatemala. In Tailings of Warren Peace, Stephen Law effortlessly weaves these elements into a powerful story of love and memory, exploring how the pa...

Indivisible

Indigenous rights are generally conceptualized and advocated separately from the human rights framework. The contributors to Indivisible: Indigenous Human Rights, however, deftly and powerfully argue that Indigenous rights are in fact human rights and that the fundamental human rights of Indigeno...

About canada: health care, 2nd edition

Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public...

The gates of the sea

The Gates of the Sea explores how the Spanish government is reclaiming search and rescue assets to keep migrants out of its territory — and how rescue workers resist becoming border enforcers.

Mindfulness and its discontents

Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized...

Critical development studies

Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the proble...

Development in latin america

In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the world capitalist system — in the context of Latin America, where these dynamics have had their most notable ou...

Under the rainbow

With contributions from Dayna B. Daniels & Judy Davidson, Valda Leighteizer and Ross HigginsUnder the Rainbow is a primer on the social and political history and the everyday practices and processes of living queer lives in Canada. Framed through a life-course perspective, this book provides ...

Ohpikinâwasowin/growing a child

Western theory and practice is over represented in the child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around. Contributors to this edited collection subvert the long-held, colonial relationship between iyiniw (Cree or nēhiyaw) peoples and the systems of child welfare in Canada.

Stampede

This book offers the first-ever intersectional feminist analysis of the gendered and racialized dynamics of the contemporary Calgary Stampede.

Agriculture and the generation problem

Agriculture and the Generation Problem examines the dynamics of the transfer of agrarian resources and opportunities between the generations in rural communities, and argues that we must take generational relations seriously if we are to understand the future of farming and the fate of future gen...

Oppression

Oppression determines the health of people who are victims of unequal social and economic practices.

Finding their way again

Ongoing and protracted conflicts around the world have led to annual increases in the number of people living as refugees, a situation only worsened by anti-immigration policies across the West. Increasingly, Winnipeg, Manitoba, is home to many of these refugees. Refugees face multiple challenges...

Noble illusions

One hundred years ago saw the declaration of a war that would forever change our understanding of war. With a staggering loss of life, World War One was, by all accounts, a brutal and devastating tragedy. And yet, on the eve of the hundredth anniversary, countries around the world are preparing t...

Listen!

An examination on how listening shapes who we are, weaves the world and grounds our movements for justice and liberation.

Indigenous nationhood

Indigenous Nationhood is a selection of blog posts by well-known lawyer, activist and academic Pamela Palmater. Palmater offers critical legal and political commentary and analysis on legislation, Aboriginal rights, Canadian politics, First Nations politics and social issues such as murdered and ...

Bearing witness

At approximately 8:45 a.m. on 6 December 1917, the Belgian Relief vessel IMO struck the munitions-laden freighter Mont-Blanc in Halifax Harbour. The Mont-Blanc exploded in a devastating 2.9 kiloton blast, which killed 2,000 people and injured 9,000. More than 6,000 people were made homeless, and ...

Finding our niche

In Finding Our Niche, Philip A. Loring explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favor of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.

Lessons from the zapatistas

Essential reading on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico — its history, its peoples’ autonomy and its revolutionary thought.

Fight to win

The first full length book on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, one of Canada’s most significant poor people’s activist organizations.

Policing indigenous movements

In recent years, Indigenous peoples have lead a number of high profile movements fighting for social and environmental justice in Canada. From land struggles to struggles against resource extraction, pipeline development and fracking, land and water defenders have created a national discussion ab...

Insurgent love

When loved ones transgress into violence, how do we seek justice and safety outside of policing and prisons?

Yellow ribbons

Since 2001 and the beginning of the “War on Terror,” Canadian culture has undergone a profound militarization. Moving away from previous myths of national identity centred on notions of multiculturalism and peacekeeping, Canada is increasingly being defined through a new patriotism based on milit...