Canadian Women Making Music
Green Dragon Press
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Creative Lifewriting: A Guidebook for Exploring Personal Memories and Family Stories
Get started—in your own unique way—to document your memories, family histories, tales of workplace, home, friendships, spiritual life and many other topics. Steps are outlined for facilitators of groups or for individuals and 80 themes for exploration are included. Published by Kaslo Lifewriters.
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If Home is a Place
Polestar Press
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Letter From Lubumbashi
New Orphic Press
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Mother Reindeer’s Journey to the Sun: A Tribute to Mountain Caribou
Description Discover the magic of Mother Reindeer, ladybug wishes and mountain caribou! Join Mother Reindeer on her winter solstice flight to bring warmth and light back to everyone in the north. Delight in the detail and colours found on every page of this story. Learn interesting facts about mountain caribou and see photos of wild…
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Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way, Second Edition
Now in stock! Stories are the ancestral bloodlines of the Autonomous Sinixt—what we share and pass down generationally are the memories that flow through our veins and carry culture and connection to our təmxʷulaʔxʷ, our homeland. The second edition of Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way, published by Maa Press, invites readers to engage with…
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Sinixt map (folded)
Description This beautifully illustrated 24″ x 36″ colour map represents Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ, complete with place names labeled in Sn-selxin (the Interior Salish dialect spoken by Sinixt Peoples.) The back side of this Sinixt map includes tonnes of information about Sinixt history and culture, Sn-selxin place names, and ways to connect with the Autonomous Sinixt. Created…
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Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ map (laminated)
One side is a full-colour 24″ x 36″ map of Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ designed by Dayna Fidler, with place names labeled in Sn-selxcin. The other side is jam-packed with information about Sinixt, the Sn-selxcin language, and the places on the map.
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The Ancestors Whisper & Shout: Vignettes and Ancestral Memories from the Kaslo Lifewriters and Friends
Reflecting on those who came before us, from many parts of the world, the Kaslo Lifewriters, their friends and family have captured vignettes and ancestral memories. Contributors include: Sara Cush, Gwen Hale, Natalie Weeks, Clarice Caywood, Wanja Twan, Molly Semenoff, Ursula Ringwald, Debra Barrett, Barb Neelands, Cynthia Cooper, Barb Douglas, Linda Portman, Mary Stickel, Peter…
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When We Are Broken: The Lake Elegy
Description A lyric essay interswoven with stunning photographs of Kootenay Lake. Back Cover: “Part of my life’s work has been to truly understand the place where I live and the other creatures that dwell there with me. In my daily walks, I focus on the quiet, always changing occurrences of nature. Every day, I stand,…
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Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way, First Edition
What does it look like to return from Extinction? In this book, Sinixt storytellers and knowledge-keepers Marilyn James and Taress Alexis address the reality of their living culture in the face of Canada’s bureaucratic genocide of their people, the Sinixt, in 1956. Through lively story and discussions by the authors, each chapter illuminates the Sinixt…
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The Purcell Suite: Upholding the Wild
by KL Kivi
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The Town of Nothing
Description The Town of Nothing is an all ages picture book that, through a series of puns on the word “nothing,” explores what wilderness contains versus what towns contain. Look for the grizzly, hidden or not, in each image. This book is a fundraiser for the Jumbo Wild! campaign (www.keepitwild.ca)
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Blue Valley: An Ecological Memoir
Description Well known novelist and young-adult writer Luanne Armstrong illuminates our understanding of what it means to belong to a place. Armstrong’s memoir about a lifetime relationship with a farm on the shore of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia is grounded in her belief that ecological restoration is dependent upon writing language back into land….
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The Inner Green: Exploring Home in the Columbia Mountains
Description The Inner Green delves into the terrain of the physical, biological and human history of the Columbia Mountains. These personal and moving essays touch on both the common and rare and include explorations about the cedar bug, the source of the Salmo River, endangered mountain caribou among others. “This delightful book is about personal…
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When the Path is not a Straight Line
Description Ellen Burt’s writing is magic. It slides and dances into and around a woman’s life lived with an intense engagement with the non-human world. Here is language that is lyrical, powerful and engaging. This book reflects the wisdom of someone who has looked with a clear and intense gaze at life and has written…