New Titles

Fatty legs : a true story

Jordan-Fenton, Christy,


The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children's Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret's grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories, discusses the impact of the book in a new preface.
Date Published:2020

The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children's Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret's grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories, discusses the impact of the book in a new preface.

Date Published:2020

Collins Ukrainian dictionary = Чкраїнсько-англійcький Aнглo-український cлoвник


"All the words you need every day"--Cover. Phrasefinder (32 pages) is inserted at center of book. A handy Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian dictionary for daily use, including a guide to common everyday expressions in both languages. This dictionary offers extensive and up-to-date coverage of English and Ukrainian to all learners at home, school or at work.
Date Published:2022

Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants

Kimmerer, Robin Wall,


Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Date Published:2022

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

Date Published:2022

Indigenous ingenuity : a celebration of traditional North American knowledge

Havrelock, Deidre,


Sustainable land and management and ecology -- Transportation -- Communications technology --Agriculture and food technology -- Health sciences -- Textile technology, clothing, and fashion -- Architecture and civil engineering -- Hunting and combat technology -- Mathematics -- Arts, sports, and recreation -- Traditional ecological knowledge and our sustainable future. Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. These are some of the scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. Spans topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture.
Date Published:2023

Sustainable land and management and ecology -- Transportation -- Communications technology --Agriculture and food technology -- Health sciences -- Textile technology, clothing, and fashion -- Architecture and civil engineering -- Hunting and combat technology -- Mathematics -- Arts, sports, and recreation -- Traditional ecological knowledge and our sustainable future. Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. These are some of the scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. Spans topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture.

Date Published:2023

The book of Emma Reyes

Reyes, Emma, 1919-2003,


Originally published in Spanish under the title Memorias por correspondencia in Colombia by Laguna Libros and Fundación Arte Vivo Otero Herrera, 2012. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns--and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. Far from self-pitying, the portrait that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long.
Date Published:2018

Originally published in Spanish under the title Memorias por correspondencia in Colombia by Laguna Libros and Fundación Arte Vivo Otero Herrera, 2012. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns--and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. Far from self-pitying, the portrait that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long.

Date Published:2018

The night diary

Hiranandani, Veera,


Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Date Published:2018

Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal

Roach, Mary.


Machine generated contents note: 1.Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste -- 2.I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you -- 3.Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest -- 4.The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt? -- 5.Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- 6.Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff -- 7.A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab -- 8.Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive -- 9.Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back? -- 10.Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death -- 11.Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice -- 12.Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane -- 13.Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research -- 14.Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? -- 15.Eating Backward: Is the digestive tract a two-way street? -- Contents note continued: 16.I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation -- 17.The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask.
Date Published:2022

Machine generated contents note: 1.Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste -- 2.I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you -- 3.Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest -- 4.The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt? -- 5.Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- 6.Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff -- 7.A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab -- 8.Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive -- 9.Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back? -- 10.Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death -- 11.Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice -- 12.Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane -- 13.Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research -- 14.Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? -- 15.Eating Backward: Is the digestive tract a two-way street? -- Contents note continued: 16.I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation -- 17.The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask.

Date Published:2022

Enshittification : why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it

Doctorow, Cory.


A book explaining the process of "enshittification"--a term coined by Cory Doctorow to describe the inevitable process of digital platforms getting worse and worse for users, with wide-ranging implications-and how to combat it.
Date Published:2025

Grunt : the curious science of humans at war

Roach, Mary,


Includes a reading group guide. Second skin: what to wear to war -- Boom box: automotive safety for people who drive on bombs -- Fighting by ear: the conundrum of military noise -- Below the belt: the cruelest shot of all -- It could get weird: a salute to genital transplants -- Carnage under fire: how do combat medics cope? -- Sweating bullets: the war on heat -- Leaky SEALs: diarrhea as a threat to national security -- The maggot paradox: flies on the battlefield, for better and worse -- What doesn't kill you will make you reek: a brief history of stink bombs -- Old chum: how to make and test shark repellent -- That sinking feeling: when things go wrong under the sea -- Up and under: a submarine tries to sleep -- Feedback from the fallen: how the dead help the living stay that way. 'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you'll never see our nation's defenders in the same way again.
Date Published:2022

Includes a reading group guide. Second skin: what to wear to war -- Boom box: automotive safety for people who drive on bombs -- Fighting by ear: the conundrum of military noise -- Below the belt: the cruelest shot of all -- It could get weird: a salute to genital transplants -- Carnage under fire: how do combat medics cope? -- Sweating bullets: the war on heat -- Leaky SEALs: diarrhea as a threat to national security -- The maggot paradox: flies on the battlefield, for better and worse -- What doesn't kill you will make you reek: a brief history of stink bombs -- Old chum: how to make and test shark repellent -- That sinking feeling: when things go wrong under the sea -- Up and under: a submarine tries to sleep -- Feedback from the fallen: how the dead help the living stay that way. 'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries--panic, exhaustion, heat, noise--and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you'll never see our nation's defenders in the same way again.

Date Published:2022

Packing for Mars : the curious science of life in the void

Roach, Mary.


Describes the weirdness of space travel, answers questions about the long-term effects of living in zero gravity on the human body, and explains how space simulations on Earth can provide a preview to life in space.
Date Published:2022

Replaceable you : adventures in human anatomy

Roach, Mary,


The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?
Date Published:2025

The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what's available--sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we're attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet?

Date Published:2025

Valley of the Birdtail : an Indian reserve, a white town, and the road to reconciliation

Sniderman, Andrew Michael Stobo, 1983-


Valley of the Birdtail' presents a history of the town of Rossburn, Manitoba and the Waywayseecappo reserve, neighbouring communities that have become separate and unequal over the past 150 years. Multiple generations of two families -- one white and one indigenous -- are followed in this story of racism and reconciliation.
Date Published:2022

Normal women : making history for 900 years

Gregory, Philippa,


Content based on Normal women, first published in Great Britain 2023 by William Collins. The bestselling, critically acclaimed women's history from blockbuster author Philippa Gregory -- adapted for teen readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we often think of the 1800s and 1900s -- crinolines and stage coaches, bonnets and balls a time when women were told they were naturally inferior to men, and must stay at home while men went out to work and have fun. HUGE MISTAKE! There is so much more to women's history than bonnets and big dresses! Ordinary women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER -- it just didn't make the history books (written by men!). Join multi-award-winning author Philippa Gregory as she tells the story of ordinary English women, making history for 900 years. Meet farmers, highwaywomen, pirates, 'female husbands', slaves, soldiers, criminals, writers, inventors, rioters and more protesting, working, playing, taking risks, getting rich (and getting even!). Their story is one of ingenuity, diversity, rebellion, survival -- and sisterhood. Illustrated throughout by award-winning printmaker Alexis Snell.
Date Published:2025

Content based on Normal women, first published in Great Britain 2023 by William Collins. The bestselling, critically acclaimed women's history from blockbuster author Philippa Gregory -- adapted for teen readers! Today, when we think of women of the past, we often think of the 1800s and 1900s -- crinolines and stage coaches, bonnets and balls a time when women were told they were naturally inferior to men, and must stay at home while men went out to work and have fun. HUGE MISTAKE! There is so much more to women's history than bonnets and big dresses! Ordinary women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER -- it just didn't make the history books (written by men!). Join multi-award-winning author Philippa Gregory as she tells the story of ordinary English women, making history for 900 years. Meet farmers, highwaywomen, pirates, 'female husbands', slaves, soldiers, criminals, writers, inventors, rioters and more protesting, working, playing, taking risks, getting rich (and getting even!). Their story is one of ingenuity, diversity, rebellion, survival -- and sisterhood. Illustrated throughout by award-winning printmaker Alexis Snell.

Date Published:2025

The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland

Young, Michelle,


A saga set in Paris during World War II uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world's most treasured masterpieces.
Date Published:2025

An African history of Africa : from the dawn of humanity to independence

Badawi, Zeinab, 1959-


"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by WH Allen."--T.p. verso. The author guides us through Africa's history, from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with powerful queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence.
Date Published:2024

Book of lives : a memoir of sorts

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-


Raised by scientifically minded parents, Margaret Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points, and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars, and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
Date Published:2025

Raised by scientifically minded parents, Margaret Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points, and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars, and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.

Date Published:2025

The world : a family history of humanity

Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965-


Maps on end papers. Act one. Houses of Sargon and Ahmose: ziggurats and pyramids ; Houses of Hattusa and Rameses ; The Nubian pharaohs and great kings of Ashur: House Alara versus House Tiglath-Pileser -- Act eight. Genghis: a conquering family ; Khmers, Hohenstaufen and Polos ; The Keitas of Mali and the Habsburgs of Austria -- Act thirteen. Arkwrights and Krupps, Habsburgs, Bourbons and Sansons -- Chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power. He trains his eye on founders of humble origin, like Sargon, the Mesopotamian cupbearer sent to help defeat a rival who returned with an army to dethrone his own king, and Liu Bang, a peasant who became a rebel leader and founded the Han dynasty. Montefiore illuminates the achievements of fearsome emperors, including Yax Ehb Xook, whose Mayan city-state Tikal boasts some of the most monumental ancient architecture that exists today; Jayavarman II, who proclaimed himself 'universal king' and whose Khmer empire in South Asia heralded a thousand years of Indic ascendancy; and Ewuare, the African emperor who built a capital city that rivaled any in Europe. He writes, too, about remarkable women rulers, like Hatshepsut, the first female pharaoh, and Maria Theresa, the only woman to rule the Habsburg empire. These families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody civil wars, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence.
Date Published:2023

Maps on end papers. Act one. Houses of Sargon and Ahmose: ziggurats and pyramids ; Houses of Hattusa and Rameses ; The Nubian pharaohs and great kings of Ashur: House Alara versus House Tiglath-Pileser -- Act eight. Genghis: a conquering family ; Khmers, Hohenstaufen and Polos ; The Keitas of Mali and the Habsburgs of Austria -- Act thirteen. Arkwrights and Krupps, Habsburgs, Bourbons and Sansons -- Chronicles the world's great dynasties across human history through engrossing tales of palace intrigue, glorious battle, and the real lives of people who held unfathomable power. He trains his eye on founders of humble origin, like Sargon, the Mesopotamian cupbearer sent to help defeat a rival who returned with an army to dethrone his own king, and Liu Bang, a peasant who became a rebel leader and founded the Han dynasty. Montefiore illuminates the achievements of fearsome emperors, including Yax Ehb Xook, whose Mayan city-state Tikal boasts some of the most monumental ancient architecture that exists today; Jayavarman II, who proclaimed himself 'universal king' and whose Khmer empire in South Asia heralded a thousand years of Indic ascendancy; and Ewuare, the African emperor who built a capital city that rivaled any in Europe. He writes, too, about remarkable women rulers, like Hatshepsut, the first female pharaoh, and Maria Theresa, the only woman to rule the Habsburg empire. These families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody civil wars, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence.

Date Published:2023

Rock & roll : an unruly history

Palmer, Robert.


Companion book to the PBS television series. Includes index.
Date Published:1995

French impressionists

Brettell, Richard R.


Shows and discusses the background of paintings in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago by Pissarro, Cassatt, Sisley, Degas, Seurat, Renoir, Manet, and Morisot.
Date Published:1987

Reflections in a quiet pool : the prints of David Milne

Milne, David, 1882-1953.


Includes index.
Date Published:1980