New Titles

The inmate

McFadden, Freida.


Brooke Sullivan, a nurse at a maximum-security prison, secretly has a past with Shane Nelson, a dangerous inmate and her high school sweetheart, whose imprisonment is based on her testimony.
Date Published:2024

Camino ghosts

Grisham, John.


Various publication dates and pagination. "Popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed...and the past is never the past..."--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2024

Various publication dates and pagination. "Popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed...and the past is never the past..."--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2024

We are all guilty here : a novel

Slaughter, Karin, 1971-


When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it's personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help-and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?
Date Published:2025

The painted drum

Erdrich, Louise


Discovering a cache of valuable Indigenous artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it.
Date Published:2006

Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage and survival

Wallis, Velma


"This book was originally published in 1993 by Epicenter Press"--T.p. verso. Aboriginal. Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).
Date Published:1993

"This book was originally published in 1993 by Epicenter Press"--T.p. verso. Aboriginal. Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community, and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness, and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Date Published:1993

Inuit modern : the Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection

Art Gallery of Ontario


Co-published by Art Gallery of Ontario. Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Art Gallery of Ontario from April 2 to August 21, 2011.
Date Published:2010

Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. Group of Seven : Janvier, Ray, Morrisseau, Odjig, Sanchez, Beardy, Cobiness


A catalogue of the exhibition 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery from September 21, 2013 to January 12, 2014, and touring nationally from 2014 to 2016. One of Canada's most important artist alliances, the Professional Native Indian Artist Inc. (PNIAI) made history by demanding recognition for its members as professional, contemporary artists at a time when they were routinely excluded from the mainstream art world. In the words of member Alex Janvier, they set out to 'change the world, the art world, for Natives of Canada." This 'Group of Seven,' included: Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, and Joseph Sanchez. During the 1970s the Group stimulated a new way of thinking about the lives and art of First Nations people. Inspired by the legacy of their ancestors, they translated a world of knowledge based on individual experience and cultural heritage. While their styles and techniques vary from artist to artist, a contemporary Indigenous aesthetic is apparent in the vivid colours, dynamic forms, and non-European sensibility that pervades their work. As the first monograph devoted to the PNIAI, this publication provides access to new and revisited research on the Group's contributions. A wealth of 120 colour images, eight essays, and statements by each of the artists reveal the ground-breaking importance of this Group. As exhibition curator Michelle LaVallee states: "Though their personal aspirations were diverse, the collective vision of the PNIAI made them frontrunners in the development of contemporary Indigenous art.
Date Published:2014

A catalogue of the exhibition 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc., on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery from September 21, 2013 to January 12, 2014, and touring nationally from 2014 to 2016. One of Canada's most important artist alliances, the Professional Native Indian Artist Inc. (PNIAI) made history by demanding recognition for its members as professional, contemporary artists at a time when they were routinely excluded from the mainstream art world. In the words of member Alex Janvier, they set out to 'change the world, the art world, for Natives of Canada." This 'Group of Seven,' included: Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Daphne Odjig, Carl Ray, and Joseph Sanchez. During the 1970s the Group stimulated a new way of thinking about the lives and art of First Nations people. Inspired by the legacy of their ancestors, they translated a world of knowledge based on individual experience and cultural heritage. While their styles and techniques vary from artist to artist, a contemporary Indigenous aesthetic is apparent in the vivid colours, dynamic forms, and non-European sensibility that pervades their work. As the first monograph devoted to the PNIAI, this publication provides access to new and revisited research on the Group's contributions. A wealth of 120 colour images, eight essays, and statements by each of the artists reveal the ground-breaking importance of this Group. As exhibition curator Michelle LaVallee states: "Though their personal aspirations were diverse, the collective vision of the PNIAI made them frontrunners in the development of contemporary Indigenous art.

Date Published:2014

Lacrosse : the ancient game

Calder, Jim, 1957-


Explores lacrosse's historical and cultural roots.
Date Published:2011

Tilly : a story of hope and resilience

Gray Smith, Monique, 1968-,


Originally published under title Hope, faith & empathy by Little Drum Consulting, 2012. Tilly has always known she's part Lakota on her dad's side. She's grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn't until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too - a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby. Tilly feels her mother's pain deeply. She's always had trouble fitting in at school, and when her grandma dies unexpectedly, her anchor is gone. Then Abby, a grade seven classmate, invites her home for lunch and offers her something special to drink. Nothing has prepared Tilly for the tingling in her legs, the buzz in her head and the awesome feeling that she can do anything. From then on, partying seems to offer an escape from her insecurities. But after one dangerously drunken evening, Tilly knows she has to change. Summoning her courage, she begins the long journey to finding pride in herself and her heritage. Just when she needs it most, a mysterious stranger offers some wise counsel: Never question who you are or who your people are. It's in your eyes. I know it's in your heart. Loosely based on author Monique Gray Smith's own life, this revealing, important work of creative non-fiction tells the story of a young Indigenous woman coming of age in Canada in the 1980s. With compassion, insight and humour, Gray Smith illuminates the 20th-century history of Canada's First Peoples forced displacement, residential schools, tuberculosis hospitals, the Sixties Scoop. In a spirit of hope, this unique story captures the irrepressible resilience of Tilly, and of Indigenous peoples everywhere.
Date Published:2013

Originally published under title Hope, faith & empathy by Little Drum Consulting, 2012. Tilly has always known she's part Lakota on her dad's side. She's grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn't until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too - a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby. Tilly feels her mother's pain deeply. She's always had trouble fitting in at school, and when her grandma dies unexpectedly, her anchor is gone. Then Abby, a grade seven classmate, invites her home for lunch and offers her something special to drink. Nothing has prepared Tilly for the tingling in her legs, the buzz in her head and the awesome feeling that she can do anything. From then on, partying seems to offer an escape from her insecurities. But after one dangerously drunken evening, Tilly knows she has to change. Summoning her courage, she begins the long journey to finding pride in herself and her heritage. Just when she needs it most, a mysterious stranger offers some wise counsel: Never question who you are or who your people are. It's in your eyes. I know it's in your heart. Loosely based on author Monique Gray Smith's own life, this revealing, important work of creative non-fiction tells the story of a young Indigenous woman coming of age in Canada in the 1980s. With compassion, insight and humour, Gray Smith illuminates the 20th-century history of Canada's First Peoples forced displacement, residential schools, tuberculosis hospitals, the Sixties Scoop. In a spirit of hope, this unique story captures the irrepressible resilience of Tilly, and of Indigenous peoples everywhere.

Date Published:2013

April Raintree

Mosionier, Beatrice, 1949-



Date Published:2016

The adversary : a novel

Crummey, Michael, 1965-


In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences. Through merciless seasons of uncertainty and want, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart that reveals itself to be the most formidable and unpredictable adversary for each person drawn, inevitably and helplessly, into that endless feud. Compulsively readable and uncompromising, The Adversary is a pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.
Date Published:2023

In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking a measure of revenge on the person they despise most in the world. As their unshakeable animosity spirals further each year into vendettas and violence, the community is increasingly divided and even the innocents in Mockbeggar find themselves forced to take sides, with devastating consequences. Through merciless seasons of uncertainty and want, through predatory storms and pandemics and marauding privateers, it is the human heart that reveals itself to be the most formidable and unpredictable adversary for each person drawn, inevitably and helplessly, into that endless feud. Compulsively readable and uncompromising, The Adversary is a pitch-perfect evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.

Date Published:2023