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c1991., C. Scribner's Sons ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International Call No: REF BLK Literature Region USA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1990., Legacy Press Call No: BLK FR 968.06 G9765s Edition: Éd. compltement rév. et mise à jour, 3e éd. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2010., PublishAmerica Call No: BLK Fic Gau Availability:2 of 2 At Your Library Summary Note: AMINATA is a successful metisse who builds international empires. But hasn't forgotten her nightmarish years as an orphan in Senegal. She vowed to repay the sins visited upon her family. Her story is of a daring, yet vulnerable woman who uses any means to scale the peaks of money and power but with the heart to give it up for the love that would make her life whole. The hero, a rich French nobleman, helps her locate one of the ex-soldiers. Aminata temporarily loses her man but perseveres while her enemies plot her demise and that of her empire. Aminata of Casamance combines historical facts with fictional characters. I have lived in all the places mentioned and created a fictional hero heroine who I think readers will sympathize with. Their difficulties lead to many international adventures and intrigues but end happily.
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2013., DC Books Call No: BLK Fic San Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths-the baccou, the steel donkey, la djablès, and the heart man-destroy it.... All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of flight; Marsha, incredible strength; and Franck, super speed. With great power may come great responsibility, yet the choice to act or not remains theirs. Milton, like his adversary, Mackie (short for Machiavelli), is an Elder who can inform, not influence, the course of events. Are the Elect mature enough to decide what's best for humanity? The longer they take to agree to Milton's plan, which he can't reveal until they are all on board, the more their world is overrun with Caribbean folklore creatures.... Set in Bridgetown and Montreal ('where much of the Diaspora live'), And Sometimes They Fly questions notions of the heroic. Where do heroes-a region's but also a culture's heroes-come from? George Woodcock once noted that, unlike Americans or the British, 'Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them.' Humanity is in trouble if this is also true about Barbadians.
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c1998., Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry & Whiteside Call No: BLK Bio A126n Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Canadian medical livesSummary Note: Anderson Ruffin Abbot, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canadian of African descent to train as a physician. In 1863 he petitioned Abraham Lincoln and was appointed one of only eight black surgeons in the Union Army during the Ameican Civil War. Following Lincoln's assassination, Mary Todd Lincoln bestowed on Abbott the plaid shawl Lincoln wore to his first inauguration. His career as a physician, surgeon, Canada's first African Canadian coroner and Superintendent of Chicago's Provident Hospital and Training School gained him respect in both countries and allowed him to bear with tolerance and equanimity the racial prejudice that was never far below the surface.
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2013., Callawind Publications Inc. Call No: BLK Bio R281a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On Saturday, March 4, at Indigo bookstore in downtown Montreal, Audley Coley will be on hand for a re-launch of his book, Audley Enough. It chronicles how he has been able to live a “normal” life while suffering with bipolar illness, by managing his affliction over the years by maintaining a positive attitude. First published in 2013, the book is “a brief account” of Coley’s journey, and is both motivational and inspiring, especially for people who also may be suffering with the affliction and seeking help. His first crisis happened when he was 27. His core message then is: “You can soar above mental illness.” And he offers himself as evidence that his affliction has not become an impediment.
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-- Beauty & sadness2010., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: BLK 818.5409 A384b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2011., Vagrant Press Call No: BLK Fic Mal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Early Okander lives with his father in a shack, a white family on the outskirts of the Halifax community of Africville. It is the early 1960s, and Early and his young friends, Toby and Chub, start to hear whispers that the city wants to move the residents of Africville out of their homes. As the three try to sort out what relocation might mean for the community, they also struggle to come to terms with their own problems: Early's abuse at the hands of his father, Toby's illness, Chub's family breakdown.
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2021., LifeRich Call No: BLK Bio M787a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In all the annals of slavery in the United States of America, there is no other story like that of the Montgomerys, they were freed by taking refuge in Ohio during the Civil War. Then they returned to the place of their bondage, legally freed by the Thirteenth Amendment. They bought and operated the plantations of their bondage, plus an adjacent plantation, and won numerous prizes for their cotton. And although this experiment failed, the idea of a permanent home for blacks did not. For Isaiah carried out his father’s lifelong plan of a permanent homeland for blacks and founded Mound Bayou, Mississippi in 1887.
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2022., Adult, Penguin Call No: Fic Jac Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Alice is twenty-four and having a breakdown. She's lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep. And now she's worried she's going to lose Mia, her closest friend who's being treated for a serious illness. Alice visits Mia at the hospital (on the days Alice can get herself out of bed), and while they fall into familiar patterns -- Alice makes Mia laugh, Mia tells Alice she needs to get laid -- they know their friendship is changing, and they know they can't control what will happen in the days ahead. Still focused on Mia, while trying to convince others she's a stable, happy woman, Alice meets her neighbour, James -- someone she used to cross the street to avoid. They're interested in each other, but Alice, who is a lethal combination of judgemental and insecure, is hesitant; she has never had luck with dating, and she thinks now is a weird time since Mia needs her. And she figures he probably sucks anyway. Mia encourages Alice to keep moving, to go out, to work, while Mia attempts to hide her loneliness and fear as her body breaks down. But as Alice tries to push herself to do more, including allowing herself to get close to James, she struggles to move forward knowing Mia can't.
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2022. Call No: NEW BLK 781.65 P358b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic “Strange Fruit” made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song “I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?” And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.
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2001., Adult, Harper Perennial Call No: BLK 305.8 H646b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Lawrence Hill's remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic. In BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity - an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white. Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah's mother, Kimberly Van de Perre. A reflective, sensitive and often humorous book, BLACK BERRY, SWEET JUICE is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it's a fascinating and important read for us all.
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2007., Between the Lines ; South End Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B627b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The global history of black people cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migration, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of North American apartheid, the black disaporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature ahs long explored cultural differences in the experience of blackness in different quarters of the diaspora. But what are the real differences between being a maroon in the hills of Jamaica, a fugitive slave in Chatham, Ontario, and a runaway in the swamps of Florida? How does location impact repression and resistance, both on the ground and in the terrain of political imagination? Enter Black Geographies. In this path-breaking collection, twelve authors interrogate the intersections between space and race. For instance, some scholars, activists, and communities have sought to protect, restore, and reimagine black historical sites. Yet each of these locations has in common acts of racial hatred and state terrorism that have erased black geographies, leaving few historical structures standing. This begs the question: Can preserving and restoring such sites promote social justice and spur community redevelopment?Black geographies-invisible and visible, past and present-pose revealing questions about the politics, and possibilities, of place. (From book cover.)
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[1973], University of Illinois Press Call No: BLK 811 W1334b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Illini book
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c2004., Routledge Call No: BLK 306.7089 C712b Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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c2004., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF BLK 971.428 M157b c.2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
