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2022., Margaret M. Joyce Call No: MYS Fic Joy Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Father Bob Desjardins is a sympathetic underdog. His actions are quixotic, and draw scorn, pity, and laughter from people in his Ville LaSalle, Quebec community. When, during a blinding, February snowstorm, the car he’s driving slides into a woman in a red parka, he is stricken with guilt. He wants to atone and gets an idea on how to do so. The plan he works out gets him into deep trouble with not only his superiors but also the nearby First Nations community. The Casino Caper is a Christian crime narrative with historical facts woven into a tale set in 2009, on the island of Montreal. It centers around a fictional 20-year-old cold case murder of a First Nations man on the Mercier Bridge.
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By Maracle, Lee2016., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: IND Fic Mar Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nu: Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who - despite being convinced she's a little "off" - must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor. The occurrence signals the unfolding of an ordeal that pulls Celia out of her reveries and into the tragedy of her cousin's granddaughter. Each one of Celia's family becomes involved in creating a greater solution than merely attending to her cousin's granddaughter. Celia's Song relates one Nu: Chahlnuth family's harrowing experiences over several generations, after years of brutality, interference, and neglect...
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-- Motorcycles and sweetgrassc2010., Adult, A.A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Tay Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Otter Lake is an Anishnaawbe Reserve buried deep in central Ontario. It is a community with a few problems. But then a mysterious, handsome white stranger named John arrives riding a vintage 1954 Indian Chief motorcycle. Who he is nobody knows, except Lillian who happens to be on her deathbed. When she summons him during her final farewells, she also charges him with a mission to help the people she loves, whom she is leaving behind. Drew Hayden Taylor, an Ojibway with an accomplished literary career, brings his insider view of life on the reserve in his personable and funny way. Toronto Tour.
