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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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-- Beauty & sadness2010., General, House of Anansi Press Call No: BLK 818.5409 A384b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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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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c2010., Adult, Pedlar Press Call No: Fic Pow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Blood Relatives tells the story of Charlie, a down-on-his-luck thirty-one year old office cleaner, whose life, since the death of his father, is out of control. Darkly comic in intent, at times hilarious, at other times unnerving, Blood Relatives creates an utterly believable fictional world that turns the conventions of the coming-of-age novel inside out."--Publisher.
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1993., Anchor Books Call No: BLK 810.8 C951 Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Guernica Editions Call No: QWF BLK Fic Tho Edition: 1st ed.. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: No safeguards Volume: 3Summary Note: Less than an hour after Millington receives his permanent resident visa, he wonders if his husband Jay would now end their marriage. And Jay has multiple reasons to. Millington is an ex-Methodist minister, who once believed he could be celibate. When he fled Caribbean Methodism and came to Montreal, he thought he'd resolved the issues that made him leave, but he comes to understand that psychological trauma, childhood conditioning, parental and community expectations and his own need for community and family valorization are not easily exorcised. The third installment in the No Safeguards quartet of novels.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2016., Scribner Call No: BLK 305.896 W259f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew," which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Addressing his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin wrote: "You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon." Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward knows that Baldwin's words ring as true as ever today. In response, she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of race in the United States. And she has turned to some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers to give voice to their concerns. The Fire This Time is divided into three parts that shine a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestle with our current predicament, and envision a better future. Of the eighteen pieces, ten were written specifically for this volume. In the fifty-odd years since Baldwin's essay was published, entire generations have dared everything and made significant progress. But the idea that we are living in the post-Civil Rights era, that we are a "post-racial" society is an inaccurate and harmful reflection of a truth the country must confront. Baldwin's "fire next time" is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Contributors include Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Garnette Cadogan, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Mitchell S. Jackson, Honoree Jeffers, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Wendy S. Walters, Isabel Wilkerson, and Kevin Young"--
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c2015., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: Fic Col Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: All former major league baseball player Zep Baker needs to put his life back on track is to revive his marriage by convincing his wife to return to Tampa with their daughter. But his wife won't fall for his pleading or his old tricks. He needs a new game plan. Enter Hope, a neuroscience researcher who he persuades to help him in this endeavour. The resulting life-experiment takes both characters to places they did not foresee and for which they are not prepared.
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2010., Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: BLK Fic Laf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A Black writer from Montreal has found the perfect title for his next book : I am a Japanese writer. For the writer, though, the title isn't just a title: he really does believe he is a Japanese writer. He makes this declaration in a mall, and, the next thing he knows, he's an international celebrity. But things go quickly wrong.
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1994., Anchor Books Call No: BLK 810.8 I10 Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2012., Insomniac Press Call No: BLK 810.8 I353p Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry, and hip hop, some of Black Canada's foremost writers from across generations explore history, community, love, and healing. The collection consists of writing from Catherine Bain, George Elliott Clarke, Gayle Gonsalves, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Clifton Joseph, Dwayne Morgan, Motion, Jelani Nias (J-Wyze), Djanet Sears, Mansa Trotman, and the editor, Althea Prince.
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2012., Adult, Coach House Books Call No: Fic Str Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Milo doesn't quite have it all together. His acting career has stalled. His Latvian girlfriend dumped him. His miserable father has vanished. And Pablo and Wallace - and then Wallace's mother too - seem to have moved in to his house. Really, the only person Milo likes is Robertson, the autistic eleven-year-old who lives next door. So when Robertson gets bullied and his dad moves out, Milo is finally spurred to action. Milo being Milo, though, even his best intentions go awry, and soon Robertson's dad is in the hospital, Milo's lost in the woods during an acting experiment, and Gustaw, his dad, may have returned from the dead.
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2013., New Harvest Call No: MYS Fic Gor Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Taking a job as an assistant to housebound detective Solar Lonsky, failed Los Angeles novelist Sam Kornberg tackles an assignment to track a mysterious woman in a case marked by sexy doppelgangers, mental asylums, and video-store geekery.
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2007., Warner Books Call No: BLK Fic Hop Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. It tells the story of a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause. With this physical change of life comes a return of a special power for finding lost things, something she hasn't been able to do since childhood"--Provided by publisher.
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c2010., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Col Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In his first two, Governor General-shortlisted novels, Trevor Cole proved himself a master of drawing us into the shadowy side of human nature with sharp observation and warm wit. In PRACTICAL JEAN, he goes a step further: this is a deeply humorous and revelatory tale of an ordinary, small-town woman with the usual challenges of middle age - a do-nothing husband, a family that refuses to understand her - who realizes her fondest wish is to protect her dearest friends from the indignities of aging and illness. And that's when she decides to kill them!"--Publisher.
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2011., General, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: QWF BLK Fic Laf Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At age 23, the narrator, Dany, hurriedly left behind the stifling heat of Port-au-Prince for the unending winter of Montreal. It was 1976, and Baby Doc Duvalier's regime had just killed one of his journalist colleagues. Thirty-three years later, a telephone call informs Dany of his father's death in New York. Windsor Laferrière had fled Haiti in the 1960s, fearing persecution for his political activities. After the funeral, Dany plans to return his father to Baradères, the village in Haiti where he was born. It is not the body he will take, but the spirit. How does one return from exile? In acutely observed details, Dany reveals his affection for his father and for the land of his birth.
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-- Revival.2006., McClelland & Stewart Call No: BLK 810.8 R454r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Revival is an engaging, exciting, and dynamic collection of outstanding contemporary black Canadian literature. Drawing on fiction, memoir, and poetry, the anthology comprises a wide-ranging selection of work from twenty-nine writers, both well-known, award-winning authors and newer voices. Editor Donna Bailey Nurse's lively and insightful introduction provides an up-to-date and fresh perspective on black Canadian writing, tracing the development of this influential literature and illuminating its themes and motifs." "Revival celebrates one of our most vibrant, significant, and thriving literary communities, one that holds an increasingly important place within Canadian and contemporary world literature. It stands among the finest literary anthologies in the country. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
