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By Strength, We Are Still Here
Indigenous Peoples and Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories

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Lessons in Legitimacy
Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia

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Unreconciled
Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

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Tsqelmucwílc
The Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and A Reckoning

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Power Through Testimony
Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation

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Broken Circle
The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools

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The Boy From Buzwah
A Life in Indian Education

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Earth Elder Stories
The Pinayzitt Path

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Indigenous Relations
Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation A Reality

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Structures of Indifference
An Indigenous Life and Death in A Canadian City

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Pathways of Reconciliation
Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC's Calls to Action

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The Sleeping Giant Awakens
Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation

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Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân
The Way I Remember

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The Education of Augie Merasty
A Residential School Memoir

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In This Together
Fifteen Stories of Truth & Reconciliation

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Becoming Kin
An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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Indigenous Rights in One Minute
What You Need to Know to Talk Reconciliation

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North of Nowhere
Song of A Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner

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One Bead at A Time
A Memoir

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Blackheart Man
A Novel

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Under the Oak Tree, the Novel
Volume 1

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The Hidden Life of Trees
A Graphic Adaptation

Graphic Novel
The Anxiety Club
How to Survive Modern Life

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Something, Not Nothing
A Story of Grief and Love

Graphic Novel
Gender Queer
A Memoir

Graphic Novel
Only If You're Lucky
A Novel

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The School for German Brides
A Novel of World War II

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The Hawthorne School
A Novel

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Land of No Regrets
A Novel

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The Divines
A Novel

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School Days
A Novel

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Remarkably Bright Creatures
A Novel

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Fire Weather
The Making of A Beast

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The Book of Charlie
Wisdom From the Remarkable American Life of A 109-year-old Man

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Bad Cree
A Novel

Large Print

Biography of A Friendship
A Memoir

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Soseol-eul jochneun hichihaikeo
Hitchhikers in pursuit of stories

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On the Surface
A Thriller

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The Carry-on Imperative
A Memoir of Travel, Reinvention & Giving Back

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Nobody Important
Just A Renegade Cop

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Traces of A Boy
Reflections of the Unfathomable

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When Women Talk
10 Influental Women Share Stories of Learning, Life and Leadership

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Monsters of the Wilderness
Oswalds Curse

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The Historians
Healing at Hidcote

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In Harmony With the Tao
A Guided Journey Into the Tao Te Ching

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Personal Storytelling
Discovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary

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The Flourishing Postpartum Planner
Your Guide to the Fourth Trimester

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Transitions
From Farmhand to Career Diplomat

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Dream Count
A Novel

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The Wedding People
A Novel

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A Mind of Her Own
A Novel

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Broken Country
A Novel

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Time Travel in North Vancouver
A Peek Into the Past

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At the Bridge
James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging

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What Was Said to Me
The Life of Sti'tum'atul'wut, A Cowichan Woman

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British Columbia
Land of Promises

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East Side Story
Growing Up at the PNE

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Stewards of Splendour
A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia

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Go Do Some Great Thing
The Black Pioneers of British Columbia

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Sheltering in the Backrush
A History of Twin Islands

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Echoes Across Seymour
A History of North Vancouver's Eastern Communities Including Dollarton and Deep Cove

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Where Mountains Meet the Sea
An Illustrated History of the District of North Vancouver

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The Geography of Memory
Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual History of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People

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On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871

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