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  Planting Thistles

  Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada

  Timothy S. Forest

  Forest explores the motivations, misfires, and consequences of the state-sponsored and failed attempts to transplant Scottish crofters from the Outer Hebrides to British Columbia and the Prairies at the height of the Victorian age. This failure prompted colonizers to re-examine issues of religion, race, class, gender, Britishness, and modernity.

  (UBC Press, $125.00 Hardcover, 456 pages, ISBN: 978-07-74870-97-9)  

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  The Next Big Pigs

  Ryan Uytdewilligen, Charlotte Cho (Illustrator)

  Ten-year-old Mikey doesn’t want to farm; he wants to perform! Lucky for him, so do the three pigs he is given to raise for market – when he discovers they can not only talk but also juggle, do acrobatics, sing, dance, and more, he joins their troupe and together they set off for the big lights of Broadway. But can they get there before the evil Mr. Baconmaker catches up to them?

  (Heritage House, $12.95 Paperback, 162 pages, ISBN: 978-17-72035-76-6)  

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