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  Shock Wave

  Sigmund Brouwer

  In this fast-paced reluctant detective story, Jake Ballard is spending the summer at his uncle’s cottage, brooding about his family’s sacrifices to the military life, when he, unknowingly, helps a young woman pull off a houseboat burglary. To save himself from the crime boss who wants his goods returned, Jake has to enlist the help of friends in the military and draw upon all the detecting skills he has to find the girl and figure out exactly what is going on.

  (Orca Book Publishers, $10.95 Paperback, 144 pages, ISBN: 978-14-59839-62-5)  

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  Métis Music

  Stories of Recognition and Resurgence

  Monique Giroux

  What makes music Métis, and who gets to decide? This book charts how complex dynamics of recognition, non-recognition, and erasure have played out over a history of Métis music making, from the Red River Resistance to the present day, and shows how Métis have resisted settler recognition and erasure.

  (McGill-Queen’s University Press, $38.95 Paperback, 288 pages, ISBN: 978-02-28022-26-8)  

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