PreviewsIssue 87, Fall/Winter 2025/26
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Baseball Bats for Christmas
Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak, Coco Lynge (Illustrator)
This 35th anniversary edition of a holiday classic brings to life the story of Arvaarluk and his friends, who discover Christmas trees for the first time in 1955, with stunning new illustrations.
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Beaver Hills Forever
A Metis Poetic Novella
Conor Kerr
This playful, yet hard-hitting novella follows Buddy, a welder in the oil fields; Baby Momma, the mother of his four children, who is trying to go back to school; Fancy University Boy, who begins but drops out of university, and then works in a warehouse supplying oil industry parts; and Aunty Prof, an untenured prof of Indigenous lit – each life showing the limitations of paths available to Métis people on the Prairies, and the determination these characters have to make something of themselves.
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Behind the Bricks
The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School
Richard W. Hill Sr., Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, Jennifer Pettit
Conceived of and overseen by Six Nations community member Richard W. Hill Sr., this important work provides deep insight into the Mohawk Institute, which operated from 1828 to 1970 in Brantford, Ontario, and which was seen as a model for the residential school system.
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Blood Letters
Ariel Gordon, GMB Chomichuk, GMB Chomichuk (Illustrator)
This innovative, illustrated, epistolary novel made up of military records, letters, poems, drawings, and maps, is set in a futuristic war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities. Siblings Kris, Albany, and Millie write letters to each other about their roles in the war – Kris (a poet) is in special ops, Albany (an artist) is a soldier at the front, and Millie (a mathematical genius) is a code worker behind the lines, where she tries to protect the others from the worst of the war.
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Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscapes
Settler Colonialism in Horror
Laura Hall
This book analyzes how horror films reveal the brutality of settler colonial violence, showing the connections between horror tropes such as the savage killer and the feral woman to Indigenous representations, gender, and sexuality, and how Indigenous Peoples as presented as savage threats to civilization rather than as the ones continually under the oppression of colonialism.
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Building Bridges
A Big City Mayor Reflects on Leadership
Donald J. Atchison
Saskatoon’s longest-serving mayor offers leaders of the future an understanding of what to expect in civic politics, gives general readers an understanding of what it’s like to live the life of a politician, and explores the history of the development of Saskatoon.
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Changing Care
Advancing Social Justice in the Health Professions
Jennifer Brady (Editor), Jacqui Gingras (Editor)
Through a blend of research, case studies, and personal stories, health-care practitioners present unique and diverse perspectives on the effects of structural injustice in the health-care system and offer practical strategies and solutions that can be applied in an everyday practice and beyond traditional health-care settings.
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City Rising
The Age of Dry Water
David Rotenberg
The climactic conclusion of the acclaimed epic series spanning 200 years sees the end of the battles of the opium lords and the powerful British company.
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Colonial Land Legacies in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Susana Barnes (Editor), Laura S. Meitzner Yoder (Editor)
Through ethnographic, historical, and legal lenses, the case studies in this book present a comparative exploration of the enduring impacts of Portuguese colonial land governance in Portugal and across five former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Flores, and Portuguese Timor.
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Conservation Confidential
A Biologist Investigates the Clash Between Progress and Nature
Lorne Fitch
With wit, sharp critique, and vivid storytelling, Fitch explores the clash between environmental stewardship and industries such as forestry, mining, and agriculture, and calls on readers to rethink how to value natural resources – as gifts to protect rather than commodities to exploit.
