PreviewsIssue 85, Fall/Winter 2024-25
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I, Brax
1. A Battle Divine (A Dragon Assassin Adventure)
Arthur Slade
In this latest of the YA fantasy series, Brax the dragon hero gets to tell his own story. On a diplomatic mission, Brax and his rider, Carmen, encounter The Nameless Goddess, who is planning to conquer their world. Her first step is to have the emperor of the Akkad empire murdered, and Brax and Carmen need to protect his young nephew and heir to the throne rom a similar fate. Will they be able to fight the goddess face to face and win?
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I’m Just Gerry, Like an Ant on a Blueberry Pie
Building a Forever Company the Price Way
Rob Wozny
This book tells the story of how Gerry Price grew Price Industries into a Prairie powerhouse, expanding from Canada into the United States and taking it from sales of $30 million to over $1 billion, guided by the 13 tenets that make up the Price Way.
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If We Tell You
Nicola Dahlin
The normal, maybe a bit happier than normal, life of identical twins Cameron and Lewis is blown apart when their loving and wise parents kill two uninvited guests at a neighbourhood barbecue. What follows is a riveting thriller – separated from their parents and given only cryptic instructions, fake passports, and each other to work with, they head off to another country where nothing is certain and no one can be trusted. Whatever their names are, and wherever they end up, these characters will stay in readers’ minds for a long time.
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In Winter I Get Up at Night
A Novel
Jane Urquhart
Weaving narratives of the different times of her life, this subtle and stunning historical novel tells the story of Emer McConnell, an itinerant music and art teacher in rural Saskatchewan, who as a child survived but was forever changed by a tornado and her resulting injuries. The time she spent recovering in hospital, her love affair with the scientist she calls Harp, and her family relationships are all revealed in a delicate yet profound exploration of colonial expansion, scientific progress, and racial and cultural divisions.
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Indigenous Healing as Paradox
Re-Membering and Biopolitics in the Settler Colony
Krista Maxwell
This social history of the ways Indigenous Peoples have engaged and navigated the welfare state to promote survival and well-being in the midst of Canadian settler colonialism reveals how Indigenous healing is a paradox, since an intervention to foster well-being might simultaneously aim to eliminate distinct Indigenous societies.
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Inherent
Kevin Stebner
This collection of concrete poems – produced by scraping each letter onto the page – uses familiar poetic tools to reduce words and letters and characters to their most basic and beautiful forms, celebrating the shapes we take for granted.
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Insurgent Ecologies
Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations
(Editor)
Movements against environmental and climate injustice have forced the question of “system change” to the centre of the political agenda, bringing together broader struggles for overcoming the racist, patriarchal, and colonial structures of global capitalism.
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It’s Nation Time
A Progressive Defence
Jerry White
This book defends the relevance of national identity and nationhood, saying they are a key part of a vision of globalization that holds the imperatives of diversity and solidarity in a delicate balance.
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It’s Powwow Time!
Martha Troian, Hawlii Pichette (Illustrator)
Inspired by her son who was initially too shy to leave her side at a powwow, Troian celebrates new experiences and community traditions in this story of young Bineshii, who gradually eases his body into the rhythm of the powwow music and makes his way from the edge of the circle to the inside of it.
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Izzy Wong’s Nose for News
Marty Chan
Izzy Wong is following in her journalist mother’s footsteps, breaking big stories for her podcast. However, when her investigation into who flooded the girls’ washroom and did considerable damage to the school goes beyond the facts into harmful gossip, all the while increasing the audience for her podcast, Izzy learns about ethical journalism the hard way.
