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17 items

• The Kids Book of Black History in Canada

  Sadlier, Rosemary

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• Undisputed

  a Champion's Life

  Bailey, Donovan, 1967-

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• The Trailblazing Life of Viola Desmond

  a Civil Rights Icon

  Kehoe, Rachel

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• Trailblazers

  the Black Pioneers Who Have Shaped Canada

  Ridley-Padmore, Tiyahna

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• Willie

  the Game-changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player

  O'Ree, Willie, 1935-

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• Oscar Lives Next Door

  a Story Inspired by Oscar Peterson's Childhood

  Farmer, Bonnie, 1959-

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• Iginla Sparks the Flames

  Leonetti, Mike, 1958-

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• Our Friend Joe

  the Joe Fortes Story

  Smith, Lisa, 1959-

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• 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women

  2018

  Augustine, Jean,

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• A Map to the Door of No Return

  Notes to Belonging

  Brand, Dionne, 1953-

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  Award winning novelist and poet

• Garden of Lost Socks

  Edugyan, Esi

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  Esi Edugyan is a two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner

• The Junta of Happenstance

  Oloruntoba, Tolu, 1985 -

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  Won the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry and the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize

• Harrowings

  Poems

  Nicholson, Cecily, 1974-

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  This collection was shortlisted for the 2023 Pat Lowther Award

• Beatrice and Croc Harry

  a Novel

  Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

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  Lawrence Hill is an award-winning author and a member of the Order of Canada

• Reproduction

  a Novel

  Williams, Ian, 1979-

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  2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner

• Dear Current Occupant

  a Memoir

  Knight, Chelene, 1981-

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  Winner 2018 Vancouver Book Award

• Black Women Who Dared

  Moyer, Naomi M., 1977-

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