Heart work and hard choices

A hopeful and critical study of how community-based service providers navigate emotional, ethical, and structural challenges in their work supporting criminalized women.

Métis methodologies

Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.

Seeing ourselves

Fifth edition of a multi-perspective analysis of the meaning of ethnic diversity in Canada.

Revolution on the move

An oral history of grassroots activism that reclaims Latinas’ political contribution to Toronto, highlighting feminist agency, anti-oppression struggles, and social justice activism.

Ravenous

Breigh is a pregnant elder millennial whose livestreamed quest for momfluencer fame spirals into depravity. An incisive satire of consumerism, performative femininity, and social media.

The politics of lonely

Friendship is hard because everything is hard. This book examines social structures to demonstrate how people mend an unravelling social fabric.

De-colonizing journeys

Twenty-two contributors share their experiences of unsettling colonialism through engaging in circle work, an Indigenous method of de-colonizing education.

Children are medicine

Celebrate the love and healing that children generate – they truly are medicine.

Reimagining assessment in social work

Social work assessment is political. How we understand its power is at the heart of ethical social work practice.

A feel for thinking

A pocket book on big ideas in social justice for those seeking refuge in learning.

Genocide in canada

This book exposes deeply flawed genocide denialism surrounding residential schools, examining how Canada sought to resolve the “Indian problem” through genocide.

Colonized classrooms

This powerful analysis of reconciliation in higher education exposes the limits of progress and calls institutions toward accountable and transformative change.

Contested global governance space and transnational agrarian movements

An empirical, un-matched study of transnational movements deeply embedded in financialization theories.

The people and josh wilson

Josh Wilson’s high school history project sends him stumbling into a parallel world where the Native American people have not been displaced by colonists. Instead, the people thrive in a powerful domain and coexist with small colonies in Massachusetts and New York. Josh has only a few days to fin...

Papergirl

Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie — bright, determined and very bored at school —...

The lost teachings / panuijkatasikl kina’masuti’l

Illustrated by Dozay (Arlene) Christmas; Translated by Yolanda Denny and Elizabeth PaulOne day as the great Eagle flew high above the forest he came upon a small bundle containing seven teachings, teachings that will bring balance, harmony and peace to all who practice them. But the teachings com...

How the cougar came to be called the ghost cat/ta’n petalu telui’tut skite’kmujewe

This beautifully illustrated book, written in both Mi’kmaw and English, reflects the experiences of First Nations peoples’ assimilation into the Euro-Canadian school system, but speaks to everyone who is marginalized or at risk.

If this is freedom

If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the difficulties of a hardscrabble existence and continued discrimination ...

One box

A Balikbayan box with much more than t-shirts and toothpaste — One Box is filled with promises of reunification.

Resilience

Resilience, Anishnaabe artist Jackie Traverse’s third colouring book, honours the Indigenous people who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child stealing systems

Escape!

Based on Leon Trotsky`s real-life imprisonment in Amherst, Nova Scotia, this adventure tells the tale of 13-year-old Russian emigré Alexi Gertoff and his chance meeting with Lev, Leon Trotsky`s son. In the spring of 1917, Lev has come to Amherst to help his father escape from the wartime prison c...

Les savoirs perdus /  panuijkatasikl kina’masuti’l

Aigle répartit sept savoirs fondamentaux parmi les animaux de la forêt, mais il oublie de mentionner une importante mise en garde; et ainsi, les animaux s’empêtrent dans la jalousie, la convoitise et l’égoïsme. Aigle se doit sauver les animaux et c’est ainsi qu’il est amené à découvrir le sens du...

Failure to protect

Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children — and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices...

Stickin` to the union

This narrative of the nine-month battle between the striking workers at Versatile Industries and their eccentric wealthy employer John Buhler is critical reading for anyone seeking to understand the state of contemporary labor relations and the failure of governments to protect ordinary people an...

Borders matter

A new era of Canada–U.S. relations has been ushered in by American reactionary security measures along the Canadian–U.S. border, and this examination of the strategic importance of the border argues that a new policy model and social theory is needed to grasp the complex, multidimensional changes...

Under one roof

This case study of an innovative and alternative model of community economic development describes a unique project that shows how building and renovating housing can greatly improve the social, economic, and political life of an inner city neighborhood. Using the North End Housing Project (NEHP)...

What moves us

Emerging from the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, Canada, What Moves Us? brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement- based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radical imagination and radi...

Chief lightning bolt

Here is a contemporary Mi’kmaq legend of the life of a great man, who becomes chief, the embodiment of Mi’kmaq values of humility, courage, honour, service and sacrifice of personal gain for the sake of others. He lived a long and storied life, hundreds of years ago, before the arrival of the Eur...

Turn us again

Called to his dying father’s bedside, Gabriel Golden’s life is turned upside down after receiving his mother’s journal. The journal chronicles his mother’s life in post-war Britain, her genteel upbringing and her eventual marriage to Gabriel’s father, a complicated man raised in an aggressive, Je...

Grey eyes

Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literature!In a world without time and steeped in ceremony and magic, walks a chosen few who hold an ancient power: the Grey Eyes. True stewards of the land, the Grey Eyes use their magic to maintain harmony and keep evil at bay. W...

Viola desmond

Many Canadians know that Viola Desmond is the first Black, non-royal woman to be featured on Canadian currency. But fewer know the details of Viola Desmond’s life and legacy. In 1946, Desmond was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow,...

Ghosts within

What are the long-term psychological costs of violence and war? Journalist Garry Leech draws from his experiences as a war correspondent, his ongoing personal struggle with PTSD and the latest research on this mental illness to provide a powerful and vivid answer to this question. For thirteen ye...

Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (raised somewhere else)

During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households.Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal and provocative narrative ...

Rebel without a pause

Rebel Without A Pause is the autobiography of Winnipeg’s best-known and most persistent political activist, Nick Ternette. For over forty years, Nick was one of the loudest voices of the Left, who ran for mayor multiple times and never shied away from asking elected officials tough questions. A c...

Born sacred

A journalistic poetry collection reflecting on Palestinian and Indigenous solidarities, genocides, life and liberation.

The daughter who walked away

Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons’ annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to do...

Socialist cowboy

Socialist Cowboy is a political biography detailing the life and activism of longtime New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos, one of the most colourful and controversial political personalities in the history of Ontario politics. Throughout his illustrious twenty-three year career as a member of the Ontar...

Human misunderstanding

Human Misunderstanding is the latest work by award-winning poet Kathy Mac. The first of the book’s three long poems compares a fictional child soldier (a hero) with a real child soldier (a victim). The second juxtaposes eighteenth century philosophy with one person’s search for another in downtow...

Sugar kids

A coming-of-age novel set in the iconic nineties rave scene.

Jude and diana

Strong-willed and unyielding, Jude resisted the cruel bonds of slavery in Nova Scotia where she hoped to find freedom and, instead, found her place in history.

Land-water-sky / ndè-tı-yat’a

Land-Water-Sky/Ndè-Tı-Yat’a is the debut novel from Dene author Katłįà. Set in Canada’s far north, this layered composite novel traverses space and time, from a community being stalked by a dark presence, a group of teenagers out for a dangerous joyride, to an archeological site on a mysterious i...

Where the jasmine blooms

Two Palestinian cousins with very different lives meet in Lebanon and discover their family’s political secrets amid the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.

Siegebreakers

Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy,...

Milton acorn

When Canadian icon and original Canadian People’s Poet Milton Acorn was passed over for the Governor General’s Award for his 1969 collection I’ve Tasted My Blood, several of his peers, including Margaret Atwood, Pat Lane and Mordecai Richler, established the People’s Poetry Award, which they pres...

No more fridays

A witty, humorous and slightly magical novel about navigating the end of high school after losing a parent to ALS.

Comment le puma a fini par être appelé le chat fantôme / ta’n petalu telui’tut skite’kmujew

Pris entre deux mondes, le puma a du mal à trouver un lieu où il est à sa place. En tant que chat fantôme, le puma vit comme il le devrait : dans la forêt, mais sans ses amis.Misinsit miawe’k tapu’kl wskitqamu’kl, Ajik alme’si wejitoq ta’n tett tleyawit. Skite’kmujewey Mia’wj mimajit ta’n tel nen...

Ikwe

Ikwe is a new colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse. Featuring brand new works, the stunning images in IKWE celebrate the spiritual and ceremonial aspects of women and their important role as water protectors.“I had the privilege of going to Standing Rock twice. The strength and po...

Thyme travellers

Thyme Travellers brings together fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction, the first collection of its kind in Canada.

Rebellion’s daughter

In this historical fiction, spirited young Eunice escapes inequity and, dressing as a boy, joins a rebellion against the elite-ruled government.

Sacred feminine

“To all the young girls in care and women in corrections, never give up hope. I was once where you are. Life gets better. Be blessed.”— Jackie TraverseSacred Feminine is a colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse.The beautiful and intricate works of art within depict images of strengt...

Wake the stone man

Set in a small northern town, under the mythical shadow of the Sleeping Giant, Wake the Stone Man follows the complicated friendship of two girls coming of age in the 1960s. Molly meets Nakina, who is Ojibwe and a survivor of the residential school system, in high school, and they form a strong f...

Atacama

Firmly rooted in true historical developments and covering themes related to class, gender, trauma and survival, Atacama is the story of two fictional characters of disparate backgrounds but connected by a profound understanding of the other’s emotional predicaments and by their unwavering commit...

Northern wildflower

This is the story of how a young northern girl picked herself up out of the rough and polished herself off like the diamond that she is in the land of the midnight sun.Northern Wildflower is the beautifully written and powerful memoir of Catherine Lafferty. With startling honesty and a distinct v...

Double pregnant

Shortlisted for the 2015 Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction In Memory of Robbie RobertsonGirl meets girl. Girl marries girl. They want to have babies…but they need a little help.Double Pregnant is author Natalie Meisner’s light-hearted, poignant and informative true story about starting a famil...

Firekeeper

A healing journey through fire and water.

Insatiable machine

Wave goodbye to the American dream.Just a heartbeat into the future, America is being dragged to its knees by social unrest and economic inequality. The furious pace of technological advancement has made medicine capable of near-miracles but has also enabled the widespread displacement of workers...

Grist

Shortlisted for the 2015 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction“This is the story of how you were loved,” Penelope MacLaughlin whispers to her granddaughter.Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. Nonetheless she remains determined to make th...

The desirable sister

Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, but as the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents, their lives play out in different ways because of their skin tone. Gia’s fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena’s dark skin means she is labelled as Indian ...

Live from the afrikan resistance!

Live from the Afrikan Resistance! is the first collection of spoken word poetry by Halifax’s fifth Poet Laureate, El Jones. These poems speak of community and struggle. They are grounded in the political culture of African Nova Scotia and inherit the styles and substances of hip- hop, dub and cal...

Making a home

This book documents Jen Powley’s fight for young disabled people to live in the community rather than being institutionalized in nursing homes.

Ruby red skies

A betrayed middle-aged mother embarks on a quest that takes her straight into British Columbia’s wildfires and her ancient Moghul ancestry

Sister seen, sister heard

A story for every immigrant struggling between cultures, every youth rebelling against parents, and every woman facing assault alone.

The hundefraulein papers

Hunde/fräulein: Dog/nanny. For five and a half years (1995-2001) Kathy Mac lived in Sambro Head, NS, looking after anywhere from four to twelve English Setters. The post entailed maintaining the ocean-side doghouse and looking after the many, varied houseguests of the hundemutter – ocean activist...

Pubs, pulpits and prairie fires

History professor Paul Wessner hangs out at BJ’s Bar and Cue Club on Tuesday nights sharing his accounts of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot in 1935. Due to local interest in his research, he invites Doc Savage and Matt Shaw, real-life leaders on the Trek, to deliver first-hand accounts ...

Doug knockwood, mi’kmaw elder

Freeman Douglas Knockwood is a highly respected Elder in Mi’kmaw Territory and one of Canada’s premier addictions recovery counsellors. The story of his life is one of unimaginable colonial trauma, recovery and hope.At age 6, Knockwood was placed in the Shubenacadie Residential School, where he r...

Burnley “rocky” jones revolutionary

“The life, work and activism of Rocky Jones are central to African-Canadian history and the civil rights movement in Canada. Canadians lost a great soul, with the recent death of Rocky Jones, but his autobiography – co-written by James Walker, a close friend of Rocky Jones and one of our foremost...

Under her skin

Tucked away in her tattoo studio in the port city of Halifax, Shaz draws meaning and symbolism onto the bodies of her clients. After the ransacking of her home, the brutal attack on her friend and the sudden appearance of her white father, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her li...

Chocolate cherry chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage and tradition for a life of experience and adventure — proving to herself, and her mother, that she is anything but a typical Indian girl. After diving with sharks in the Philippines and a sordid breakup amidst the b...

Everything is so political

The stories within Everything Is So Political explore the intersection between politics and the contemporary short story. From the overt to the subtle, this collection tackles a broad range of topics and themes, from women’s rights and Aboriginal culture to environmentalism, terrorism and totalit...

Holocaust to resistance, my journey

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis on a farm in rural France. Alone after the war, she lived in progressive-run orphanages, where she ga...

The unlikely redemption of john alexander macneil

Shortlisted for the 2017 Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award!John Alexander MacNeil is eighty years old. Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, he lives alone in rural Cape Breton, but he still cooks breakfast for his wife, who’s been dead for thirty years. He silently starts to question his own mind after...

Black matters

Halifax’s Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences.

Exiled for love

Finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/BiographyAll orders of Exiled for Love are 30% off. Use discount code exiled30 during checkoutTo be gay in Iran means to live in the shadow of death. The country’s harsh Islamic code of Lavat is used to execute gay men, and LGBT individua...

Under the bridge

“There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are … brittle.”When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax’s North E...

This house is not a home

A gripping tale that combines fictional characters with real historical events of a time when the housing system dispossessed Indigenous Peoples across the north

The untimely resurrection of john alexander macneil

After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, ninety-year-old John Alexander MacNeil finds Death sitting at his kitchen table.

Tailings of warren peace

A corrupt mining company, repossessed gravestones, a man’s fractured past, mysterious notes posted to lampposts and murder deep in the highlands of Guatemala. In Tailings of Warren Peace, Stephen Law effortlessly weaves these elements into a powerful story of love and memory, exploring how the pa...

Big island, small

Sola is confused the first time she sees Judith, a fair skinned woman with dreadlocks dancing to reggae music. Meeting her gaze, Judith thinks Sola is judging her for appropriating Black culture. A few days later, up against an interlocking fence, Judith kisses Sola. Onlookers hurl stones and rac...

Just jen

Winner of the 2017 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-Fiction!Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and legs.Just Jen is a powerful memoir that tells the story of Powley’s life at the time of her diagnosis, and t...

Enough

Three Iranian women from different generations working at Toronto City Hall respond to institutional racism while the city champions inclusion.

He who would walk the earth

Felix walks alone through a decaying world until he is challenged to remember his past and build his future — an anti-colonial western exploring trauma, memory, and healing.

R is for reparations

Coming out of the innovative Book-in-a-Day event facilitated by the Global Afrikan Congress – Nova Scotia Chapter, R Is for Reparations invites readers to listen to the voices of young activists as they share their hopes and dreams about the global demand for redress, compensation and restitution...

I’ll get right on it

Poetry by and for working people making a living under conditions of climate disaster.

Market and society

A multidisciplinary approach to microeconomics that draws from the humanist tradition enriches this economics textbook. The basic concepts of classical microeconomics including price, Production, distribution, and consumption are explained with historical examples and real-life scenarios drawn fr...

Experiencing difference

Exploring the ways in which individuals conceive of themselves in the face of contradictory, conflicting, and mediated identities, this text shows the interrelatedness of the various factors in terms of their experiences related to identification.

Capitalism rebooted?

Investigating the effects of the New Economy on Canada’s workers and their families, this study examines the promises made by the advances of technology and globalization versus the challenges that face workers today. The changes that have been made in the working world have not been the predicte...

Agroecology

Our global food system is largely based on unsustainable industrial agricultural practices, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, is controlled by a handful of large corporations and produces unhealthy food. Agroecology is a solution to these increasingly urgent problems.After decades of...

Beyond the limits of the law

McMullan attributes corporate crime to a process whereby the accumulation of capital takes precedence over human safety. He concludes that “the scope and seriousness of corporate crime is enormous, far exceeding that of conventional crime.”

The global fight for climate justice

While corporations continue with business as usual, climate change is rapidly expanding the gap between rich and poor, according to this group of anticapitalists from five continents. Their essays here cover topics from food shortages and carbon trading to perspectives from indigenous peoples, an...

Racialized policing

Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been “racial profiling” by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting individuals and groups on the basis of “race.” Racialized Policing argues that the debate has been limited by its individuali...

Walking this path together

Walking This Path Together is an edited collection devoted to improving the lives of children and families that come to the attention of child welfare authorities by demonstrating and advocating for socially just child welfare practices. In this new, updated edition, authors provide special consi...

Behind the rhetoric

Recovery has taken the mental health world by storm. In clinics, hospitals, community organizations and governments across North America and Europe, recovery rhetoric is everywhere. Its message of hope is catchy, its promise of wellness long overdue and its claims (somewhat) substantiated. But wh...

Busted

Long-listed for the George Ryga Award.Canada’s drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada’s history of drug prohibition say about its future?Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 archival and contemporar...

The healing journey

The Healing Journey offers a startling analysis of intimate partner abuse and its negative effects on women’s earnings, education and vocational training as well as in the labour market itself. Victims of abuse often suffer from chronic physical and mental health issues, which impede their partic...

Contesting fundamentalisms

A multidimensional understanding of the nature of fundamentalism is presented in this exploration of fundamentalism`s manifestations in economics, nationalism, ethnic relations, gender politics, and religious practice. While religious fundamentalism has been a particularly potent cultural force i...

Boomerang ethics

The fact that racism has adverse effects on Blacks and other minorities is obvious. But what is not so obvious are the hidden impacts of racism on all members of society, including white people.Joseph Mensah and Christopher J. Williams argue that ethics of altruism and social justice are inadequa...

Beyond token change

Using a case study as its starting point, this guide examines the patterns of oppression built into organizations and institutions. Such systems of discrimination and oppression originate not with individuals within the institution, but rather the dynamics within the institutions themselves. Atte...

Decolonizing academia

Poetic, confrontational and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the Ivory Tower. Clelia O. Rodríguez illustrates how academia is a racialized structure that erases the voic...

Twenty-first-century socialism

In Twenty-First-Century Socialism, Atilio A. Boron traces the history of capitalism in Latin America and finds that the capitalist mode of production has not led to development but instead has fostered underdevelopment. Boron argues that within a wider historical and geographical perspective, ca...

After iraq