Powerful Poetry
Adrienne Gear continues the journey of effective literacy instruction with a focus on poetry. Combining writing, reading and oral language skills, this book will provide teachers with a wealth of engaging lessons to bring the power of poetry into their classrooms.
Okanagan Women’s Voices
A direct window into the lives of settlers and Indigenous Peoples in eras of upheaval, uncertainty and reform, this collection is a much-needed lens into histories too often told by the colonial state.
Sometimes Reading is Hard
Cultivate the skills students need to succeed and find the motivation that will make them want to read.
Any Kind of Luck at All
A bittersweet memoir of "radical acceptance," filled with scenes of courage and activism, from a life in the shadow of four generations of mental illness and addiction.
Spílexm
Captivating and deeply moving, this story basket of memories tells one Indigenous woman’s journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.
The Detective and the Spy
Consulting detective and heir to Holmes and Watson, Portia Adams is on the run, under suspicion for the explosion that caused her to lose her hearing and speech, as the real bomber continues to wreak havoc all over 1932 London.
Chasing Painted Horses
The image of an incredibly beautiful horse, drawn by a small, fragile girl on the reserve, haunts Ralph into adulthood, until he encounters it a second time and is moved to finally figure out its significance.
A Promise of Sweet Tea
A memoir about a childhood in a small village in Eastern Europe and its destruction by the Nazis.
The Unconventional Nancy Ruth
Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives.
What's the Difference?
Find the unique strengths and skills in every student, and integrate teaching autistic students into everyday learning.
The Infinite Park
A poetry collection that maps the process of coming undone and putting it all back together again in an exploration of daily life.
Who We Thought We Were As We Fell
A poetry collection that unearths the unsettling from the mundane, and moves between moments of grief, life and renewal.
Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence
A thoughtful account of how we can save democracies from the despots and populists who provide the easy answers to complicated situations, dumbing political discourse down to sandbox antics.
Lake Effect
A collection of short stories chronicling the emotional lives of people around the Great Lakes.
Better Reading Now
A grab-bag of ready-to-use strategies and activities to inspire students and nurture lifelong readers.
Making Math Stick
How to teach and foster classroom learning experiences that will assist students in retaining and applying math concepts in the long term.
A Perfect Likeness
This volume contains two novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing. Both stories follow the lives of young artists who have dreams for a better future.
Because They Were Women
Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of a tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture.
The Dogs of Winter
A howling snowstorm envelops the city, and the body of a young woman is discovered in its wake. The only clue to her identity: a photograph in her pocket with the scribbled phone number of Detective Inspector Romeo Leduc. Meanwhile, Marie Russell is trying to help a student at her college who is the victim of a terrible assault.
Never Going Back
In this work of crime fiction, retired thief Ali is forced to do one more job for her old boss to protect her younger brother and the family business.
