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Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years in the making, Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism. Legendary Canadian cartoonist Seth lovingly shows the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a middle-class that has long ceased to exist in North America--garrulous men in wool suits extolling the virtues of the wares to taciturn shopkeepers with an eye on the door. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family unit is a fraud--the...
22) Louis undercover
Author
Publisher
Groundwood
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"[M]eet Louis, a young boy who shuttles between his alcoholic dad and his worried mom, and who, with the help of his best friend, tries to summon up the courage to speak to his true love, Billie"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Columbia Pike Teen Book Club - Nov 2023 - Native American History Month
Indigenous Authors: Books for Teens
Indigenous Authors: Books for Teens
Description
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place-a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie-and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
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Description
"A Mi'kmaw girl battles an ancient giant and forms an unexpected friendship in the first volume of this series of graphic novels inspired by traditional stories. Long ago, all living creatures on this land shared a special balance with one another. The pugulatmu'j--the Little People--were the original guardians of the land, and they looked after all living things. As time passed, we forgot these playful yet powerful guardians, but they did not forget...
Author
Series
Scott Pilgrim volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Scott Pilgrim is dating a high schooler, but when Ramona Flowers starts skating through his brain, everything changes. While Scott pursues Ramona, someone else has their sights set on Scott: her seven evil ex-boyfriends. If he wants this relationship to work, he needs to defeat them all-- but even that herculean task might not be enough!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Hobtown mystery stories volume 2
Publisher
Conundrum Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Reeling from the strange and confusing discoveries their adventure in The Case of the Missing Men, the Hobtown Junior Detective Club is looking forward to Christmas break when two of its Teen Detectives--Brennan and Pauline--are made to attend an extra-credit boarding school called Knotty Pines. After attending their first classes, however, they realize they may have stumbled on their weirdest case yet! It's not just that the Headmaster and the Headmistress...
Author
Publisher
Drawn + Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"In Are You Willing To Die For The Cause? Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the hearts and minds of Quebec citizenry and Canadian politics. There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than F-L-Q. Standing for the Front de libération du Québec (or in English, the Quebec Liberation Front).The original...
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