Baraka Books

Putting together European (French and British) and Indigenous knowledge, nineteenth-century amateur naturalists in Canada were looking for answers to questions about earth?s history. In the process they created a new portrait of the country.

Wendake, Odanak, Wôlinak, Pointe-du-Lac, Kahnawake, Kanesatake, and Akwesasne are communities located all along the St. Lawrence River valley and its tributaries. They have been home to descendants...

Deogratias Nsabimana was the Rwandan Army Chief of Staff. He was killed with the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi when the Rwandan presidential plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. A respected military strategist, he played a vital role during the war started when the Rwandan Patriotic Army invaded on October 1, 1990. He was a key negotiator of the 1993 Arusha Peace Accords, which he believed in, convinced that only peace would allow Rwandans to live in harmony.

Alice Nsabimana and her siblings have chosen highlights of his life and theirs that cast new light on the terrible tragedy that struck Rwanda and neighboring countries. Her book is a message of love, peace, forgiveness, and resilience for victims of war or other disasters in the world.

Raymond Daly, just off a CIA stint in Laos, is sent to Ireland to re-establish a line running guns to the IRA. He begins to manipulate Aoife in order to gain the trust of the community and embed himself in the organization. Inspired by complex, real-life political events with far-reaching consequences, Luke Beirne plays with and destabilizes the traditional spy tale. He also ponders the diabolic power invested in intelligence operatives.

The Legacy of Louis Riel provides an overview of the ideas that guided the leader of the Metis people. Louis Riel was a prolific writer. Based on a comprehensive review of Riel's writing, the author examines Riel?s views on vital subjects, including the term Métis, Métis identity, "Indians," Jews, Islam, Quebec, French Canadians, the United States, women, liberalism, and Metis unity. This exploration of discovery and rediscovery will inspire other academic adventurers and the broad public to investigate other little-known aspects of Riel's 19th intellectual milieu so that we can better understand the man, his times and the momentous events that occurred. The Legacy of Louis Riel helps answer the critical question: "Why does Louis Riel matter?"

Born in Hong Kong to unwed parents, Stephanie Chitpin was transported illegally to the Island of Mauritius by Ah Pak, head nun of a Buddhist temple with the help of a benevolent Chinese businessman. Ah Pak raised her as an orphan ward of the temple, Fook Soo Am, known as the Pagoda. Scars incurred by classmates' name calling, the shame of being an orphan raised in a temple, tragic deaths, and more did not prevent her from pursuing her education in Mauritius and at university in Canada.

Keep My Memory Safe is a totally unique immigration story that poetically chronicles life in the temple and in Mauritius, and the move to Canada.

A mysterious Japanese visitor to a Quebec seafood plant changes the course of human existence.

Noah Lamarck's life is a mess. Laid off work as a librarian, with his estranged wife and child in need of money, he struggles to find a way forward. Noah is thrown an unexpected lifeline. When long lost evidence of Shakespeare's life is uncovered, an eccentric bibliophile hires Noah and graduate student Cecelia Lines, to investigate.

The more they delve into the playwright's life, the more they are drawn into each othe's; and despite their growing feelings for one another, their divided loyalties leave them increasingly at odds, and vulnerable to manipulations of their employer. So unfolds a drama of love, sex, family tensions, financial burdens, and obsessions. Noah and Cecelia must navigate to save themselves and Noah's family from ruin.

In Full Fadom Five , set in Cape Breton, Toronto and Shakespeare's London, the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of...

Stylish and ambitious, Jewelle Joseph, JJ to her friends, has the perfect opportunity to make her move into senior management through the newly created sales and distribution spin-off company. It will mean a significant salary increase and equally important it will allow her to reign in and over her rival and fellow international sales executive, Chantal Mercier. But Chantal's got her eye on the VP of sales position too. The competition between these two ambitious women moves from the glitzy office towers of downtown Toronto to the glamorous world of the international television market in Cannes. While navigating family drama in Montreal?a philandering father and traditional Jamaican mother who tries to control Jewelle's life and the lives of her siblings?Jewelle tries to balance her doubts about her boyfriend Anthony Brown, who Jewelle perceives as lacking in ambition, and the hot and heavy pursuit of her by Johann Eriksson, a dashing...

Deep in the forest, a remote boarding school echoes with unspoken histories.

Cities, as Jane Jacobs showed, are at the heart economic development and, despite pandemics, they will continue to prosper and grow.

A young woman comes of age in Montreal in a feminist, magical-realist romp

What can happen when a lonely person intervenes in another person's life.

Chronicling the lives of a Balkan family, a people, a town and a nation, from dawn at the time of the first great War to dusk as the Cold War sputters to an end.

Passion, taxidermy, and grief meet contemporary art in a blur of Tokyo wanderings.

Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General announces the pandemic will end "when the world chooses to end it. We have all the tools we need:...