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The Calf with Two Heads
Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863308
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: 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.
The Seven Nations of Canada 1660-1860
Solidarity, Vision, and Independence in the St. Lawrence Valley
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771863322
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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...
After All Was Lost
Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on 6/04/94 when the Rwandan President?s Plane was Shot Down
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771863131
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
Blacklion
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863315
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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
Leader of the Métis People
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863155
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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?"
Keep My Memory Safe
Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863162
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
Everything is Ori
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863179
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
A mysterious Japanese visitor to a Quebec seafood plant changes the course of human existence.
Full Fadom Five
Price:
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863124
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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...
Blinded by the Brass Ring
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863148
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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...
School for Girls
Price:
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9781771862912
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Deep in the forest, a remote boarding school echoes with unspoken histories.
Cities Matter
A Montrealer's Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863049
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Cities, as Jane Jacobs showed, are at the heart economic development and, despite pandemics, they will continue to prosper and grow.
Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution
Price:
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781771862882
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
A young woman comes of age in Montreal in a feminist, magical-realist romp
Almost Visible
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862943
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
What can happen when a lonely person intervenes in another person's life.
Shaf and the Remington
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862950
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
The Ghost of Suzuko
Price:
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781771862769
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Passion, taxidermy, and grief meet contemporary art in a blur of Tokyo wanderings.
The Killer's Henchman
Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862745
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
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:...

The Calf with Two Heads
Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863308
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: 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.
The Seven Nations of Canada 1660-1860
Solidarity, Vision, and Independence in the St. Lawrence Valley
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771863322
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
After All Was Lost
Resilience of a Rwandan Family Orphaned on 6/04/94 when the Rwandan President?s Plane was Shot Down
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781771863131
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
Blacklion
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863315
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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
Leader of the Métis People
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863155
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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?"
Keep My Memory Safe
Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863162
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
Everything is Ori
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863179
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
A mysterious Japanese visitor to a Quebec seafood plant changes the course of human existence.
Full Fadom Five
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781771863124
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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...
Blinded by the Brass Ring
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863148
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Baraka Books
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...
School for Girls
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9781771862912
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Deep in the forest, a remote boarding school echoes with unspoken histories.
Cities Matter
A Montrealer's Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771863049
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Cities, as Jane Jacobs showed, are at the heart economic development and, despite pandemics, they will continue to prosper and grow.
Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution
CA$23.95
ISBN: 9781771862882
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
A young woman comes of age in Montreal in a feminist, magical-realist romp
Almost Visible
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862943
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
What can happen when a lonely person intervenes in another person's life.
Shaf and the Remington
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862950
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
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.
The Ghost of Suzuko
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781771862769
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books
Passion, taxidermy, and grief meet contemporary art in a blur of Tokyo wanderings.
The Killer's Henchman
Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771862745
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Baraka Books