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A Woman's Agenda 2010

A Woman's Agenda 2010

This year's edition profiles these 12 amazing international women:

Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Canada) — Inuit environmental activist Sheryl Swoopes (United States) — African-Amer...

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girlSpoken

girlSpoken

“Being a teenage girl is not for the weak” From pen, brush, and tongue, girls and young women (ages 13-19) speak their truths, tell it like it is, and call for change. This collection of creativ...

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My Mom Loves Me More Than Sushi

My Mom Loves Me More Than Sushi

In this utterly delicious book, a little girl and her mom learn about-and eat!-fabulous foods from around the world. sushi, biscotti, houska, canja, couscous, megaderra, smorgastarta, crepes, jamb...

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The Diary of Laura's Twin

The Diary of Laura's Twin

Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award for Children's and YA Literature and the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature! A mysterious diary links modern-day Laura to ...

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Child of Dandelions

Child of Dandelions

Governor General's Award Finalist  


Sabine has a happy life in Uganda, until the “countdown monster” changes everything – ordering h...

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Nobel's Women of Peace

Nobel's Women of Peace

Working for Peace Around the World Each year since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a person who has made a difference in the world. Twelve women have been given this award, and e...

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Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch

Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch

Bernadette Inez O’Brian Schwartz is a very small girl with a very long name and a very BIG imagination…

Bernadette is having a hard time starting a new school year. Her best...

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Madwoman of Bethlehem

Madwoman of Bethlehem

In mid-20th century Bethlehem, a woman finds that the only way to take control of her life is to feign madness It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Wome...

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Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth

“That’s how we lived, surrounded by ghosts. They sat at the table while we ate our Sunday meal. They lay beside us in the bed as we slept...” In Tell Me a Story, Tell Me the Truth, author Gina R...

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White Space Between

White Space Between

Winner of the 2009 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction A family's story of the Holocaust lies buried in the soil of a graveyard in Prague, in the old neighborhoods of Montréal, in the ...

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Guardian Angel House

Guardian Angel House

Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II.

Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place f...

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Home Free

Home Free

A GUTSY GIRL BOOK

TD Children's Book Award Finalist!

Governor General's Award Fina...

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Rough Magic

Rough Magic

"With so many strong women running about and employing dark arts, Rough Magic reads more like The Mists of Avalon than Shakespeare ...Mullin’s environmental message of hope and restoration is an en...

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Lacey and the African Grandmothers

Lacey and the African Grandmothers

Can a sewing project make a difference half-way across the world?

Lacey Little Bird loves spending time with Kahasi, an elder on her reserve who is like a grandmother to...

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Fearless Female Journalists

Fearless Female Journalists

Women who’ve changed the world by reporting on it…

Ten inspirational biographies of women who risked everything – including their lives – to bring us the world...

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Still Ain't Satisfied

Still Ain't Satisfied

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No Safe Place

No Safe Place

Women and children live in the shadow of violence all the time. Rape, child abuse and sexual assault, pornography, wife battery and sexual harassment are facts of everyday life in our society. In...

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Beyond Hope

Beyond Hope

In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost 60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate.

Book 2 i...

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Franny and the Music Girl

Franny and the Music Girl

By the same author as Hattie Pearl Click Click

"Franny and the Music Girl features the irrepressible, energetic girl who also happens to be in a wheelchair ... the illustrations...

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Big Carrot Vegetarian Cookbook

Big Carrot Vegetarian Cookbook

"A top-notch cookbook." Toronto Star

"A rare hybrid, healthy food with pizzazz." Joanne Kates, author and critic

This acclaimed cookbook provides nutritious recipes...

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