New acquisitions - publications: Highlights

Elise Gravel uses simple sentences and pictures to explain to children what it means to be a refugee.

A fascinating look at how medical epidemics have shaped and been shaped by society and the history of the modern world.

A guide for non-indigenous people to increase their cultural competency and help them to better understand the intricacies of Indigenous rights and title.

From behind the camera, Patrice Massenet has borne silent witness to many wars, the cruelty of tyrants, people’s misery and much more. He now speaks up, recounting some of the significant events in history that he has witnessed.

Each family has a recipe that is jealously guarded and passed on from generation to generation. This book brings together family recipes from all over Quebec, to pass on a culinary heritage that deserves to be known.

In recent decades, our understanding of sex, gender and sexuality has changed significantly. This book, a fully revised version of one of the first French-language books on these issues, explores the nuanced and complex world of intimacy, sexuality and identity. It accurately explains and defines different facets of sexual and gender diversity.

In this visually stunning and absolutely mouthwatering cookbook, author Shane M. Chartrand traces his childhood through the medium of food. In part a personal and cultural history, this book looks at ingredients and techniques in a way that goes beyond simple cooking instructions and into the heart of what food really means.

A truly adorable book for children that uses quilts to tell the story of a little grey mouse who yearns to find one thing that will finally make her life a happy one. She learns the important lesson that it is okay to feel “blue” but not to allow this feeling to consume you.

In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in the St. Catharine's case, which defined the legal issues concerning Aboriginal land title for decades. This book examines the effects of the case on policy and law up to the 1970s, when legal and societal views of Indigenous land rights slowly began to change.

Seven months ago, Félix separated from his wife. This comic brings you into a world where a man feels like the only break in his solitude is brought on by his new companion, a goldfish. Félix doesn't like to talk about his separation, but he knows that if he doesn't, he will be forever stuck wondering what it is like to feel love again.

This comic strip tells the story of a charming road cone who dreams of working in Montréal. The humorous tale mixes a deep and lasting love for that city with frustration about constant construction and road repairs.

The play Post-humains, was performed for the first time in 2017. It explores questions raised by the use of technologies to improve the human condition, including by increasing physical and mental abilities. This is the first solo work by Dominique Leclerc.

In 1914, SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. This book challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage.

These 77 poems convey a conversation, using elements of mythological and current events, about human possibility, greed, failure, resilience and storytelling

In this autobiographical story, the emotions underlying childhood memories from the banks of the Grand River to the beaches of Maine are undiminished. Through this account of inner images, Hélène Dorion reminds us that we are fleeting, questing beings. “What is life, but the sum of adventures grand and small, where the personal challenges the universal?”

An autobiographical novel about a teenager looking back over the rather unconventional history of his Métis family in the middle of the last century. He describes life in Algonquin territory, at the time of the lumber camps, and sketches a striking portrait of the people in his daily surroundings.

An illustrated edition of recently discovered, previously unpublished fairy tales. In 2009, the lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, a 19th-century collector of Bavarian folk tales and contemporary of the Brothers Grimm, were unearthed in a municipal archive in Germany. Willow Dawson is an award-winning illustrator living in Toronto.

Marshall McLuhan and Pierre Elliott Trudeau were two of 20th-century Canada’s most important public intellectuals. This collection of their entire correspondence, from 1968 to 1980, provides insight into their unique friendship and a crucial era in Canadian history.

Law’s Indigenous Ethics examines how Indigenous law can shed light on Canadian legal approaches to treaties, Aboriginal title, judicial education and the continuing legacy of residential schools. The book is based on seven teachings of the Anishinaabe grandmother/grandfather: love, truth, bravery, humility, wisdom, honesty and respect.

Nous sommes Télé-Québécois is a history of public television in Quebec. Told in a series of stories and memories by personalities and fans, it celebrates a cultural and educational institution, Télé-Québec.

The culmination of 15 years of research, the main difference between this book and others on the same subject is the sharing of practical rather than theoretical knowledge. Isabelle Kun-Nipiu Falardeau teaches how to make remedies, explains traditional methods and offers the teachings of the elders who kindly showed her their ancestral knowledge.