Wish Upon a Satellite
The glaciers are melting and the climate crisis is on everyone's mind, but nothing shakes the foundations of non-binary teen Ciel’s world more than sharing an unexpected kiss with their best friend, Stephie.
The glaciers are melting and the climate crisis is on everyone's mind, but nothing shakes the foundations of non-binary teen Ciel’s world more than sharing an unexpected kiss with their best friend, Stephie.
A bittersweet memoir of "radical acceptance," filled with scenes of courage and activism, from a life in the shadow of four generations of mental illness and addiction.
When an earthquake and tidal wave batters Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula and destroys her family’s home, thirteen-year-old Celia must dig deep for courage she didn’t know she had.
Dual-language (English/Mi’gmaq) edition of Jodie Callaghan’s picture book.
Ten very different disabled women, from neurosurgeon Dr. Karin Muraszko to environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who are making a difference in the world.
Kate Graham introduces us to the thirteen women who have become first ministers (provincial premiers and, in one case, prime minister) in Canada, and shows how their strength and ingenuity led them each to govern like a girl.
A memoir about a childhood in a small village in Eastern Europe and its destruction by the Nazis.
Born into privilege but expected to use her advantages for the good of others, Senator Nancy Ruth has led an uncommon, unconventional life. Like Nancy herself, this book is rich in surprises and contradictions about a remarkable woman who used her privilege to support social change and the battle to better women’s lives.
Beth's predictable life in her Mennonite family is disrupted by a cross-border cookie war when a New York City lawyer comes asking for her family's secret recipe.
Fourteen young women, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of a tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture.
A mother and her daughter recount their escape, refuge and, above all, luck during the Holocaust.
A howling snowstorm envelops the city, and the body of a young woman is discovered in its wake. The only clue to her identity: a photograph in her pocket with the scribbled phone number of Detective Inspector Romeo Leduc. Meanwhile, Marie Russell is trying to help a student at her college who is the victim of a terrible assault.
This wordless picture book follows a young boy newly arrived in North America as he makes a friend and overcomes his fear of the snow.
A board book that represents a variety of families, from single parents to co-parents to gay parents.
A brother and sister celebrate the wedding of their two moms.
A memoir about a young girl from Hungary who survives Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.
