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• The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse

  a Memoir

  Nguyen, Vinh (Associate professor),

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• Oh My Mother!

  a Memoir in Nine Adventures

  Wang, Connie

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• Lost and Found

  Seeking the Past and Finding Myself

  Thiara, Sam

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• Love & Courage

  My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected

  Singh, Jagmeet, 1979-

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• Traitor by Default

  the Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid

  Brode, Patrick, 1950-

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• Gently to Nagasaki

  Kogawa, Joy

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• Journey After Midnight

  India, Canada and the Road Beyond

  Dosanjh, Ujjal

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• We Were Dreamers

  An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

  Liu, Simu, 1989-

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• Vij's

  a Chef's One-way Ticket to Canada With Indian Spices in His Suitcase

  Vij, Vikram, 1964-

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• Tong

  the Story of Tong Louie, Vancouver's Quiet Titan

  Perrault, E. G. (Ernest G.)

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• Magdaragat

  An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing

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  "Since first arriving on Canada's shores over 150 years ago, Filipinos have contributed invaluably ― though too often invisibly ― to the fabric of Canadian society. This anthology of writing by members of the Filipino-Canadian community explores…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Terra Viva

  My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements

  Shiva, Vandana

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  "Vandana Shiva has been described in many ways: the “Gandhi of Grain,” “a rock star” in the battle against GMOs, and “the most powerful voice” for people of the developing world. For over four decades she has vociferously advocated for diversity,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eating Dirt

  Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life With the Tree-planting Tribe

  Gill, Charlotte, 1971-

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  "Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• People Change

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  A thought-provoking meditation on reinvention from an artist who has actively refused a single, static shape in both her career and in her personal life. With great intelligence and candour, she mines her own experience to get to the heart of what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bittersweet

  Poems

  Ramoutar, Natasha, 1994-

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  "Bittersweet is a collage representing both a reconstructed homeland and Scarborough, Ontario. It considers memory using photographs, maps, language, and folklore. Bringing together definitions, recipes, cartography, photo albums, and oral stories,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Our Ordinary Stories

  a Multigenerational Family Odyssey

  Wong, Teresa, 1976-

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  "Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents." (Goodreads)

• Dispersals

  on Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  Lee, Jessica J., 1986-

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  A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future. (Goodreads)

• Unearthing

  Maclear, Kyo, 1970-

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  Discovering she and the father who raised her are not biologically related, the author becomes a detective in her own life, unraveling a family mystery; assembling the story of her biological father; and reflecting on race, lineage and what it means…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Knot of My Tongue

  Poems

  Naqvi, Zehra (Founder of The Estuary Institute),

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  "The Knot of My Tongue flows through poetic and prose forms, traversing continents, generations, and empires to examine the loss of speech and language occurring at and after moments of violence and rupture, from migration and colonial violence to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almost Brown

  a Mixed-race Family Memoir

  Gill, Charlotte, 1971-

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  "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household." (Goodreads)