Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n…
Want to Read $ 14.72"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state knows this. We always begin at the end."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
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1. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
By: None
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of fed… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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- adult
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4. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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- adult
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5. Rehearsals for Living
By: Robyn Maynard
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more
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- nonfiction
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- canada
- indigenous
6. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
7. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
8. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
9. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
10. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
11. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
12. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
By: Nick Walker
4.37
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more
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- queer
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- essays
- audiobook
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
13. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
By: Michelle Good
4.44
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more
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14. Behind You
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.04
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more
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15. it was never going to be okay
By: jaye simpson
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more
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16. Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold rei… read more
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"Diabetes is a choice if you forget colonialism, fellas."-Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
17. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
By: Alicia Elliott
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more
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"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
18. True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change
By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet , a groundbreaking a… read more
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19. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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20. Tauhou
By: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities b… read more
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"Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I a…"-Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou
21. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- adult
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22. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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23. Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America
By: Sheima Benembarek
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented glimpse into the sex lives of female and gender-expansive Muslims living across Ca… read more
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24. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
By: Patty Krawec
4.58
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more
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- nature
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"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
25. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
26. Queer Little Nightmares
By: David Ly
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
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27. Any Other City
By: Hazel Jane Plante
4.14
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock b… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
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28. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
By: Chelsea Vowel
4.13
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more
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- indigenous
- lgbt
29. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
By: Angela Sterritt
4.51
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more
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- memoir
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30. Coexistence: Stories
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.39
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more
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"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories
31. NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.43
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In his follow-up to This Wound is a World , Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Poetry Prize–winning colle… read more
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"A country is how men hunt in the dark"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
"What an ugly, necessary monster I made of myself." from "The Wall Clock Caught Fire From Neglect"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field
