12 Best nonfiction books like Une Brève Histoire des Barricades by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

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Une Brève Histoire des Barricades

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Quatre histoires anishinaabeg autour d’Amik, le castor, revisitées par Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Une Brève Histoire des Barricades by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

By: Heinrich von Kleist , None , Nigel Reeves

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baff… read more

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  • school
"In M---, an important town in northern Italy, the widowed Marquise of O---, a lady of unblemished reputation and the mother of several well-brought-up children, inserted the following announcement in…"

-Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O— and Other Stories

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2. Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

By: Eden Robinson

3.82

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classi… read more

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  • canada
"He wasn't going to be alone after she died, but the world was going to be a lonelier place without her."

-Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster (Trickster, #1)

3. Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

By: Eden Robinson

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

The Sasquatch at Home shares and intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place. … read more

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4. Manifesto Cyborg

By: Donna J. Haraway

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

Dopo aver tematizzato l'esistenza del cyborg, "creatura della realta sociale econtemporaneamente de… read more

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5. The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

By: Thomas King

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist … read more

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6. Thin Skin: Essays

By: Jenn Shapland

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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7. Mégantic : un train dans la nuit

By: Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny

4.38

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

« Il y a des hommes, mon enfant, qui sèment les ruines et la peine sans même un frisson de gêne. Le… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. 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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9. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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10. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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11. 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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  • history
  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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12. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

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14. La version qui n'intéresse personne

By: Emmanuelle Pierrot

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elle croyait qu’ici, à l’autre bout du monde, au confluent de la rivière Klondike et du fleuve Yuko… read more

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15. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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16. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

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  • canada
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17. Le petit astronaute

By: Jean-Paul Eid

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

Tous les ans, Juliette fait son pèlerinage en vélo dans le quartier de son enfance. Mais cette anné… read more

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18. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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19. Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur

By: Jean-Philippe Pleau

4.36

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

«Juin 2018. J’effectue une entrevue sur les ondes de Radio-Canada avec l’écrivain Édouard Louis. On… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Que notre joie demeure

By: Kevin Lambert

3.58

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Un spectre hante le roman de Kevin Lambert : le spectre du capitalisme. L’éblouissante Céline Wacho… read more

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  • canada
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21. Comme un long accident de char

By: Joël Martel

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Figure bien-connue de l’humour web, ancien chroniqueur vedette du Quotidien de Saguenay et musicien… read more

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22. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

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23. Les têtes brûlées: Carnets d’espoir punk (French Edition)

By: Catherine Dorion

4.45

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Un jour d’automne 2018, une tête brûlée, portée par d’autres têtes brûlées, se fait élire au cœur d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.37

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saa… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Une Brève Histoire des Barricades

  • ecology
  • history
  • canada
  • school
  • politics
  • read for school
  • indigenous
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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25. La femme cent couleurs

By: Lorrie Jean-Louis

3.92

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Cent ou sans. Qu’importe. La mémoire appelle les origines, mêlant temps, histoires, langues, races … read more

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  • school
Cover of Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

26. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction book and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Une Brève Histoire des Barricades

  • indigenous
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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27. Women of the Fur Trade

By: Frances Koncan

4.19

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty … read more

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  • history
  • canada
  • indigenous
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28. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

By: Danny Ramadan

4.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
Cover of Atiku utei : Le cœur du caribou by Rita Mestokosho

29. Atiku utei : Le cœur du caribou

By: Rita Mestokosho

3.93

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Atiku utei, « le coeur du caribou », c’est la force d’un peuple et sa grande humilité. Les Innus on… read more

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30. Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father

By: Heather O'Neill

4.28

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays
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31. Next Time There's a Pandemic

By: Vivek Shraya

3.46

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

"During my first post-lockdown massage we had the requisite chit chat about our lockdown experience… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays

6 best-selling history books like Une Brève Histoire des Barricades by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Transform Your Habits

Mégantic : un train dans la nuit

Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Rehearsals for Living

Robyn Maynard

4.48

Transform Your Habits

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

Emma Dabiri

4.41

Transform Your Habits

A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

4.37

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15 Top nonfiction books like I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

Transform Your Habits

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Transform Your Habits

I'm Afraid of Men

Vivek Shraya

4.23

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