6 Top indigenous books like Legends of the Capilano (First Voices, First Texts, 6) by E. Pauline Johnson

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Legends of the Capilano (First Voices, First Texts, 6)

By: E. Pauline Johnson

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bringing the Legends home Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Legends of the Capilano (First Voices, First Texts, 6) by E. Pauline Johnson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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2. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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3. Steveston

By: Daphne Marlatt , Robert Minden

4.23

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

A new edition of this beloved favourite, by two of Canada's finest poets and photographers, with a … read more

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4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard

By: J.K. Rowling , Hermione Granger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the b… read more

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5. Embroideries

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

From the best-selling author of Persepoliscomes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look … read more

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6. Half-Breed

By: Maria Campbell

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more

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7. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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8. Decomp

By: Stephen Collis , None

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to d… read more

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9. Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--… read more

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10. The Outer Harbour

By: Wayde Compton

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction; one strand … read more

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11. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • canada
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12. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

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  • indigenous
"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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13. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

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  • indigenous
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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14. River Woman

By: Katherena Vermette

4.22

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Governor General’s Award–winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette’s second coll… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Truth is a seed planted deep If you want to get it you have to dig."

-Katherena Vermette, River Woman

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15. I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter

By: David Chariandy

4.25

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Dear… read more

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  • canada
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16. Nishga

By: Jordan Abel

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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17. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

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  • canada
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18. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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  • canada
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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19. undercurrent

By: Rita Wong

3.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of water--largely un… read more

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  • canada
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20. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

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21. Legends of the Capilano (First Voices, First Texts, 6)

By: E. Pauline Johnson

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Bringing the Legends home Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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22. A Haida Wedding

By: Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A visual and cultural celebration of a traditional Haida wedding ceremony, exploring its roots, rit… read more

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Kate Beaton

4.41

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Katherena Vermette

4.22

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David Chariandy

4.25

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Jordan Abel

4.48

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Richard Van Camp

3.82

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Thomas King

4.03

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Richard Wagamese

4.30

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Joy Kogawa

4.88

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