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Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest

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"Shape-changing Raven steals the sun from the Sky Chief to light the dark world in this handsome rendering from the fund of lore shared by the Native groups of the northwest coast. "Raven changed himself into a pine needle. He fell down from the tree…

Real Caouette: Spellbinder From Quebec

St. John's, Nfld.

Profiles the life and rise to political power of Quebec’s Social Credit Party leader Real Caouette. Desbarats seems to be a fairly positive profile of Caouette.

Reference Desk

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Photograph of interaction at SLIS library desk

Reluctantly Alice (Alice series)

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Reluctantly Alice is the third book in the Alice series. The series follows Alice McKinely as she grows up in Silver Spring, Maryland with her dad and brother (her mom passed away when she was five). The Reluctantly Alice book sees Alice through the…

Rene's Our Mann in Current Crop of Biographies

Montreal, Quebec

A surveying article on the sales of political and historical non-fiction books. Desbarats's biography on Rene Levesque is showcased as the current best selling book, despite laments from Francophones regarding the book's…

Reserve and renew: the LIS mental health zine

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"A compilation zine with submissions from people who work/volunteer in libraries or archives (or are working towards a library degree) exploring the intersections of mental health, mental illness, and library/archives work."
- From the creators

Revolution!

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This is a 1st Edition, 1st Printing

Players: 3-4
Playing time: 1 hour
Ages: 13 and up

Game Objective:
The land bubbles with intrigue and unrest. The people clamor for change. Revolution is coming. When the old regime falls, who will the…

Rosetta Stone [facsimile]

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Good to very good ; facsimile of original Rosetta Stone tablet.

Rowdy, Hostile Northern Australia Mirrors Arctic

Montreal, Quebec

Part five of a six part co-series with Cartoonist Ed McNally about spending several weeks in Australia. Desbarats writes about a very rough Austalian bar with an electric international mix of labourers from a uranium and copper…

Sagas of the Icelanders: A Roleplaying Games About the Lives of Icelandic Settlers in in the Saga Period

Sagas of the Icelanders
Introduction: In the year 874, the first Norse stylers set foot on iceland. They were escaping war, poverty and the dissolution of their political Freedoms on the mainland. Their families and people followed and claimed the empty lands, free from…