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Fate: Core System

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Introduction: A High Priestess of the barbarian hordes, an undead Wild West gunslinger, and a Second Lieutenant of the Intergalactic Security Forces are about as different as they come, but they've got one thing in common: they need a strong engine…

The Chocolate War

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This book is narrated from alternating third-person perspectives and is set at Trinity School, a preparatory, all-boys, Catholic high school.. The two most common voices are those of Jerry Renault, a solitary first-year and protagonist of the story,…

A Day no Pigs would Die

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This coming-of-age story is set in 1920s rural Vermont, and focuses on Robert, a teenage boy who is becoming closer with his father, who is a butcher who slaughters hogs. Robert is given a pet pig, Pinky, from his neighbours after helping their cow…

Canada Lost, Canada Found

A negative review on Desbarats's polemic book "Canada Lost, Canada Found". Sheppard describes Desbarats's work as taking a rather cold and bitter analystical mindset whilst probing at the collective conscientiousness of Canadians at first, before…

Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear…

SLIS 25th Anniversary Display Page 7

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An aerial photograph of University of Western Ontario's campus

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First Nations Public libraries in Ontario: a primer for settlers and beginners (from a settler beginner)

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This zine was submitted as a reflection for LIS 9370 (Decolonizing LIS Collections) introducing First Nations Public Libraries in Ontario.

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Istanbul

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Players: 2-5
Playing time: 40-60 minutes
Age: 10 and up

Introduction: Hustle and bustle in the bazaar district of Istanbul: merchants and their assistants are hurrying through the narrow alleys attempting to be more successful that their…

The Satanic Verses

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This book follows two protagonists, Gibreel Farishta, a Bollywood superstar who specializes in playing Hindu deities, and Saladin Chamcha, an emigrant who has broken with his Indian identity and works as a voiceover artist in England. The book opens…

Issue 2: MMIWG

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Is part of: Atrocities against Indigenous Canadians for dummies.

This zine provides an introduction to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada. --supplied by cataloger

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