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The Break
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break — a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house — she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime.
In a series of…
In a series of…
Pemmican Wars: A Girl Called Echo, Vol. 1
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same.…
Tags: Canada, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Indigenous, Metis, Sasksatchewan, Young Adult
And Tango Makes Three
This story is based on the two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo, Roy and Silo, who made a nest together but discovered neither of them could lay an egg. They watched the other penguins and tried to hatch a rock that looked like an egg.…
Quilt Show
Players: 2-4
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult
Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…
Playing time: 30-75 minutes
Age: 13 to adult
Game overview: In this game, you are a quilter. You will collect fabric cards which can be exchanged for block tiles. As you amass block tiles, you will combine them into one or more…
Tags: 13+, 2-4 players, 30-75 mins, Awards, fabric, Games, Quilt making
Forever...
This book explores the complexities of relationships and teenage sexuality through Katherine's and Michael's relationship. The two high school students grow in their relationship with one another, then, after having sex together for the first time…
Vaccinated at the ball : a true story about trusted messengers
This zine "details an effort in Chicago [in 2021] to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among Black and Latino members of the city’s LGBTQ community."
Those Pesky Garden Gnomes
Players: 3-5
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…
Playing time: 45 min
Age: 13+
Game overview: This is a trick-taking card game with a twist - or two! In every hand, each player has her own secret goal - and these changes randomly with each hand. The closer you come to your goal,…
Tags: 13+, 3-5 players, 45 mins, Board game, Cards, Games, Gnomes, small
visiting agindaasowigamig
agindaasowingamig is the anishinaabemowin word for library.
Created for Head and Heart Indigenous Research Fellows Circle, held on July 18th, 2023 at the The D.B. Weldon Library.
Critical questions to help deepen one's understanding about the…
Created for Head and Heart Indigenous Research Fellows Circle, held on July 18th, 2023 at the The D.B. Weldon Library.
Critical questions to help deepen one's understanding about the…
Tags: Zine
The Works of the English Poets [original]
Binding: fair to good ; paper covered boards ; some spotting ; bumped corners ; some wear on edges ; front cover loose
Spine: poor ; covered removed ; exposed sewing
Textblock: good to very good
Contents: The Poems of Edmund Smith ; The…
Spine: poor ; covered removed ; exposed sewing
Textblock: good to very good
Contents: The Poems of Edmund Smith ; The…
Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson [original]
Binding: good to very good ; brown leather binding, Cambride-style panel ; blind tooling on front and back covers ; some rubbing on back cover ; bumped corners
Spine: very good ; brown leather with red leather onlay ; 5 raised bands with gold…
Spine: very good ; brown leather with red leather onlay ; 5 raised bands with gold…
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textures of your pandemic experience
A collaborative zine made about the FIMS community experience with the COVID19 pandemic.
