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Black History Month 2023

Celebrate Black History Month with these titles, including fiction, non-fiction, and biographies.

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Go do some great thing : the Black pioneers of British Columbia / Crawford Kilian ; with a foreword by Dr. Adam Rudder.
Kilian, Crawford, 1941- author.
Format: Book

The voyage north of a black community from San Francisco to Victoria during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.

Willie : the game-changing story of the NHL's first black player / Willie O'Ree, with Michael McKinley ; foreword by Jarome Iginla.
O'Ree, Willie, 1935- author.
Format: Book

Inspiring, frank, and shot through with the kind of understated courage and decency required to change the world, Willie is a story for anyone willing to persevere for a dream.

Until we are free : reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada / edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson, and Syrus Marcus Ware.

Format: Book

Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more.

Dear current occupant : a memoir / Chelene Knight.
Knight, Chelene, 1981- author.
Format: Book

From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative non-fiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

What storm, what thunder : a novel / Myriam J. A. Chancy.
Chancy, Myriam J. A., 1970- author.
Format: Book

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster.

The good father : a novel / Wayne Grady.
Grady, Wayne, author.
Format: Book

From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comes The Good Father , his first contemporary novel, which comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception and the price we pay for second chances.

The son of the house / Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia.
Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi, 1978- author.
Format: Book

The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they're kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their fate together.

The snow line : a novel / Tessa McWatt.
McWatt, Tessa, author.
Format: Book

A King Lear story for brown girls, Tessa McWatt's breathtaking new novel explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered.

Eat salt / gaze at the ocean : poems / Junie Désil.
Désil, Junie, author.
Format: Book

eat salt - gaze at the ocean explores the themes of Black sovereignty, Haitian sovereignty, and Black lives.