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Paperback Non-Fiction

Manitoba Women In Design

- Marieke Gruwel

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Manitoba Women in Design tells the story of women’s contributions to Manitoba’s built environment during the twentieth century. These women worked as architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, and engineers. Their legacies can be traced across the province. Despite this, many of these women and their contributions have been erased from architecture and design histories. This highly illustrative book begins the process of addressing these exclusions by showcasing the lives and careers of some of these notable women.

Suing for Silence

- Mandi Gray

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Suing for Silence is a groundbreaking examination of how men accused of sexual violence use defamation lawsuits as a weapon to silence those who attempt to hold them accountable.

As Mandi Gray demonstrates, Canadian defamation law helps perpetuate the myth that false allegations of sexual violence are common. Gray draws on media reports, courtroom observations, and interviews with silence breakers, activists, and lawyers to examine the societal and individual implications of so-called liar lawsuits. She argues that their purpose is not to achieve justice but to intimidate, silence, and drain the resources of those who speak out against sexual violence and even report their own assaults - and to discourage others from doing the same.

This meticulous work reveals the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law, which has long protected men's reputations at the expense of women's sexual autonomy. Sexual violence discourse must have adequate protection if it is to be heard.

Winnipeg 150

- Heritage Winnipeg

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This exceptional commemorative book stands as a testament to the rich history of the City of Winnipeg as it marks its 150th anniversary! The pages are adorned with 150 original artworks of artist Robert Sweeney, offering a stunning architectural perspective on the evolution of our beloved city along with the amazing history of our city. HERITAGE WINNIPEG is an independent, non profit, charitable organisation incorporated in 1978, as a cooperative effort between the City of Winnipeg, the Province of Manitoba and the National Trust for Canada. We are mandated to support the conservation of Winnipeg’s built heritage. Heritage Winnipeg advocates for the protection and conservation of historic buildings, provides resources and support for building owners, government, media and the public, and collaborates with like-minded organisations. Heritage Winnipeg promotes built heritage through local events, volunteering and education, and helps build community. Protecting our built heritage fosters healthy, unique, dynamic, environmentally friendly and fiscally viable neighbourhoods that we can all be proud to call home for generations to come.

Valley of the Birdtail

- Andrew Stobo Sniderman , Douglas Sanderson

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner - 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Winner - 2023 John W. Dafoe Book Prize

Winner - 2023 High Plains Book Award for Indigenous Writer

Winner - 2022 Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Book Award for Local History

Winner - 2023 Quebec Writers' Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and Concordia University First Book Prize

Finalist - 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

Finalist - Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

Finalist - 2023 Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

Finalist and Honourable Mention - Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize

Longlisted - 2023-2024 First Nations Communities Read

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliation

Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo Indian reserve have been neighbours nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong with relations between Indigenous Peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope.

Valley of the Birdtail chronicles how two communities became separate and unequal--and what this means for the rest of us. In Rossburn, which was once settled by Ukrainian immigrants fleeing poverty and persecution, family income is near the national average and more than a third of adults have graduated from university. In Waywayseecappo, the average family lives below the national poverty line and less than a third of adults have graduated from high school, with many haunted by their time in residential schools.

This book follows multiple generations of two families, one white and one Indigenous, weaving their lives into the larger story of Canada. It is a story of villains and heroes, irony and idealism, racism and reconciliation. Valley of the Birdtail has the ambition to change the way we think about our past and light a path to a better future.

The Reason You Walk

- Wab Kinew

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A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist.
          When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school. An intriguing doubleness marks The Reason You Walk, a reference to an Anishinaabe ceremonial song. Born to an Anishinaabe father and a non-native mother, he has a foot in both cultures. He is a Sundancer, an academic, a former rapper, a hereditary chief, and an urban activist. His father, Tobasonakwut, was both a beloved traditional chief and a respected elected leader who engaged directly with Ottawa. Internally divided, his father embraced both traditional native religion and Catholicism, the religion that was inculcated into him at the residential school where he was physically and sexually abused. In a grand gesture of reconciliation, Kinew's father invited the Roman Catholic bishop of Winnipeg to a Sundance ceremony in which he adopted him as his brother. Kinew writes affectingly of his own struggles in his twenties to find the right path, eventually giving up a self-destructive lifestyle to passionately pursue music and martial arts. From his unique vantage point, he offers an inside view of what it means to be an educated aboriginal living in a country that is just beginning to wake up to its aboriginal history and living presence.
     Invoking hope, healing and forgiveness, The Reason You Walk is a poignant story of a towering but damaged father and his son as they embark on a journey to repair their family bond. By turns lighthearted and solemn, Kinew gives us an inspiring vision for family and cross-cultural reconciliation, and a wider conversation about the future of aboriginal peoples.

These are our current bestselling Paperback Non-Fiction titles in Winnipeg.