*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction*Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards*Winner, High Plains Book Awards*Finalist, CBC Canada Reads*A Globe and Mail Book of the Year*An Indigo Book of the Year*A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, ...

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.Charting his own history, the stories of people from his...

Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the third and final installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and poems from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Jesse Thistle, Marissa Stapley, Waubgeshig Rice, Michael Redhill, Dani Couture, Phoebe Wang, Sina Queyras, and Stephen Brunt, and these pieces are interwoven with stories from citizens across Canada...

A beautiful and moving collection of poems and stories from the author of the #1 bestselling memoir From the Ashes.Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of reading his poetry, which is sprinkled throughout this bestselling memoir. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart.Charting his own history, the stories of people from his...

*#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Winner, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nonfiction*Winner, Indigenous Voices Awards*Winner, High Plains Book Awards*Finalist, CBC Canada Reads*A Globe and Mail Book of the Year*An Indigo Book of the Year*A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of the YearIn this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA poignant and inspiring memoir of the people and challenges that shaped the life and career of Canada's most decorated Indigenous athlete.**Over the course of his incredible career, Bryan Trottier set a new standard of hockey excellence. A seven-time Stanley Cup champion (four with the New York Islanders, two with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche), Trottier won countless awards and is a member of the Ho...

The educational histories of mid-nineteenth century British-Métis students illuminate the transnational travels of British-Métis students and their roles in reifying and challenging British-imperial norms about race, class, and gender in the British Empire. In this paper, photographic and object-based artifacts are interwoven with family correspondence and other archival documents to explore the complexity of British-Métis children’s life stories and the extensive connections between elite...

The series you thought you knew: the first book written with the complete co-operation of the whole team“They’d stolen our beer and our steaks, and then to make it worse . . . they give us this Russian beer—the warm, skunky sh*t, and not the good, cold Labatts our sponsor sent. I remember thinking, ‘These pricks will never beat us again! They are not going to win another f*cking game.’”—Rod GilbertWhen the Summit Series began on September 2, 1972, Cold War ...

For readers of Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father and Hockey Confidential, Down and Back tells broadcaster Justin Bourne’s story of following his Hall-of-Fame father not only to the NHL, but also into rehab.Bob Bourne was everything a son wants to emulate—an NHL All-Star, a Sports Illustrated “Sportsman of the Year,” a Stanley Cup champion. Justin Bourne followed in those huge footsteps, leading his teams in scoring year after year, an...

Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the second installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Amy Stuart, Karen Connelly, Eternity Martis, Kevin Chong, and more, these pieces are interwoven with stories from citizens across Canada providing a diverse set of reflections on the personal ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA new book by Hall of Fame goalie and bestselling author Ken Dryden celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series**SEPTEMBER 2, 1972, MONTREAL FORUM, GAME ONE:The best against the best for the first time. Canada, the country that had created the game; the Soviet Union, having taken it up only twenty-six years earlier. On the line: more than the players, more than the fans, more than Canadians and Russians knew.So began an enti...