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I HATE HOCKEY
A darkly comic novel by GG Award winner François Barcelo
Translated by Peter McCambridge
Read the first chapter for free here!
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“I hate hockey!” is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with hockey. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful…
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island through German Eyes
Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84)
286 pp, trade paper, $29.95, 9781926824116
Wilhelm Weike, a 23-year old handyman from Minden/Germany, accidentally found himself spending the year of 1883-84 among Inuit and wintering with whalers on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. The fledgling scientist Franz Boas (1858-1942), later the eminent cultural anthropologist, hired Weike to attend to and assist him in his geographical and ethnological research following…
Soldiers for Sale
German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution, 1776-83
296 pages | Trade paper $29.95 ISBN 978-1-926824-12-3
(In bookstores in Canada in mid-November 2011 and in the United States in March 2012.)
The British Army that fought the American Revolutionaries was in fact an Anglo-German army. Britain was unsure of the commitment of English soldiers to fight other English-speaking people and also doubted the loyalty of the Canadiens whom it had recently…
Principals & Other Schoolyard Bullies
Short Stories
“Recommended!” by Library Journal
“A fine collection.” Alistair MacLeod
Who has never encountered a bully? Who has never told—or been told—a story of a bully? With an uncanny insight into what bullies are all about, Nick Fonda brings sensitivity and even humour to an otherwise sinister topic.
Everybody knows that bullying is not limited to physical violence or intimidation and that bullies don’t…
A People’s History of Quebec
A must read to understand Quebec and Canada.
The perfect gift for tourists and visitors.
Ebook Available
This lively guide to Quebec history tells the fascinating story of the settlement of the St. Lawrence River Valley over nearly 500 years. But it also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who travelled, mapped, and inhabited most of North America, and…
The Question of Separatism
Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty
Five years after her death, a new enriched edition of Jane Jacobs’ third book with an exclusive 2005 interview; available April 1, 2011
The incomparable Jane Jacobs passed away five years ago on April 25, 2006. Baraka Books proudly offers readers a new edition of her third, least-known book to mark that anniversary. Undeniably a genius on urban issues, Jane Jacobs also…
BREAK AWAY
Jessie on my mind
Ebook Available
* WINNER OF THE JOHN GLASSCO PRIZE AWARDED BY THE LITERARY TRANSLATORS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
Alexandre McKenzie lives on North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. In summer he rides the logging trails on his quad. Come winter he is a promising young hockey star who seeks solitude at a bush camp by the frozen lake. But when he plunges…
You could lose an eye
My first 80 years in Montreal
“Tongue-in-cheek humour abounds in the book.”— Canadian Jewish News
Ebook Available
You could lose an eye, My first 80 years in Montreal by David Reich is an inspiring, sometimes heart-rending, life story by a man whose tongue is always in his cheek. At 82 years young, David Reich offers readers a delightful insider’s view of Montreal’s vibrant and historic Jewish community as well…
DISCRIMINATION IN THE NHL
Quebec Hockey Players Sidelined
Ebook Available
“I agree 100% with him (Bob Sirois),” said two-time Stanley Cup winner Bobby Holik on TSN, November 2, 2010.
Ever since Maurice Richard dazzled hockey fans, fighting his way to hockey’s summits, the issue has festered. NHL veteran Bob Sirois demonstrates that unless Quebec hockey players are superstars they are less likely to be drafted than other Canadians, they can…
TRUDEAU’S DARKEST HOUR
War Measures in Time of Peace | October 1970
Forty years ago in the middle of the night the government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau proclaimed the War Measures Act following two political kidnappings by the FLQ. It thereby suspended the Constitution and all civil liberties, deployed 12,500 troops in Quebec—7,500 in Montreal alone— arrested 465 people without charges and detained them incommunicado without bail and without the right to…
ROADS TO RICHMOND
Portraits of Quebec's Eastern Townships
“A gem of a book… to be savoured. ” — Jim Napier, The Sherbrooke Record
Ebook Available
“Richmond is easy to find on a map,” writes Nick Fonda. “Or at least the name is easy to find. There are at least fifty Richmonds worldwide and no fewer than four in Canada, of which two are in Quebec… The most frequent response when…
AN INDEPENDENT QUEBEC
The past, the present and the future
Ebook Available
“I am very pleased to see this book published in English,” declared Jacques Parizeau. “It has always been my belief that the best way for Quebecers and English-speaking Canadians to reach an understanding that is satisfactory for all is through direct communication. Though we may not agree on the best course to take, we will at least understand and…
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
The Return of the Nigger Breakers
Ebook Available
“Brilliant.” Jill Nelson, journalist, novelist, American Book Award winner.
Jill Nelson talks to Ishmael Reed in THE DEFENDERS ONLINE, organ of the NAACP legal defense fund.
For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was…
The Riot that Never Was
The military shooting of three Montrealers in 1832 and the official cover-up
Ebook Available
“The Riot that Never Was provides a striking portrayal of mid-nineteenth-century Montreal: the vigorous debates that raged in Patriote and Conservative newspapers, the hot fighting during elections that often degenerated into open conflict between the Canadiens, the Irish, and the English, and the recurrent epidemics like the cholera epidemic in 1832. (…) Jackson brilliantly establishes the exact course of…
Joseph Elzear Bernier 1852-1934
Champion of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty
One hundred years ago, on July 1, 1909, Captain Joseph-Elzear Bernier, his officers and crew erected a plaque on Melville Island in the Northwest Passage and laid claim to the entire Arctic Archipelago for Canada. It was the crowning moment in the life of a man identified as one of the 100 Great Canadian Achievers in 1967. Born in the…
America’s Gift
What the world owes to the Americas and their first inhabitants
The world was never the same after 1492. The encounter of two “old worlds” gave rise to a truly new world on both sides of the Atlantic. America’s Gift recalls the full significance of the contact made between Europe and the Americas, mistakenly called the “New World.” As Columbian intellectual German Arciniegas wrote: “From questions of astronomy to the food…
Saint-Laurent
Montreal's Main
The incomparable “Main” or Saint-Laurent Boulevard crosses the heart of Montreal from north to south. It has been a gateway for immigrants and the place where “solitudes” have met. Many social and cultural movements were born on the Main and continue to thrive and influence, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and beyond.
112 pages | 8 1/4 X 9 | Illustrations
Paper | S24.95…
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By Nick Fonda (Author of Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies)
My first memory of being bullied goes back to Grade 3. The exact details are blurred beyond recall – or perhaps…
Baraka’s Books Now Available as Ebooks
Baraka Books is proud to announce that eight titles in our catalogue can now be purchased as Ebooks (in all formats). More titles will be available soon.
The eight titles are:
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Translator Casey Roberts wins John Glassco Literary Translation Prize for BREAK AWAY, JESSIE ON MY MIND by Sylvain Hotte
Winner of John Glassco Literary Translation Prize 2011
Casey Roberts was awarded the prestigious John Glassco Literary Translation Prize 2011 for his translation of Sylvain Hotte’s prize-winning young adult novel Break…