At a time when everybody was saying that books were dead, that nobody would want to buy hardbooks anymore because of the net, ebooks, blogs, and all the rest, some people disagreed. Baraka Books was founded on March 23, 2009. Denis Vaugeois had the idea, but the idea’s time had come. With an inspiring

Strike on Lachine Canal, Montréal 1877

mission statement that you can read to the right of this page, Robin Philpot launched the publishing house, confident that books have a future, even, or perhaps especially, print books.

Over these five years we have published books dealing with variety of subjects and in various genres. Translations are an important part of our production and will continue to be so. To help readers navigate through our website and identify the books that might interest them, the titles published since 2009 are presented below in five general categories. This has all been accomplished in less than five years defying all and sundry naysayers.

Quebec History and Politics

A People’s History of Quebec by Jacques Lacoursière & Robin Philpot

Trudeau’s Darkest Hour, War Measures in Time of Peace, October 1970 Eds eds. Guy Bouthillier & Édouard Cloutier

An Independent Quebec, The past, the Present and the Future by Jacques Parizeau

Denis Vaugeois

The First Jews In North America, The Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family 1760-1860 by Denis Vaugeois

Soldiers for Sale, German “Mercenaries” with the British in Canada during the American Revolution by Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy

The Journals of Pierre-Louis de Lorimier by Linda Nash Clark (with Fernand Grenier)

Discrimination in the NHL, Quebec Hockey Players Sidelined by Bob Sirois

Storming the Oldboys Citadel, Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America by Carla Blank & Tania Martin (forthcoming – 2014)

Montreal, Urban studies, Urban living

The History of Montréal, The Story of A Great North American City, by Paul-André Linteau

Jane Jacobs

The Question of Separatism, Quebec and the Struggle over Sovereignty, by Jane Jacobs

Saint-Laurent, Montréal’s Main, by Pierre Anctil

21 Days in October, a novel by Magali Favre

Parkour and the Art du déplacement, Strength, Dignity, Community, by Vincent Thibault

You could lose en eye, My first 80 years in North America, by David Reich

The Riot that Never Was, The Military Shooting of Three Montrealers in 1832 and the Official Cover-up, by James Jackson

Magali Favre

The Orphanage, An Autobiography, by Richard Bergeron

Africa, African Diaspora, and International Politics

Slouching Towards Sirte, NATO’s War on Libya and Africa,by Max Forte

Dying to Live, A Rwandan Family’s Five-Year Flight Across the Congo, by Pierre-Claver Ndacyaisenga

Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction, by Robin Philpot

Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers, Memories of Mississippi 1964-65, by Jim Dann

Ishmael Reed

Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, The Return of the Nigger Breakers, by Ishmael Reed

Going Too Far, Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown, by Ishmael Reed

Indigenous and Arctic Reading

America’s Gift, What the World Owes to the Americas and their First Inhabitants, by Käthe Roth & Denis Vaugeois

Joseph-Elzéar Bernier, Champion of Canadian Arctic Sovereignty, by Marjolaine Saint-Pierre

Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island through German Eyes, Wilhelm Weike’s Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84), by Ludger Müller-Wille & Bernd Gieseking

Break Away 1, Jessie on My Mind, Young adult novel by Sylvain Hotte

Sylvain Hotte

Break Away 2, Power Forward, Young adult novel by Sylvain Hotte

Hell Never Burns, The Adventures of Radisson, Young adult novel by Martin Fournier

The Franz Boas Enigma, Inuit Arctic, and Sciences by Ludger Müller-Wille (forthcoming – March 2014)

Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

On the Crow and Other Stories by Robert A. Poirier

Washika, A Novel by Robert A. Poirier

Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies Short Stories by Nick Fonda

Roads to Richmond, Portraits of Quebec’s Eastern Townships by Nick Fonda

Nick Fonda

I Hate Hockey, A Novel by François Barcelo

The Raids, Volume I of the Nickel Range Trilogy by Mick Lowe (forthcoming – 2014)

Robin Philpot
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