Jun 19, 2020
Many Ottawa residents are reading Crow Winter this month, as OPL offers unlimited access to the ebook to all cardholders. If you haven't already checked it out, click here to get started.
Take the reading experience further!
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Join us online on June 24 at 7 pm for a conversation with the young writer Karen McBride, author of Crow Winter. Either register to receive the Zoom link or connect on Facebook Live.
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Try author Karen McBride's go-to reads. These are titles she finds herself going back to them over and over again and they have been important to her development as an author. All these books are in the Ottawa Public Library collection. Click on the links in the list below to read an ebook or audiobook , or to place a print book in your For later list, ready for when it is possible to place holds on print titles again.
- Host a book conversation, starting with our thought-provoking Crow Winter discussion questions
Karen is Algonquin Anishinaabe from the Timiskaming First Nation. Her first book, Crow Winter, is a novel about a young woman able to cross between the material and spiritual worlds that explores the importance of grief and loss, friendship and healing, and the role of community, culture, and history in a contemporary First Nation community. The young woman, named Hazel Ellis, is grieving the loss of her father and has returned to the Rez to reconnect with her family and her community. In the midst of all of that, it turns out that a somewhat predatory developer wants to take over a quarry on land that her family had. Into the mix comes an old crow who is the embodiment of the trickster Nanabush. He just wants to help, it turns out.
Author Karen McBride's Go To Booksby OPLProgramsProgrammesBPO
Algonquin Anishinaabe author Karen McBride has shared the books she finds herself going to again and again. They represent how Karen McBride finds the magic in her reality. They are all available through Ottawa Public Library and in print, ebook and audiobook formats. Enjoy reading these books!
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin. Also available in ebook.
The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. Also available in ebook and audiobook.
A bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding to the ongoing legacy of colonialism. Also available in ebook and audiobook.
"You're gonna need a rock and a whole lotta medicine" is a mantra that Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling debut novel by poet Joshua Whitehead. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages--and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Also available in ebook and audiobook.
