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THEME for AUGUST: Local Reads

Suggested Titles:

Indigenous Voices
Plant Teachings From My Auntie: Gathering Coast Salish Plants for Medicine, Textiles, Nourishment, and Ceremony by Geraldine Manson
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
What Was Said to Me: the Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman by Ruby Peter

Poetry and Magazines
Sea and Cedar Magazine published by VIRL
Eavesdrop Literacy Magazine
Unbecoming by Neil Surkan
Losing Languages: Poems by Paige Pierce

Non-Fiction
All the Bears Sing by Harold Macy
Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA, and the Battle Against Thalidomide by Cheryl Warsh
Who Shot Estevan Light?: And Other Tales From the Salish Sea and Beyond by Douglas Hamilton
Fried Eggs & Fish Scales: Tales From a Sointula Troller by Jon David Taylor

Fiction
Coming Soon!

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