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The batch lady : healthy family favourites

The batch lady : healthy family favourites

Mulholland, Suzanne, author.
2021

With over 100 amazingly simple, healthy, home-cooked recipes that can easily be stored in the freezer, The Batch Lady Healthy Family Favorites will ensure that you are sticking to your goals and not reaching for a takeaway or ready meal when you're shorton time. And with Suzanne's signature easy-to-follow recipe combinations enabling you to create two or more delicious breakfasts, quick lunches, and weeknight meals simultaneously that the whole family are guaranteed to enjoy, this book will help transform your kitchen and ensure that you live a healthier, happier life, without any of the stress.

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Irish fairy and folk tales

Irish fairy and folk tales

2022

"The leprechaun is an iconic Irish symbol. But for all its popularity, the folk tales from which it emerged are largely unknown. In this anthology, the poet William Butler Yeats has collected and collated the enthralling stories of the Irish peasantry. They include ghost stories, tales of the devil, legends of witches and fairy doctors."-- Provided by publisher.

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Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân = The way I remember

Kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân = The way I remember

Ratt, Solomon, author.
2023

"A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family's traditional stories. When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system--far from the love and comfort of home and family. In The Way I Remember, Ratt reflects on these memories and the life-long challenges he endured through his telling of autobiographical stories and traditional tales. In many ways, these stories reflect the experience of thousands of other Indigenous children across Canada, but Ratt's stories also stand apart in a significant way: despite the destruction wrought by colonialism, he managed to retain his mother language of Cree by returning home to his parents each summer. Ratt then shifts from the âcimisowina (personal, autobiographical stories) to âcathôhkîwina (sacred stories), the more formal and commonly recognized style of traditional Cree literature, to illustrate how, in a world uninterrupted by colonialism and its agenda of genocide, these traditional stories would have formed the winter curriculum of a Cree child's education. Presented in Cree th-dialect standard roman orthography, syllabics, and English, Ratt's particularly Cree sense of humour shines, making kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember an important and unique memoir that emphasizes and celebrates Solomon Ratt's perseverance and life after residential school."-- Provided by publisher.

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King : a life

King : a life

Eig, Jonathan, author
2023


The pocket guide to neurodiversity

The pocket guide to neurodiversity

Aherne, Daniel, author.
2023


Raising adventurous eaters : practical ways to overcome picky eating & food sensory sensitivities

Raising adventurous eaters : practical ways to overcome picky eating & food sensory sensitivities

Dato, Lara, author
2022

"Children who are picky eaters often have sensory sensitivities that contribute to their food aversions-whether it's smell, taste, texture, or appearance. Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty in feeding, eating, and swallowing, this book offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life"-- Provided by publisher.

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This is assisted dying : a doctor's story of empowering patients at the end of life

This is assisted dying : a doctor's story of empowering patients at the end of life

Green, Stefanie, author
2022

In her landmark memoir, Dr. Stefanie Green reveals the reasons a patient might seek an assisted death, how the process works, what the event itself can look like, the reactions of those involved, and what it feels like to oversee proceedings and administer medications that hasten death. Dr. Green contextualizes the myriad personal, professional, and practical issues surrounding assisted dying by bringing readers into the room, sharing the voices of her patients, her colleagues, and her own narrative.

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Toufah : the woman who inspired an African #MeToo movement

Toufah : the woman who inspired an African #MeToo movement

Jallow, Toufah, author
2021

In 2015, nineteen-year-old Toufah Jallow dreamed of a scholarship to produce and tour a play about how to eradicate poverty in The Gambia. She entered a presidential competition and won. When Toufah turned down marriage proposals from the dictator of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, he drugged and raped her. In July 2019, Toufah Jallow became the first woman in The Gambia to make a public accusation of rape against him. This is her story of the path to reclaim the future that Yahya Jammeh had tried to steal from her.

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Vagina obscura : an anatomical voyage

Vagina obscura : an anatomical voyage

Gross, Rachel E., author
2022

"A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means "parts for which you should be ashamed." Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they're looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction-the uterus, ovaries, vagina-and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience. Through their eyes, journalist Rachel E. Gross takes readers on an anatomical odyssey to the center of this new world-a world where the uterus regrows itself, ovaries pump out fresh eggs, and the clitoris pulses beneath the surface like a shimmering pyramid of nerves. Full of wit and wonder, Vagina Obscura is a celebratory testament to how the landscape of knowledge can be rewritten to better serve everyone"-- Provided by publisher.

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Whitemud walking

Whitemud walking

Weigel, Matthew James, 1985- author.
2022

"An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documents and knowledge in ways that resonate violently in people's lives, including the dispossession and extinguishment of Indigenous title to land. Using photos, documents, and recordings that are about or involve his ancestors, but are kept in archives, Weigel examines the consequences of this erasure and sequestration. Memories cling to documents and sometimes this palimpsest can be read, other times the margins must be centered to gain a fuller picture. Whitemud Walking is a genre-bending work of visual and lyric poetry, non-fiction prose, photography, and digital art and design."-- Provided by publisher.

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