Baraka Books imprint: 54 books
The Insatiable Maw
The Nickel Range Trilogy, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In this story of eco-resistance based on actual events in the heart of Canada’s Nickel Range, Jake McCool, the injured hardrock miner, returns to work for the International Nickel Company (INCO) but now at its nearby Copper Cliff smelter complex. In no time, Jake finds himself embroiled in a vicious...
by Mick Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
September 1978. 11,700 hard rock miners and smelter and refinery workers at Inco’s Sudbury operations face a stark choice. Should they remain on the job? Or take seemingly suicidal strike action against a huge multinational that has stocked up enough nickel to last a year? A fateful choice is made....
by François Barcelo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
“I hate hockey!” is the first and last sentence in this novel that offers a great take on our love-hate relationship with sports, be it hockey, football, soccer or baseball. Narrator Antoine Vachon blames the game for killing his marriage with his beautiful ex-wife (well, that and the power outage...
Exhilarating Prose
COGNITIONS, CONTEMPLATIONS, INSIGHTS, INTROSPECTIONS, LUCUBRATIONS, MEDITATIONS, MUSINGS, PROGNOSTICATIONS, REFLECTIONS, REVERIES & RUMINATIONS ON THE PROCESS OF WRITING
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea will pique the interest of English prose enthusiasts anywhere. From “Dead Language – the Speaks” (e.g. ad-speak, etc.) to “Re-writing – Again?” and “Rules – Must We Obey?” authors Healey and Strube scrutinize prose in its various forms...
Richmond, Now & Then
An Anecdotal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Some liken formal histories to four-lane highways. Nick Fonda answers with a meandering country road, quietly charming, with a human face. If all politics is local, so all history is local… and anecdotal. As the great urban thinker Jane Jacobs said, anecdotes are the only real evidence because they...
Speak to Me in Indian
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Shane Bearskin, a young Cree man from James Bay, and Theresa Wawati, an Algonquin woman from northern Quebec, are united by a profound love for each other and a visceral attachment to their heritage. Theresa is determined to become a lawyer to defend her Algonquin nation whose lands and way of life...
by Nick Fonda
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
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...
by Robert A. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Robert Poirier reveals an exceptional skill at bringing to life the people with whom he lives and the land he inhabits and loves. In five stories and one novella, readers escape the city, live in the wilds, and experience the challenges of nature, including human nature, in all its complexity. Be...
Le référendum volé - 20 ans plus tard
Nouvelle édition enrichie
Language: French
Release Date: August 16, 2015
La souveraineté nationale des États n’a jamais été autant d’actualité. La Grèce se débat pour exercer sa souveraineté pourtant reconnue depuis bientôt 200 ans. L’Écosse s’en approche, la Catalogne veut exercer son droit de décider librement de son avenir. Et le Québec, aujourd’hui,...
Washika
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
It’s the 1960s and 21 testosterone-drenched high school graduates are bussed into Washika Bay, a company logging camp where they will work for the summer. Idealistic, confident, and sometimes troubled, the young men meet their matches in tough older bush workers and cope with a devastating forest...
by Robin Philpot
Language: French
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Décembre 2013 : lors d’une cérémonie qui ressemblait à des funérailles nationales, devant une télé d’État béatement subjuguée par tant de pouvoir, des grands de ce monde ont chanté à l’unisson les louanges de Paul Desmarais : un grand homme d’affaires qui aurait donné tant au...
The Prophetic Anti-Gallic Letters
Adam Thom and the Hidden Roots of the Dominion of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Anti-Gallic Letters by Adam Thom were published in book form in 1836. They are based on Thom’s editorials in the Montreal Herald written under the nom de plume “Camillus” between September 1835 and January 1836. They were never reprinted despite the importance of the people for whom Adam...