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We want to give a big THANK YOU to our sponsors of 2020! This had not been an easy year, to say the least, and they have went above and beyond with their community support through these COIVD-19 times. Thank you for all you do! Saskatchewan Arts Board Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada ... Canadian Heritage City of Saskatoon - Your Local Government SaskTel BMO Financial Group We hoped you enjoyed our WOTS 2020 Reading List! Keep on reading and celebrating literacy!

WOTS Reading List Author Feature! A wonderful way to introduce young readers to the natural world that lurks just outside their windows." --Globe Books... Will Franny ever prove to her dad that crows and kids can be friends? Franny has a new friend--a crow who brings her presents in its beak. Like a red button! And a silver heart! Franny's dad doesn't believe her. He says crows and kids can't be friends. But Franny knows better. How will Franny prove her new playmate is real? And what will the crafty crow bring next? Award-winning author Candace Savage, whose crow expertise is lauded in popular books such as Bird Brains, motivates families to be present when exploring parks, backyards, balconies, city streets, beaches, and skies. https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9/candace-savage/hello-crow Candace Savage, Hello Crow (Greystone, 2019), Saskatoon;

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! From an Aurora Award-winning author comes the second book in a gripping portal fantasy series in which one woman's powers open the way to a labyrinth of new dimensions. Shawna Keys has fled the world she only recently discovered she Shaped, narrowly escaping death at the hands of the Adversary who seized control of it...and losing her only guide, Karl Yatsar, in the process.... Don't stay in suspense, read on! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca//master-of/9780756413644 Edward Willet, Master of the World, (Penguin Random House Canada, 2019), Regina;

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! Welcome To The World is the first book in the Jai Jai Blinks Books Series. The book start with Jai's adventures of being welcomed into the world and covers topics such interracial couples, living in a city apart from your family and growing pains. Take the journey! ... https://jaijaibinks.com Nicole Parmer, Welcome to the World, (Independently published, 2020), Vancouver;

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! A renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house. When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected. Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed undesirable by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs... only. In an atmosphere poisoned first by the Orange Order and then by the Ku Klux Klan, Napoléon and his young family adopted anglicized names and did their best to disguise their foreignness. In Strangers in the House, Savage scours public records and historical accounts and interviews several of Napoléon’s descendants, including his youngest son, to reveal a family story marked by challenge and resilience. In the process, she examines a troubling episode in Canadian history, one with shocking relevance today. Candace Savage, Strangers in the House (Greystone Books, 2019), Regina; https://bookawards.sk.ca//strangers-in-the-house-a-prairie

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! It is 2058, and the glaciers are gone. A catastrophic drought has hit the prairies. Willa Van Bruggen is desperately trying to keep her family goat farm afloat, hoping against hope that the new water pipeline arrives before the bill collectors do. Willa’s son, Daniel, goes to work for the pipeline corporation instead of returning to help the family business. When Daniel reveals long-concealed secrets about his grandfather’s death, Willa’...s world truly shatters. She’s losing everything she values most: her farm, her son, her understanding of the past and even her grip on reality itself. Vividly illustrating the human cost of climate change, Watershed is a page-turner of a novel about forgiveness, adaptation, and family bonds. Join the adventure! https://freehand-books.com/product/watershed/ Doreen Vanderstoop, Watershed, (Freehand Books, 2020), Calgary;

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! Harold R. Johnson is featured for a second time as the author of five works of fiction and two works of nonfiction. Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures. John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce... Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril. Turning a blind eye to the dangers of the wild can have deadly consequences. READ MORE! https://uofrpress.ca/Books/C/Cry-Wolf2 Harold R. Johnson, Cry Wolf: Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator , (University of Regina Press. 2019), La Ronge;

Fonctionnalité de l'auteur de la liste de lecture WOTS 2020! Fannystelle n’est pas tant le récit détaillé de la fondation de Fannystelle, au Manitoba, que la narration des manigances et des escroqueries d’un personnage fort singulier, le chanoine Rosenberg, qui fut impliqué dans les tout débuts du village. C’est une histoire véridique et distrayante. Elle débute par l’altruisme, la générosité, le soutien à l’émigration francophone et à la pratique religieuse, mais bifurque e...nsuite vers un mélange de cupidité, d’abus de confiance, de mensonges flagrants et de détournements de fonds. Fonctionnalité de l'auteur de la liste de lecture WOTS 2020! À lire absolument! https://www.amazon.ca/Fannystelle-Nadine-Macke//2924237327 Nadine Mackenzie, Fannystelle, (Historical novel), Winnipeg;

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WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! Harold R. Johnson is the author of five works of fiction and two works of nonfiction. His nonfiction work Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours) was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. Published in 2019, Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada, is an urgent, informed, intimate condemnation of the Canadian state and its failure to deliver justice to Indigenous peo...ple by national bestselling author and former Crown prosecutor Harold R. Johnson. In early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts inspired former Crown prosecutor and bestselling author Harold R. Johnson to make the case against Canada for its failure to fulfill its duty under Treaty to effectively deliver justice to Indigenous people, worsening the situation and ensuring long-term damage to Indigenous communities. In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now. https://books.google.ca/bo/about/Peace_and_Good_Order.html Harold R. Johnson, Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada (Penguin Random House Canada,2019), La Ronge;

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WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! Flat Out Delicious! Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans! A robust and inspiring travel companion for both local and visiting food-lovers alike that reveals the stories, inspiration, and friendly faces of the people who craft great food in Saskatchewan.... From the province’s southern grain fields to its northern boreal forests, from its city markets to its small-town diners, Saskatchewan is the humble heartland of some of the nation’s most delicious food. Author Jenn Sharp and photographer Richard Marjan spent four months travelling Saskatchewan, chatting at market stalls, in kitchens, bottling sheds, and stockrooms. Flat Out Delicious is the culmination of interviews with small-scale farmers and city gardeners, beekeepers and chocolatiers, ranchers, chefs, and winemakers. Together they tell the story of Saskatchewan’s unique food systems. The journey is organized into seven regions (including a chapter each for restaurant hotbeds Regina and Saskatoon), with essays that delve deeperinto traditional Indigenous moose hunts, wild rice farming in the remote north, and berry picking in the south. There are profiles of over 150 artisans, along with detailed maps, travel tips, and stunning photography, making the book the ideal companion for a road trip that involves plenty of stopping to eat along the way. Visit her website at jennsharp.ca and find her on social media: Facebook: Jenn Sharp Flat Out Food SK Jenn Sharp, Flat Out Delicious: Your Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans. (Touchwood Editions, 2020), Saskatoon;

WOTS 2020 Reading List Author Feature! Kaidenberg’s Best Sons is an unvarnished view of the lives of settlers in the early days of immigration to the Canadian priaries. Set in the early years of the 20th century, this book is the story of German-speaking Catholics who have emigrated from Russia to North Dakota. They learn of an opportunity to settle plots of land in Saskatchewan. As some members start packing and heading north for the promise of new land, others resent the id...ea of relocating. Jason Heit describes his work as a novel in stories. Some characters dovetail throughout the book while others appear in one or two stories. Together, these tales of grit and indomitable will give the reader various points-of-view into a small, close-knit community that is bound by heritage, a common language, and faith yet is rife with ambition, fear, and envy. https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/ev/Jason-Heit--Book-Launch Jason Heit, Kaidenberg’s Best Sons, (Coteau Books, 2019), Saskatoon;