A rebellious girl is fed up with the strict rules of her London boarding school for "Proper Young Ladies." When a punishment forces her to dig through the trash, she discovers an old sardine tin containing a grumpy, stubborn djinni who refuses to be bossed around by a schoolgirl.Soon, she's being chased by an orphan from the neighboring charitable home, a mysterious man with fiery whiskers, an irritable school employee, and a ruthless business tycoon all determined to claim the dji...

Welcome to White Snake Diary: Exploring Self-Inscribers, where author and ethnographer Jane P. Perry asks: What is a diary and why do we keep them? Why do diarists feel compelled to record life, to collect memories and reflections? What happens when snapshots found in a junk store not only spark childhood memories but drive the creation of a diary?White Snake Diary explores the diary as a literary genre: what it looks like and what it can tell us about life and self-inscribers. Uni...

It's not easy "choosing not to choose," especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007.Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn't make a big deal about it. Then Corey's dad dies suddenly. Now Corey's disapproving mother wants Corey to "pick a side". Corey's old enough to say no to medical intervention-but not old enough to avoid being held in a youth psych ward when their mom makes an issue of Corey's refusal to conform to the gender binary.In the psych ward, ...

Maeve Merrit thought her life in London would be quiet after she freed Mermeros, the djinni she found in a sardine can. But Mermeros has different plans. Maeve's friend Tommy, now adopted by Mermeros's new owner, finds himself in danger when his new father uses one of Mermeros's magical wishes — and both vanish without a trace. With no guardian to keep him safe, Tommy is at risk of being sent back to the orphanage.Now, Maeve, Tommy, and their friend Alice must embark on an epic adv...

WINNER Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2019)WINNER Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, Manitoba Book Awards (2019)WINNER AUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show (Scholarly Typographic) (2019)Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. In September 2008, Brian Sinclair,...

Structures of Indifferenceexamines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimat...