Baraka Books: 58 books
Patriots, Traitors and Empires
The Story of Korea's Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history of Korea’s struggle for freedom from opposition to Japanese colonialism starting in 1905 to North...
by Ishmael Reed
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography—it is a fascinating portrait of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. An honest, balanced portrayal of Ali, the book...
The Daughters' Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Nadine is banished to a home for unwed mothers in 1950. She’s 15. Her baby daughter, whose father is shrouded in secrecy, is put up for adoption without her permission. Vowing to reunite one day with her daughter, she cuts all ties with her dysfunctional Irish and French-Canadian Catholic family...
Rebel Priest in the Time of Tyrants
Mission to Haiti, Ecuador and Chile
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
An extraordinary testimony by Claude Lacaille, a Quebec missionary fighting for social justice in Haiti, Ecuador and Chile. This is Lacaille’s first-hand account of the extraordinary oppression and poverty he witnessed in Haiti, Ecuador, and Chile between 1965 and 1986 where thousands shed blood...
by Carolyn Marie Souaid
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
A young woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen’s tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her...
Power Forward
Break Away 2
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Alex McKenzie is back, a promising young hockey player who hopes to make the juniors in Quebec City. Though he still prefers fishing and roaming bush roads on his quad, he trains hard under his demanding coach Larry in his hometown on the Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence. His buddy Tommy is vying...
Break Away
Jessie on my mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Alexandre McKenzie lives in a town on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence River. Summer finds him riding through the bush on his quad or fishing in an inland lake. In winter he is a promising midget hockey star who often takes refuge at his camp in the woods. But one fall, his stature and talent take...
Storming the Old Boys' Citadel
Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
“Women” and “architecture” were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, “it is hardly safe to assert” that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women didn’t agree. Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1823-1902) is credited...
The History of Montreal
The Story of Great North American City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book tells the fascinating story of Montreal, Canada, from prehistoric time through the 21st century. From the Iroquoian community of Hochelaga to the bustling economic metropolis that Montreal has become, this account describes the social, economic, political, and cultural forces and trends...
Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media
The Return of the Nigger Breakers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. “Isn’t it ironic,”...
Going Too Far
Essays about America's Nervous Breakdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a...
The Einstein File - New Updated Edition
The FBI's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other agencies—feverishly collected “derogatory information” to undermine the renowned scientist’s influence and destroy his reputation....
Dying to Live
A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was a history teacher in Kigali when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo (Zaïre) with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of 9781926824789 low ressurvival during which they travelled thousands of kilometers on foot from one...
by Stephen Gowans
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The United States had waged a long war against Syria from the very moment the country's fiercely independent...