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The National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) is a digital public repository of books for readers with print disabilities. We provide books in accessible and alternate formats, such as DAISY, EPUB, BRF, and more, for Canadian library patrons.
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For NNELS readers in our funding provinces and territories, you can request a title that is not in our collection or a title in a different format. The request form is available at nnels.ca/request-title (login required).
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In Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. He has a lot to learn when Daddy steps in to style it. But he loves his Zuri, and'll do anything to make her happy. #MP3 nnels.ca/items/hair-l...
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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly is the true story of four African American female mathematicians known as "human computers" behind John Glenn's orbit of Earth and Neil Armstrong's walking on the moon. nnels.ca/items/hidden...
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In Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Dana, a modern African-American woman, is snatched abruptly from her home in 1976 California and transported to the antebellum South to save the life of a white slave owner. #DAISY #MP3 nnels.ca/items/kindred
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The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality but is also a piece of seminal history as laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. #MP3 nnels.ca/items/souls-...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston brings a Southern love story to life. Out of print for almost 30 years, Hurston’s classic has since become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in African-American literature. #MP3 nnels.ca/items/their-...
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For NNELS readers in our funding provinces, you can request a title not in our collection or a title in a different format. The request form is available at https://nnels.ca/request-title (login required). #NewInNNELS
Happy reading, everyone!
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La version qui n'intéresse personne de Emmanuelle Pierrot est l'histoire inouïe et cruelle d'une victime imparfaite qui, comme si c'était tout naturel, deviendra l'accusée. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/la-version-qui-ninte%CC%81resse-personne
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De Grandes Personnes par Mathieu Rolland. Sophie, Benoît, Tom. Une mère, un père, un fils. Chaque personnage se détache, comme dans un tableau de Jean Paul Lemieux, enveloppé de silence, sur une ligne d'horizon qui laisse entrevoir une profondeur. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/de-grandes-personnes
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Canisia Lubrin's Code Noir follows the structure of King Louis XIV's decree defining slavery in the French Empire. It features linked fictions featuring globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. #EPUB #MP3 #DAISY https://nnels.ca/items/code-noir
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In Empty Spaces, Jordan Abel reimagines The Last of the Mohicans from the perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/empty-spaces
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Canisia Lubrin's Code Noir follows the structure of King Louis XIV's decree defining slavery in the French Empire. It features linked fictions featuring globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. #EPUB #MP3 #DAISY https://nnels.ca/items/code-noir
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In Empty Spaces, Jordan Abel reimagines The Last of the Mohicans from the perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history. #EPUB https://nnels.ca/items/empty-spaces
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Training and Awareness Coordinator
We are seeking a Training and Awareness Coordinator to lead a team of Accessibility Experts and create resources focused on raising awareness and the use of alternate format reading materials with various assistive technologies. https://buff.ly/4bcsq37
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Production Assistants
We're looking for five applicants for the Production Assistant positions who will focus on producing materials and remediating files into accessible formats for NNELS. https://buff.ly/3Qxslxn
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Audiobook Coordinator
We're looking for an Audiobook Coordinator to assist directly with managing narrator relationships, overseeing and performing post-production tasks, handling contracts and invoices, and ensuring accessible production standards are met. https://buff.ly/4gYyvkK
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Accessibility Experts
We're looking for multiple applicants for NNELS Accessibility Experts positions who will be responsible for creating resources focusing on the awareness, acquisition, and use of alternate format reading materials using assistive technologies. https://buff.ly/3D9m9sh
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For NNELS readers in our funding provinces and territories, you can request a title that is not in our collection or a title in a different format. The request form is available at https://buff.ly/4hU7yQh (login required).
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One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters. They arrive to visit their mother, who is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. #DAISY https://buff.ly/4b4nsp2
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In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a nameless young man, expelled from a Southern Black college for introducing a white trustee to some local culture, moves to Harlem. There, he embarks on a lifelong search for truth and a better life. #MP3 https://buff.ly/3QsQxkg
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In All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles, unearths the presence of Rose, an enslaved woman, her daughter Ashely, sold from her mother as a child, and Ashley's granddaughter Ruth in the archives. #EPUB #DAISY #MP3 https://buff.ly/4b4SQng
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In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie faces constant violence and oppression as a black woman living in 1930s Georgia. After being married off to "Mr.," who abuses her both physically and emotionally, she develops a bond with her husband's mistress, Shug. #MP3 https://buff.ly/413cmw0
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In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Celie faces constant violence and oppression as a black woman living in 1930s Georgia. After being married off to "Mr.," who routinely abuses her both physically and emotionally, she develops a bond with her husband's mistress, Shug. #MP3 https://buff.ly/413cmw0
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For NNELS readers in our funding provinces, you can request a title that is not in our collection or a title in a different format. The request form is available at https://buff.ly/4hU7yQh (login required). #NewInNNELS
Happy reading, everyone!
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Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War, 1956-58 by Che Guevara is a readable and often entertaining diary account of the guerrilla war that led to the 1959 Cuban Revolution. #EPUB https://buff.ly/4gS6RWG
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Bombs Always Beep – 2nd Edition “Revenge of the Beep”: Creating Modern Audio Theater by K.C. Wayland explores the entire production process of constructing modern audio narratives. #EPUB https://buff.ly/4b4Mggw
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In Nova Scotia's Stars of Song, music biographer Charlie Rhindress presents the lives and music of six of Nova Scotia's most important and successful female singers: Portia White, Anne Murray, Carroll Baker, Rita MacNeil, Holly Cole and Sarah MacLachlan. #EPUB https://buff.ly/4gUuZYY
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In Canada’s State Police, Greg Marquis strips away the myth of the RCMP, describing of 150 years of a state police force acting on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. #EPUB https://buff.ly/41la5O1
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The second webinar in the series will be held on February 20 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific/1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It will focus on adults with various print disabilities, including temporary and learning print disabilities. You can register for this webinar now: https://buff.ly/4k1KLDO
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For NNELS readers in our funding provinces and territories, you can request a title that is not in our collection or a title in a different format. The request form is available at https://buff.ly/4hU7yQh (login required).
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In Booked by Kwame Alexander, soccer, family, love, and friendship take center stage as twelve-year-old Nick learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams. Available in MP3 format: https://buff.ly/41j9M5d
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River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer is a redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children and piece her family back together. Available in DAISY and MP3 formats: https://buff.ly/40QbtXe
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In The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher, an African king with a degree from Harvard who set himself up as a "conjure-man", a fortune teller, is murdered in 1930s Harlem. Available in EPUB and DOC formats: https://buff.ly/3CGjne2