The Little Free Ally Library

09/07/2026

Author Rose LeMay notes that if you continually educate yourself, you will see many opportunities to be an ally.

Read a book.

09/07/2026

With funds donating by community members, we have purchases another copy of From The Ashes. Thank you to the community!

As been mentioned before, this has been a popular book in The Little Free Ally Library that continues to be borrowed and returned over and over. This book doesn't stay on our shelf long, so we purchased a 4th copy.

From The Ashes is a very intimate story of the complexities of family, addiction, homelessness, trauma, and being Indigenous. Heartbreaking, at times funny, and brutally honest. I couldn't put this book down and suspect this story will stay with me for quite some time. Jesse Thistle is a fantastic storyteller. His resilience is incredible.

You can borrow this book from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is coming up on September 30. You may ask yourself - what can I do to participate in Truth and Reconciliation? You can start by reading. Truth before Reconciliation.

Education is key to reconciliation.

09/06/2026

09/05/2026

A wildly imaginative and compulsively readable fantasia of adventure, history, Americana, feminism, and magic, VenCo is a novel only the supremely gifted Cherie Dimaline could write.

Cherie Dimaline is an internationally bestselling author. Her 2017 book The Marrow Thieves was named by TIME magazine, one of the Best YA Books of All Time and won the Governor General’s Award and the Kirkus Prize. Her novel Empire of Wild became an instant Canadian bestseller, was named Indigo's 2019 Best Book and is being adapted into an opera. Hunting By Stars was a 2022 American Indian Library Association Honor Book and her new novel VENCO debuted at #1 on Canadian bestseller lists. Other 2023 titles include Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Anthology of Monsters and Into the Bright Open. Cherie lives in her Georgian Bay Métis Community and writes/produces for screen and stage.

Thank you to Bucca dell'Acqua for so generously donating this book to The Little Free Ally Library!

You can borrow VenCo from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

09/04/2026

‘Swim Home to the Vanished powerfully explores the lasting impact of grief and redemption by interweaving Diné history and traditional myths.’ — Electric Literature, 16 New Books by Indigenous Authors You Should Be Reading

Brendan Shay Basham is a Navajo (Diné) writer, artist, educator, and recovering chef, born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and BA in Liberal Arts from the Evergreen State College. His debut novel, Swim Home to the Vanished, was released August 22, 2023, from Harper Books/HarperCollins.

Thank you to Bucca dell'Acqua for donating this book! We appreciate your support. ❤️

You can borrow Swim Home to the Vanished from the The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

09/03/2026

One of Indigo's Top 10 History Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024 • One of the Toronto Star’s 25 books to read this season • One of Kobo CA's Best Nonfiction Ebooks of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2024

From the #1 national bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet and True Reconciliation, a truly unique history of our land—powerful, devastating, remarkable—as told through the voices of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

When it comes to telling the history of Canada, and in particular the history of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, we need to accept that the way in which our history has traditionally been told has not been a common or shared enterprise. In many ways, it has been an exclusive and siloed one. Among the countless peoples and groups that make up this vast country, the voices and experiences of a few have too often dominated those of many others.

Reconciling History shares voices that have seldom been heard, and in this ground-breaking book they are telling and re-telling history from their perspectives. Born out of the oral history in True Reconciliation, and complemented throughout with stunning photography and art, Reconciling History takes this approach to telling our collective story to an entirely different level.

You can borrow Reconciling History from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

We are grateful for the community donations that helped us purchase this book.

Education is key to reconciliation.

09/01/2026

Creating books was a way in which Mary Lou Fox sought to preserve her culture. She edited and published traditional Ojibwe tales such as “Why the Beaver has a Broad Tail,” “The Way it Was: an Ojibwe-Odawa Legend,” and “How the Bees Got Their Stingers: An Ojibwe-Odawa Legend”.

You can borrow How The Bees Got Their Stingers from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

You can watch a reading of this book at the link below.
https://youtu.be/PMcRPPg0nPc?feature=shared

08/31/2026

Follow a day in the life of a young, mixed heritage Ojibwe child and learn key words and phrases from the Ojibwe language in this enchantingly illustrated children's book.

The Ojibwe people are the largest Indigenous group of Turtle Island, now known as North America, and live around the present-day Great Lakes. After their land was taken by Europeans, many Ojibwe children were placed in boarding schools that forbid them to use their native language. Though this led to a decline in fluent speakers, there is a growing movement to restore the strength of the Ojibwe language.

In Ojibwe culture, a dream catcher (izhi'on) protects people, especially children, from harm by catching bad dreams in its web and allowing good dreams to pass through the feathers hanging at the bottom. Wisdom Weavers introduces children to the Ojibwe language from an Indigenous perspective.

You can borrow Wisdom Weavers from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd floor at Honeybeans.

Grateful for the community donations that helped us purchase this book!

08/30/2026

We have another copy of The Lobster Trap available to borrow from The Little Free Ally Library - 2nd Floor at Honeybeans.