Delta Reads

Welcome to the Delta Reads – Social Understanding Library. This collection has been curated based on recommendations from our Delta Talks guests and includes quality meaningful material on a range of important topics. We hope these books will support further learning on these important topics.

To sign out a book, please click on the title of your choice below and you will be re-directed to a sign out form with further information including the terms of rental and return instructions. Whether it’s on your break at work or a cozy nook at home - dive in, learn, escape and enjoy!

 

Start With Why

Delta Talks Guest: Harj Sidhu
Preferred Charity: BC Cancer Foundation

In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn, inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on… more

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The Body Keeps the Score

Author: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Delta Talks Guest: Andrew Neufeld
Preferred Charity: 140 Sports Association

#1 New York Times bestseller



“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies



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The Culture Map

Author: Erin Meyer
Delta Talks Guest: Manpreet Dhillon
Preferred Charity: Canada India Education Society

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle,… more

The Gender Creative Child

Delta Talks Guest: Michelle Renee
Preferred Charity: Out In Schools

From a leading US authority on a subject more timely than ever—an up-to-date, all-in-one resource on gender-nonconforming children and adolescents

In her groundbreaking, first book, Gender Born, Gender Made, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft coined the term gender creative to… more

The Indian in the Cabinet

Delta Talks Guest: Bertha Williams
Preferred Charity: Indian Residential School Survivors Society

THE #1 BESTSELLER. FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation

Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader… more

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The North-West Is Our Mother

Author: Jean Teillet
Delta Talks Guest: Louis De Jaeger

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans.

Their story begins in the last… more

The Reconciliation Manifesto

Delta Talks Guest: Bertha Williams
Preferred Charity: Indian Residential School Survivors Society

In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable footing.

The Transgender Child

Delta Talks Guest: Michelle Renee
Preferred Charity: Out In Schools

This comprehensive first-of-its-kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors… more

Two Houses Half Buried In Sand

Delta Talks Guest: Bertha Williams
Preferred Charity: Indian Residential School Survivors Society

A vital collection of writings about First Nations people and culture as it existed on the island coasts of the Depression-era Pacific Northwest and originally published in the pages of Victoria's oldest newspaper, the Daily Colonist, the sixty stories included here are the… more

Unreconciled

Delta Talks Guest: Bertha Williams
Preferred Charity: Indian Residential School Survivors Society

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort.

Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the… more

Unsettling Canada

Delta Talks Guest: Bertha Williams
Preferred Charity: Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson. Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important… more

Who Moved My Cheese

Delta Talks Guest: Harj Sidhu
Preferred Charity: BC Cancer Foundation

The #1 bestselling classic that has helped millions of people find success and happiness through embracing what is inevitable in life: change. From business leaders and organizations to individuals, families and communities, Who Moved My Cheese? has transformed lives and been… more