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Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Award winning non-fiction, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Humour
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An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.
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A compelling account of private life in the age of Macdonald and Laurier. The author has used personal letters, diaries,…
scrapbooks, memoirs and social columns. 1984 Governor General's Award winner. c1984.
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After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.
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Dominated by feminine prescences, this collection includes new poems that celebrate the birth of the poet's daughter, and a personal elegy for Mary Farl Powers.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Canadian history
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A brief history of Canada, covering the period from Cartier and Champlain to the arrival of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on…
the political scene. It covers the major historical events and the forces which have shaped our country. Originally written in 1953, this is the updated 1970 version. Winner of the 1953 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.
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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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A young man in Nunavut fights off a polar bear to save his friend, a Canadian peacekeeper in the Congo…
risks his own life to save those of stranded tourists, and ordinary people show extraordinary character during the Halifax Explosion, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, the Tiananmen Square protests, and September 11, 2001. Over twenty true-life stories about life-threatening situations and the wrenching choices made by the people facing them. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Non-fiction. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, War, World War II
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Arthur Schaller was eleven years old when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, a time when the reward for turning in…
a Jew was 100 cigarettes and a bottle of vodka. Separated from his family in the Warsaw Ghetto, Arthur managed to escape to the other side of the Ghetto wall, and posed until the end of the war as a Catholic orphan. Winner of the 1999 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1998.
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Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…
In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.
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The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle
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Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…
cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.
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Can we create ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we have created?…
Homer-Dixon calls the gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve our complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas the "ingenuity gap". He argues that as the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result and suggests ways to overcome these real problems before it is too late. Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2000.
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Inuksuks are stone monuments, built by the Inuit people of Canada's arctic. They can show where food is stored, leave…
a route to follow, or tell about a good hunting or fishing area. Learn about the different kinds of inuksuks, the people who build them, and the land where they are found. Includes instructions on building your own inuksuk. Grades 3-6. 1999.
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Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist, claims that 20th century ideologies have promoted truisms that undermine the acquisition of knowledge…
and reason and the quest for the public good. Instead, managers and technocrats are seen as gods, passive and conformist politics abound, and only salesmanship, style and fashion are seen as meaningful. Saul argues that the average citizen must rise above a smothering bureaucracy and today's mindless devotion to "corporatism" to pursue knowledge and active, publicly interested civic engagement. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.
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An account of man's history revealed through movements and ideas, from prehistoric times to the present. For junior and senior high readers. 1951.
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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Humour, Canadian travel and geography
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Mowat and a partner buy an old boat in Newfoundland with plans to repair it and sail to adventures around the world. 1969.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Poetry
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The Collected Poems was prepared by Stevens himself, shortly before his death, and contains all of his published books of…
poetry, covering more than four decades. From the rococo lyrics of Harmonium, through the large-scale orchestrations of his middle years, to the austere lyrics of 'The Rock', Stevens' poetry meditated unremittingly upon the relation between the world and the imagination. Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 1954.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Law and crime biography, True crime
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Ten true tales of outrageous trickery. Includes how a group of Germans perpetrated one of the biggest, most sophisticated banknote…
counterfeiting schemes ever seen; how the world was fooled for nearly a decade when a "lost tribe" was discovered in the Philippines; and how Donald Crowhurst almost won the first round-the-world yacht race without ever leaving the Atlantic Ocean. Some descriptions of violence. For junior and senior high school readers. Winner of the 2005 Red Maple Award. 2004.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Nature, Environment, Science and technology
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In the 1970s, environmentalist John Livingston began to find serious flaws in the conventional conservation argument. He began to challenge…
the belief that the survival of undomesticated plants and animals in a world dominated by humans could be enabled through "resource conservation" managed by humans. He argues that our dependence on ideas -- in effect, our own domestication -- has cut us off from the natural world, and led us to believe that our domination over nature is itself "natural." Winner of the 1994 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, History, European history, Politics and government
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Biography of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Follows his triumphs and disasters in the wars…
against Spain, an unsuccessful campaign in Ireland, his imprisonment and subsequent execution. 1971.
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Journals and memoirs, Animals and wildlife
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A warmhearted story about a boy and his friendship with a pet raccoon named Rascal. Set in a Wisconsin village in 1918. 1964 Newbery Honor book. Grades 4-7. 1963.