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Canadian fictionBiography of persons with disabilities, Science and medicine biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Disabilities
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Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.
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Author Wiebe describes the vanished world of Speedwell, Saskatchewan, an isolated, poplar-forested, mostly Mennonite community - and Rudy's first home.…
Too young to do heavy work, Rudy witnessed a way of life that was soon to disappear, including clearing the stony land and digging wells, and remembers sorrow at the death of a beloved sister and the sweet discovery of the power of reading. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2006.
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Award winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life…
in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. 2010.
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Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Travel and geography
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In these memoirs, Isabel Huggins describes her various homes in Ontario, and then around the world as her husband was…
relocated for work. Finally settling in France, she ponders the meaning of home and of belonging, deciding that her most valued home is the togetherness she shares with her husband Bob. Added to the book are three short fictional stories, on the same theme. 2003.
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Johnston looks back on the history of his family by studying the lives of his own father and grandfather. He…
manages to tie their lives, and the lives of his extensive family, to the history of Newfoundland. He also studies the patterns that emerge through his life and the lives of his father and grandfather and discusses how these patterns have affected his life. Canada Reads 2012. 1999.
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After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings…
of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Award. Winner of the 2016 Evergreen Award. Bestseller. 2014.