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The great escape: the untold story

By Ted Barris. 2014

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named "Harry," and dashed from Stalag…

Luft III, the infamous WWII German POW camp. It became known as The Great Escape. The breakout had taken a year to plan, involved 2,000 POWs, and prompted a massive manhunt across occupied Europe. All but three escapees were recaptured, and on Hitler’s orders, fifty were murdered. The author recounts this battle of wits and determination through the voices of those involved, assembles original interviews, memoirs, letters and diaries to reconstruct the Great Escape’s untold story. Bestseller. 2014.

The good life: Helen and Scott Nearing's sixty years of self-sufficient living

By Scott Nearing, Helen Nearing. 1989

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Nature
Human-narrated audio

Describes how in 1932 a married couple left New York City for the backwoods of Vermont in search of a…

life of "simplicity, serenity, utility, and harmony." This account of their pioneering venture tells how they built a house, worked a self-sufficient farm, and lived a satisfying life in nature. c1989. Uniform title: Living the good life

The good news about careers: how you'll be working in the next decade

By Barbara Moses. 1999

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Careers and job hunting, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio

Workers today are changing how we think about the workplace by making choices that reflect not only economic considerations, but…

also individual needs and desires. Today's workplace is more flexible, encouraging us to incorporate our personalities and creativity into our working life. Moses discusses what type of worker will be more successful in the future, warns against today's frenetic busyness, and shows what motivates the new worker and how everyone can profit from future work trends.

The generals: the Canadian army's senior commanders in the Second World War

By J. L Granatstein. 1993

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, World War II
Human-narrated audio

Granatstein's study of life at the top during the Second World War centres on the most senior ranks in the…

Canadian Army. Men like Andrew McNaughton, Harold Crerar, Thomas Burns and Guy Simonds had not only to win military campaigns, but also command the sympathies of bureaucrats and powerful politicians. None, however, forgot they were fighting a war, and that their decisions directly affected the lives of Canadian soldiers. 1993.

The great game: the myth and reality of espionage

By Frederick Porter Hitz. 2004

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Espionage, Criticism
Human-narrated audio

A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz…

concludes that in most instances truth is more surprising and peculiar than fiction. For espionage fans interested in an insider's assessment of the reality behind the entertainment. Some strong language. 2004.

The great escape

By Paul Brickhill. 2000

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Movie and television tie-insPolice and military, War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner of war camp worked together to…

achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan... 2000.

The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow

By Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…

Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.

The gift of a home: with decorations

By Beverley Nichols. 1972

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Family biography, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
With nostalgia and wit, the author describes his attempts to renovate stately Merry Hall and reclaim its four acres of grounds from wilderness. 1972.

The gilded ghetto: women and political power in Canada

By Sydney Sharpe. 1994

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Politics and government, Canadian politics and government
Human-narrated audio

Sharpe takes an in-depth look at women in Canadian politics, and their struggles in an arena of male privilege and…

influence. She documents the attitudes of male politicians towards women, from Pearson to Mulroney, and interviews women in all levels of politics across the country, such as Monique Begin, Sheila Copps, and Barbara McDougall. c1994.

The gatekeepers: inside the admissions process of a premier college

By Jacques Steinberg. 2003

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given the opportunity to observe the admissions…

process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges. Some strong language. 2002.

The fog of war: censorship of Canada's media in World War Two

By Mark Bourrie. 2011

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets…

out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times - with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat attacks in the St. Lawrence, army mutinies in British Columbia and Ontario, and pro-Hitler propaganda in the mainstream Quebec press - censors had a hard time keeping news events contained. Now, with freshly unsealed World War II press-censor files, many of the undocumented events that occurred in wartime Canada are finally revealed. c2011.

The forgotten dead: why 946 American servicemen died off the coast of Devon in 1944 - and the man who discovered their true story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson. 1993

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

The night of 27 April 1944: Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-Day landings, is held off Slapton Beach in…

Devon. As the mock assault is under way, 946 American servicemen die. Under wartime restrictions the story is concealed and in time forgotten, until local hotelier Ken Small finds American bullets and money while beachcombing and decides to find the truth. 1993.

The first American: a story of North American archaeology

By Clara Winston, Richard Winston, C. W Ceram. 1971

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

A wide-ranging account of the development of North American archaeology, with particular emphasis on early man, the Southwest, the American…

Indian, and the mound builders. 1971. Uniform title: Der erste Amerikaner.

The fall of Berlin 1945

By Antony Beevor. 2002

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass…

destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital. 2002.

The female eunuch (Flamingo Modern Classic Ser.)

By Germaine Greer. 1993

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Family and relationships, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio

Drawing from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once…

an important social commentary and a passionately argued piece of polemic. Descriptions of sex. 1993.

The feminine mystique

By Betty Friedan. 2001

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Social issues
Human-narrated audio

This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist…

movement, and that has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations. A new introduction by Anna Quindlen traces the book in her own history, we well as how it was prescient on consumer culture and domestic issues. Some descriptions of sex. 2001, c1963.

The Delta is my home: Ehdiitat shanankat t'agoonch'uu = Uvanga Nunatarmuitmi aimayuaqtunga (Land is our storybook)

By Tom McLeod, Mindy Willett. 2008

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Nature
Human-narrated audio

Tom McLeod is an eleven-year-old boy from Aklavik, of mixed Gwich'in and Inuvialuit heritage. Tom tells us why his home…

in the Mackenzie Delta is a special place and why he loves to live on the land. He describes hunting for survival while being careful about how his people use the land. Grades 3-6. 2008.

The elite forces handbook of unarmed combat

By Ronald Shillingford. 2000

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Police and military
Human-narrated audio

The text covers practical self defence systems as used by the world's top soldiers. The book provides indepth detail on…

how soldiers defend themselves in an unarmed situation against assailants, knife attacks, bayonet attacks, firearms, chokes and headlocks. 2000.

The end of the line: how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat

By Charles Clover. 2006

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction, Environment, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio

Clover describes how fishing with modern technology has nearly destroyed entire ocean ecosystems: New England's fisheries have collapsed, the fish…

stocks of West Africa's continental shelf are overexploited, and few cod are left in Newfoundland's Grand Banks. He blames trawlers with huge nets that destroy everything in their wake, celebrity chefs with endangered species on their menus, the European Union, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, and countries like Japan and Spain that persist in illegal fishing. 2006.

The essence of truth (Continuum Impacts Ser.)

By Martin Heidegger. 2004

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
This text offers an explanation of the most fundamental and abiding theme of Heidegger's philosophy - the relationship of an individual's existence to truth. 2004.

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