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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by…
the concubine he bought in 1924. In Canada, they stinted and sacrificed to support his family in China. Chong tells of her grandparents and parents, and the visits she made to China to try to unite the strands of her family's past. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1994.
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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Asian travel and geography, World War II
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For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…
not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Family biography, Women biography
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As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Politics and government biography, Family biography
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Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Science and medicine biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Biography of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone and champion of the deaf. Discusses his temperament; creativity; marriage…
to Mabel Hubbard, who was deaf; family life; and friendship with Helen Keller. Covers his many inventions, years living in Washington, D.C., and association with the National Geographic Society. 2006.
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Canadian fictionBiography, War and military biography, Canadian biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Major-General Lewis MacKenzie is the best-known Canadian soldier since the Second World War. In this memoir, he relates how he…
created Sector Sarajevo, and with a 30-nation UN force set out to liberate the airport to receive desperately needed food and medical supplies. MacKenzie became an international celebrity as he used the media -- "the only weapon I had" -- to maximum advantage. He also recounts the highlights of eight previous peacekeeping tours in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Vietnam. 1993.
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British Captain Samuel Lewis, a merchant seaman and the author's grandfather, arrived in China in the 1930s. He married a…
Japanese woman and started a family in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. Describes how Lewis and his family, later forced to leave the country, viewed events of the 19th century. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival, but for 14 year old Helen, the battle is with…
her parents: to be allowed to lead her own life, after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger siblings. She struggles against illness, caused by severe malnutrition and dirt, and the selfish demands of her parents, with amazing courage and perseverance. Sequel to "By the waters of Liverpool" (DC29720), followed by "Lime Street at two" (DC29719). 1979. (Autobiography ; 3)
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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Douze récits d'enfance sur la découverte du cinéma. L'auteur ouvre la porte aux souvenirs et commence l'exploration à rebours des…
moments drôles et tragiques qui ont tracé sa ligne de vie et éveillé ses passions et ses états nationalistes. Une enfance à fleur de peau qui nous vaut douze coups au coeur! 1992.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography
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A haunting elegy for a way of life that is fast disappearing with the loss of the family farm. It…
is also a beautiful memoir about the universal experience of growing up as Klatte describes his childhood on a Minnesota farm. 2007.
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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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On August 28, 1922, thousands of Dubliners came to pay respects to Michael Collins, the martyred Irish revolutionary, while elsewhere…
in the same city on the same afternoon, Michael Lyons, a cooper who worked for Guinness and author Jarman's grandfather, inexplicably drowned in the Grand Canal. These events became the seed for this combination of memoir, history, and travelogue, which relates the events of author Jarman's visits to Ireland, his family's past, and Ireland's bloody political history. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.
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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, War and military biography, Canadian biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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It's 1993, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through major political changes. Five-year-old Michel is playing with friends…
one day when, without warning, a group of rebel soldiers pulls up to the school grounds. Forced onto trucks, the frightened boys are taken to a camp in the hills. There they are thrust into a terrifying and violent world. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2015.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Indigenous peoples biography
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Interviews with Native American artists, activists, and writers. Topics range from singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie's consideration of the uses of computer…
technology for tribal people, to activist Dino Butler's reflections on his personal and political evolution from hatred toward healing. Also discusses the appropriation of spiritual objects and beliefs by New Age practitioners. Some strong language. 1999.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Women biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The majority of this book, originally published in the 1970s, is an account of the author's early years as a…
native woman in Vancouver, California and Toronto. Filled with anger, pain and apathy, she found the strength to turn her life around.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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2005. Borel and her French-born hotelier father set out on a French wine safari - she desired a deeper connection…
to her father, but was also seeking escape from both the aftermath of a breakup and a car accident. The trip's early stages were strained by travel sickness and father-daughter bickering. Eventually, despite the buried secrets and intense emotions, her wine-tasting experiences led Borel to genuine breakthroughs, bringing about a change in her relationship with her father. Descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. 2009.
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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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It is Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an…
abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, helps the family prepare for a hunting and gathering trip. But soon, a truck comes to forcibly take Lawrence and his siblings away to their new school, which would try to erase their traditional language and culture. Grades 3-6. 2002.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Louise de Kiriline Lawrence describes her aristocratic Swedish childhood during the 1890s, her gruelling experiences as a Red Cross nurse,…
her passionate marriage to a Russian army officer, and her heartbreak during the Russian Revolution. 1987.
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Canadian fictionBestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Actors biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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In this follow-up to "Lucky Man" (DC24587), movie and television star Fox discusses his work, politics, faith, and family. An…
advocate for stem-cell research, Fox describes the impact his Parkinson's disease has had on his life. Strong language. Bestseller. 2009.
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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente traces her true-life coming-of-age as an expatriate American in suburban Toronto. She also comments,…
often comically, on such topics as Google, day spas, obesity, building your own home, and so-called Canadian royalty, chiefly Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul and Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel. 2004.