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Biography, Fine arts biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The author began a quest to find out more about an artist from the Cariboo named Sonia Cornwall (1919-2006). Through…
interviews, letters, original artworks, articles, exhibition catalogues, imaginings of conversations and occurrences, along with her own reflections on the experience, she pieced together a story of pioneering, love and the pursuit of art. But in searching for Sonia, the author found an unanticipated new friend in Sonia's mother, Vivien Cowan (1893-1990), who became a larger part of the story than she could possibly have imagined. 2013.
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Arts and entertainment, Fine arts biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Provides an overview of the lives of the members of the Group of Seven and their work. c1995.
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Biography, Fine arts biography
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The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover…
behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one of the original celebrity artist-entrepreneurs. A kind of 19th-century Andy Warhol, he knew everyone worth knowing and photographed them all, conferring on posterity psychologically compelling portraits of Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Delacroix, Daumier and countless others - a priceless panorama of Parisian celebrity. 2017.
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Biography, Addiction and substance abuse, Social issues
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Presents transcriptions of conversations with celebrities who suffer from alcoholism or who are involved with such sufferers. Bestseller 1984.
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Addiction and substance abuse, True crime
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A team of investigative journalists look at the international drug problem, with their main focus on Miami, where most of…
the currency is tainted by cocaine trafficking. They show how the lure of money has turned some police officers into dealers and even murderers. 1988.
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Addiction and substance abuse, Self help, Social issues
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Examines how and why some teenagers become alcoholics, and discusses the ripple effect of teen alcoholism as well as treatment…
and preventative measures. Includes an overview of alcoholism as an addiction or a disease, and looks at its physiological, psychological, and emotional dimensions. Both the individual and societal consequences of teen alcoholism are considered. Some descriptions of violence. For Senior High readers. 2004.
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Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Addiction and substance abuse, Literature, Essays, Social issues
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A collection of 17 essays which present original and critical perspectives from writers, scholars and activists on issues that are…
pertinent to Aboriginal women and their communities in both rural and urban settings. The contributors address such issues as youth health and sexual identity; women's aging, sexuality and health; and caring for children and adults living with fetal alcohol syndrome. 2003.
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Biography, Fine arts biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Karen Lavut recounts her friendship with painter Christiane Pflug who killed herself at Easter, 1972. She celebrates the joy and…
memories left by her lost friend, and laments the fact that she chose to leave life so early on. 1999.
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Biography, Fine arts biography
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Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they…
pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. 2018.
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Biography, Fine arts biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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This biography of the Group of Seven painter, Fred Varley, examines both his personal and professional lives. The effects of…
his drinking and womanizing on his family and his work are closely examined.
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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The inspiring odyssey of a boy from an impoverished prairie farm who became one of Canada's greatest artists. This is…
a story of triumph over loneliness and mental anguish, of a lifelong spiritual quest. 1980.
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Biography, Fine arts biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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A biography of one of British Columbia's foremost architects. During his active career from 1890-1929, he designed and oversaw the…
building of many homes in Victoria and Vancouver, many of which are in use today. 1985.
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Biography, Fine arts biography
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Born in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. His achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out…
of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe and much more. 2008.
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Biography, Fine arts biography
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The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and…
writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced--sometimes successful, sometimes not--to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, 'Room to Dream' interweaves Lynch's own reflections on his life with the story of those times, as told by Kristine McKenna, drawing from extensive and explosive interviews with ninety of Lynch's friends, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and collaborators. Lynch responds to each recollection and reveals the inner story of the life behind the art. 2018.
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Biography of persons with disabilities, Women biography, Disabilities
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Choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille talks about her recovery from a massive cerebral hemorrhage which left her temporarily blind, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. 1981.
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Historical biography
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This biography examines the life of the Dutch artist Rembrandt. The author conjures the world in which Rembrandt moved -…
its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics - and the influences on him including the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, and the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries. Above all the profound effect on Rembrandt of the leading master of the immediately preceding generation, Rubens, with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life. 1999.
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Health and medicine, Addiction and substance abuse
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It is estimated that 45 million Americans smoke and nearly 500,000 deaths occur yearly due to smoke-related illnesses. In this…
concise audiobook, Charles F. Wetherall challenges smokers to put out their cigarettes, stop smoking and live a better, healthier life. He offers an easy five-step plan to get smokers to kick the habit - and keep it kicked! 2008.
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Biography, Fine arts biography
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In 1900, an eighteen-year-old Pablo Picasso made his first trip to Paris, and, after suffering years of poverty and neglect,…
emerged as the leader of a bohemian band of painters, sculptors, and poets. 2018.
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Biography, Fine arts biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Biography of an artist who travelled extensively in Canada, recording the grandeur of the land, and the interesting customs and…
lifestyles of the Indians he met. Grades 5-8. c1977. (The Canadians)
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Biography, Fine arts biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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10 women met at a Montreal art school in the early part of the 20th century, and soon decided to…
form a group and function as professional painters. Much like the Group of Seven, with whom the Beaver Hall Hill Group exhibited in the 1920s and '30s, Emily Coonan, Prudence Heward, Mabel Lockerby and the rest of the group worked successfully both in Canada and internationally, though their story has been overlooked by art historians until recently. The author demonstrates how the support the women gave each other was essential to their success in the male-dominated art world, and discusses their paintings in the context of the social and political circumstances of the period. 1999.