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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
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A guide to building a well designed perennial flower garden that will bloom from spring until fall, and provide an everchanging variety of colour. 1987.
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Hobbies and crafts, Home and garden
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Shows how to overcome the Canadian climate and produce a bountiful garden of vegetables and herbs. Discusses soil preparation and seed selection. 1982.
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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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Health and medicine, Hobbies and crafts
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A comprehensive guide to massage techniques with clear step-by-step instructions, written and demonstrated by a leading international expert on massage.…
"Clare's massage course is a sensuous sun-filled treat. And the bonus is that afterwards you have a terrific, much-appreciated skill". 1988.
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Hobbies and crafts
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Features lots of great projects using cardboard boxes, designed for indoor or outdoor play. Chapters discuss where to find boxes…
of different sizes, what a basic tool kit consists of, how to use paint and glitter, when adult help is needed, and the time involved in constructing the creations. Clearly labeled and illustrated steps, lists of supplies, handy tips, suggested variations, and "Reality Check" fact boxes are found throughout. The authors - a father and his two sons - deliver plenty of humour along with the instructions. Grades 3-6. 2006.
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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Historical biography, Women biography
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Nom: Valadon. Prénom: Marie-Clémentine dite "Suzanne." Peintre, née le 23 septembre 1865. Fils: Utrillo (peintre). Amants: Toulouse-Lautrec, Erik Satie, Utter. Qui était donc cette Suzanne Valadon? 1984.
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Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction, Hobbies and crafts
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The author provides information about how to start up and run a successful home-based business. It emphasizes three main aspects of business: marketing, administration and finance. 1997.
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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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Hobbies and crafts
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This is a guide to creative knitting, including step-by-step techniques, personal tips and over 20 inspiring projects by Debbie Bliss,…
successful knitwear designer and author of numerous best selling books. Colour knitting, embroidery on knitting and index are omitted from the recording. 2001.
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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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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Fine arts biography, Politics and government biography, Canadian non-fiction, Lifestyle
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Ce livre rapporte l'évolution du peintre, son ascension et sa confrontation avec la province de Québec, car Riopelle a soulevé…
ici beaucoup de passion; il a dérangé par sa fougue, sa liberté et surtout par son succès. 1988.
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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, Fine arts biography
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Si l'on ne connait qu'un seul nom de sculpteur, c'est celui de "Rodin" qui vient à l'esprit. Qui était ce…
génie inclassable que sa liaison avec Camille Claudel a récemment mis en lumière? Ce livre nous présente Rodin dans son ampleur et son intimité. 1988.
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Hobbies and crafts, Science and technology
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Explains how to start a rock collection and how to recognize igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Grades K-3 and older readers. 1984. (Let's-read-and-find-out science book)