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The giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (The modern scholar)

By Liza Knapp. 2006

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

The great code: the Bible and literature

By Northrop Frye. 1982

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Christianity, Religious texts, Writing
Human-narrated audio
Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

The great game: the myth and reality of espionage

By Frederick Porter Hitz. 2004

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General non-fiction, Espionage, Criticism
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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 glass air: selected poems

By P. K Page. 1985

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Poetry
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Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.

The golden thread: a reader's journey through the great books

By Bruce Meyer. 2000

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Criticism, Writing
Human-narrated audio

Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still…

very relevant. Using his trademark approach to reading and understanding, he takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery through some of the most important works of Western literature. 2000.

The dinosaur hunters: a true story of scientific rivalry and the discovery of the prehistoric world

By Deborah Cadbury. 2000

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European history, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

The text tells the story of the bitter feud between Gideon Mantell, who uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry…

and became obsessed with the ancient past and Richard Owen, patronised by royalty, the Prime Minister and the aristocracy, who scooped the credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. Their struggle was to create a new science that would change man's perception of his place in the universe. 2000.

The enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

By Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton Grant. 1979

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Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Anthologies, Criticism
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This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.

The hot-blooded dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology

By Adrian J Desmond. 1976

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Dinosaurs
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Science historian draws on recent, revolutionary discoveries to present a new picture of dinosaurs and their world. Takes exception to…

the long-held myth that these beasts were sluggish, small brained, giant lizards. 1976.

The dinosaur project: the story of the greatest dinosaur expedition ever mounted

By Wayne Grady. 1993

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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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In 1985, a party of Canadian and Chinese scientists embarked on a five-year treasure hunt in China's Gobi Desert, the…

badlands of Alberta and Canada's Arctic. They hoped to answer questions about dinosaur behaviour, migration, and evolution. 1993.

The diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955 (Collected works of Northrop Frye. book VIII)

By Northrop Frye, Robert D Denham. 2001

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Literature biography, Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Criticism
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Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve…

as a chronicle of Frye's life, as we watch him teach classes, plan his career, record his dreams, register his reactions to the people he meets, and reflect on books, music, movies, and religious and political issues. Some strong language. 2001.

The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell; Vol. 3: As I please, 1943-1945

By George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia Orwell. 1970

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Literature, Criticism
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The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. 1970.

The Burgess Shale: the Canadian writing landscape of the 1960s (CLC Kreisel lecture series)

By Margaret Atwood. 2017

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Criticism
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Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that…

contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of those times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today - from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals. 2017.

The bush garden: essays on the Canadian imagination

By Northrop Frye. 1971

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Essays, Writing
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Dr. Frye has collected all his essays on Canadian writing and painting which he believes are of permanent value. Includes…

his annual surveys of English Canadian poetry which originally appeared between 1950 and 1960.

The bone museum: travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds

By Wayne Grady. 2000

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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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Wayne Grady, the science editor of Equinox, and Phil Currie, a Canadian palaeontologist, travel to Patagonia, China, and the Alberta…

Badlands. Living in tents, experiencing rain, mud, windstorms, disagreements, and the ultimate glimpse of bone, they try to find conclusive evidence in an ongoing debate: did dinosaurs go extinct, or evolve into birds of the modern world? 2000.

The art of death: writing the final story

By Edwidge Danticat. 2017

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio

A personal account of the author's mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other…

writers have approached death in their own work. The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history. 2017

T. rex and the crater of doom

By Walter Alvarez. 1997

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Science and technology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs
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A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…

sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.

Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature

By Margaret Atwood. 1972

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Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Criticism
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Originally published in 1972, Atwood's book redefined what made this country's literature unique in a landscape dominated by its British…

and American counterparts. She describes the struggle of local writers to survive this dominance, eventually asserting that there is a distinct Canadian literature, with its own preoccupations, themes, and ideas specific to its history, geopolitics, and landscape. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2004, c1972.

Supergiants!: the biggest dinosaurs

By David Peters, Don Lessem. 1997

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Science and technology, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…

been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.

Starting from Ameliasburgh: the collected prose of Al Purdy

By Al Purdy, Sam Solecki. 1995

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Essays, Travelogues
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A collection of essays, anecdotes, travel pieces, and criticism by Canadian poet Al Purdy. The pieces are divided into essays…

on encountering the world through Canadian sensibilities, opinions on other writers like Charles Bukowski, Margaret Atwood, and Bliss Carman, and reviews of poets like bill bissett and Russian Anna Akhmatova. 1995.

Sharp: the women who made an art of having an opinion

By Michelle Dean. 2018

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio

Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet…

Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists. 2018.

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