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During the annual pilgrimage to Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury, the pilgrims stop at the Tabard Inn, where a story-telling…
contest develops. Included are The wife of Bath's tale, The knight's tale, and The pardoner's tale. Originally written in the late 14th century. Textbook format. 1964. Uniform title: Canterbury tales.
During the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200 political campaigns were held across Canada. One of those campaigns belonged to author,…
journalist and political neophyte Noah Richler. Recruited by the NDP to run in the bellweather riding of Toronto-St Paul's, he was handed $350 and told he would lose. But as veteran NDP activists and social-media-savvy newbies joined his campaign, Richler found himself increasingly insulated from the stark reality that his campaign was flailing, imagining instead that he was headed to Parliament Hill. Richler recounts his time on the trail, from door knocking in Little Jamaica to being internet-shamed by experienced opponents. Lays bare what goes on behind the slogans, canvassing and talking points, told from the perspective of a political outsider. 2016.
In eighteenth-century England, the young defiant daughter of Brydd and Elizabeth Cannaway elopes with courtly Brook Wintersill. She soon discovers…
that her life is endangered by his brutality and leaves for her parents' home, where Brook follows with his ruffian companions. Charlotte escapes once again and falls in love with Jacobite Captain Matcham Lodge. Some violence and some strong language. Sequel to "The Cannaways". 1980.
In 1697, Brydd Cannaway, an ambitious young English wheelwright, sets off for Vienna to apprentice himself to a famed coach…
maker. When he finally returns to his village to settle down, he has experienced love and has had many adventures. Prequel to "The Cannaway concern." c1978.
In August 1939 five cousins gather at their aunt's home in Cornwall for the summer holiday. For most of them…
it is the last summer of their youth. They are eager to lose their innocence and explore every experience. Includes sex. 1984.
This volume covers every battle and campaign that Napoleon personally ever conducted. The author has made it possible to view…
the whole of Napoleon's military career and to assess the characteristics which brought him years of victory and ultimate defeat. 1993. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.
American librarian Fiona Sweeney delivers books by camel to remote villages in Kenya. Her patrons include Kanika, a young girl…
eager to learn, and a shunned teenager nicknamed Scar Boy. But unreturned books threaten the service, and Fiona discovers rivalry between traditionalists and those seeking education. 2007.
To Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish border was a land of blood…
and violence, and where her inheritance was at the mercy of outlaw riders and feuding tribes. Beyond the law's protection, alone but for servants and an elderly priest, she could wait helplessly in her lonely manor, or somehow find a way to fight the terror coming from the northern night - and hope for the 'knock on the nether door'. 1992.
Luis da Silva spends the spring of 1974 on the beaches of his native Portugal pondering the country's political situation.…
Suddenly, as in a dream, a young Gypsy woman walks out of the sea and into Luis' life. She brings excitement to Luis in a way that he has not known before. c1998.
It's 1862 in England and Sarah and her cousin Maud live a hard life in an orphanage. When they learn…
of a chance to leave the orphanage to work in Canada they eagerly volunteer. It is only once they have set sail that they learn they have been promised as brides for the gold rush prospectors. Once they arrive they will have to find a way to face, or escape, their fate. Grades 5-8. 1998.
A history of the 60-year-old CBC broadcast which originally began on radio in 1929 and became a Canadian institution. Discusses…
the financial arrangements, the internal politics and battles with CBC, and provides a behind-the-scenes look at the announcers, cameramen, technicians and directors who put the show together. 1990.
Bob Weeks details the history of The Brier, the Canadian Men's Curling Championship, which began in 1927. He talks about…
the legendary figures in the game, from Walter Stewart to Russ Howard, as well as the evolution of the game itself. c1995.
A wandering chronicle, spanning a hundred years, of the Mennonite diaspora, beginning in the brutality of Stalin's Soviet Union and…
moving outward to find sanctuary of sorts in Canada and Paraguay. 2008, c1970.
Kate Sumner's nude body is discovered on a secluded beach in southern England, and her traumatized three-year-old daughter is found…
wandering 20 miles away. The police originally suspect an actor acquaintance, who happens to be at the scene when the corpse is discovered. However, they soon begin to consider the woman's husband, who has a gaping hole in his alibi. Strong language. 1998.
In 1988 Dar es Salaam, retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandez finds the diary of a colonial official in British East Africa,…
which was lost on the eve of World War I. As Pius explores the mystery of the diary, he traces its story and the lives of its actors into his own life. Winner of the 1994 Dorothy Giller Prize. c1994.
When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's…
shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Canada Reads 2018. Bestseller. 2018.
Joanne Kilbourn is following the political campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman whose success depends not so much on the…
election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she's fighting. Joanne thinks this is perfect material for a TV program she's putting together on women and politics, but then a local call girl is murdered - a woman whose regular clientele included several of Regina's most prominent lawyers, including (until he met Joanne) her own husband Zach. With her new marriage under strain, Joanne investigates why the dead woman had started to threaten her clients with blackmail. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008. (Joanne Kilbourn mysteries ; 11)
Stanley Moss is a retired florist, stricken with cancer, and living quietly with his wife Frieda in Edmonton. One day,…
Stanley experiences a boom and a flash, and then discovers that he has the strength of ten men, can read minds and fulfill people's dreams - and his illness has vanished. He and his disciples start The Stan, a new religion, and invite the world to join, but when the world shows up, along with the international media and an angry long-dead spiritualist, things take an unexpected turn. Some descriptions of violence and sex. Some strong language. c2007.
CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with Joshua Givens, an investigative reporter who has uncovered a dangerous secret. Givens suspects…
that a lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club. The journalist is convinced that the "club" is powerful enough to topple the United States. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is gunned down. The same evening, Givens and his family are killed. McGarvey is about to be drawn into the most far-reaching and perilous investigation of his career. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.