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Although one usually associates wildlife with rural areas, this book introduces wild animals and plants that can be found in…
a variety of urban environments, like backyards, vacant lots, and parks. Included are spiders, squirrels, starlings, raccoons, and dandelions. Grades 5-8 and older. c1989. Uniform title: Nova (Television program)
As a correspondent to the Toronto "Globe and Mail" in Peking, Fraser had the opportunity to meet a wide range…
of Chinese people and to learn of their culture and government. 1980.
On New Year's Eve of 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a glossy new version of Britain, Benjamin Trotter watches…
the celebration on television in the same Birmingham house where he'd grown up. Watches, in fact, his younger brother Paul, now a Member of Parliament and a rising star of New Labour, glad-handing his way through the festive crowd at the Millennium Dome. Neither of them could guess their lives are about to implode. Strong language. Sequel to "The Rotters' Club" (DC30120). 2004.
Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. The…
author, an eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist, contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies. 2004.
A sleepy hamlet in upstate New York awakens to a nightmare when three young girls disappear in succession, inspiring a…
wave of suspicion among former friends as old rumours, old angers, and old desires rear their ugly heads. Descriptions of violence. 1997.
McQuaig looks into the popular belief that the Canadian economy is beyond Canada's control, held at the mercy of globalization…
and technology. Instead, she argues, the international community has the tools to regulate the world financial system to everyone's benefit, as was done in the decades after World War II. 1998.
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.
A vengeful lover, a severed head, and a mysterious rogue lead a persecuted group of German Protestants to America by…
way of London. A swashbuckling tale of misplaced loyalties, courage, and survival. For junior and senior high readers. Some strong language. 1979, c1978.
The characters in these thirteen stories exist on the edge of danger, where landscapes melt into dreamscapes and every house…
is haunted. A drug dealer’s girlfriend signs up for the first manned mission to Mars. A girl falls in love with a man who wants to turn her into a bird. A teenage girl and her best friend test their relationship by breaking into suburban houses. A wife finds a gaping hole in the floor of the home she shares with her husband, a hole that only she can see. Full of longing and strange humour, these subtle, complex stories—about the love between a man and his pet crow, an alcoholic and his AA sponsor, a mute migrant and a newspaper reporter—show how love ties us to one another and to the world. Winner of the 2018 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction. 2015.
Presents a powerful portrait of modern Aboriginal life in Canada, in contrast with the perceived failings so often portrayed in…
politics and in media. The author illustrates his arguments by compiling a remarkable selection of letters, speeches and writings by Aboriginal leaders and thinkers, showcasing the extraordinarily rich, moving and stable indigenous point of view across the centuries. 2014.
Health-law expert Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness to sell us services and…
products that mostly don’t work. The latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy won’t give you great abs, diet books don’t work, and both Big Pharma and naturopathy are powerful forces with products and services to sell. After careful personal investigation, Caulfield demonstrates that the truth about being healthy is easy to find (but often hard to do). 2012.
Globalism, where world markets would supplant nation-states, has failed even as it succeeded, by increasing GDP or individual wealth in…
some countries while allowing the paralyzing accumulation of debt in the third world. In the meantime, economies have artificially inflated and imploded. The author also faults a system where multinational corporations attempt to replace government infrastructure and "overly complex" management is mistaken for leadership. 2005.
Fictionalized account of the friendship between Dr. McGillycuddy and Sioux leader Crazy Horse. McGillycuddy, a private physician working under contract…
for the army, must decide whether to act as a doctor or a friend when the seriously wounded chief faces cruel imprisonment. Some violence and some strong language. 2001, c1999.
Will Martin has returned to his childhood home during the holidays to settle his grandfather's estate. When Will asks his…
grandmother her Christmas wish, she shows him her husband's journals, which include notes of a yearly visit to Lillian. Will's efforts to identify Lillian result in a surprising discovery. c1998.
The kings of Britain have ceased their warring and are assembling their forces for the last great battle that will…
sweep the heathen back into the sea and make their country free and mighty again. Ahead of their host goes Merlin, at once child and man, poet and demi-god, travelling alone to read the runes of the heavens and the seas - a visionary epic of the Dark Ages. 1988.
Marie Antoinette's 11-year-old daughter, Marie Therese, survives when the rest of her family are taken away. She remains locked in…
a tower in Paris and doesn't manage to escape for three years afterwards. Grades 5-8. 1998.
This book lets you into the secret of vegetarian cooking as developed by the Cranks restaurants. With a helpful introductory…
section and numerous delicious recipes for soups, starters, salads, dressings, sauces and savouries, not to mention sections devoted to baking, pudding, cereals, preserves, sweetmeats and drinks. 1985, c1982.