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The Dancing sun: a celebration of Canadian children
By Jan Andrews. 1981
The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
By Denise Chong. 1994
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.Terre Québec suivi de L'afficheur hurle, de L'inavouable et de Autres poèmes: poésie
By Paul Chamberland. 1985
Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai
By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002
For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…
not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.Sophia Tolstoy: a biography
By Alexandra Popoff. 2010
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.Slipstream: a daughter remembers
By Rachel Manley. 2000
Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Reluctant genius: the passionate life and inventive mind of Alexander Graham Bell
By Charlotte Gray. 2006
Biography of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone and champion of the deaf. Discusses his temperament; creativity; marriage…
to Mabel Hubbard, who was deaf; family life; and friendship with Helen Keller. Covers his many inventions, years living in Washington, D.C., and association with the National Geographic Society. 2006.Quand les hommes vivront d'amour: chansons et poèmes
By Raymond Lévesque. 1969
Avec des yeux d'enfant: la poésie québécoise présentée aux enfants
By Henriette Major. 2000
Ce recueil réunit 124 poèmes de 72 auteurs de chez nous. Les textes sont répartis par thèmes : petites et…
grosses bêtes, arbres à poèmes, enfants et enfances... Années 4-7. 2000.Poissons volants: poèmes ((Série QR ; 82).)
By François Rioux. 2014
" Tu vis à une époque intéressante, quelle malédiction, ça grouille, ça bruit, tu t'étourdis dans le mauvais film, une…
rose de papier à la boutonnière. Tout le monde veut te souffler sa petite idée, tu as l'écoute un rien complaisante, tu traînes du papier à musique, au cas où; on fait ce qu'on peut avec ce qu'on a, et tout ce qu'on a c'est le bruit, c'est bien ça? Parle dans la tempête, voir. Une toune dans la tête, si tu la chantes, va-t-elle s'en aller? L'air est plus clair en hiver, alors les sons voyagent mieux, non? Il y aura des questions, tu prendras le métro, faut quand même vivre aussi, tu penses à un sous-marin, le son se diffuse autrement dans l'eau - un jour tu te feras pousser des ailes, tu planeras sur les ondes grises, les ondes bleues. " -- 4e de couv.Poésies: Regards et jeux dans l'espace ; Les solitudes
By Saint-Denys Garneau. 1972
Peacekeeper: the road to Sarajevo
By Lewis MacKenzie. 1993
Major-General Lewis MacKenzie is the best-known Canadian soldier since the Second World War. In this memoir, he relates how he…
created Sector Sarajevo, and with a 30-nation UN force set out to liberate the airport to receive desperately needed food and medical supplies. MacKenzie became an international celebrity as he used the media -- "the only weapon I had" -- to maximum advantage. He also recounts the highlights of eight previous peacekeeping tours in the Middle East, Cyprus, and Vietnam. 1993.Les jours à vif: poésie (Opale)
By André Brochu. 2004
Comme un roulement de tonnerre, les poèmes d'André Brochu créent un univers festif qui ne nie pas les ombres. Au…
bruit du monde répond le fracas du poème. Dans la voix tendre et ironique d'André Brochu, passe le monde dans toutes ses tonalités. Prix du Gouverneur général (poésie), 2004.La cathédrale de tout: [poésie]
By Roger Des Roches. 2013
" Ce lieu touffu dans lequel nous entrons, vaste, furieux, peuplé d'êtres et d'idées et d'images, une cathédrale de mots,…
cette Cathédrale de tout, là où ça s'affronte et se bouscule sur la route vers le sens. L'histoire, des histoires, une et mille et mille, comme une collection de mondes aux personnages étonnés. Des tableaux habités, hantés, foisonnants, furieux. La vie dans des souffles. " -- 4e de couv.La Poésie québécoise: des origines à nos jours
By Pierre Nepveu, Laurent Mailhot. 1986
No foreign bones in China: memoirs of imperialism and its ending
By Peter Stursberg. 2002
British Captain Samuel Lewis, a merchant seaman and the author's grandfather, arrived in China in the 1930s. He married a…
Japanese woman and started a family in Pagoda Anchorage, the heart of the Chinese tea trade. Describes how Lewis and his family, later forced to leave the country, viewed events of the 19th century. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Murder in the dark: short fictions and prose poems
By Margaret Atwood. 1983
Minerva's stepchild (Autobiography ; #3)
By Helen Forrester. 1979
The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival, but for 14 year old Helen, the battle is with…
her parents: to be allowed to lead her own life, after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger siblings. She struggles against illness, caused by severe malnutrition and dirt, and the selfish demands of her parents, with amazing courage and perseverance. Sequel to "By the waters of Liverpool" (DC29720), followed by "Lime Street at two" (DC29719). 1979. (Autobiography ; 3)Douze coups de théâtre: récits (Récits)
By Michel Tremblay. 1992
Douze récits d'enfance sur la découverte du cinéma. L'auteur ouvre la porte aux souvenirs et commence l'exploration à rebours des…
moments drôles et tragiques qui ont tracé sa ligne de vie et éveillé ses passions et ses états nationalistes. Une enfance à fleur de peau qui nous vaut douze coups au coeur! 1992.