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The boy in the moon: a father's search for his disabled son
By Ian Brown. 2009
Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that perhaps 300 people around the world also live with…
it. Walker turned twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. Expanded from Brown's Globe and Mail series about Walker, he sets out to discover his son. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 2009.Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492
By Ronald Wright. 1992
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.Cartes postales de l'enfer
By Neil Bissoondath, Paul Gagné, Lori Saint-Martin. 2009
Alec est un homme d'affaires qui a créé sa petite entreprise. Pour lui, la vie est un tissu de mensonges…
qu'il se raconte à lui-même et qu'il répète aux autres. Pour Sumintra, ou Sue, comme elle se nomme elle-même, il est hors de question de faire mentir l'image que ses parents se font d'elle. Quand elle fait la connaissance d'Alec, leurs vies secrètes se rejoignent. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 2009. Titre uniforme: Soul of all great designs.Les belles soeurs
By Michel Tremblay. 1974
Lake of the prairies: a story of belonging
By Warren Cariou. 2002
Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.Just a little later with Eevo and Sim
By Henry Shykoff. 2001
Eevo and Sim are reunited with their mother, Shim, and their father, Dedu, who have just returned from their long…
trip to the Wetlands Clan, the former home of Shim. They discover that together, Eevo and Sim have overcome many dangers. Together they return to the Wetlands, where again the brother and sister take on many challenges, make new discoveries, and even encounter the Great One: the much-feared crocodile of the Great River. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Once upon a time, long, long ago" (RC22037.) 2001.Kilter: 55 fictions
By John Gould. 2003
This collection of short stories presents characters ceaselessly questioning their choices throughout life: a widower bemoans his son's interest in…
meditation, rather than the more easily understood sex and drugs; a father remembers to pick up his child for soccer practice, as a school shooting plays out on television; a teacher repeats her literature lecture for her lover, who listens on his deathbed. Some strong language. 2003.Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Gargoyles: stories
By Bill Gaston. 2006
Stories crafted around the idea of the gargoyle - the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions; the physical manifestations…
of the disfigurements and contortions to which human beings subject themselves. Each story has a strange and unique gargoyle guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, sometimes malevolent, presence informs the characters and their actions. Strong language. 2006.Forms of devotion: Stories And Pictures
By Diane Schoemperlen. 1998
Schoemperlen's stories explore the nature of devotion in its many forms, from the devotion to material objects and daily rituals,…
to the pleasures of the body and the pains of romantic love. Some descriptions of sex. Winner of the 1998 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 1998.Flint & feather: the life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake
By Charlotte Gray. 2002
An exploration of the many dimensions of Pauline Johnson's life. Complex and talented, she was a native rights advocate ahead…
of her time; a lyric poet who performed vaudevillian skits; a New Woman who wrote for The Mother's Magazine; and an incurable romantic who never married. 2002.Coventry
By Helen Humphreys. 2008
On the evening of November 14, 1940, Harriet stands on the roof of the Coventry cathedral beneath a full moon.…
That night, the Germans come to unleash destruction, and for Harriet, Jeremy, the young man who shares her duties as a firewatcher, and his free-spirited mother, Maeve, the bombings will resonate for the rest of their lives. As Harriet and Jeremy make their way through the burning city in search of Maeve, cold dread brings to life both a grief and a love that Harriet thought she had put behind her forever. 2008.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.Always looking up: the adventures of an incurable optimist
By Michael J Fox. 2009
In this follow-up to "Lucky Man" (DC24587), movie and television star Fox discusses his work, politics, faith, and family. An…
advocate for stem-cell research, Fox describes the impact his Parkinson's disease has had on his life. Strong language. Bestseller. 2009.An accidental Canadian: reflections on my home and (not) native land
By Margaret Wente. 2004
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente traces her true-life coming-of-age as an expatriate American in suburban Toronto. She also comments,…
often comically, on such topics as Google, day spas, obesity, building your own home, and so-called Canadian royalty, chiefly Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul and Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel. 2004.A pioneer Thanksgiving: a story of harvest celebrations in 1841
By Heather Collins, Barbara Greenwood. 1999
With a mix of fiction and non-fiction, interesting facts, and hands-on activities, you can follow the Robertsons, a Canadian pioneer…
family, as they prepare for a special Thanksgiving in 1841. Grades 2-4. 1999.A place within: rediscovering India
By M. G Vassanji. 2008
Author M. G. Vassanji was born in Africa, where his Indian grandparents had settled, and his relationship to India had…
been complex and contradictory. Vassanji describes his many visits to India, encompassing bustling cities, quiet landscapes, fantastic stories and fascinating characters, in this his part travelogue and description, part history and meditation, and above all a quest for a lost homeland. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2008.A light in the dunes
By Martha Attema. 1997
Fourteen-year-old Rikst de Bruin is drawn into a journey of discovery and danger after she and a friend discover a…
body on the Dutch island where they live. Junior high. 1997.A natural history
By Keith Oatley. 1998
In mid-nineteenth-century England, Dr. John Leggate is searching for a cure for cholera before the next outbreak occurs. The arrival…
of Marian Brooks, a talented pianist and writer, and their subsequent marriage, affects Leggate and his work as another cholera epidemic approaches. Some descriptions of sex. 1998.