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The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.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material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage.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.Mises au jeu: les sports féminins à Montréal, 1919-1961
By Élise Detellier. 2015
" À Montréal au début du siècle dernier, des bourgeoises anglo-protestantes montaient à bicyclette, en dépit des diktats et des…
réticences de certains médecins craignant que cette activité puisse mener à l'orgasme. Les risques qu'encouraient les nouvelles sportives étaient multiples: attiser les passions de la chair, nuire à leur vertu, s'éloigner du foyer ou, pire, devenir masculines. Pour les Canadiennes françaises, l'accès au sport se fit plus tard, à la faveur de l'ouverture en 1919 de la Palestre nationale rue Cherrier. La toute-puissante Église catholique, avec ses idées bien arrêtées sur la vocation d'épouse et de mère, est-elle seule responsable de ce délai? Le nationalisme canadien-français qui imprégnait la Palestre nationale aurait-il freiné l'essor des sports féminins? Et parallèlement, la non-mixité au YWCA aura-t-elle permis aux anglophones d'exceller? Si le sport est le lieu par excellence où se définit l'identité masculine, la participation des femmes ne s'est pas faite sans heurts. Ce livre révèle l'histoire méconnue et foisonnante des sports féminins à Montréal durant la première moitié du 20e siècle. En plus d'analyser les discours des médecins, des professeur.e.s d'éducation physique, des clercs de l'Église catholique et des sportives, Mises au jeu fait revivre les pratiques d'une autre époque et nous fait découvrir des figures marquantes dont Myrtle Cook et Cécile Grenier. " -- 4e de couv.Native peoples and cultures of Canada: an anthropological overview
By Alan D McMillan. 1988
A comprehensive overview of all the native groups of Canada -- Indian, Metis and Inuit. Describes their traditional ways of…
life from prehistoric times to the present issues of land claims and self-government. 1988.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.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.I saw three Chinas: one Canadian's experience in China, 1909-1989
By Molly Phillips. 1990
Born in Hong Kong in 1909, the author has witnessed the three modern eras of Chinese history: the final days…
of the Imperial Ching dynasty; the republican rule of Chiang Kai-Shek; and Communist rule since 1949. She describes the people, culture, and history of China as she experienced them. 1990.Andy Russell's campfire yarns (Andy Russell Ser.)
By Andy Russell. 1998
A fair country: telling truths about Canada
By John Ralston Saul. 2008
In this vision of Canada, Saul unveils 3 founding myths: he argues that the famous "peace, order, and good government"…
that supposedly defines Canada is a distortion of the country's true nature. He describes Canada as a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by aboriginal ideas. Lastly, he believes that Canada has a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. c2008.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.The notebooks: interviews and new fiction from contemporary authors
By Michelle Berry, Natalee Caple. 2002
An anthology of interviews and unpublished work from 17 of Canada's finest younger authors. The writers include Esta Spalding and…
Michael Winter to Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, and Eden Robinson. Each writer has provided not only a manuscript page facsimile but also a previously unpublished piece of fiction or poetry along with their interview. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.Les cahiers noirs de l'aliéniste: 2, Le sang des prairies (GF (Alire (Firme)))
By Jacques Côté. 2010
"Fort Edmonton, 5 mai 1885.Trois mois après avoir joint les rangs du 65e bataillon de Montréal, le capitaine Georges Villeneuve,…
assisté du lieutenant Bruno Lafontaine et du docteur Paré, entend la déposition sous serment de François Lépine, un interprète métis qui a survécu au massacre de Lac-à-la-Grenouille." -- 4e de couvEntre poudrés et pouilleux: le jeu des apparences à Paris au XVIIe siècle : récit historique
By Jacques Mathieu. 2008
"Au contraire des caricatures contemporaines qui classent la société du XVIIe siècle en courtisans du roi et en gueux de…
la rue, ce récit de la vie d'un médecin de l'époque, Jacques-Philippe Cornutti, présente l'image d'un homme soucieux de son apparence. Attachée à ses valeurs, sa quête de sens est cependant assujettie aux aléas du destin et de ses rencontres. Il en découle une quête d'identité aux multiples facettes et en constante mutation. "La vie des salons ne valait guère mieux que celle de la rue. Les attroupements, les réceptions et les distractions réunissaient des foules inconscientes et inconséquentes. Les rumeurs de la ville ne l'atteignaient pas et ne l'intéressaient pas. Le choix entre poudrés et pouilleux lui paraissait n'avoir aucun sens. Tout lui semblait fiction, décor, un théâtre absurde dans une mauvaise mise en scène. Il en vint à croire qu'il n'était pas de son temps." -- 4e de couvTiff: A life of timothy findley
By Sherrill Grace. 2021
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as…
an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s . During those years, he became a vocal advocate for human rights and the anti-war movement. His writing and interviews reveal a man concerned with the state of the world, a man who believed in the importance of not giving in to despair, despite his constant struggle with depression. Findley believed in the power of imagination and creativity to save us. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of this eminent Canadian writer. Sherrill Grace provides insight into Findley's life and struggles through an exploration of his private journals and his relationships with family, his beloved partner, Bill Whitehead, and his close friends, including Alec Guinness, William Hutt, and Margaret Laurence. Based on many interviews and exhaustive archival research, this biography explores Findley's life and work, the issues that consumed him, and his often profound depression over the evils of the twentieth-century. Shining through his darkness are Findley's generous humour, his unforgettable characters, and his hope for the future. These qualities inform canonic works like The Wars (1977), Famous Last Words (1981), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995)