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By Rob Laidlaw. 2011
Dogs have been loyal to humankind for thousands of years, but today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished, and…
millions of other dogs are used in scientific research and for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions. Laidlaw explores the world of homeless, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face, but he also focuses on the people he calls "dog champions" – people around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Winner of the 2013-14 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2011.By Joey Slinger. 1985
By Claude Olievenstein. 1999
Longue méditation sur le sens du vieillissement "Heureux ceux qui au lieu de se recroqueviller, savent, veulent, profiter de la…
vieillesse. Si on perd des capacités, on en gagne d'autres." 1998, c1999.By Don McKay. 1991
By Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.By Susan Southard. 2015
Published to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, a narrative of human resilience, told through first-hand…
experiences of five survivors, reveals the physical, emotional, and social challenges of post-atomic life. 2015.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.By Richard Gwyn. 2011
From Confederation Day in 1867, John A. Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada…
into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States. Macdonald faced constant crises, from Louis Riel's two rebellions through to the Pacific Scandal that almost undid his government. Gwyn paints a portrait of Canada and its leaders through these formative years and also shows us Macdonald the man, as he wrestles with whether Riel should hang, marries for the second time, deals with the birth of a disabled child, and the assassination of his close friend Darcy McGee. Some descriptions of violence. Sequel to “John A: the man who made us : the life and times of John A. Macdonald” (DC31710). Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. c2011.By Sylvia Plath, Sina Queyras. 2017
A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's 'Ariel' and the towering mythology surrounding it. Where were you when you first read…
Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In 'My Ariel', Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women. Winner of the 2018 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.By John J Pershing. 1995
Then General of the Armies chronicles United States involvement in the "Great War", from Woodrow Wilson's 1917 appointment of Pershing…
to command the American Expeditionary Forces in France, through the armistice in 1918. Won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for history under the title "My Experiences in the World War". 1995. Uniform title: My experiences in the World WarMurray was the United Kingdom's Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he was removed from his post in October 2004 after exposing…
appalling human rights abuse by the US funded regime of the President of Islam Karimov. In this memoir, he lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror. 2007.By Joseph Lelyveld. 1985
"South Africa sates you with paradox," says journalist Lelyveld, whose profile of the country offers a view of its wide…
variety of inhabitants, including squatters near Cape Town, witch doctors in Soweto, and blacks in the Security Police. American involvement in South Africa undergoes close and critical scrutiny. Some strong language. Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. 1985.By Jean-Louis Fournier. 2007
La vieillesse, le corps et l'esprit qui fatiguent, la mort qui approche sont autant de sujets difficiles à traiter, surtout…
quand l'on est directement concerné. Pourtant, Jean-Louis Fournier parvient à en parler d'une façon incroyable : il mise tout sur l'humour. Ce n'est pas qu'il se détache de son sujet mais qu'il le traite d'une façon inédite qui nous séduit. L'auteur ne cherche pas à embellir la réalité, il la décrit telle qu'il la voit, telle qu'il la vit. 2007.By Charles Foran. 2010
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life…
in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction. 2010.By Maurice Tubiana. 2003
Le thème central de cet ouvrage est l'impact du vieillissement sur les différentes parties du corps, sur la fréquence de…
certaines maladies et sur les fonctions intellectuelles. Sont aussi considérés les aspects social et psychologique de la vieillesse. 2003.By Robert Guillain. 1988
Très peu d'Occidentaux sont parvenus à pénétrer et à comprendre le monde secret des geishas japonaises. Robert Guillain, qui a…
vécu 40 ans en Asie, nous livre sur cet univers un témoignage sans précédent. 1988.By Roger Faligot. 2008
Cette enquête menée sur plusieurs années sur les services de renseignements chinois et les coulisses de la politique internationale de…
Pékin est issue des archives américaines, françaises, russes et chinoises. L'auteur a interviewé des spécialistes de la diplomatie, des responsables de la défense, et met à jour les performances du renseignement chinois fondées sur l'art de la guerre secrète. 2008.By Dominique Raoul-Duval. 2013
"Fondée sur l'altruisme et la réflexion, une magnifique leçon de vie et de fin de vie. Si l'affection, l'amour sont…
d'une aide puissante à la cohabitation, aux soins et aux visites des parents entrés dans la grande vieillesse, ils ne sont plus suffisants. Quand les petites cellules de la mémoire disparaissent, que les échanges s'appauvrissent, que la dépendance physique s'accentue, on ne peut plus se comporter comme avant. Comment aborder cette dernière période de la vie ? En la rendant positive, active, en combattant la résignation et la passivité devant l'inéluctable. Même s'il est difficile, ardu parfois, de devenir la mère de sa mère, on peut apprendre, au jour le jour, à construire ces nouvelles relations, et même à les enrichir. Écrit à la première personne d'une plume légère et sensible, ce livre voudrait être un mode d'emploi du grand âge. C'est aussi, dans la longue durée, l'histoire d'une fille et de sa mère. " -- 4e de couv.By Solange Messier. 2014
"Mingan my village" is a collection of 15 faces and 15 poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to…
be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties and problems related to their realities to see the beauty that surrounds them in nature. Winner of the 2013 Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec (5-11 years category). Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.