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The description of the world
By Johanna Skibsrud. 2016
In this collection of poems, the author asks: is our world really what it appears to be? How do we…
shape it through language? And if language can create our world, can it also transform or destroy it? She brings us to the edges of dreams and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. 2016.Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends
By Basil Johnston. 1981
These legends, which include "Why birds go south in winter" and "The first butterflies", are an integral part of the…
spiritual and cultural heritage of the Ojibway people. For all ages.Silvija: poems
By Sandra Ridley. 2016
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Ridley combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related…
to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. With a blend of fervour and sangfroid, these serial poems accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry's ability to wrestle chaos into meaning. Because of its overarching themes and serial form, "Silvija" is best read cover-to-cover, analogous to a work of fiction, rather than a book of individual or occasional poems. 2016.Smiley: a journey of love
By Joanne George. 2017
Smiley, a most remarkable Golden Retriever, was born without eyes. He was rescued from a puppy mill and has become…
a superb therapy dog, providing therapy to people all over the world through social media and television. This is his story. Winner of the 2018 Silver Birch Express Award. Winner of the 2019 Red Cedar Information Book Award. Winner of the 2019 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. Grades 4-6. 2017. Smiley, the therapy dog -- Smiley and Joanne -- Smiley and Joanne's new family -- St. John Ambulance therapy dogs -- Smiley, the blind therapy dog -- Smiley, the celebrity -- Ways you can help.Settler education: poems
By Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Rag cosmology
By Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.Ottilia: pièce en deux actes
By Jean-Luc Morin, Lyse Veilleux, Mireille Morissette. 2015
Ottilia, c'est l'histoire d'Odile, une jeune femme de 26 ans pleine de vie et de projets, qui apprend un jour…
qu'elle est atteinte d'une rétinite pigmentaire, une maladie dégénérative des yeux. Elle vivra intensément la dégradation de sa vue et sa réadaptation en tant que non-voyante. Cette tragédie aura des répercussions tant sur sa vie personnelle que sur sa vie professionnelle. Odile travaille dans un cabinet d'avocats. Au fil de l'histoire, elle sera accusée de fraude. 2015.Portrait du Gulf Stream: éloge des courants : promenade
By Erik Orsenna. 2005
Pink is for blobfish: discovering the world's perfectly pink animals
By Jess Keating. 2016
Some people think pink is a pretty colour. A fluffy, sparkly, princess-y colour. But it's so much more. Sure, pink…
is the colour of princesses and bubblegum, but it's also the colour of monster slugs and poisonous insects. Not to mention ultra-intelligent dolphins, naked mole rats and bizarre, bloated blobfish. Isn't it about time to rethink pink? Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Express Honour Book Award. 2016.Pig girl
By Colleen Murphy. 2015
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as…
her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2015.Ma vie avec ces animaux qui guérissent
By Victor-Lévy Beaulieu. 2010
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu raconte son vécu " du bord des bêtes ", des anecdotes, du vécu vrai, de l'échinement sur la…
terre rocheuse du rang Rallonge à Saint-Jean-de-Dieu à la fermette peuplée de bien bon monde qu'il a construite le long de la route nationale à Notre-Dame-des-Neiges... 2010.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
By Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Oil spill: disaster
By Mona Chiang. 2010
On April 20, 2010, disaster struck in the Gulf of Mexico - the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, causing…
one of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history. More than a million gallons of oil leaked into the water each day for months, as the oil company BP tried to stop it and scientists and emergency response crews tried to repair the damage. What caused this disaster and how can we stop it from happening again? Learn the answers to these questions and more as you find out about the oil spill, relief efforts, and the future of energy use. Grades 4-7. 2010.No shelter here: making the world a kinder place for dogs
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.Methodist hatchet: poems
By Ken Babstock. 2011
“Carolinian forest” echoes back as construction cranes in an urban skyline, “Second Life” returns as wildlife, as childhood. Even the…
poem itself - the idea of a poem - as a unit of understanding is shadowed by a great unknowing. Fearless in its language, its trajectories and frames of reference, these poems gaze upon the objects of their attention until they rattle and exude their auras of strangeness. Some strong language. 2011.Bienvenue au pays de la vie ordinaire: essai (Phares)
By Mathieu Bélisle. 2017
Lecture attentive de la grande et de la petite histoire de ce pays ainsi que de sa littérature, cet essai…
brosse le portrait de l'homme québécois moyen dont le défi, qui est aussi celui de l'Occident, consiste à supporter la tension entre Sancho Pança et son maître, entre l'horizon prosaïque et le goût du vertige et de la verticalité. L'honnêteté intellectuelle et la bienveillante ironie de l'essayiste - qui se définit comme un généraliste formé par la littérature et qui avoue se reconnaître dans cet homme moyen -, la sobriété de sa prose et de sa pensée en font un guide sûr pour voyager dans un pays où la vie ordinaire est pour les uns un point d'arrivée et pour les autres un point de départ. 2017.L'homme révolté: Essai (Folio Essais Ser. #Vol. 15)
By Albert Camus. 1951
L'homme est la seule créature qui refuse d'être ce qu'elle est. La révolte est le mouvement de la vie. Inhérente…
à l'homme, elle manifeste sa grandeur devant l'absurdité du monde. L'auteur distingue révolte et révolution. La révolution se retourne contre ses origines et détruit l'humanité. 1985, c1951.Enfant insignifiant !: pièce en un acte (Théâtre/Leméac)
By Michel Tremblay. 2017
Alors qu'il vient de terminer l'écriture de sa pièce Enfant insignifiant !, Michel Tremblay voit ses personnages le rejoindre et…
lui jouer les scènes de sa prime jeunesse qu'il vient d'écrire. Les souvenirs d'un homme vieillissant deviennent l'occasion de dialogues savoureux et cocasses où la mauvaise foi de l'enfant s'enroule à celles de sa mère Nana, de son père Gabriel, de sa grand-mère Victoire, de son amie Ginette, etc. Ces conversations avec l'enfant curieux qu'était l'auteur à l'époque où il n'en finissait pas de questionner le monde - de vouloir en comprendre le sens et l'organisation, l'étrange mouvement de ses mystères et de ses mensonges - nous en apprennent beaucoup sur l'origine de son oeuvre dramatique et romanesque : le premier vrai monde de Michel Tremblay, celui de sa famille, s'y trouve révélé dans toute sa merveilleuse humanité, avec une bonne dose de franche hilarité. 2017.La liberté des savanes: carnets
By Robert Lalonde. 2017
Après Le Monde sur le flanc de la truite, après Iothéka, après Le Seul Instant, Robert Lalonde nous propose à…
nouveau des pages de ses carnets, les plus belles, peut-être, à ce jour. La Liberté des savanes, où règne un équilibre fragile entre l'ombre et la lumière, nous ouvre toutes grandes les portes de latelier de l'écrivain et de la bibliothèque de ce fabuleux lecteur qu'est Robert Lalonde. 2017.Ma dernière conférence: la planète en héritage
By David T Suzuki, Marianne Champagne. 2010
David Suzuki est considéré comme un sage et comme un guide partout dans le monde. C’est cette sagesse à laquelle…
il a voulu donner son expression définitive, en racontant quel a été son parcours et en partageant avec nous sa vision de l’avenir. 2010. Titre uniforme: The legacy.