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Tales the elders told: Ojibway legends

By Basil Johnston. 1981

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Folklore, fables and fairy tales, General fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada fictionCanadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Literature
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

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.

Avec des yeux d'enfant: la poésie québécoise présentée aux enfants

By Henriette Major. 2000

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

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.

Ottilia: pièce en deux actes

By Jean-Luc Morin, Lyse Veilleux, Mireille Morissette. 2015

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fictionCanadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

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.

Poissons volants: poèmes ((Série QR ; 82).)

By François Rioux. 2014

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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

" 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.

Pearls in vinegar: the pillow book of Heather Mallick

By Heather Mallick. 2004

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Canadian fictionCanadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Essays
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Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick provides commentary on one hundred and sixty diverse subjects, including Things That Make You…

Appreciate Men, Poetic Subjects, Hateful Things, Adorable Things, Things That Fall from the Sky, and Different Ways of Speaking. An itemized collection of essays, short lists, long lists, comforts, toxicities, things you should be ashamed to laugh at but do anyway, and many small privacies. Includes essays about such topics as the quirks of German cannibalism, the weirdness of all workplaces, and the advantages of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2004.

La cathédrale de tout: [poésie]

By Roger Des Roches. 2013

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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

" 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

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
Anthologie qui rend hommage à plus d'une centaine d'auteurs québécois qui se sont illustrés dans la poésie du 17e siècle jusqu'au milieu des années 1980.

Murder in the dark: short fictions and prose poems

By Margaret Atwood. 1983

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Canadian fictionCanadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
This book contains the writer's thoughts, fears, giggles, precise conclusions, and impressions--an intelligent interview with an intelligent person done by that person herself. Some strong language. 1983.

Écrivains contemporains du Québec: anthologie

By Lise Gauvin, Gaston Miron. 1998

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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Anthologies
Human-narrated audio

Cette anthologie couvre trois décennies de littérature québécoise. Les auteurs visent à la diversité, à une répartition équilibrée entre les…

générations et les genres, les divers milieux, tendances et écritures. Pour chaque auteur, une notice bio-bibliographique d'un peu plus d'une page. 1998.

Il y a quelqu'un?: poèmes

By Hélène Monette. 2004

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionLiterature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
L'auteure revisite les thèmes qui lui sont chers: l'infinie solitude de l'homme, les désillusions de l'amour, le chaos planétaire. Une poésie accessible, humaine et sensible. 2004.

Love me true: writers reflect on the ins, outs, ups and downs of marriage

By Fiona Tinwei Lam, Jane Silcott. 2018

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Canadian fictionCanadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Anthologies
Human-narrated audio

What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? 27 creative nonfiction writers and 15 poets explore the enormity of marriage…

and committed relationships and how they have challenged, shaped, supported and changed them. The stories and poems in this collection delve deep into the mysteries of long-term bonds. The authors cover a gamut of issues and ideas--everything from everyday conflicts to deep philosophical divides, as well as jealousy, adultery, physical or mental illness, and loss. There's happiness here too, along with love and companionship, whether the long-term partnering is monogamous, polyamorous, same-sex or otherwise. From surprise proposals, stolen quickies, and snoring to arranged marriage, affairs, suicide, and much more, these wide-ranging personal stories and poems are sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing, and always engaging as they offer their intimate and varied insights into the complex state that is marriage. 2018.

Les belles soeurs

By Michel Tremblay. 1974

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Assembled to paste up a million green stamps, fourteen working-class women gossip, joke, rail against their fate and finally violently unleash their rages and frustrations. Uniform title: Belles-soeurs.

Land to light on

By Dionne Brand. 1997

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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…

and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.

Injun

By Jordan Abel. 2016

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Canadian fictionCanadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's third collection is a long poem about racism and the representation of indigenous peoples. Composed…

of text found in western novels published between 1840 and 1950 - the heyday of pulp publishing and a period of unfettered colonialism in North America – he uses erasure, pastiche, and a focused poetics to create a visually striking response to the western genre. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.

Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life

By Jean McKay. 2001

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Essays
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

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.

Elizabeth Rex

By Timothy Findley. 2000

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio

This drama brings together William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I, as they and the members of Shakespeare's acting troupe discuss…

what makes a man a man and a woman a woman. Much of the dialogue is between Elizabeth, who has reigned in essence as a man, and Ned, one of the actors who throughout his career has played women. On the eve of the execution of the Queen's former lover, the characters come to unexpected conclusions about identity, sex, humanity and love. Some strong language. Winner of the 2000 Governor General's Award for Drama. 2000.

Doc

By Sharon Pollock. 1984

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio
This drama examines a doctor's commitment for his patients and, as a result, his neglect of his wife and children. 1984.

Belle moral: a natural history

By Kathleen Gallagher, Ann-Marie MacDonald. 2008

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Canadian non-fiction, Literature, Drama
Human-narrated audio

Scotland, 1899. Following her father's death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family's past, which…

her father had kept hidden with the help of the family doctor. A story of family secrets that have come to life and of the birth and evolution of ideas, including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contemporary medical beliefs and the concept of eugenics. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.

An evening with W.O. Mitchell: a collection of the author's best-loved performance pieces

By Barbara Mitchell, W. O Mitchell, Ormond Mitchell. 1997

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Literature, Anthologies
Human-narrated audio

A collection of 31 pieces of Mitchell's writing which he often used in public readings. Some are from his novels,…

such as "Who has seen the wind" and "The vanishing point," and others are new to this collection. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1997.

Sire Hibou et dame Chat

By Edward Lear, Stéphane Jorisch, Lucie Papineau. 2008

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Literature, Poetry
Human-transcribed braille

Sire Hibou et dame Chat, un grand poème de la littérature anglaise (The Owl and the Pussycat, d'Edward Lear), met…

en scène l'histoire d'amour incongrue entre deux êtres mal assortis. Sur fond de tolérance, cette folle romance est brillamment illustrée par le talentueux Stéphane Jorisch et devient un véritable régal pour les yeux et pour l'âme. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The owl and the pussycat.

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