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The great escape: the untold story

By Ted Barris. 2014

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named "Harry," and dashed from Stalag…

Luft III, the infamous WWII German POW camp. It became known as The Great Escape. The breakout had taken a year to plan, involved 2,000 POWs, and prompted a massive manhunt across occupied Europe. All but three escapees were recaptured, and on Hitler’s orders, fifty were murdered. The author recounts this battle of wits and determination through the voices of those involved, assembles original interviews, memoirs, letters and diaries to reconstruct the Great Escape’s untold story. Bestseller. 2014.

The giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (The modern scholar)

By Liza Knapp. 2006

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

The great code: the Bible and literature

By Northrop Frye. 1982

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Christianity, Religious texts, Writing
Human-narrated audio
Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

The generals: the Canadian army's senior commanders in the Second World War

By J. L Granatstein. 1993

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Biography, War and military biography, Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, World War II
Human-narrated audio

Granatstein's study of life at the top during the Second World War centres on the most senior ranks in the…

Canadian Army. Men like Andrew McNaughton, Harold Crerar, Thomas Burns and Guy Simonds had not only to win military campaigns, but also command the sympathies of bureaucrats and powerful politicians. None, however, forgot they were fighting a war, and that their decisions directly affected the lives of Canadian soldiers. 1993.

The great escape

By Paul Brickhill. 2000

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Movie and television tie-insPolice and military, War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner of war camp worked together to…

achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels, and those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan... 2000.

The Gospel of Thomas: the hidden sayings of Jesus

By Harold Bloom, Marvin W Meyer. 1992

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Religious biography, Christianity, Religious texts
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An English translation of 114 wise sayings attributed to Jesus as collected in the Coptic text found near Nag Hammadi…

in Upper Egypt. Discusses the history of the writings. Explanatory notes follow. Includes an interpretive essay by Harold Bloom. c1992.

The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow

By Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…

Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.

The fleece era

By Joanna Lilley. 2014

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Literature, Poetry
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Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems is a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various…

relationships. From the shattered pieces of our environmental puzzles to the labyrinth of family dynamics, Lilley makes these dilemmas come alive. Chillingly sparse, attractively odd and refreshingly frank, these poems embrace the complexities of human life with an unsettling mix of the sardonic and the compassionate. c2014.

The fog of war: censorship of Canada's media in World War Two

By Mark Bourrie. 2011

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War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets…

out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times - with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat attacks in the St. Lawrence, army mutinies in British Columbia and Ontario, and pro-Hitler propaganda in the mainstream Quebec press - censors had a hard time keeping news events contained. Now, with freshly unsealed World War II press-censor files, many of the undocumented events that occurred in wartime Canada are finally revealed. c2011.

The fragile lights of earth: articles and memories, 1942-1970

By Alan Brown, Gabrielle Roy. 1982

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Serious and literary fiction, Short storiesCanadian non-fiction, Anthologies, Essays
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A collection of Roy's articles, stories, and essays written over a period of 30 years. Translation of "Fragiles lumieres de la terre." 1982. Uniform title: Fragiles lumières de la terre.

The forgotten dead: why 946 American servicemen died off the coast of Devon in 1944 - and the man who discovered their true story

By Ken Small, Mark Rogerson. 1993

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War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

The night of 27 April 1944: Exercise Tiger, a rehearsal for the D-Day landings, is held off Slapton Beach in…

Devon. As the mock assault is under way, 946 American servicemen die. Under wartime restrictions the story is concealed and in time forgotten, until local hotelier Ken Small finds American bullets and money while beachcombing and decides to find the truth. 1993.

The first man in my life: daughters write about their fathers

By Sandra Martin, Ed Martin Sandra. 2007

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Family biography, Canadian non-fiction, Essays
Human-narrated audio

In twenty-two original narratives, some of Canada's most acclaimed writers share stories, memories, insights, and revelations - from the comic…

to the tragic - about the first man in their lives. These complex stories will open a fresh and intense conversation with daughters everywhere about the men they've observed since childhood: their fathers. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.

The flamingo's smile: reflections in natural history

By Stephen Jay Gould. 1985

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Essays, Nature, Science and technology
Human-narrated audio
These essays cover a wide variety of subjects: extinction of the dinosaurs, nuclear war, evolutionary biology, and the decline in batting average in major league baseball. 1985.

The first American: a story of North American archaeology

By Clara Winston, Richard Winston, C. W Ceram. 1971

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General non-fiction, Archaeology
Human-narrated audio

A wide-ranging account of the development of North American archaeology, with particular emphasis on early man, the Southwest, the American…

Indian, and the mound builders. 1971. Uniform title: Der erste Amerikaner.

The fall of Berlin 1945

By Antony Beevor. 2002

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War, World War II
Human-narrated audio

Chronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass…

destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital. 2002.

The description of the world

By Johanna Skibsrud. 2016

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

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.

The dream of Gerontius

By John Henry Newman. 2009

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Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio
This poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgement seat of God. First published in 1865, 2009.

The essential Rumi

By Coleman Barks, Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi. 1995

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Literature, Poetry
Human-narrated audio

Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…

a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Includes sex. 1995. Uniform title: Selections.

The empathy exams: essays

By Leslie Jamison. 2014

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Award winning non-fiction, Literature, Essays
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A collection of essays explores empathy, using topics ranging from street violence and incarceration to reality television and literary sentimentality…

to ask questions about people's understanding of and relationships with others. Winner of the Gray Wolf Press Nonfiction Prize. 2014. The empathy exams -- Devil's bait -- La frontera -- Morphology of the hit -- Pain tours (I) : La plata perdida ; Sublime, revised ; Indigenous to the hood -- The immortal horizon -- In defense of saccharin(e) -- Fog count -- Pain tours (II) : Ex-votos ; Servicio supercompleto ; The broken heart of James Agee -- Lost boys -- Grand unified theory of female pain -- Judge's afterword / A conversation with Leslie Jamison. Uniform title: Essays.

The damned: the Canadians at the battle of Hong Kong and the POW experience, 1941-45

By Nathan M Greenfield. 2010

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Police and military, War, World War II
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Fall, 1941. Almost 2,000 members of the Royal Rifles and Winnipeg Grenadiers were sent to bolster the British garrison at…

Hong Kong, but in the seventeen day battle for the colony following the attack on December 8, the Canadians suffered grievous losses. The second part of their story describes how the Canadians survived the horrendous conditions of Japanese POW camps. Some descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and strong language. 2010.

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