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Royal murder: the deadly intrigue of ten sovereigns
By Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Pulling, Heather Sangster. 2008
What would you do for absolute power? Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading…
death... or causing it. While Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses, other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. Read the stories of ten sovereigns, including Vlad the Impaler, "Bloody Mary", and The Romanovs of Russia. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2009 Red Maple Non-fiction Award. 2008.Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
By Stephen Kimber. 2002
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.Road song
By Natalie Kusz. 1990
The author recalls her family and youth in Alaska, including the accident that left her blind in one eye, her…
family's poverty and bad luck, her teenage rebellion and her return to the land. 1990.Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm
By Maggie Siggins. 1991
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.Rescuing Patty Hearst: memories from a decade gone mad
By Virginia Holman. 2017
This memoir is Virginia Holman's stunning debut and winner of the Pushcart Prize in 2001. Virginia delves into the often…
painful, occasionally joyful, moments of her childhood with a schizophrenic mother. Through touching honesty and self-reflection, Virginia confronts memories of a life in which reality and fantasy gradually became difficult to separate. 2017.Biography of musical genius Ray Charles, who was left sightless by glaucoma as a child. While a student at the…
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, Charles learned to read and write music in braille. Describes his personal and professional struggles, including drug addiction, as well as triumphs. For Junior and Senior High readers. c1994.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.Quand bien même je verrais: témoignage
By Sophie Massieu, Florence Montreynaud. 1998
Sophie Massieu est une personne extraordinaire. C'est une jolie jeune fille de vingt-trois ans, aveugle de naissance et qui a…
fait de brillantes études. Elle vit seule à Paris et a l'ambition de devenir journaliste de presse écrite. Son secret? Sa mère, qui a été présente à ses côtés sans s'imposer ni peser. 1998.Probably inevitable
By Matthew Frederick Tierney. 2012
A collection of high-energy poems jolted by the philosophy and science of time. Sailing through the rhythms of a world…
made concrete by Samuel Johnson, before it was undone by Niels Bohr, Tierney uses his wit and legerdemain to grapple with the gap between what's seen and what's experienced. Winner of the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. c2012.Prairie fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
By Caroline Fraser. 2017
Millions of readers of Little House on the Prairie believe they know Laura Ingalls - the pioneer girl who survived…
blizzards and near-starvation on the Great Plains, and the woman who wrote the famous autobiographical books. But the true story of her life has never been fully told. Now, drawing on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, and land and financial records, Caroline Fraser - the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House series - masterfully fills in the gaps in Wilder's biography, setting the record straight regarding charges of ghostwriting that have swirled around the books and uncovering the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life. Set against nearly a century of epochal change, from the Homestead Act and the Indian Wars to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, Wilder's dramatic life provides a unique perspective on American history and our national mythology of self-reliance. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 2017.Present into past: my journey through darkness and light
By Dennis McCormack. 2010
Dennis McCormack shares anecdotes and poems about his life, beginning with the Halifax School for the Blind in 1953, where…
for the next thirteen years he would study in an environment where teachers and students did not allow anyone to blame failure on their visual difficulties. He describes founding the Atlantic Braille Press and marrying his soul mate, and provides insight into how faith, love, and determination helped him find his way from the darkest days to the light. c2010.One of the lucky ones
By Lucy Ching. 1980
The true story of a blind Chinese girl's quietly persistent courage in the face of prejudice. Trained by the Royal…
Commonwealth Society for the Blind, she overcame apparently insuperable difficulties in her pioneering work among the elderly and handicapped of Hong Kong. 1980.Fais-moi donc confiance!
By Pauline Goëdike, Ghislain Tremblay. 1991
L'aveugle aux mille destins ((Chronique).)
By Joe Jack. 2010
" L'aveugle aux mille destins est une tranche de vie haïtienne, une plongée dans l'histoire d'Haïti à travers l'itinéraire d'un…
aveugle. Joe Jack est un musicien de renom né aveugle aux Gonaïves en 1936. Il grandit dans un milieu où personne ne sait à l'époque ce qu'est un aveugle. Ses parents vont alors de pèlerinage en pèlerinage dans tous les recoins du pays, espérant rencontrer un Saint qui aurait pu aider leur fils à recouvrer la vue. Mais... c'était peine perdue. Joe Jack a tout misé sur l'éducation pour réussir sa vie. Après des études collégiales aux États-Unis, il revient dans son pays où il a enseigné l'anglais. Il s'accroche à la musique, qui est sa véritable passion. Crooner hors pair, Joe Jack a su charmer toute une génération d'amateurs de musique [...] " -- 4e de couv..La révolution tranquille au Manitoba français: essai
By Raymond-M Hébert. 2012
Les années 1960 ont bouleversé et transformé la société québécoise de fond en comble. Ces changements dans les domaines politiques,…
sociaux et administratifs eurent un écho au Manitoba français, alors qu'une longue période de réflexion et de débats vigoureux vint opérer des changements tout aussi profonds dans cette petite société apparemment isolée du Québec, mais soumise aux mêmes pressions démographiques et idéologiques. Le mouvement vers le renouveau du leadership de la communauté franco-manitobaine et surtout la laïcisation de ses institutions y furent particulièrement prononcés. Le présent essai trace l'histoire transformatrice de cette période. Gagnant de Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault 2013. 2012.Invisible? Impossible? Not ever!: biography of Jean-Paul Losier
By Edna Arseneault-McGrath. 2005
Acadian-born, fifth in a family of thirteen, and born blind, Jean-Paul Losier has overcome many obstacles to achieve success. Attaining…
Bachelors of Arts and Education degrees and a law degree, known as 'the man who knew the books by heart', Losier spent 24 years teaching while also cultivating the family farm. He is known as a tireless volunteer in his community and on behalf of the blind and deaf-blind, and as a man who is dedicated to the betterment of all mankind. 2005.L'histoire de Louis Braille (Ma petite vache a mal aux pattes ; #33)
By Danielle Vaillancourt. 2001
Une excellente biographie romancée de Louis Braille. Par son entêtement, sa détermination, son ingéniosité, cet homme a atteint son but…
et a permis aux aveugles de s'ouvrir au monde, d'élargir leur horizon. Tonique. Années 2-4. 2001.Pointe Maligne, l'infiniment oubliée: L'infiniment Oubliée (Visages ; #24)
By Nicole V Champeau. 2009
Pointe Maligne met en situation le fleuve Saint-Laurent dans sa partie ontarienne, à partir du lac Saint-François en remontant vers…
Cornwall (Pointe Maligne) jusqu'aux Mille-Îles. L'auteure nous invite à la suivre dans son périple d'où se dégage à travers les écrits, les cartes, les siècles et les personnes qui ont sillonné les lieux, une poésie de l'histoire. Prix du Gouverneur général, section essais, 2009. 2009.Polio: an American story
By David M Oshinsky. 2005
Account of the twentieth-century search for a polio vaccine and the rivalries that developed between competing medical researchers, notably Jonas…
Salk, Albert Sabin, and Hilary Koprowski. Traces the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis campaigns and the public health experiment involving Salk's vaccine. Evokes the widespread panic over the disease. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for history. 2005.