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Saskatchewan (Discover Canada)
By Dave Margoshes. 1992
This introduction to Saskatchewan and its people covers its residents, beginning with its original native residents and later European settlement,…
the government, economy, tourism, and the arts. Also included is a section of "Facts at a glance" which highlists information from the text, such as population statistics, important dates, and important people. Junior high and older. c1992.Renouer avec Dieu: Dialogue Avec Ceux Qui Doutent, Croient Ou Ne Croient Pas-
By Jean-Paul Simard. 2012
Ce livre propose une quête de Dieu épurée, avant toute religion, tout dogme et toute morale, dans une sincère empathie…
avec le questionnement humain sur le sens de la vie, de l'amour et de la souffrance. Dieu, nous dit l'auteur, se découvre davantage suivant les chemins du coeur et de l'expérience que celui de la raison, confirmant ainsi que l'acte de croire est premier par rapport à la démarche rationnelle. Un livre qui permettra de renouer avec le Dieu auquel chacun aspire. 2012.Rumeurs à l'aube
By Benoît Lacroix, Simone Saumur-Lambert, Pierrot Lambert. 2015
" Benoît Lacroix, qui a eu cent ans le 8 septembre 2015, se confie une fois de plus à ses…
amis pour dire sa confiance en la lumière. Dialoguant avec les poètes et les penseurs de l'espérance Jean d'Ormesson et François Cheng, il perçoit les rumeurs d'une aurore inédite depuis le silence de la forêt de Maska jusqu'à la sagesse des "gens de parole" nombreux qu'il fréquente. Cette conversation est suivie de quelques réflexions spirituelles que Benoît Lacroix a publiées dans diverses revues au fil de sa vie. Enfin, ce recueil offre un bouquet de "coups de coeur", soit 111 petits textes inédits où la mémoire et l'imagination jouent à saute-mouton pour nous dire le monde selon Benoît Lacroix. "Religions et laïcité: pour un nécessaire dialogue
By Bruno Demers, Mathieu Lavigne. 2014
Le livre que voici entend répondre à deux préoccupations: comprendre les défis que pose le processus de laïcisation d'une société…
et présenter des points de vue méconnus sur la question, issus des traditions religieuses monothéistes que sont le judaïsme, le christianisme et l'islam. 2014.Riopelle, grandeur nature (Collection Approches)
By Daniel Gagnon. 1988
Ce livre rapporte l'évolution du peintre, son ascension et sa confrontation avec la province de Québec, car Riopelle a soulevé…
ici beaucoup de passion; il a dérangé par sa fougue, sa liberté et surtout par son succès. 1988.Rogue warrior of the SAS: the Blair Mayne legend
By Martin Dillon, Roy Bradford. 2003
Half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers…
in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts from many who served with him, the picture emerges of a soldier who, although a flawed hero, was unquestionably one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe. 2003, c1987.Sacré blues: an unsentimental journey through Quebec
By Taras Grescoe. 2000
For referendum-weary English Canadians, Quebec is an enigma wrapped in a yawn, so Grescoe explores a francophone country-and-western festival in…
rural Mauricie, deconstructs a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, covers the stunning diversity of Quebec's newspapers, and dismantles Bombardier snowmobiles, all while meeting Mohawk Warriors, Yiddish-speaking French Canadians, and the UFO-obsessed followers of Raël. He describes Quebec's love-hate relationship with France and the United States; the dance, theatre, and literary productions celebrated in Europe but little known here; and its fears about distinctness on an increasingly uniform continent. 2000.Sailing back in time: a nostalgic voyage on Canada's West Coast
By Maria Coffey. 1996
Travel writer Maria Coffey and her husband, photographer Dag Goering, embark on a 3-month journey by wooden boat along Canada's…
western shores. Leading the way are legendary boat builders and sailors Allen and Sharie Farrell aboard China Cloud; they visit their old haunts along the coast, where they homesteaded, fished and built boats. 1996.Sable Island: the wandering sandbar
By Wendy Kitts. 2011
Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern navigational tools, excessive fog…
and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. But the island is part of Maritime lore--dubbed the "graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the number of ships wrecked on its shores. Sable Island also hosts wild horses, thousands of seals, and enchanting "singing" sands and "wandering" dunes. Sable Island is as dangerous as it is alluring. Grades 2-4. 2011.Sailing home: a journey through time, place & memory
By Gary Geddes. 2001
Poet, writer, and critic, Gary Geddes, sets out to discover his roots in a 31-foot British sailing sloop called the…
Groais. Sailing up British Columbia's famed Inside Passage, an ancient sea route of nearly one thousand miles and an often turbulent waterscape, Geddes discovers a vibrant history, livelihoods come and gone, dramatic scenery, and ghosts of the past. 2001.Rogue diamonds: the rush for northern riches on Dene land
By E Bielawski. 2003
Diamonds were first discovered on the Barren Grounds near Yellowknife in 1991. in 1996 Indian Affairs Minister Ron Irwin gave…
Canada's first diamond mine conditional approval, subject to "significant progress in sixty days" on agreements between various companies. Ellen Bielawski was there. 2003.Roman Catholicism
By R. C Sproul. 2013
Sable Island
By Bruce Armstrong. 1981
Sable Island, known as "the graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the 500 ships wrecked off its shores, has become…
better known in recent years as the home of wild horses. 1981.Sacred roads: adventures from the pilgrimage trail
By Nicholas Shrady. 1999
A "pilgrim's progress is both an interior journey, a spiritual exercise, and a physical journey toward an actual site imbued…
with a divine character." Shrady describes the six routes he travelled in such countries as Bosnia, India, and the Holy Land that took him to sites encompassing Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. 1999.Hertig asserts that both the American and Canadian governments are intentionally misleading their citizens about the Pentagon's unprecedented plans to…
weaponize space, about the new Russian and Chinese nuclear missile build-ups, and about the destruction of important, long-standing arms control agreements. Other topics covered are why the so-called U.S. missile "defence" system is really about establishing a U.S. first-strike-from-space capability, why both Paul Martin and Stephen Harper want to join in George W. Bush's program, and how all these factors may be leading to a rapidly increasing danger of a nuclear apocalypse. 2004.Rumours of another world: what on earth are we missing?
By Philip Yancey. 2004
Yancey investigates the natural world and discovers the supernatural hiding in plain view. He grapples with why God made the…
world and what our role truly is, and seeks to answer the question, "How do I live in the natural world while expressing the values of the supernatural?“. Philip writes, “I have come to understand faith as the highest form of integrated encounter. Faith puts together, assembles, re-orders, accepting the entire world as God's handiwork”. 2004.Rudolf Nureyev: the life
By Julie Kavanagh. 2008
Born in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. His achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out…
of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe and much more. 2008.Rolling home: a cross-Canada railroad memoir
By Tom Allen. 2001
Tom Allen travels with his family and alone, from Halifax to the interior of British Columbia, riding everything from a…
two-car dayliner held together with duct tape to a luxury rail cruiser through the Rockies that is packed with wealthy tourists. Along the way, he meets honeymooners and abandoned spouses, ordinary folk and deranged passengers, and veteran railwaymen who sustain pride in their work despite the massive cuts to their industry. Allen weaves his own memories of railroad travel with a family narrative past and present, all the while conjuring the drama, the disappointments, and the magic of Canada's railway history. 2001.Room to dream
By David Lynch, Kristine McKenna. 2018
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and…
writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced--sometimes successful, sometimes not--to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, 'Room to Dream' interweaves Lynch's own reflections on his life with the story of those times, as told by Kristine McKenna, drawing from extensive and explosive interviews with ninety of Lynch's friends, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and collaborators. Lynch responds to each recollection and reveals the inner story of the life behind the art. 2018.Rodin
By Pierre Daix. 1988
Si l'on ne connait qu'un seul nom de sculpteur, c'est celui de "Rodin" qui vient à l'esprit. Qui était ce…
génie inclassable que sa liaison avec Camille Claudel a récemment mis en lumière? Ce livre nous présente Rodin dans son ampleur et son intimité. 1988.