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Pigeon: poems
By Karen Solie. 2009
Persian fire: the first world empire, battle for the West
By Tom Holland. 2005
The text dramatises the conflict 2500 years ago between the global superpower Persia, and the two 'terrorist' Greek states Athens…
and Sparta. The book also examines the whole extraordinary panorama of East and West. From the temple priests of Babylon to the Spartan secret police; from the Persian love of ducks and gardens to the Athenian relish for prostitutes; from Darius, murderer, usurper and the supreme political genius in the history of the Middle East, to Themistocles, the man who saved the West. 2005.Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer. 1981
A play inspired by music and death revolves around the bitter jealousy of Antonio Salieri, the court composer who played…
second fiddle to the more brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Some strong language. c1981. Uniform title: AmadeusLe bal des absentes: essai (L'ouvroir)
By Julie Boulanger, Amélie Paquet. 2017
Né du constat que les oeuvres rédigées par les femmes occupent une place marginale dans les corpus littéraires, Le bal…
des absentes propose de découvrir et de commenter différents titres d'auteures d'ici et d'ailleurs. Dans ce recueil de textes issus du blogue du même nom, Julie Boulanger et Amélie Paquet, deux professeurs de littérature au cégep, désirent mettre en valeur le travail des écrivaines, et offrir aux enseignant.e.s des alternatives aux oeuvres qui font autorité. Pieds de nez aux discours blasés et au cynisme ambiant, les textes célèbrent les femmes et leur littérature, le monde de l'enseignement, ainsi que les étudiants et les étudiantes qui découvrent, sous le regard conquis de leurs professeures, le pouvoir infini de la littérature. 2017.Pearls in vinegar: the pillow book of Heather Mallick
By Heather Mallick. 2004
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.Passage
By Gwen Benaway. 2016
In her second collection of poetry, Benaway examines what it means to experience violence and speaks to the burden of…
survival. Travelling to Northern Ontario and across the Great Lakes, "Passage" is a poetic voyage through divorce, family violence, legacy of colonization and the affirmation of anew sexuality and gender. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Paris notebooks: essays & reviews
By Mavis Gallant. 1986
This collection includes an essay about the 1968 student revolt in Paris of which Gallant was a concerned observer. "Immortal…
Gattito" is the tragic story of a teacher-pupil love affair which ends in disgrace, imprisonment, madness and death. 1986.Pathmarks
By Martin Heidegger, William McNeill. 1998
This text includes the fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger. It features new translations of key essays such as: 'On the…
essence of ground'; 'On the question of being'; and 'Hegel and the Greeks'. The essays provide an essential resource for all students of Heidegger, whether they work in philosophy, literary theory, religious studies or intellectual history. 1998. Uniform title: Wegmarken.Partial accounts: new and selected poems
By William Meredith. 1987
J't'aime encore: monologue amoureux
By Roxanne Bouchard. 2016
À vingt ans, on rêvait de liberté. Alors pourquoi est-ce qu'on s'est attaché? Pourquoi est-ce qu'on a voulu être la…
moitié d'un autre, puis choisi de fonder une famille? Et pourquoi reste-t-on, alors que les différends se sont accumulés au fil des années, que les enfants nous épuisent et que le quotidien nous lasse? Pourquoi s'entêter à aimer encore quand il serait si facile de partier? J't'aime encore est un récit qui explore le besoin d'enracinement et la présente dérangeante du doute. 2016.Où irez-vous armés de chiffres?
By Hélène Monette. 2014
"En ces temps que les médias narrivent plus à qualifier, à la vitesse où le train fonce dans le tunnel…
bouché, quiconque subit du harcèlement au travail et de la violence psychologique et sociale sera ici en terrain connu. On y lit les mœurs réfrigérantes et le néo-cynisme de lépoque occupée à pleine capacité par la lutte des places, le narcissisme ambiant et la mort de lempathie. Considérés miroirs déformants, coupables éhontés ou menteurs de première, on abandonne les gens brisés si jamais on a pris le temps dentendre ce quils peinent à raconter. Stress garanti. Cœurs serrés. Rythme denfer. Fidèle à sa manière, Hélène Monette allie prose, poésie, lyrisme et rythme fulgurant. Elle dénonce avec lénergie du désespoir et la force de ses mots les conditions de travail de ce quon nomme maintenant le capital humain. " -- 4e de couv.Out of the whirlpool: a memoir of remorse and reconciliation
By Sue Wiygul Martin. 2013
The author has written a moving account of the rebuilding of her life after a desperate, impetuous act in her…
youth ended in blindness. Since that day, she has greeted the world with her trademark determination and humour, accepting each new day of challenge while squarely facing the issues attending her post-traumatic adjustment. Now, after more than thirty years of recovery and reconciliation with the past, Martin shares the simple truths of her journey. 2013.Out of darkness: the Jeff Healey story
By Cindy Watson. 2010
Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff Healey. Out…
of darkness he created music, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award. Grades 5-8. 2010.Paperbacks from Hell: the twisted history of '70s and '80s horror fiction
By Grady Hendrix, Will Errickson. 2018
Horror author and vintage paperback book collector Grady Hendrix provides a tour through the horror paperback novels of two iconic…
decades. Hear shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate. 2018.Outwitting history: the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books
By Aaron Lansky. 2006
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge…
of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, just twenty-three, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works. 2006.Out of darkness: the story of Louis Braille
By Russell Freedman. 1998
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop…
a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write. Grades 4-7. 1998.Out of sight
By Linda Tennent. 2012
An account of the author’s journey into blindness over six decades from a progressive eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (also…
known as tunnel vision). Focusses on the many challenges faced and the coping tools used, and can be read as a resource for both those facing vision loss and those who support them. 2012.Duras, l'impossible: récit
By Danielle Laurin. 2006
"Quand vous entrez dans ma vie, j'ai dix-neuf ans. Je ne sais pas qui je suis. Je veux mourir. Je…
ne meurs pas." Elle l'a lue et relue, Duras. L'a adulée, pourchassée. A marché dans ses pas à Paris, Neauphle-le-Château, Trouville, et au Vietnam, où la célèbre écrivaine est née. Elle a multiplié les entretiens avec elle. A rencontré ses proches: Jean Mascolo, Dionys Mascolo, Yann Andréa, Michèle Manceaux, Jean Marc Turine, Alain Vircondelet, François Mitterand. Danielle Laurin raconte ici sa fascination pour Marguerite Duras, au-delà de la mort. Comment M.D. a marqué sa vie, la marque encore aujourd'hui. "Aujourd'hui, pour moi, dix ans après votre disparition, il reste "Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein". Il reste ce que vous avez écrit, filmé. Et il reste tout ce que je vous dois." 2006.Bleu bémol: poésie (Voix intérieures)
By Paul Savoie. 2012
Inspiré de la musique, "Bleu Bémol" est constitué d'assonances, de rythmes, de phrases musicales, de mouvements libres qui tracent le…
début et la fin de tout ce qui est essentiel. 2012.