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The doctor will not see you now
By Jane Poulson. 2002
Autobiography of Dr. Jane Poulson, the first blind person in Canada to become a practising doctor. Poulson suffered from diabetes…
and because of the disease, lost her sight and then experienced severe heart problems. Nonetheless she was an extremely accomplished doctor, published widely in leading medical journals, and showed great courage and endurance to all who knew her. She wrote this book during the last two years of her life. 2002.Information about the eyes; sections on nutrition, herbal therapies, and homeopathic remedies. Discusses disorders of the eye and visual system,…
conventional treatments and self-treatments, eye care techniques, and refractive surgeries and vision therapies. c2011.Glaucoma: the complete guide : a patient handbook
By Tina T Wong. 2011
One of the world's leading experts helps you navigate through glaucoma from diagnosis to the many treatment options. This landmark…
patient handbook stands out as both authoritative and readable, providing the critical information necessary to help patients. 2011.Portrait du Gulf Stream: éloge des courants : promenade
By Erik Orsenna. 2005
People of vision: a history of the American Council of the Blind
By James J Megivern, Marjorie Megivern. 2003
Chronicle of the forty-year-old advocacy organization, American Council of the Blind (ACB), including its split with the National Federation of…
the Blind in 1961. The work, based on the private papers of founding member Durward McDaniel and conversations with other ACB members, also explores earlier activism on behalf of blind people. 2003.One soldier's story: a memoir
By Robert J Dole. 2005
Former senator from Kansas describes his enlistment into the elite U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division as a lieutenant during World…
War II. Chronicles the April 14, 1945, battle in Italy that paralyzed him, his long recovery, first marriage, and entry into civilian life and the political sphere. Bestseller. 2005.March forth: the inspiring true story of a Canadian soldier's journey of love, hope and survival
By Trevor Greene, Debbie Greene. 2012
2006. Trevor Greene, a journalist and a reservist in the Canadian Army, was at a meeting with village elders in…
Afghanistan when a teenage boy under the influence of the Taliban swung an axe into his skull. After years of rehabilitation, setbacks and crises, Trevor learned to talk and move again, with the love and support of his fiancée Debbie. Their story is told in two voices: Trevor’s, up until the attack that changed their lives; and Debbie’s, as she works tirelessly to rehabilitate the man she loves. Some descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. c2012.American vertigo
By Bernard Henri Lévy. 2006
Où va l'amérique ? Devant ce pays colossal et blessé, contradictoire et protéiforme, devant ce pays-concept dont les emblèmes, nobles…
ou infamants, tournent à n'en pas finir sur le manège médiatique mondial, chacun est pris de vertige. American Vertigo ? Un livre-enquête mobile et chaleureux. Un reportage conceptuel et un " road book " sensuel, cérébral, drôle, véridique. La perspicacité du philosophe. L'oeil et le style du romancier. 2006.Lawrence d'Arabie ((Folio. Biographies ; 94).)
By Michel Renouard. 2012
" Derrière le héros mythique, joué par Peter O'Toole dans le célèbre film de David Lean, se cache un personnage…
complexe, non exempt de zones d'ombre. Archéologue et agent de renseignement, homme d'action et auteur des Sept Piliers de la sagesse, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888 - 1935) se disait à moitié poète, se voulait intouchable, et mourut prématurément dans un accident de moto. Ce livre retrace la vie et les aventures de l'insaisissable Lawrence d'Arabie, dont Winston Churchill affirmait qu'il était un des êtres les plus extraordinaires de son temps. " -- 4e de couv.Homes: a refugee story
By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung. 2018
Tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before…
the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience. 2018.Hana's suitcase: a true story (The Holocaust remembrance series for young readers #3)
By Karen Levine. 2002
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the name Hana Brady…
painted in white on the outside. The centre's curator searches for clues across Europe and North America to find out who Hana was and what had happened to her. Her journey takes her back through seventy years to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. Grades 4-7. 2002.Journey to independence: blindness, the Canadian story
By Euclid J Herie. 2005
Explores the history of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) - from the men who crafted its charter…
to the people who have made it a successful organization. Established in 1918, this organization has guided blind people out of a time of poverty and abuse, bringing them the same rights and freedoms as all Canadians. Millions of Canadians have been touched by the services it provides and by its message of hope. 2005.Billy Bishop, Canadian hero: Canadian Hero
By Dan McCaffery. 1988
During World War I, Billy Bishop gained fame as a skilled fighter pilot and became the most decorated war hero…
in Canada. However, over the years, his aviation record has been questioned, especially the number of his "kills". 1988.Generally speaking: the memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer
By Richard Rohmer. 2004
Major-General Richard Rohmer, a commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, began…
his career in World War II as a top Mustang reconnaissance pilot. He is also a lawyer, litigator, journalist and best-selling author of 28 books. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors of Hollinger Inc. and is arguably Canada's most decorated citizen. 2004.From romance to reality: Stories Of Canadian Wwii War Brides
By Peggy O'Hara. 1983
Peggy O'Hara, this book's editor, was a so-called war bride, coming to Canada from England after marrying a Canadian serviceman…
during the Second World War. She later wondered about the other thousands of British and Dutch women who had done the same. What uprooted them from family and friends and brought them to a strange, sparsely populated country? She collected their stories, some happy, some sad, in an effort to find out.Fifteen days: stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army
By Christie Blatchford. 2007
Blatchford has covered the conflict in Afghanistan as an embedded reporter, and provides observations of military life in the twenty-first…
century. The troops share their accounts of their desire to serve, their willingness to confront fear and danger on the battlefield, their loyalty towards each other and the heartbreak occasioned by the loss of one of their own. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2008 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2007.Eyes of the blind
By Barth Hoogstraten. 2001
Hoogstraten was a Dutch medical student in 1942 when the Nazis wanted him to sign a loyalty decree to the…
occupying forces. He refused to do so and went into hiding, taking shelter with Ann and Bets Frank, two blind middle-aged music teachers. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence, some strong language. 2001.Eichmann before Jerusalem: the unexamined life of a mass murderer
By Ruth Martin, Bettina Stangneth. 2014
A total re-assessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann that reveals his activities and notoriety amongst a global network of…
National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich, and permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of the “banality of evil.” Smuggled out of Europe after the collapse of Germany, Eichmann managed to live a peaceful and active exile in Argentina for years before his capture by the Mossad. Though once widely known by nicknames such as “Manager of the Holocaust,” in 1961 he was able to portray himself as an overworked bureaucrat following orders. How was this carefully crafted obfuscation possible? How did a central architect of the Final Solution manage to disappear? And what had he done with his time while in hiding? 2014. Uniform title: Eichmann vor Jerusalem.Captivity: 118 days in Iraq and the struggle for a world without war
By James Loney. 2011
Iraq, November 2005. James Loney and three other men, all members of Christian Peacemaker Teams, were taken hostage at gunpoint.…
The Swords of Righteousness Brigade released videos of the men, resulting in what is likely the most publicized kidnapping of the Iraq War. One man was murdered, the rest held 118 days before being rescued. 2011.Bonds of wire: a memoir
By Kingsley Brown. 1989
In 1942, RCAF Bomber Pilot Kingsley Brown was shot down over Holland and began his 3-year incarceration in Stalag Luft…
3, the German P.O.W. camp from which the Great Escape was launched. 1989.