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The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada, 1900-1954

By David Dilks. 2005

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history
Human-narrated audio

Winston Churchill's connection with Canada ("the Great Dominion", as he called it) spanned more than half a century: at Winnipeg…

he heard the news of Queen Victoria's death, in Ottawa in the dark days of 1941 he proclaimed his confidence in victory, and in 1952 had to concede that the result of victory had been far less satisfying than he had wished. No other Commonwealth country sparked such detailed knowledge or lifelong interest. 2005.

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
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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 frock-coated communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels

By Tristram Hunt. 2009

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Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, European history, Politics and government
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Friedrich Engels was a textile magnate and fox-hunter, a raffish, high-living, heavy drinking devotee of the good things in life.…

But Engels was also the man behind Karl Marx who for forty years funded him, looked after his children, soothed his furies, and provided one-half of history's most celebrated ideological partnership. He was co-author of The Manifesto of the Communist Party and co-founder of what would come to be known as Marxism. Interpreted and misinterpreted, quoted and misquoted, Friedrich Engels became one of the central architects of modern global socialism. 2009.

The far land

By Eva MacLean. 1993

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Biography, Historical biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Frontier and pioneer life
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Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…

B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.

The female heart: the truth about women and coronary artery disease

By Carol Colman, Marianne J Legato. 1992

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Health and medicine, Medicine
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This guide to caring for the female heart discusses the role estrogen may play in preventing coronary artery disease (CAD)…

in premenopausal women. The authors offer recommendations for preventing CAD and other things that can "go wrong," presenting information on exercise, diet, medications, and stress. The changes of the heart during pregnancy are also discussed. 1992.

The field: the quest for the secret force of the universe

By Lynne McTaggart. 2002

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Medicine, Science and technology
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The author reveals a radical new biological paradigm - that on our most fundamental level, the human mind and body…

are not distinct and separate from their environment, but a pulsating power constantly interacting with this vast energy sea. There may be such a thing as a life force. 2002.

The etiquette of illness: what to say when you can't find the words

By Susan P Halpern. 2004

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Medicine, Psychology, Self help
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A cancer survivor and psychotherapist addresses how individuals can best respond with sensitivity and compassion to a sick friend or…

relative. Demonstrates making a potentially awkward situation more comfortable through effective speech and behaviour. Includes suggestions for talking to children about illness. 2004.

The endless steppe

By Esther Rudomin Hautzig. 1995

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Biography, Historical biography, Women biography
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During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by…

the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe. Grades 5-8. 1995, c1968.

The ethical canary: science, society and the human spirit

By Margaret A Somerville. 2000

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Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Philosophy, Science and technology
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As science and technology continue to advance, many moral and ethical questions begin to arise. The author, a leading authority…

on medicine, ethics and law, presents an examination of the various ethical concerns human society is currently facing. Addressing everything from cloning to genetically modified foods, this volume illuminates some of the most controversial and pressing issues of our time.

The Hitler I knew: the memoirs of the Third Reich's press chief

By Otto Dietrich. 2010

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Historical biography, Politics and government biography, War and military biography, Journals and memoirs, European history, World War II
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When Otto Dietrich was invited in 1933 to become Adolf Hitler's press chief, he accepted with the simple uncritical conviction…

that Adolf Hitler was a great man, dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. At the end of the war, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write what he had seen and heard in twelve years of the closest association with Hitler. c2010. Uniform title: 12 Jahre mit Hitler.

The handkerchief drawer: an autobiography in three parts

By Thelma Ruck Keene. 2002

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Biography, Historical biography, Lifestyle
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The author relives an extraordinary life, often at odds with the fog of convention surrounding religion, class distinctions, sex and…

war. During WWII she freelances her secretarial skill from the Balkans to the Middle East and Sicily. In 1966, she and her young son emigrate to Canada. Book reflects Thelma's curiosity, wit, and independent streak. 2002.

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: how Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil killed the fifties and ushered in a new age for America

By Don Lattin. 2017

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Biography, Historical biography
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Tells the story of how three scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored…

psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. 2017.

The hot zone: A Terrifying True Story

By Richard Preston. 1994

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Movie and television tie-insMedicine, Science and technology
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Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…

of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.

The hiding place

By Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten Boom, John L Sherrill. 1972

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Biography, Historical biography, World War II
Human-narrated audio
With John and Elizabeth Sherrill, the author recalls her years in the anti-Nazi underground and in the concentration camp to which she was sent with her sister Betsie. 1972.

The health century

By Edward Shorter. 1987

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Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
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A history of medical advances made in the United States from 1887 to the present, and the relationship among academia,…

industry and government that made these advances possible. 1987. Uniform title: Health century (television program)

The hemlock cup: Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life

By Bettany Hughes. 2010

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Biography, Historical biography
Human-narrated audio

Award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster examines the life and times of Athenian philosopher Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.). Explores the world Socrates…

inhabited, the ideas he espoused, and his seminal influence on Western thought. 2010.

The hanging of Angélique: the untold story of Canadian slavery and the burning of old Montréal

By Afua Cooper. 2006

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Biography, Historical biography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, Lifestyle
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1734. Marie-Joseph Angélique is a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal. On…

appeal, her punishment of death was modified to torture, to encourage her to name an accomplice, a white man, Angélique's sometime lover. A narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her indentured lot. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2006

The green labyrinth: a journey to the Amazon

By Sylvia Fraser. 2003

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Medicine, Travel and geography
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Sylvia Fraser recounts her journey to Peru to learn about shamans and ancient practices. The centre of her journey revolves…

around learning about ayahuasca, a plant medicine that is said to transport a person from this plane of reality into another one. 2003.

The education of Henry Adams

By Henry Adams. 2003

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Biography, Historical biography
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Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but…

also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology. 2003.

The discovery of insulin

By Michael Bliss. 1982

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Biography, Science and medicine biography, Canadian non-fiction, Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio

The discovery of insulin in 1922 was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the century and one of…

the most controversial. Bliss examines the research of, and the rivalry within, the team of Banting, Best, Collip, and Macleod.

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