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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.By Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska. 1990
Empruntant à l'anthropologie, à la mythologie, à la psychologie, à la sémiologie, à la littérature, à l'histoire, l'auteur évoque des…
problèmes fondamentaux: rôle de la femme, organisation de l'univers, fonction des sexes, création littéraire, etc. 1990.By Lise Noël. 1989
L'intolérance et l'oppression peuvent prendre des visages multiples. On n'avait pas encore tente jusqu'ici de dresser un tableau d'ensemble qui…
montre comment s'articulent les rapports dominants/dominés autour des paramètres que sont l'âge, le sexe, la condition physique et mentale, l'appartenance ethnique, la langue ou l'orientation sexuelle. C'est ce que l'on trouve dans ce livre. 1989.By Heather Anne Pringle. 2001
After covering a conference of mummy experts, science reporter Heather Pringle became so intrigued with mummies that she spent a…
year circling the globe, visiting leading scientists in the field. She also investigated preserved Italian saints, Scandinavian mummies in bogs, and frozen Inca princesses. Pringle researched Egyptian embalmers, the past public craze for mummy unwrappings, and the Russians' attempts to preserve Stalin, and along the way learned what mummies have to tell us about ourselves. Winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.By Claire Martin. 1968
In the second part of her autobiography, the author describes her adolescence and early womanhood in her father's house, one…
of gloom and oppressive brutality. The attitudes of the times towards sex and women are bitterly attacked and ridiculed. Sequel to "In an iron glove" (DC00901). 1975, c1968. Uniform title: Dans un gant de fer, v. 2, La joue droite.By Czeslaw Milosz. 1984
The author contends that the spirit of the 1980s, molded by mass media and political manipulation, is as immoral as…
the 1930s when various fanaticisms held sway. Ulro, Blake's mythical realm of spiritual pain, is used as a metaphor. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1984. Uniform title: Ziemia Ulro.By Mary Wallace. 1999
Inuksuks are stone monuments, built by the Inuit people of Canada's arctic. They can show where food is stored, leave…
a route to follow, or tell about a good hunting or fishing area. Learn about the different kinds of inuksuks, the people who build them, and the land where they are found. Includes instructions on building your own inuksuk. Grades 3-6. 1999.By Thomas F Homer-Dixon. 2000
Can we create ideas fast enough to solve the very problems - environmental, social, and technological - we have created?…
Homer-Dixon calls the gap between our need for practical and innovative ideas to solve our complex problems and our actual supply of those ideas the "ingenuity gap". He argues that as the gap widens, political disintegration and violent upheaval can result and suggests ways to overcome these real problems before it is too late. Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2000.By John Ralston Saul. 1995
Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist, claims that 20th century ideologies have promoted truisms that undermine the acquisition of knowledge…
and reason and the quest for the public good. Instead, managers and technocrats are seen as gods, passive and conformist politics abound, and only salesmanship, style and fashion are seen as meaningful. Saul argues that the average citizen must rise above a smothering bureaucracy and today's mindless devotion to "corporatism" to pursue knowledge and active, publicly interested civic engagement. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.By Fernand Dumont. 1968
L'hypothèse fondamentale de l'essai pourrait se ramener à cette proposition: la culture est avant tout un dédoublement de la signification…
du monde. L'homme vit à la fois dans deux mondes parallèles, celui du changement, soumis à l'érosion inéluctable du temps et celui de la culture, qui vise à rétablir l'homogénéité sans cesse compromise pour assurer la continuité. À partir de cette hypothèse, Dumont s'intéresse précisément à la façon dont l'homme s'y prend pour construire son lieu. 1971, c1968.By Catherine J. Allen. 2011
Once there was a Quechua folktale. It begins with a trickster fox’s penis with a will of its own and…
ends with a daughter returning to parents who cannot recognize her until she recounts the uncanny adventures that have befallen her since she ran away from home. Following the strange twists and turnings of this tale, Catherine J. Allen weaves a narrative of Quechua storytelling and story listening that links these arts to others—fabric weaving, in particular—and thereby illuminates enduring Andean strategies for communicating deeply felt cultural values. In this masterful work of literary nonfiction, Allen draws out the connections between two prominent markers of ethnic identity in Andean nations—indigenous language and woven cloth—and makes a convincing case that the connection between language and cloth affects virtually all aspects of expressive culture, including the performing arts. As she explores how a skilled storyteller interweaves traditional tales and stock characters into new stories, just as a skilled weaver combines traditional motifs and colors into new patterns, she demonstrates how Andean storytelling and weaving both embody the same kinds of relationships, the same ideas about how opposites should meet up with each other. By identifying these pervasive patterns, Allen opens up the Quechua cultural world that unites story tellers and listeners, as listeners hear echoes and traces of other stories, layering over each other in a kind of aural palimpsest.By Amélie Hope. 2013
In Laced by Amélie Hope, Joanne Anderson is a jaded wedding planner who no longer believes in love. Will a…
long-lost friend soften her heart and finally give her what she needs?By B. Z. Vukovina. 2013
L. A. Armoire by B. Z. R. Vukovina is set in the grime and heat of 1920's Los Angeles, where…
Edith dreams of having her own detective agency. A surreal journey through L. A.'s debauched underbelly will determine whether she is made for the job.By Jan Springer, Magali S.. 2016
Rachel ha un segreto molto osé ed è troppo imbarazzata per condividerlo con chiunque. Quando il Key Club organizza una…
Serata Ménage Babbo Natale, pensa che sia quasi troppo bello per essere vero. Deve trovare un modo per partecipare senza che nessuno la scopra! I baristi del Key Club Rob e Ron Simpson hanno perso la testa, con tutto il cappuccio da Babbo Natale, per la dolce, bella Rachel. Ma lei non immagina neanche lontanamente quello che provano per lei. Presto però lo saprà, perché sta tornando da un viaggio in Europa e i gemelli le faranno trovare il miglior Ménage di Bentornata a Casa che possa mai aspettarsi. Lo faranno con l'aiuto di qualche toy bollente, la Stanza Rossa, una parola di sicurezza e... Babbo Natale.By Esmeralda Greene. 2013
By Sacchi Green. 2013
There are the fabled urban myths of lesbians who fill up a U-Haul on the second date and lead sweetly…
romantic lives of cocoa and comfy slippers. Safe and sound. A lot of cozy and not much crazy. These are NOT those stories- these are wild women with dirty minds, untamed tongues, and even the occasional cuff or clamp. A lotta crazy and no cozy slippers to be seen.These Wild Girls tell stories of their own Wild Nights (and days,) memories too hot to keep undercover. Real women with real needs and overwhelming desires find the courage to reveal intimate, unrestrained details of their sex lives, the need to share their stories second only to the urgent impulses that drove the action in the first place. There are first times, life-long commitments, and fleeting encounters to savor for a lifetime. Tenderness merges with edge-play; scenes shift from Caribbean islands to desert battlefields to the ultimate privacy of home; and the writers range from well-known names to newcomers driven to share fresh memories they'll never forget. In Evan Mora's "The Insatiable Travel Itch," repression in public drives her wild. "Transported, transplanted, we are transgressors. And it makes me fucking wet." Angel Propps struggles to face her deepest desires. "The word Daddy had a familiar shape on my tongue, but not in my head, and for one second I was sure I was going to Hell-and then I came." She'd found, of course, "The Daddy I Didn't Know I Needed." Anna Watson, in "Tamago," gives a poignant and sizzling view of being a lesbian femme who loves butches. "I know being femme is what makes the breath blow out of me when she calls and says, 'Babe, I just wanted you to know that I was driving along here, thinking about your breasts.'" Reality doesn't have to be prosaic. Real sex can be wet, messy, frenzied, sometimes even awkward, but never boring. With these writers and seventeen more, "Wild Girls, Wild Nights: True Lesbian Sex Stories" is the proof of that.By Kyoko Church, Annabeth Leong, B. Z. Vukovina, Amélie Hope, Esmeralda Greene. 2013
Domestic bliss takes on a whole new meaning! Domestic service can yield the most intimate and serendipitous sexual possibilities. Here,…
five masters of the erotic narrative take great delight in exploring those possibilities. Slip into the pages of Made for Hire to find your own domestic bliss. It's a pleasure to be at your service!By Kyoko Church, Annabeth Leong, B Z Vukovina, Am lie Hope, Esmeralda Greene. 2013
Domestic bliss takes on a whole new meaning! Domestic service can yield the most intimate and serendipitous sexual possibilities. Here,…
five masters of the erotic narrative take great delight in exploring those possibilities. Slip into the pages of Made for Hire to find your own domestic bliss. It's a pleasure to be at your service!By Jan Springer, Magali S.. 2016
La dottoressa Kelsie Madison non riesce a ricordare quando è stata l'ultima volta che ha fatto sesso senza complicazioni, e…
questo è il segnale che sta lavorando davvero troppo. È tempo di staccare la spina, al Key Club, concedendosi un gustoso regalo per Natale. Qualcosa che non ha mai sperimentato prima - un incandescente ménage à trois . Al dottor Ryder Greene del Pronto Soccorso e al suo coinquilino, il fisioterapista Dixon Flynn piace condividere le donne. Già da un po' hanno messo gli occhi sulla bella dottoressa Madison, ma lei è una maniaca del lavoro e non ha mai tempo per giocare. Quando vengono a sapere che parteciperà alla serata Ménage Santa Claus, fanno in modo di essere loro quelli che baceranno Kelsie sotto il vischio. E se i loro desideri saranno soddisfatti, Kelsie li porterà con sé a casa per Natale.