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Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
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.L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
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.L'intolérance: une problématique générale
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.The mummy congress: science, obsession, and the everlasting dead
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.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
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.The right cheek: an autobiography (The French writers of Canada series)
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.The land of Ulro
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.The Inuksuk book
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.The ingenuity gap: How Can We Solve The Problems Of The Future?
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.The unconscious civilization (CBC Massey lectures)
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.Le lieu de l'homme: la culture comme distance et mémoire
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.Americanized: rebel without a green card
By Sara Saedi. 2018
Television show writer and novelist recounts her teenage years in the 1990s, and reveals how she discovered that her family…
had entered the United States as undocumented immigrants. Provides a humorous account of balancing teen angst with trying to become an American citizen. For senior high and older readers. 2018Prized possessions
By Jessica Stirling, St. Martin`s Press. 2001
Widow Lizzie Conway strives to get her girls--Polly, Babs, and Rosie--out of the Glasgow slums and begins a flirtation with…
rent collector Bernard Peabody. However, the girls fall in love with wayward men. Polly's romance with Dominic Manone leads to questionable choices. Some violence and some strong language. 1998Penguins love their abc's
By Sarah Aspinall. 2017
Mama Penguin has hidden all the alphabet letters in the snow, with each letter marked by a clue. Her six…
little penguins must find them all and bring them home--to a big bowl of alphabet soup. For grades K-3. 2017Andi unstoppable: an Andi Boggs novel (An Andi Boggs Novel)
By Amanda Flower. 2015
Andi and her best friend Colin team up with her rival Ava to compete in a seventh-grade science project to…
be the first to spot a rare bird in the woods. They run into the town's resident ghost instead and investigate. For grades 4-7. 2015Allegedly: a novel
By Tiffany D. Jackson. 2017
When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities want to take away her unborn child, because…
Mary was convicted of killing an infant when she was nine years old. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2017Stella Batts: superstar (Stella Batts Ser.)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2015
Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she…
is perfect for the role. She rehearses her lines until she knows the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned. For grades 3-6. 2015Stella Batts: none of your beeswax (Stella Batts Ser.)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2014
Eight-year-old Stella finds it is not easy or fun to keep secrets. One secret involves her sister Penny, and another…
is about school and her best friend. For grades 3-6. 2014Stella Batts: something blue (Stella Batts Ser.)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2014
Stella and her family drive to Los Angeles to attend her aunt Laura's wedding. Stella is excited to be a…
flower girl, but things don't go as planned, and she is involved in a few mishaps. For grades 3-6. 2014Stella Batts: a case of the meanies (Stella Batts Ser. #4)
By Courtney Sheinmel, Jennifer A. Bell. 2012
Everyone is invited to a classmate's birthday party at her parents' candy store, Batts Confection, except Stella Batts. Stella needs…
to figure out how to be a pleasant hostess when she's not even on the guest list. For grades 2-4. 2012