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By John Fraser. 1994
From 1987 to 1994, John Fraser was editor of "Saturday Night" magazine. "Saturday Night Lives!" is a selection of his…
monthly diaries, in which he wrote whatever was on his mind. The diaries offer commentaries on Canada's political and cultural life, satires on the depopulation of Atlantic Canada, take-offs of Revenue Canada's income tax guides, and much more. The first and final diaries are narrated by John Fraser himself. c1994.By Rob Stewart, Evan Rosser. 2012
Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snakes and chasing after alligators, award-winning documentary filmmaker Rob Stewart charts his development…
into one of the world's leading environmental activists. Risking arrest and mafia reprisal in Costa Rica, nearly losing a leg in Panama and getting lost at sea in the remote Galapagos Islands, Stewart is living proof that the best way to create change in the world is to dive in over your head. With his efforts to save sharks leading to tangible policy change in countries around the world, Stewart now sets his sights on a slightly bigger goal: saving humanity. For senior high and older readers. 2012.By Lee Lamothe, Jean-Louis Morgan, Adrian Humphreys. 2008
L'histoire de l'établissement de famille Rizutto au Canada, de l'issue du conflit entre Calabrais et Siciliens à Montréal, et de…
l'émergence de Vito Rizzuto à la tête de l'empire monté par son père. Les corps policiers internationaux finirent par s'attaquer de tous les côtés au crime organisé, pour finalement traduire Vito Rizzuto en justice et obtenir sa condamnation pour sa participation dans l'élimination de trois gangsters. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier et descriptions explicites de violence. 2008. Titre uniforme: The sixth family.By Georges-Hébert Germain. 2012
Au cours des années 1970, 1980 et 1990, pendant que les ténors de la souveraineté promettaient aux Québécois d'irréparables séquelles…
émotives s'ils ne la faisaient pas, Bourassa, absolument réfractaire à tout romantisme, faisait appel à leur bon sens, chiffres à l'appui. De la baie James au lac Meech, de la crise d'Octobre à celle d'Oka, de la défaite de 1976 au spectaculaire retour de 1985, de la maîtrise du pouvoir à la maladie, on suit la bête politique à la trace. Et derrière, peu à peu, se profile un homme parfois insaisissable et louvoyant, mais toujours honnête et attachant, un homme de bonne volonté qui aime profondément son pays, le Québec. 2012.By Akos Verboczy. 2016
" Je suis un immigrant, c'est vrai, le terme ne me dérange pas, le mot décrit bien une réalité qui…
est la mienne. Retenez seulement qu'être un immigrant ne m'a pas occupé à temps plein pendant toutes ces années. Et que venir d'ailleurs comme être d'ici n'est pas une vertu, ni un défaut, ni un fait intéressant ou futile en soi. L'immigrant n'est - par essence - ni une victime à prendre en pitié, ni un héros à célébrer, ni un profiteur à dénoncer. Mais il n'est pas non plus comme tout le monde, ni comme vous pis moi. Comme vous, je veux dire. Né en Hongrie, Akos Verboczy est arrivé au Québec à l'âge de onze ans. Il raconte ici comment il en est venu, peu à peu, (presque) sans douleur, à embrasser la culture québécoise et à partager ses idéaux. Maniant le français québécois avec une grâce que lui envieront de nombreux de souche , il livre un récit désopilant où l'humour vient souligner l'intelligence du propos et la finesse des observations. Voici un livre salutaire à un moment de notre histoire où se pose de façon plus aiguë que jamais peut-être la question de notre identité et de nos rapports avec tous les autres qui partagent notre coin du monde. " -- 4e de couv.By Margot Campbell. 2013
'' La comédienne Margot Campbell remonte le courant de ses souvenirs dans un récit de vie captivant et empreint de…
poésie, de son enfance dans la vallée du Richelieu jusqu'à ses premiers pas sur les planches, ses premiers rôles, sa carrière et sa vie de famille. Ce qui apparaît en filigrane de ce récit de vie, ce sont les milieux québécois du théâtre, de la radio et de la télévision avec des troupes et des comédiens en plein essor, puis la popularité grandissante des téléromans qui deviennent des rendez-vous incontournables pour les familles québécoises. Ces souvenirs témoignent également du Québec de ces années-là, avec les familles nombreuses, la vie à la campagne, et le nécessaire appel de la ville quand les rêves d'une jeune fille de talent l'amènent à envisager une carrière. La comédienne Margot Campbell a joué au théâtre, mais elle est surtout connue pour ses rôles à la télévision. Jeune actrice en début de carrière, elle a joué dans les célèbres téléromans La famille Plouffe et Le Survenant, puis dans La Boîte à surprises et dans Jeunes visages. Mais la consécration est venue avec des rôles inoubliables tels que celui de secrétaire de Rémi Duval (Jean Besré) dans le téléroman de Guy Fournier, Jamais deux sans toi, ou encore dans son rôle de gouvernante au service de Bella (Nicole Leblanc) dans le téléroman de Pierre Gauvreau, Cormoran. " -- 4e de couv.By Jessica Kluthe, Linda Goyette. 2013
Between 1870 and 1970, millions of Italians left their homeland and traveled to places like Canada, Australia and the United…
States, in search of work. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina Russo. She was the only member of the Russo family to remain in Italy after the mass migration of the 1950s. Rosina had to say farewell, one by one, to the persons she loved the most. c2013.By Robert Leon Davis. 2010
He began with aspirations to be a great cop, but he was quickly exposed to a darker side of law…
enforcement. While partnered with a veteran, he witnessed an officer violating the very laws he had vowed to uphold and shared in his crime. One compromise led to another. Soon Davis faced arrest. From studying law at Loyola University and becoming and award-winning officer, he now became a fugitive and skilled survivalist, living off the land in remote forests in America and Canada, where he hid for over 20 years. Through a stranger's prayer the hostile atheist finally realized he was weary of running. He yielded his life to God and handed himself in. 2010.By Gary Geddes. 2001
Poet, writer, and critic, Gary Geddes, sets out to discover his roots in a 31-foot British sailing sloop called the…
Groais. Sailing up British Columbia's famed Inside Passage, an ancient sea route of nearly one thousand miles and an often turbulent waterscape, Geddes discovers a vibrant history, livelihoods come and gone, dramatic scenery, and ghosts of the past. 2001.By Sherri Zickefoose, Robert Remington. 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all - a lovely home in Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage,…
and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. But in April 2006, their bloodied dead bodies, along with Jacob's, were discovered. Investigators worried for JR's safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online, and a relationship with a twenty-three-year-old high school dropout. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence and explicit strong language. 2009.By Evelyn Lau. 1989
In 1986, at the age of 14, Evelyn Lau ran away from her strict and traditional parents who refused to…
accept her passion for writing. This book is based on the journal she kept during her two years on the streets of Vancouver. She explores the physical and emotional struggles of a young girl coping in a world of drugs, prostitution and attempted suicide. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. 1989.By Pauline Dakin. 2017
Pauline Dakin, a CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning or goodbyes, her mother twice uprooted her…
and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Years later her mother revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force. When her mother decided to go into protective custody, an exhausted Dakin planned to disappear as well. But before that happened, she made a horrifying discovery. Her family's strange existence was based on a bizarre hoax, a web of lies manufactured by trusted loved ones. Bestseller. 2017.By Tom Allen. 2001
Tom Allen travels with his family and alone, from Halifax to the interior of British Columbia, riding everything from a…
two-car dayliner held together with duct tape to a luxury rail cruiser through the Rockies that is packed with wealthy tourists. Along the way, he meets honeymooners and abandoned spouses, ordinary folk and deranged passengers, and veteran railwaymen who sustain pride in their work despite the massive cuts to their industry. Allen weaves his own memories of railroad travel with a family narrative past and present, all the while conjuring the drama, the disappointments, and the magic of Canada's railway history. 2001.By Adrienne Clarkson. 2011
Former Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson explores the immigrant experience through the people who have helped transform Canada, including an Ismaili doctor,…
a Doukhobor farmer, a Holocaust survivor, and a Vietnam War deserter. What drove them to become the kind of people they have become? What would have happened to them if Canada had not taken them in? What have they added to our national life as we go forward in the twenty-first century? 2011.From the age of eight, Roberta Bondar knew she wanted to be an astronaut. In January 1992 she made Canadian…
history when she became the first Canadian woman, and first neurologist, to go into space on board Discovery. The story of her journey to become a leading astronaut is a fascinating tale of dedication, commitment, and courage. Grades 4-7. 2004.By Anne Kershaw, Mary Lasovich. 1991
In 1988, Marlene Moore, Canada's best-known female prisoner, committed suicide in the federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. The…
authors describe her childhood of abuse and her tragic life behind bars. For many, Marlene is an example of how badly our social and penal system can fail. Violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 1991.By Judith Skelton Grant. 1994
A full-scale biography on the life of one of Canada's greatest novelists. Davies' interests included theatre, a passion that began…
at the age of four, Jungian psychology, and Victorian melodrama, all of which influenced his creative work and his life. His popularity as a national icon was established at the age of 57, with the release of "Fifth business." c1994.By Ted Rowe. 2017
The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often…
tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman, and over a period of 30 years never suffered a defeat at the polls. During his remarkable career, he built a reputation as a statesman, negotiating two trade agreements with the United States and reclaiming Newfoundland's rights to the French Shore. In the dark days following the bank crash of 1894, he personally intervened to save the country from bankruptcy. As prime minister he led a scrupulous and scandal-free administration. In private life, he was a recluse. He idolized his mother, never married, agonized over his health, and suffered a tortured relationship with his mentor William Whiteway. His place of solace was Whitbourne, where he built a magnificent country estate, complete with an elegant manor house, beautiful gardens and a working farm. This carefully researched and engaging biography delves into Bond's life and times, following him from his school days in St. John's and England to his rapid rise in politics in the 1880s and '90s and his time as prime minister in the first decade of the twentieth century. Along the way it reveals Bond's relationship with the unforgettable characters in this formative and turbulent time in Newfoundland politics. 2017.By Kathleen Saunders. 1978
By Paul Levy. 2006
Lucille Johnstone was a living legend in the BC business world. In 1948, Lucille was working as a "girl Friday"…
for River Towing; forty years later Rivtow was a $250 million corporation, Lucille its president and CEO. This is the story of a brilliant leader known as much for her kindness and social conscience as for her talents in the boardroom. 2006.