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Startle and illuminate: Carol Shields on writing
By Carol Shields, Anne Giardini, Nicholas Giardini. 2016
In the course of her career, which included novels as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields…
was encouraging of other writers: she read and commented on her friends' manuscripts, taught writing classes, and spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. This is her guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. Drawn by her daughter and grandson from her correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, it helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done. 2016.Speaking in cod tongues: a Canadian culinary journey (Digestions #1)
By Lenore Newman. 2016
Explores Canada's rich and evolving culinary landscape. From oceans to prairie, from bakeapples to fiddleheads, from maple syrup to k'aaw,…
from the height of urban dining to picnics in parks, the author describes a delicious and emerging mélange representing the multifaceted nature of Canada. 2016.Social studies: the best of the Globe and Mail's daily miscellany of information
By Michael Kesterton. 1996
A collection of trivia taken from the "Social studies" section of "The Globe and Mail." Organized according to day and…
month, Kesterton provides strange statistics, anecdotes, and odd bits of history on subjects ranging from Godzilla and attack rabbits to income tax and tabloids headlines. 1996. Uniform title: Globe and mail.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.Spoils of power: the politics of patronage
By Jeffrey Simpson. 1988
Through the use of private letters, official documents and personal observations, the author examines the provincial and national use of…
patronage, from Sir John A. Macdonald's "purchase" of Nova Scotia's opponent of Confederation to the scandal-plagued Mulroney cabinet. 1988.Social and cultural perspectives on blindness: barriers to community integration
By C. Edwin Vaughan. 1998
Visually impaired sociologist (who prefers the word "blind") describes blindness in the United States, Africa, China, and Spain. Proposes an…
international exchange of information to enrich education and rehabilitation opportunities for this group. c1998.Solitude: a singular life in a crowded world
By Michael Harris. 2017
The capacity to be alone--properly alone--is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a contented and productive state that…
garners tangible rewards: it allows us to reflect and recharge, improving our relationships with ourselves and, paradoxically, with others. Today, the zeitgeist embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on online and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive distraction that dangerously undervalues solitude. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded loneliness--we are ever-connected, but only shallowly so. Bestseller. 2017.Sound-shadows of the New World (Continents of exile. #5.)
By Ved Mehta. 1986
In 1949, 15-year-old Ved went to America to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. In the three years there…
he fell afoul of two members of staff: the PE teacher who believed only the combative could survive in a sighted world and an Evangelical Baptist musician who told him he was damned because he was a Hindu. Girls too were a problem... but he learnt to get around Little Rock himself by perceiving objects and terrain by means of "sound-shadows". Sequel to "The ledge between the streams" (DC28718). 1986. (Continents of exile ; 5).Sleeping funny: stories
By Miranda Hill. 2012
The nine stories in this book allow us to enter an astonishing world – one both recognizable and slightly askew,…
the world we sometimes glimpse when on the cusp of waking from a daydream, or “funny” sleep: a modern teenage girl trying to navigate an embarrassing sex ed class, a middle-aged country-village minister in the 19th century who is experiencing a devastating crisis of faith, a young pilot’s widow coping with her grief by growing a Victory Garden during World War II, and more. Includes sex and strong language. 2012.Six months that changed the world: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (The modern scholar)
By Margaret MacMillan. 2003
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six…
months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. 2003.Skinheads, fur traders, and DJs: an adventure through the 1970s
By Kim Clarke Champniss. 2017
The true story of a precocious, pop-loving teenager who, in the early 1970s, went from London's discotheques to the Canadian…
sub-arctic to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. His job? Buying furs and helping run the trading post in the settlement of Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories (population: 750). That young man was Kim Clarke Champniss, who would later become a VJ on MuchMusic. His extraordinary adventures unfolded in a chain of "On the Road" experiences across Canada that led him to Vancouver, where he became a nightclub DJ at the height of the disco craze. His mind-boggling journey, from London to the far Canadian North to the spotlight, is the stuff of music and TV legends. Kim brings his incredible knowledge of music and pop culture and the history of disco music, weaving them into this wild story of his exciting and uniquely crazy 1970s. 2017.Sixty: a diary of my sixty-first year
By Ian Brown. 2015
"Sixty" is a report from the front, a dispatch from the Maginot Line that divides the middle-aged from the soon…
to be elderly. Ian began keeping a diary with a Facebook post on the morning of February 4, 2014, his sixtieth birthday. As well as keeping a running tally on how he survived the year, Ian explored what being sixty means physically, psychologically and intellectually. "What pleasures are gone forever? Which ones, if any, are left? What did Beethoven, or Schubert, or Jagger, or Henry Moore, or Lucien Freud do after they turned sixty?" And most importantly, "How much life can you live in the fourth quarter, not knowing when the game might end?" Bestseller. 2015.Simply heart smart cooking
By Bonnie Stern. 1994
Cookbook emphasizing light and healthy cooking to prevent heart disease and stroke. Includes an explanation of Canada's Food Guide, menu…
planning, and over 200 recipes with complete nutritional analyses. Published with the cooperation of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. 1994.Shrewed: a wry and closely observed look at the lives of women and girls
By Elizabeth Renzetti. 2018
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still…
so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's playground? These are some of the questions that author and journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of essays. Drawing upon Renzetti's decades of reporting on feminist issues, "Shrewed" is a book about feminism's crossroads. From Hillary Clinton's failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we've come - and how far we have to go. If Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. Bestseller. 2018.Seven fallen feathers: racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
By Tanya Talaga. 2017
Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of…
miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize and the 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2017.Shift work
By Tie Domi. 2015
Raised by immigrant parents in Belle River, Tie Domi found success from an early age on the field and the…
rink. A gifted athlete in whatever sport he played, Tie eventually focused his sights on hockey. As he moved up the junior ranks, he made a name for himself as a player who was always ready to take on anyone who dared to cross his teammates. Tie's reputation followed him into the NHL, and it wasn't long before he ranked among the game's most feared - and fearless - enforcers. From New York to Winnipeg to Toronto, Tie quickly became a fan favourite. As he went about working his name into the record books, Tie surrounded himself with people from every walk of life, learning from each one. Bestseller. 2015.Shrunk: crime and disorders of the mind (True cases series (Durvile Publications) #2)
By J. Thomas Dalby, Lorene Shyba. 2016
A collection of powerful chapters by eminent forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who write about mental health issues they face and…
what they are doing about it. The first book that delves deeply into the disturbed human psyche to help build a solution to the problem of understanding mental illness within the criminal justice system. 2016.Sight unseen
By Georgina Kleege. 1999
Kleege was diagnosed with macular degeneration at the age of eleven and learned coping mechanisms. In eight essays she describes…
her experiences as well as the cultural aspects of blindness in language, film, and literature. As an author and professor, Kleege outlines the reading process and her delight in learning braille later in life. 1999.Sightlines
By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Seasons of hope: memoirs of Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor
By James Bartleman. 2016
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how…
learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman’s exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa. After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen’s representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children. 2016.