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The great fire

By Jim Murphy. 1995

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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, United States history
Human-narrated audio

An account of the conflagration that levelled much of Chicago in 1871. Chronicles events from the fire's outbreak and rapid…

spread to its extinguishment by rain, as reported by survivors and in documents of the period. Examines the origins, circumstances, and official failures that contributed to the disaster. Grades 5-8. A 1996 Newbery Honor Book. c1995.

The collected works of Billy the Kid (Vintage International)

By Michael Ondaatje. 2009

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, True crime, Poetry
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William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," killed his first man when he was twelve, and by the time he was…

twenty-one he had slain nineteen more. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels and his own imagination, Ondaatje imagines Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880s New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. A synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth. Winner of the 1970 Governor General's Award for Poetry. 2009.

The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided

By Denise Chong. 1994

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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by…

the concubine he bought in 1924. In Canada, they stinted and sacrificed to support his family in China. Chong tells of her grandparents and parents, and the visits she made to China to try to unite the strands of her family's past. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1994.

The bite of the mango

By Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland. 2008

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle
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Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…

cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.

The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time

By Jonathan Weiner. 1994

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Nature, Science and technology
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Discusses the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, who spent more than twenty years in the Galapagos Islands researching Charles…

Darwin's finches to confront Darwin's notion of evolution as a time-suspended process. Weiner incorporates research from other scientists to assert that evolution is dynamic, involving constant, even observable, change. L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. Winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. 1994.

Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai

By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002

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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Asian travel and geography, World War II
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For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…

not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.

Stumbling in the bloom

By John Pass. 2005

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Poetry
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A celebration of the enticements and entanglements of wilderness, along with poems about a wry excursion to the chiropractor, a…

fanciful flight from a student driver's parallel parking practice, and a moving Canadian journey towards and away from the "ground zero" of the 9/11 tragedy. 2006 Governor General's Award winner for Poetry. 2005.

Survivors!: true death-defying escapes

By Larry Verstraete. 2003

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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction
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Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…

a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.

Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda

By Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, History, Police and military, War
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As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…

to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.

Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen

By Rosemary Sullivan. 1995

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…

poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.

Sand dance: by camel across Arabia's great southern desert

By Bruce Kirkby. 2000

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Travel and geography
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In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…

attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.

Royal murder: the deadly intrigue of ten sovereigns

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Pulling, Heather Sangster. 2008

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, History, True crime
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What would you do for absolute power? Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading…

death... or causing it. While Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses, other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. Read the stories of ten sovereigns, including Vlad the Impaler, "Bloody Mary", and The Romanovs of Russia. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2009 Red Maple Non-fiction Award. 2008.

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil

By Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Law and crime, True crime, Environment
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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.

Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war

By Stephen Kimber. 2002

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian history, World War II
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In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…

in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.

On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)

By Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996

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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction
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The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…

survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.

Northrop Frye: a biography

By John Ayre. 1989

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…

In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.

Freewheeling: the feuds, broods, and outrageous fortunes of the Billes family and Canada's favorite company

By Ian Brown. 1989

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Business biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction
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Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…

one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.

De Kooning: an American master

By Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Willem De Kooning. 2004

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Fine arts biography
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Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism…

scene. Explores de Kooning's bohemian habits, friendship with Gorky, financial backing from Hirshhorn and Fourcade, only marriage, and passion for painting. Some descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.

Canada: a story of challenge

By J. M. S Careless. 1991

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Canadian history
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A brief history of Canada, covering the period from Cartier and Champlain to the arrival of Pierre Elliott Trudeau on…

the political scene. It covers the major historical events and the forces which have shaped our country. Originally written in 1953, this is the updated 1970 version. Winner of the 1953 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.

At the edge: daring acts in desperate times

By Larry Verstraete. 2009

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Award winning fictionAdventure and exploration, Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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A young man in Nunavut fights off a polar bear to save his friend, a Canadian peacekeeper in the Congo…

risks his own life to save those of stranded tourists, and ordinary people show extraordinary character during the Halifax Explosion, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina, the Tiananmen Square protests, and September 11, 2001. Over twenty true-life stories about life-threatening situations and the wrenching choices made by the people facing them. Winner of the 2010 Silver Birch Award for Non-fiction. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.

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