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The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
By Denise Chong. 1994
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.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
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.Shingwauk's vision: native residential schools in Canada
By J. R Miller. 1996
A comprehensive study of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s.…
Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.Pearls in vinegar: the pillow book of Heather Mallick
By Heather Mallick. 2004
Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick provides commentary on one hundred and sixty diverse subjects, including Things That Make You…
Appreciate Men, Poetic Subjects, Hateful Things, Adorable Things, Things That Fall from the Sky, and Different Ways of Speaking. An itemized collection of essays, short lists, long lists, comforts, toxicities, things you should be ashamed to laugh at but do anyway, and many small privacies. Includes essays about such topics as the quirks of German cannibalism, the weirdness of all workplaces, and the advantages of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Some descriptions of violence and explicit strong language. 2004.Land to light on
By Dionne Brand. 1997
Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.Lake of the prairies: a story of belonging
By Warren Cariou. 2002
Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.Child soldier: when boys and girls are used in war (CitizenKid)
By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine. 2015
It's 1993, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through major political changes. Five-year-old Michel is playing with friends…
one day when, without warning, a group of rebel soldiers pulls up to the school grounds. Forced onto trucks, the frightened boys are taken to a camp in the hills. There they are thrust into a terrifying and violent world. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2015.Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.As long as the rivers flow
By Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Connie Brissenden. 2005
It is Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an…
abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, helps the family prepare for a hunting and gathering trip. But soon, a truck comes to forcibly take Lawrence and his siblings away to their new school, which would try to erase their traditional language and culture. Grades 3-6. 2002.A place within: rediscovering India
By M. G Vassanji. 2008
Author M. G. Vassanji was born in Africa, where his Indian grandparents had settled, and his relationship to India had…
been complex and contradictory. Vassanji describes his many visits to India, encompassing bustling cities, quiet landscapes, fantastic stories and fascinating characters, in this his part travelogue and description, part history and meditation, and above all a quest for a lost homeland. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2008.A good place to come from
By Morley Torgov. 1974
An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.The Russian album
By Michael Ignatieff. 1987
Through the use of his grandparents' diaries, the author recreates his family history. The Ignatieffs, firmly entrenched in the Russian…
nobility, served in the tsarist government. In late 1917, the events of the Revolution overtook the family and they chose exile in the West. 1987 Governor General's Award winner. 1987.Hey world, here I am!
By Jean Little. 1986
Kate Bloomfield first made her appearance in Jean Little's novels "Look through my window" (DC03610) and "Kate". This is a…
collection of her poems and short prose pieces about God, love, friends and being Jewish. Grades 5-8. 1986.L'odyssée de Pénélope: roman (Les Mythes revisités)
By Margaret Atwood. 2005
Selon Homère, Ulysse à son retour de Troie massacra tous les prétendants à son trône qui, en son absence, avaient…
courtisé son épouse. Mais il fit aussi pendre les douze servantes de Pénélope qu'il accusa de l'avoir trahi. Dans cette relecture originale du mythe grec que nous propose Margaret Atwood, Pénélope, hantée par la mort de ses servantes, raconte depuis les Enfers sa propre version de l'histoire, celle d'une femme, d'une épouse, d'une mère et surtout d'une reine bien plus lucide et plus forte que ce que les hommes ont voulu croire jusqu'à aujourd'hui. -- 4e de couvÉtats d'homme (Parcours)
By Louis Tremblay. 2003
Un traducteur quadragénaire, qui vit seul avec sa fillette de sept ans, perd son emploi. Des amours de passage, l'amitié…
d'un collègue et la présence de sa fille l'aident à ne pas trop perdre pied. Un portrait psychologique nuancé, servi par une écriture rapide et précise, illuminé par l'histoire d'amour entre un père et sa fille. Un premier roman sans prétention qui est une belle réussiteLes enfants qui s'aiment: roman
By Claire Morin. 1956
Ils étaient bien sages et bien dociles ces adolescents français des années 1950... lucides aussi, suffisamment en tout cas pour…
se demander comment, avec leurs "pauvres coeurs influençables", ils auraient été "capables de lutter contre la masse réfractaire des opinions des autres". Un bon petit roman sur le langage de l'âge ingrat, la douceur de son ignorance, l'inédit de sa tendresse (cf. p. 181), il y a déjà 25 ans. Presque des adolescents d'autrefois... [SDMBurqa de chair: nouvelles
By Nelly Arcan. 2011
" Dès son premier roman, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Nelly Arcan na cessé de brasser dans un lyrisme flamboyant quelques thèmes…
obsessionnels, inséparables de sa vie : la dictature de limage, limpossibilité dun rapport innocent à soi-même, le culte vertigineux de la jeunesse, et son envers : la pulsion de mort, qui anime souterrainement les sociétés modernes. Passé le temps du scandale et celui de lémotion, voici donc les derniers échos dune œuvre aussi éblouissante que brève. Burqa de chair : titre terrible, qui agit avec la force dun boomerang en regard de certains débats actuels. On trouvera assemblés ici trois inédits : La robe , Lenfant dans le miroir et La honte . Les deux premiers sont écrits à la première personne, dans ce phrasé tourbillonnant, suffocant, qui était sa marque singulière, celle dun écrivain en danger . Dans le troisième texte, elle décortique avec une inépuisable férocité son expérience humiliante sur un plateau de télévision. " -- 4e de couv