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Just kids (Folio ; #5438)
By Patti Smith, Heloise Esquié. 2016
P. Smith revient sur ses années de bohème dans le New York arty des années 1970 et sur son amitié…
amoureuse avec R. Mapplethorpe, compagnon de galère et d'inspiration. Elle raconte leur rencontre, leur ascension, qui se fait au détriment de leur amour. Les anecdotes évoquent les grandes heures du Chelsea Hotel et de la Factory, J. Hendrix, A. Warhol ou A. Ginsberg. Prix du livre rock 2011. 2016. Titre uniforme: Just kids.Jules Ferry: la liberté et la tradition (L'esprit de la cité)
By Mona Ozouf. 2014
Si l'oeuvre de Jules Ferry est aujourd'hui reconnue, l'homme fut aussi le plus haï de la politique française. L'auteure explique…
ce phénomène et rappelle comment il a tenté d'incarner à la fois l'autorité de l'État et l'autonomie de l'individu, l'accomplissement de la promesse républicaine et la critique du maximalisme républicain. Prix de la BnF 2014 pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. 2014.Composition française: retour sur une enfance bretonne (Blanche)
By Mona Ozouf. 2009
En se fondant sur son enfance en Bretagne, M. Ozouf interroge la difficulté de concilier les valeurs de l'école, de…
l'Eglise et de la maison. A la maison, le sentiment d'appartenance à la Bretagne est fort, l'école manifeste son indifférence face aux identités locales, et l'Eglise, une foi en contradiction avec celle de l'école et de la maison. Prix de l'essai de la Revue des deux mondes 2009. 2009.All children have different eyes: learn to play and make friends
By Edie A Glaser, Maria R Burgio. 2007
Hidden gold
By Ella Burakowski. 2015
The Gold family lived an idyllic life in pre-war Poland, but that life was shattered in 1939 when Germany invaded…
Poland and Jewish people were forced into the streets, their homes, schools, and businesses burned. Eventually, the Golds hid in a cramped, secret enclosure for twenty-six months. Appalling conditions, starvation, fear of imminent betrayal and capture makes this a heart-stopping testament to the human spirit. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2015.Blue Sonoma
By Jane Munro. 2014
Award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A…
beloved partner's crossing into Alzheimer's is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and wakefulness, Eastern and Western poetic traditions. Rich in both pathos and sharp shards of insight, Munro's wisdom here is deeply embedded, shot through with moments of wit and candour. In the tradition of Taoist poets like Wang Wei and Po-Chu-i, her sixth book opens a wide poetic space, and renders difficult conditions with the lightest of touches. Winner of the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. 2014.Hot, wet, and shaking: how I learned to talk about sex
By Kaleigh Trace. 2014
This is a sex book. It's a book about having sex by yourself, with one person, or with twenty people…
if everyone is down. It's also about the things we don't talk about--the mystery, the expectations, and the bullshit that can go along with sex. Kaleigh Trace--disabled, queer, sex educator--chronicles her journey from ignorance to bliss as she shamelessly discusses her sexual exploits, bodily negotiations and attempts at adulthood, sparing none of the details and assuming you are not polite company. Winner of the 2015 East Coast Literary Award. 2014.Killdeer: Essay-poems (Department of critical thought ; #4)
By Phil Hall. 2011
Poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes, essays that are not out to persuade so…
much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Includes memories of, and homages to Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones. Hall writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the concept of home. Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2011.Courage and compassion: ten Canadians who made a difference (A Wow Canada! book)
By Rona Arato. 2008
The heroes of this book are men, women, and even children from different points in Canadian history who have worked…
and fought for basic human liberties. Beginning with Jeanne Mance's tireless care of others in the earliest days of New France, and ending with young Hannah Taylor's campaign against homelessness, the book spans four hundred years in our nation's story. Grades 4-7. Winner of the OLA White Pine Award 2011. 2008.Hiding Edith: a true story (A Holocaust remembrance book for young readers #7)
By Kathy Kacer. 2006
The true story of Edith Schwalb, a young Jewish girl sent to live in a safe house after the Nazi…
invasion of France. Edith's courage was remarkable, as was the bravery of those who helped her: an entire village, including its mayor, that heroically conspired to conceal the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in the safe house. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2007 Silver Birch Award. 2006.Hana's suitcase: a true story (The Holocaust remembrance series for young readers #3)
By Karen Levine. 2002
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the name Hana Brady…
painted in white on the outside. The centre's curator searches for clues across Europe and North America to find out who Hana was and what had happened to her. Her journey takes her back through seventy years to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. Winner of the 2003 Silver Birch Award. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Tiny Torgi Award. Grades 4-7. 2002.Concrete and wild carrot
By Margaret Avison. 2002
Cataract surgery: a patient's guide to cataract treatment
By Uday Devgan. 2008
More than 2.5 million Canadians have cataracts, with many needing surgery. This handbook covers the most frequently asked questions, such…
as What type of new lens is implanted in the eye? What type of anesthesia is used? Is there pain after the surgery? and How soon will vision improve? 2008.Klee Wyck
By Emily Carr. 1941
Emily Carr was called Klee Wyck, or Laughing One, by the Indians of British Columbia. In the late 1930's, she…
went among their coastal villages to paint their totems and record visual evidence of native culture. She also recorded her observations of the people and their way of life. First published in 1941. Winner of the 1941 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Just Jen: thriving through multiple sclerosis
By Jen Powley. 2017
Jen Powley was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at fifteen. By thirty-five, she had lost the use of her arms and…
legs. This memoir tells the story of Powley's life at the time of her diagnosis, and the infinite, irrevocable ways it has changed since. Winner of the 2018 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Non-Fiction). 2017.Journey with no maps: a life of P.K. Page
By Sandra Djwa. 2012
Tracing P.K. Page's life through two wars, world travels, the rise of modernist and Canadian cultures, and later Sufi study,…
this book details the people and events that inspired her work. Page's independent spirit propelled her from Canada to England, from work as a radio actress to a scriptwriter for the National Film Board, from an affair with poet F.R. Scott to an enduring marriage with diplomat Arthur Irwin. "A borderline being," as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery. Winner of the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 2012.Joyful noise: poems for two voices
By Paul Fleischman. 1988
John A. Macdonald: the young politician, the old chieftain (Rich: Reprints In Canadian History Ser.)
By Donald Creighton. 1998
Covers the entire life of Sir John A. Macdonald, from his childhood and days as a young lawyer to his…
swift rise to political influence, 1867 election as Prime Minister, and death in 1891. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Island of the blue foxes: disaster and triumph on Bering's great voyage to Alaska
By Stephen R Bown. 2017
The Great Northern Expedition was the most ambitious and well-financed scientific expedition in history, lasting nearly ten years and spanning…
three continents. Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s and led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering, the enterprise involved a cavalcade of nearly three thousand scientists, secretaries, interpreters, artists, surveyors, naval officers, mariners, soldiers and labourers, all of whom had to be brought across five thousand miles of roadless forests, swamps and tundra, along with tools, supplies, libraries and scientific implements--as well as the clavichord belonging to Bering's wife, Anna. Scientific objectives included investigating flora, fauna and minerals as well as outlandish rumours about the Siberian peoples. After the expedition reached the eastern coast of Asia, Bering oversaw the construction of two ships, the St. Peter and St. Paul, and sailed for America with one hundred and fifty men. The voyage was plagued by ill fortune--a supply ship failed to arrive, officers quarrelled and the ships were separated in a storm. While St. Paul reached Alaska and reported back to Russia, Bering's ship, St. Peter, was wrecked on a desolate island in the Aleutian Chain inhabited by feral foxes. A true-life adventure story of personal and cultural animosities, unimaginable Gothic horrors and ingenuity in the face of adversity. Winner of the 2018 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction. 2017.Embers: one Ojibway's meditations
By Richard Wagamese. 2016
Wagamese finds lessons in both the mundane and sublime as he muses on the universe, drawing inspiration from working in…
the bush, sawing and cutting and stacking wood for winter, as well as the smudge ceremony to bring him closer to the Creator. He explores the various manifestations of grief, joy, recovery, beauty, gratitude, physicality and spirituality--concepts many find hard to express. But for Wagamese, spirituality is multifaceted. Within these pages, readers will find hard-won and concrete wisdom on how to feel the joy in the everyday things. Wagamese does not seek to be a teacher or guru, but these observations made along his own journey to become, as he says, "a spiritual bad-ass," make inspiring reading. Bestseller. Winner of the 2017 Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award. 2016.