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Where I live now: a journey through love and loss to healing and hope
By Sharon Butala. 2017
When Sharon Butala’s husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and…
loss, she fled southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes, but a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory - of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family. Reinventing herself in an urban landscape was painful, and facing her new life as a widow tested her very being. Yet out of this hard-won new existence comes an astonishingly frank, compassionate and moving memoir that offers not only solace and hope but inspiration to those who endure profound loss. Bestseller. 2017.Jane Austen at home
By Lucy Worsley. 2017
This new telling of the story of Jane Austen's life shows us how and why she lived as she did,…
examining the places and spaces that mattered to her. It wasn't all country houses and ballrooms, but a life that was often a painful struggle. Lucy Worsley reveals a passionate woman who fought for her freedom and refused to settle for anything less than Mr Darcy. 2017.Furiously happy: a funny book about horrible things
By Jenny Lawson. 2015
A humour memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson, the Bloggess, examines her…
own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her to live life in the fullest. Bestseller. 2015.We are all treaty people
By Maurice Switzer. 2011
The Anishinabek Nation includes the Algonquin, Delaware, Mississauga, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, and this guide provides a brief look at history…
from their perspective. Covers their first contact with white settlers, North American wars, the creation of reserves, land rights issues, the spirit and intent of treaties, the development of legislation called the Indian Act, the creation of residential schools, the 1969 White Paper, the growth of First Nations leadership, and the creation of the Assembly of First Nations. Also deals with the events at Oka, Gustafsen Lake, and Ipperwash. Grades 3-6. c2011.Writers talking
By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.With Borges
By Alberto Manguel. 2004
During the 1960s, Manguel, then a teenager, spent many evenings reading to Jorge Luis Borges, a giant of modern literature,…
because Borges had gradually become blind. As the author describes his visits to Borges in his dark, modest apartment, reading out loud and talking about books, we have a privileged look into the inner world of a literary legend, a window into the private life of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. Winner of the Prix du Livre en Poitou-Charentes 2003.The voice gallery: travels with a glass throat
By Keath Fraser. 2002
For twenty years, the author battled a rare disorder that caused him agonizing episodes of broken speech, leading to the…
loss of his voice. Mislead by the medical profession, convinced that the problem was psychological, Fraser finally received a proper diagnosis and found some relief with Botox, a drug mainly used to smooth out wrinkles. He then set out around the world to find others like himself, and to record in this memoir the wonders and frailties of the human voice. Some strong language. 2002.Say yes to God: Mary and the revealing of the word made flesh
By Martin Warner. 1999
These essays offer reflection on the process of revelation and response. The title essay points not only to Mary's experience,…
but also to our own progress along the pilgrimage of faith, to our aptitude for reception of God's self-disclosure, and the many different levels, ways, and contexts in which we recognise and receive it. (Given by Guild of Church Braillists) 1999.The rules do not apply
By Ariel Levy. 2017
In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured…
it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. Bestseller. 2017.The last Canadian poet: an essay on Al Purdy
By Sam Solecki. 1999
This study takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy…
archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. Suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. Some strong language. 1999.That summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others
By Morley Callaghan. 1992
Reminiscences of the author's early career on the "Toronto Daily Star", and his 1929 trip to Paris where he made…
friends with Fitzgerald, Hemingway and other well-known literary figures. Originally published in 1963. 1992.What is a Canadian?: forty-three thought-provoking responses
By Irvin Studin. 2006
Studin approached leading Canadians from all walks of life - politics, the civil service, academia, literature, journalism, business, the arts…
- from both official language groups, and from all regions of the country, as well as from the Canadian diaspora, to tell us what they believe defines us. The answers to "What is a Canadian?" range from "someone who crosses the road to get to the middle" to "the citizen of a country badly in need of growing up" to "adaptable. To illustrate, consider the depth and breadth of the Canadian woman's wardrobe". 2006.Charlotte Brontë: a life
By Claire Harman. 2016
Charlotte Brontë was an intense and troubled young woman from an astonishingly creative family, whose early works were produced in…
total secrecy. Struggling against the conventional limitations of both life and literature, Charlotte created a new kind of heroine which both shocked and inspired her Victorian contemporaries. Love, loss, ambition and heartbreak: the anonymous author poured everything into her ground-breaking books, but lived it first. 2016.Various positions: a life of Leonard Cohen
By Ira Bruce Nadel. 1996
Authorized biography of poet Leonard Cohen. The author was given access to Cohen's private archive of letters, journals, and songs,…
and uses interviews with Cohen and his friends. He describes Cohen's formative years in Montreal, including his guidance under such writers as Hugh MacLennan and Irving Layton, his development into one of Canada's most accomplished poets, and his career as a singer. 1996.The inconvenient Indian: a curious account of native people in North America
By Thomas King. 2012
Thomas King's critical and personal meditation on what it means to be "Indian" in North America, weaving the curiously circular…
tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. Winner of the 2014 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2012.The several lives of Joseph Conrad
By J. H Stape. 2007
Author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and The Secret Agent, Conrad's life can be divided into three parts: his…
youth, dominated by the concerns of disenfranchised Polish relatives; his travels as a working seaman; and finally, his career as a writer and family man. Reveals a man with a deep sense of otherness, of multiple cultural identities and, writing in his third language, a working writer, whose novels and stories are a cornerstone of literary modernism. 2007.A mad world, my masters: tales from a traveller's life
By John Simpson. 2000
John Simpson's autobiography documents his thirty-year career as the BBC World Affairs Editor. With tales of horrific journeys, hotels, and…
maverick drivers, he reflects on the pitfalls and pleasures of news reporting, and the major political events he has witnessed. 2000.Levels of life
By Julian Barnes. 2013
Wormholes: essays and occasional writings
By John Fowles, Jan Relf. 1998
A collection of non-fiction writing from John Fowles which includes articles written for magazines; book reviews from "The New York…
Times Book Review" and the "Irish Press"; various forewords and introductions; a tribute to William Golding; and some autobiographical pieces.The selected journals of L.M. Montgomery: volume V: 1935-1942
By L. M Montgomery, Mary Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston. 2004
The final volume of Montgomery's journals covers the years 1935 to 1942, the year of her death. No longer dwelling…
in a rural setting, Lucy Maud Montgomery explored life and found friendship in downtown Toronto. She also chronicled her struggles with her own and her husband's recurring bouts of depression, her worries about her sons' academic performance, and her thoughts on world events during these years. 2004.