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Northern voices: Inuit writing in English
By Penny Petrone. 1988
The Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral historic tradition in their own language and a more recent tradition…
of written English. This collection includes legends, poetry, interviews, letters, essays, speeches and fiction. 1988.North spirit: travels among the Cree and Ojibway nations
By Paulette Jiles. 1995
Paulette Jiles first went to northern Ontario as a journalist for the CBC in 1974. Living and working with the…
Cree and Ojibway people of the north, she writes about the introduction of new technologies and communications systems, and their clash with traditional native culture, during her seven years there. 1995.North Atlantic run: the Royal Canadian Navy and the battle for the convoys
By Marc Milner. 1985
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
By Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.My conversations with Canadians (Essais ; #no. 4)
By Lee Maracle. 2017
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one…
she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, prejudice and reconciliation (to name a few), are the heart of "My Conversations with Canadians". In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. This drum, and forty…
other artefacts, were given away by a Canadian museum to an American Anishinaabe group that had no family or community connections to the collection. Many years passed before the drum was returned to the family. Matthews takes us through this astonishing set of events from multiple perspectives, exploring community and museum viewpoints, visiting the ceremonial group leader in Wisconsin, and finally looking back from the point of view of the drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself. Winner of the 2017 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2016.Naples '44: an intelligence officer in the Italian labyrinth
By Norman Lewis. 2002
Norman Lewis arrived in Naples as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American Fifth Army. By 1944 the city's inhabitants…
were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the aquarium had been devoured, and numbers of respectable women had been driven to prostitution. The mafia gradually became so indispensable to the occupying forces that it succeeded in regaining its former power. Despite the cruelty and suffering he encountered, Lewis writes in the diary, "were I given the chance to be born again, Italy would be the country of my choice." 2002.Nemesis: the battle for Japan, 1944-45
By Max Hastings. 2008
A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War. The battle for Japan that ended many…
months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. The great naval battle of Leyte Gulf; the war in China; the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim; the Marines on Iwojima and Okinawa; LeMay's Super-fortress assaults on Japan; the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the kamikaze pilots of Japan; the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war; and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia. 2008.Mon voyage inoubliable: un artiste indien hors de chez lui
By Bhajju Shyam, Fenn Troller. 2006
Sous forme de carnet de voyage, cet album invite le lecteur à suivre les traces du peintre Bhajju Shyam, qui…
quitte son petit village du centre de l'Inde pour réaliser des peintures murales dans un restaurant londonien. Années 3-6 et plus. 2006. Titre uniforme: London jungle book.Monet
By Pascal Bonafoux. 2007
"Au jour le jour de sa correspondance - car Monet ne cesse d'écrire, de compter et surtout de douter -…
voici le récit d'une vie magnifique obsédée par l'accomplissement d'une oeuvre sublime". Par un écrivain et historien de l'art qui a déjà consacré plusieurs ouvrages à des peintres, notamment Van Gogh et Cézanne. 2007.Molière
By Roger Duchêne. 1998
Molière n'a pas laissé de confidences. Pas une lettre, pas un mot. Il a près de quarante ans quand il…
commence à faire parler de lui. Sa vie et son oeuvre font scandale. On l'accuse de ruiner la religion, la famille, la morale. Et d'avoir épousé la fille de sa maîtresse, sa propre fille... Qui ne se priverait pas de le cocufier abondamment. Ses ennemis forgent sa légende noire, ses amis une légende dorée. Cette biographie les replace enfin dans leur contexte. En les prenant au sérieux, sans les tenir pour vraies, en les présentant au lecteur pour qu'il puisse juger à son tour. 1998.Most dramatic ever: The bachelor (Pop classics ; #9)
By Suzannah Showler. 2018
When it debuted in 2002, The Bachelor raised the stakes of first-wave reality television, offering the ultimate prize: true love.…
Since then, thrice yearly, dozens of camera-ready young-and-eligibles have vied for affection (and roses) in front of a devoted audience of millions. In this funny, insightful examination of the world's favorite romance-factory, Suzannah Showler explores the contradictions that are key to the franchise's genius, longevity, and power and parses what this means for both modern love and modern America. She argues the show is both gameshow and marriage plot - an improbable combination of competitive effort and kismet - and that it's both relic and prophet, a time-traveler from first-gen reality TV that proved to be a harbinger of Tinder. In the modern media-savvy climate, the show cleverly highlights and resists its own artifice, allowing Bachelor Nation to see through the fakery to feel the romance. Taking on issues of sex, race, contestants-as-villains, the controversial spin-offs, and more, "Most Dramatic Ever" is both love letter to and deconstruction of the show that brought us real love in the reality TV era. 2018.Mothers in the fatherland: women, the family, and Nazi politics
By Claudia Koonz. 1986
Le secret du star-system américain: le dressage de l'oeil
By Paul Warren. 2002
Dans cet essai, Paul Warren tente de démontrer que le succès du cinéma populaire américain est fondé sur l'utilisation du…
"reaction shot" (plan de réaction). Sa démonstration s'appuie sur l'analyse d'une quinzaine de films à succès et de leurs répercussions sociopolitiques aux États-Unis. Le noeud de la démonstration est consacré au documentaire "Le triomphe de la volonté" de Leni Riefenstahl qui imposa Hitler comme la solution aux problèmes des Allemands. 2002.Les boeufs sont lents mais la terre est patiente (Collection Partis Pris Actuels)
By Pierre Falardeau. 1999
Avec son franc-parler habituel, Falardeau écrit pour lutter contre le désespoir. Il regroupe, dans ce recueil, des textes engagés (publiés…
ou non), des discours, des lettres, des projets de films qui tournent autour de thèmes comme l'indépendance, la lutte des classes, la pourriture du système, etc. 1999.Histoire de la pudeur
By Jean-Claude Bologne. 1986
La pudeur, ce sentiment complexe, n'échappe pas à l'Histoire. À travers les différentes métamorphoses des comportements pudiques dans leurs développements…
historiques, Jean-Claude Bologne dévoile un aspect important de notre intimité: le rapport de l'homme et de la femme face à leur nudité. Après avoir montré la pudeur dans la vie quotidienne, l'auteur s'interroge sur son aspect symbolique, sur ses représentations dans les arts plastiques et le langage. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.Le roman de Hollywood
By Jacqueline Monsigny, Edward Meeks. 2006
Enfants maudits: ils sont 200,000, on les appelait les "enfants de Boches"
By Jean-Paul Picaper, Ludwig Norz. 2004
Issus des amours coupables de soldats allemands et de femmes du pays pendant l'Occupation, ces "enfants maudits", maintenant à l'âge…
de la retraite, veulent rompre le silence et enfin sortir de la clandestinité. Soixante ans après la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ils témoignent ici pour la première fois. Ce livre est pour eux un espoir. 2004.Mingan my village
By Solange Messier. 2014
"Mingan my village" is a collection of 15 faces and 15 poems written by young Innu. Given a platform to…
be heard, the children chose to transport readers far away from the difficulties and problems related to their realities to see the beauty that surrounds them in nature. Winner of the 2013 Prix jeunesse des libraires du Québec (5-11 years category). Grades K-3 and older readers. 2014.