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Dino-- why?: the dinosaur question and answer book
By Sylvia Funston. 2008
Think you already know everything about dinosaurs? With cutting-edge discoveries and brand new ways of looking at ancient evidence, what…
we know about dinosaurs is always changing. This book is the result of over 11,000 real questions asked by curious kids all over North America, and lets you in on everything you always wanted to know - and lots of new things you'll hardly believe - about the amazing world of dinosaurs. Grades 3-6. 2008.Among the lions: a lamb in the literary jungle
By Harold Andrew Horwood. 2000
Following "A walk in the dreamtime", this is the second volume of Harold Horwood's memoirs. From the writing of "The…
foxes of beachy cove" to the founding of the Writers' Union of Canada, the author illuminates a period when the literary cultures of Newfoundland and Canada were just beginning to flourish. Including the author's encounters with writers such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Laurence and Farley Mowat. 2000.Country calls: memories of a small-town doctor
By Sid Cornish, Judith Cornish. 1998
Kidnapped in Yemen: one woman's amazing escape from captivity
By Mary Quin. 2005
The author details her experiences as an avid traveler and women's rights advocate. But her vacation in Yemen turned into…
a gripping account of ambush and captivity, violence and imminent death. Her personal journey through militant Islam and clandestine terrorist groups is an unforgettable firsthand account of curiosity, survival, and healing. c2005.Kingfisher days: a memoir
By Susan Coyne. 2001
One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, 5-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an old stone fireplace, hidden…
beneath the leaves. Her father recalled a story about an elf who ran a boarding house there. Susan tended the fireplace, hoping that she would meet a real fairy and one day she found a letter from Nootsie Tah, a princess. 2001.King of the confessors
By Thomas Hoving. 1981
The former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the cloak-and-dagger story of his quest for an enigmatic medieval…
ivory cross, reputed to be a fake, that turns up in the hands of a shady dealer. Hoving describes the bitter contest among nations and museums for the incomparable cross, his chase through the clandestine world of international dealers, and his own desperate research to establish the authenticity of the artifact. 1981.Journal
By David Bellos, Helene Berr. 2008
I was abruptly assailed by the feeling that I had to describe reality, writes Bérr midway through this urgent firsthand…
account of the devastation of Paris's Jewish community during WWII. This journal, which begins in 1942 as the record of a young woman's intense and buzzing inner life, becomes over time a record of human suffering. 2008.Journeyman: travels of a writer
By Timothy Findley, William Whitehead. 2003
A record of some of the voyages, real and imagined, that inspired and informed the author's award-winning fiction, non-fiction, and…
theatrical works. Also includes a selection of his many journal entries, letters, poems, speeches, and articles, creating a unique insight into the mind of one of Canada's most beloved writers. Some strong language. 2003.Jessie's journey: autobiography of a traveller girl
By Jess Smith. 2008
From the ages of 5 to 15, Jess Smith lived with her parents, sisters and a mongrel dog in an…
old, blue Bedford bus. They travelled the length and breadth of Scotland, and much of England too, stopping here and there until they were moved on by the local authorities or driven by their own instinctive need to travel. By campfires, under the unchanging stars they brewed up tea, telling stories and singing songs late into the night. This book describes what it was like to be one of the last of the traditional travelling folk. 2008.Jedediah days: one woman's island paradise
By Mary Palmer. 1998
A memoir of forty-five years on Jedediah Island, a remote coastal island in British Columbia, by the woman who owned…
and preserved it in its natural state as a provincial marine park. The author includes the history of the island and describes her adventures while living there. 1998.Imagining Canadian literature: the selected letters of Jack McClelland
By Sam Solecki, Jack McClelland. 1998
Selections from Jack McClelland's correspondence with many of the authors he brought to fame through his publishing house, McClelland &…
Stewart. His correspondents include Margaret Laurence, Farley Mowat, Leonard Cohen, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler, Al Purdy, Gabrielle Roy, and Michael Ondaatje. Some strong language.In the center of the night: journey through a bereavement
By Jayne Blankenship. 1984
A young Rhode Island widow works through the shattering impact of her loss by recording in her diary the course…
of her "apprenticeship as a person." The journal chronicles the intense catharsis, interpolated with dream sequences, of a woman healing herself and, in the process, others. 1984.I thought my father was God and other true tales from NPR's National Story Project: And Other True Tales From Npr's National Story Project
By Paul Auster, Nelly Reifler. 2001
When the call went out to listeners of National Public Radio's 'Weekend All Things Considered' to submit stories about their…
personal experiences, the results were overwhelming, resulting in editor Paul Auster's pick of the best submissions. The stories, whether fact or fiction, share similar themes of bizarre coincidences, otherworldly intervention, love and loss, life-changing experiences, and mundane pleasures. 2011. Uniform title: Weekend all things considered (Radio program)I feel bad about my neck: and other thoughts on being a woman
By Nora Ephron. 2006
In a series of humorous vignettes, author Nora Ephron obsesses about being a woman in her sixties. Discusses her expensive…
regimen to camouflage signs of aging, her purse and its contents, parenting, ex-husbands, and former presidents. In "Serial Monogamy: A Memoir," Ephron admits her infatuation with famous chefs. Bestseller. 2006.Heron Hill chronicle
By George Reiger. 1994
In 1970 shortly after their wedding, George and Barbara Reiger purchased an old farmhouse on the coastal shores of Virginia…
as a second home. Then, when their lives in Washington, D.C., and New York proved to be too hectic, they forsook their metropolitan lifestyles and moved to the farm permanently. Reiger, a conservation editor for Field and Stream, describes their life at Heron Hill, where they have learned to live off the land. 1994.Elusive subject: a biographer's life
By Phyllis Grosskurth. 1999
When Phyllis Grosskurth was a girl, she imagined herself growing up to be a detective, a sleuth on the trail…
of the wicked, the dangerous, the ones who didn’t want to be found out. Some time later her ambition changed to that of writer. Her destiny combined both; today she is the tireless discoverer of secret lives, whose international reputation for daring scholarship has made her, in the words of one critic, "Canada’s premier biographer." This is her autobiography. c1999.Dear Sad Goat: a roundup of truly Canadian tales and letters
By Bill Richardson, Ed Richardson Bill. 2002
At the heart of Richardson's CBC Radio show is a variety of domestic tales that listeners relate through letters and…
phone calls. Their stories are sometimes comic and sometimes achingly sad. This is a collection of 163 of the most memorable of these letters - everyday stories of everyday Canadians reflecting life in every part of Canada. 2002.Because we are Canadians: a battlefield memoir
By Charles D Kipp, Lynda Sykes. 2003
Sergeant Charles D. Kipp was a Canadian soldier in the Second World War, fighting in the months following D-Day. Countless…
hardships were endured and when the war ended, Kipp had a lifetime of aftermath to deal with, both physically and mentally. Closure came for him decades later when he revisited a battlefield. Descriptions of violence. 2003.How Linda died
By Frank Davey. 2002
Linda Davey was a lawyer, wife and mother, gourmet cook and wine connoisseur, and show-dog owner. In May of 1999…
she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. While caring for her with their two children, Linda's husband Frank chronicled her life, family, illness, and ultimately, her death. 2002.Dearest Émilie: the love-letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Madame Emilie Lavergne
By Wilfrid Laurier, Emilie Lavergne, Charles Fisher. 1989
Laurier was Prime Minister of Canada for 15 years. It was Emilie, the wife of his law partner in a…
small Quebec town, who planned his transformation from talented bumpkin to influential statesman. Their affection is displayed in these 40 letters from Wilfrid to Emilie.