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The great code: the Bible and literature

By Northrop Frye. 1982

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Christianity, Religious texts, Writing
Human-narrated audio
Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

The golden thread: a reader's journey through the great books

By Bruce Meyer. 2000

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Criticism, Writing
Human-narrated audio

Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still…

very relevant. Using his trademark approach to reading and understanding, he takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery through some of the most important works of Western literature. 2000.

The far side of the street

By Bruce Hutchison. 1976

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Biography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Writing
Human-narrated audio

This is the 1970s autobiography of the journalist and historian whose life and writing influenced many Canadians. British Columbia-raised, his…

life spanned some formative years of the province's political history. As a journalist he met and wrote about many prime ministers, and became recognized as an influential thinker. 1976.

The dinosaur hunters: a true story of scientific rivalry and the discovery of the prehistoric world

By Deborah Cadbury. 2000

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European history, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

The text tells the story of the bitter feud between Gideon Mantell, who uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry…

and became obsessed with the ancient past and Richard Owen, patronised by royalty, the Prime Minister and the aristocracy, who scooped the credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. Their struggle was to create a new science that would change man's perception of his place in the universe. 2000.

The elements of style

By William Strunk, E. B White. 1979

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Writing
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A compendium of specific tips to encourage writers to be clear, brief, and bold. This fourth edition of E.B. White's…

revision of Strunk's classic style manual is modestly updated to accommodate gender references and to provide fresh examples. Contains a foreword by Roger Angell. 2000, c1979.

The hot-blooded dinosaurs: a revolution in palaeontology

By Adrian J Desmond. 1976

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Dinosaurs
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Science historian draws on recent, revolutionary discoveries to present a new picture of dinosaurs and their world. Takes exception to…

the long-held myth that these beasts were sluggish, small brained, giant lizards. 1976.

The great war for civilisation: the conquest of the Middle East

By Robert Fisk. 2005

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History, War, Writing
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Journalist Fisk has been reporting on the Middle East for the last 30 years, covering every major event from the…

Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution, from the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Gulf War to the ongoing war in Iraq. Reaching back into the long history of invasion, occupation and colonization in the region, he describes how a history of injustice "has condemned the Middle East to war." Some descriptions of violence. Some strong language. 2005. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.

The dinosaur project: the story of the greatest dinosaur expedition ever mounted

By Wayne Grady. 1993

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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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In 1985, a party of Canadian and Chinese scientists embarked on a five-year treasure hunt in China's Gobi Desert, the…

badlands of Alberta and Canada's Arctic. They hoped to answer questions about dinosaur behaviour, migration, and evolution. 1993.

The bush garden: essays on the Canadian imagination

By Northrop Frye. 1971

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Essays, Writing
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Dr. Frye has collected all his essays on Canadian writing and painting which he believes are of permanent value. Includes…

his annual surveys of English Canadian poetry which originally appeared between 1950 and 1960.

The bone museum: travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds

By Wayne Grady. 2000

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Canadian non-fiction, Science and technology, Dinosaurs
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Wayne Grady, the science editor of Equinox, and Phil Currie, a Canadian palaeontologist, travel to Patagonia, China, and the Alberta…

Badlands. Living in tents, experiencing rain, mud, windstorms, disagreements, and the ultimate glimpse of bone, they try to find conclusive evidence in an ongoing debate: did dinosaurs go extinct, or evolve into birds of the modern world? 2000.

The best of writers & company

By Eleanor Wachtel. 2016

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Writing
Human-narrated audio

Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected and sought-after interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five year…

anniversary, presents her conversations with legendary authors like Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and J.M. Coetzee, who share their views on process, the writing life, and the hazards of literary fame. 2016.

Telling tales

By John Fraser. 1986

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Arts and entertainment, Biography, Canadian non-fiction, Writing
Human-narrated audio
The author, a journalist, tells of his experiences with various well-known figures, including David Suzuki, Margaret Laurence, and Peter Newman. 1986.

Tango on the Main

By Joe Fiorito. 1997

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Canadian non-fiction, Essays, Writing
Human-narrated audio

A collection of newspaper essays by Montrealer Joe Fiorito, who won the 1996 National Newspaper Award for these columns. You'll…

meet Milo who is seven and having the lousiest day of his life, Jackie of the Ritz, chambermaid to the stars, and Nantha, single father, man about town, as well as many others. 1997.

T. rex and the crater of doom

By Walter Alvarez. 1997

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Science and technology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…

sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.

Suddenly they heard footsteps: storytelling for the twenty-first century

By Dan Yashinsky. 2004

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Arts and entertainment, Literature, Writing
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

The art of storytelling is very much alive in today's world. Yashinsky has lived with storytelling all his life, first…

listening to storytellers and then becoming one himself. It's the traveler who stops to hear the voice of the dusty little mouse on the road who is rewarded with the treasure. 2004.

Supergiants!: the biggest dinosaurs

By David Peters, Don Lessem. 1997

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Science and technology, Dinosaurs
Human-narrated audio

Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…

been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.

Strange things: the malevolent North in Canadian literature (Clarendon Lectures In English)

By Margaret Atwood. 1995

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Writing
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The author writes of the imaginative mystique of the Canadian North. In discussing the work of writers like Robert Service,…

Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Margaret Laurence, she talks of northern folklore, myth, and imagery. Originally presented as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University. 1995.

Stories of my life

By Katherine Paterson. 2014

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Writing
Human-narrated audio

From her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares…

the personal stories that inspired her children's books. For Junior and Senior High readers. 2014.

Startle and illuminate: Carol Shields on writing

By Carol Shields, Anne Giardini, Nicholas Giardini. 2016

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Writing
Human-narrated audio

In the course of her career, which included novels as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields…

was encouraging of other writers: she read and commented on her friends' manuscripts, taught writing classes, and spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. This is her guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. Drawn by her daughter and grandson from her correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, it helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done. 2016.

Sinc, Betty, and the morning man: the story of CFRB

By Donald Lamont Jack. 1977

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Arts and entertainment, Canadian non-fiction, Humour, Writing
Human-narrated audio
A delightful and funny history of Canada's biggest radio station. Includes interviews with well-known personalities, such as Betty Kennedy and Gordon Sinclair. c1977.

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