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By Nikki Grimes. 2011
By P. K Page, Eric L Ormsby. 2002
The title of this book is taken from Page's poem, `Planet Earth', which was chosen by the United Nations in…
2000 for their celebratory program Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. A selection of the best of Page's poems from previous volumes, with a few newer ones contributed by the author. 2002.By Ian Williams, Robyn Read, Owen Percy. 2012
A collection of poems voiced through a variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting…
with others, often to no avail. The author writes in traditional poetic forms: ghazals, a pantoum, blank sonnets, mock-heroic couplets. He also invents his own: poems that spin into indeterminacy, poems that don’t end. 2012.By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeBy Ronna Bloom. 2000
A collection of poems by Ronna Bloom, some of which have previously been published in different versions elsewhere. Many of…
the poems deal with the themes of truth, reconciliation and love. 2000.By Karen Solie. 2009
By Charles M Schulz, David Larkin. 1999
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip, Schulz offers an autobiographical sketch and tells how his…
own life experiences and those of people around him provided inspiration for the daily strips. Contains text of more than one thousand Peanuts cartoons. Bestseller. 1999." Nous connaissons tous et toutes au moins une personne confrontée, ou ayant été confrontée, à une maladie débouchant sur…
la mort. Avec le vieillissement de la population en cours au Québec, la situation ne risque guère de changer sous ce rapport. Ce livre présente des observations inédites sur la vie spirituelle des baby-boomers sur le seuil de la mort, et donc des pistes pour savoir les écouter et les accompagner. S'appuyant sur une longue expérience en accompagnement spirituel, notamment auprès des personnes en soins palliatifs, Gille Nadeau rend compte de ses observations et propose des pistes éclairantes pour quiconque désire accompagner un proche en fin de vie - et s'en faire son héritier, son héritière sur le plan humain. "By Luc Decaunes. 1982
By Gwen Benaway. 2016
In her second collection of poetry, Benaway examines what it means to experience violence and speaks to the burden of…
survival. Travelling to Northern Ontario and across the Great Lakes, "Passage" is a poetic voyage through divorce, family violence, legacy of colonization and the affirmation of anew sexuality and gender. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.By Philip Norman. 2016
An official biography approved by the former Beatle covers the whole span of his life, from losing his mother in…
childhood to his often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after The Beatles' breakup, his time with Wings, and the death of his wife, Linda. Bestseller. 2016.By Adam Gopnik. 2000
In 1995 an American writer moved with his wife and young son to Paris, fulfilling a childhood dream. He recorded…
his expatriate family experience and views on French culture and society during their five-year stay. Bestseller. 2000.By William Meredith. 1987
By Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersBy Hélène Monette. 2014
"En ces temps que les médias narrivent plus à qualifier, à la vitesse où le train fonce dans le tunnel…
bouché, quiconque subit du harcèlement au travail et de la violence psychologique et sociale sera ici en terrain connu. On y lit les mœurs réfrigérantes et le néo-cynisme de lépoque occupée à pleine capacité par la lutte des places, le narcissisme ambiant et la mort de lempathie. Considérés miroirs déformants, coupables éhontés ou menteurs de première, on abandonne les gens brisés si jamais on a pris le temps dentendre ce quils peinent à raconter. Stress garanti. Cœurs serrés. Rythme denfer. Fidèle à sa manière, Hélène Monette allie prose, poésie, lyrisme et rythme fulgurant. Elle dénonce avec lénergie du désespoir et la force de ses mots les conditions de travail de ce quon nomme maintenant le capital humain. " -- 4e de couv.By Garry Wills. 2000
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author--for "Lincoln at Gettysburg"--and practicing Catholic indicts the Church's hierarchy for the papal sin of deception. Calls…
for internal reform regarding teachings on birth control and abortion, priests' celibacy, and the ordainment of women. Challenges the Vatican's attitude towards the Holocaust. Bestseller. 2000.By Kirstine Stewart. 2015
Kirstine Stewart got her first job when she applied for a position as a "girl Friday" at a film distribution…
house. Having worked her way up from the bottom--under women and men, leaders good and bad--she believes it's time we leaped past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way. The digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the work force with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created a new reality that demands a new style of leader with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners. The opportunity is there. The question Stewart tackles is, how do we seize it? Bestseller. 2015.By Paul Savoie. 2012
Inspiré de la musique, "Bleu Bémol" est constitué d'assonances, de rythmes, de phrases musicales, de mouvements libres qui tracent le…
début et la fin de tout ce qui est essentiel. 2012.By Michel Pleau. 2007
Michel Pleau poursuit ici sa quête de lumière. Un peu en retrait, il se met à l'écoute et cherche à…
dire la beauté du monde. L'enjeu, qui sous-tend le titre, est brillamment relevé et la poésie en sort grandie. 2007.