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Since you asked
By Pamela Wallin. 1998
Canadian media personality Pamela Wallin tells her story, from her birth in Wadena, Saskatchewan, to her role as host and…
producer of her television show. This book is her answer to the many questions asked about her life, as well as an examination of her own influences and aspirations. 1998.Shift work
By Tie Domi. 2015
Raised by immigrant parents in Belle River, Tie Domi found success from an early age on the field and the…
rink. A gifted athlete in whatever sport he played, Tie eventually focused his sights on hockey. As he moved up the junior ranks, he made a name for himself as a player who was always ready to take on anyone who dared to cross his teammates. Tie's reputation followed him into the NHL, and it wasn't long before he ranked among the game's most feared - and fearless - enforcers. From New York to Winnipeg to Toronto, Tie quickly became a fan favourite. As he went about working his name into the record books, Tie surrounded himself with people from every walk of life, learning from each one. Bestseller. 2015.Sightlines
By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Seasons of hope: memoirs of Ontario's first Aboriginal Lieutenant-Governor
By James Bartleman. 2016
James Bartleman, Ontario’s first Native lieutenant governor, looks back over seventy years to his childhood and youth to describe how…
learning to read at any early age led him to dream dreams, empowering him to serve his country as an ambassador. In time, Bartleman’s exciting and fulfilling career as a Canadian diplomat took him to a dozen countries around the world, from Bangladesh to Cuba, and from Australia to South Africa. After a vicious beating in a hotel room robbery in South Africa, however, he was forced to come to terms with a deepening depression. In the end, Bartleman found new meaning in life when he became the Queen’s representative in Ontario and mobilized the public to support his initiatives championing books and education for Native children. 2016.Seventh generation: contemporary native writing
By Heather Hodgson. 1989
Section lines: a Manitoba anthology
By Mark Duncan. 1988
Settler education: poems
By Laurie D Graham. 2016
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of…
nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement. In ways possible only with such an honest act of imagination, and with language at once terse and capacious, she reckons with how these pasts repeat and reconstitute themselves in the present. Poems from this book won the 2013 Thomas Morton Poetry Prize. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
By Rosemary Sullivan. 1995
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…
poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Seven nights
By Jorge Luis Borges. 1986
Seven lectures in which the famous Argentine writer shares his personal observations on poetry and on great poetic works such…
as "The Divine Comedy" and "The Thousand and One Nights." In the final essay he reminisces on his blindness and how blindness has served him and other blind poets. 1986.Scattered poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.)
By Jack Kerouac. 1990
Seasonal works with letters on fire (Wesleyan poetry)
By Brenda Hillman. 2013
Hillman evokes fire to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice.…
She fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and matter at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. 2014, c2013.Seldom
By Dawn Rae Downton. 2002
Sidney Wiseman, a prosperous skipper, and Ethel Wellon, a former teacher, were married on the Newfoundland outport of Seldom in…
1922 and had six children; Marion was their third. When Sidney was home from the sea, he would lie on the daybed, waiting for a chance to strike out at the family, and no one in the community seemed to know. 2002.Selected poems: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics Ser.)
By Oscar Wilde, Ian Hamilton. 1998
"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets, aimed at the general reader. The…
selections have been made by the poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Although now famed chiefly as a playwright, Oscar Wilde started his career as a poet, winning the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1878. His most well known poem is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. 1998.Selected poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems
By Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1988
The selection includes early poems published in 1826, when Elizabeth Barrett was 20, to the last poems she wrote before…
her death at age 55. Religious verse, lively ballads, social reforming and political poetry - all seemed to have had a good reception, as well as the better-known romantic poems. The selection shows the poet's versatility and also her development, as an inspiring and innovative writer. 1988.Scorned & beloved: dead of winter meetings with Canadian eccentrics
By Bill Richardson. 1997
A collection of stories about Richardson's encounters with some of Canada's unique and interesting inhabitants -- eccentrics all. Among the…
colourful cast of characters is a Nova Scotia hermit who went AWOL fifty years ago, a Quebec woman who models her life on Barbie, and a Vancouver prophet and duck fancier. 1997.Season songs
By Ted Hughes. 1976
Selected cantos
By Ezra Pound. 1967
This selection from the Cantos was made by Pound himself in 1965, working from the Faber collected edition of Cantos…
I- CIX. In re-reading the work to make his choice, Pound marked several alterations and corrections, prepared a working index, and wrote a short but characteristic foreword. 1967.Second space: new poems
By Czesław Miłosz. 2004
The title's second space comprises heaven and hell, which have 'vanished forever'; without them the blessed cannot 'meet salvation' or…
the damned 'find suitable quarters'. The last collection of poetry that Milosz, the late Nobel laureate, prepared for publication shows him wrestling with faith and disbelief, sin and redemption, death and immortality. 2004. Uniform title: Poems.Sans prescription ni ordonnance
By Jean Coutu, Jean Couture. 2010
Qui peut prétendre connaître le vrai Jean Coutu? La discrétion dont il a toujours fait preuve sur sa vie est…
inversement proportionnelle à l'omniprésence de la marque de commerce qu'il a si habilement popularisée. Alors qui donc est celui dont le nom évoque à lui seul la pharmacie de détail? 2010.Same diff
By Donato Mancini. 2017
Influenced by documentary cinema, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of poets who are still writing, "Same Diff" explores…
the way social and economic histories become imprinted within language itself. The political and poetic melancholy of our moment is revealed in a long poem on climate change, particularly the disappearance of snow, while the real-life effects of fiscal austerity and poverty are voiced in fragments conveying social neuroses that stem from amplified, unfair competition for basic necessities. Each poem introduces a dominant motif that develops through repetition and incremental variations, sourcing language from newspapers, web sources, and overheard conversations to create an emotive effect, as felt in music. Bringing together research that spans the 15th century to the present day, Mancini searches for symbols that stand in for major social issues to articulate the nuances of living in a precarious time. 2017. Uniform title: Poems.