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The ghosts of Medak Pocket: the story of Canada's secret war
By Carol Off. 2004
In 1993, Canadian peacekeepers in Croatia were plunged into the most significant fighting Canada had seen since the Korean War.…
In September 1993, in a tiny corner of Croatia known as Medak Pocket, a unit of Canadian peacekeepers planted themselves between besieged Serbs and the advancing Croat army, driving them from the area under United Nations protection. The soldiers should have returned home as heroes, but instead, they arrived under a cloud of suspicion and silence. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2004.The geometry of love: space, time, mystery, and meaning in an ordinary church
By Margaret Visser. 2000
This book features the church of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome as its subject. The author takes readers on…
a journey through time and space, beginning with the modern church and the community that uses it. She discusses the history, theology, art history and technology, hagiography, folklore and iconography expressed in this 7th century building. 2000.The book of revenge: a blues for Yugoslavia
By Dragan Todorović. 2006
Serb Dragan Todorovic goes to Belgrade as the editor of a cultural magazine, but his constant clashes with the system…
end in his being drafted into the army. Dragan survives his tour of duty, but his return to Belgrade is unsettling - everything is changing, friendships are collapsing, conversations are guarded, and bit by bit, the country he knows and loves is being torn apart. Some strong language. 2006.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Tales from Shakespeare
By Tina Packer. 2004
Ten of Shakespeare's best-known plays retold as stories: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest,…
Othello, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. Includes a brief introduction to Shakespeare's life and times. Grades 5-8. 2004.Red cloud at dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the end of the atomic monopoly
By Michael D Gordin. 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed "First Lightning", exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. This surprising…
international event marked the beginning of an arms race that would ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the Soviet Union and the United States. Using newly opened archives, Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear arms race. 2009.Pig girl
By Colleen Murphy. 2015
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as…
her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2015.Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
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: PeacemakersEnfant insignifiant !: pièce en un acte (Théâtre/Leméac)
By Michel Tremblay. 2017
Alors qu'il vient de terminer l'écriture de sa pièce Enfant insignifiant !, Michel Tremblay voit ses personnages le rejoindre et…
lui jouer les scènes de sa prime jeunesse qu'il vient d'écrire. Les souvenirs d'un homme vieillissant deviennent l'occasion de dialogues savoureux et cocasses où la mauvaise foi de l'enfant s'enroule à celles de sa mère Nana, de son père Gabriel, de sa grand-mère Victoire, de son amie Ginette, etc. Ces conversations avec l'enfant curieux qu'était l'auteur à l'époque où il n'en finissait pas de questionner le monde - de vouloir en comprendre le sens et l'organisation, l'étrange mouvement de ses mystères et de ses mensonges - nous en apprennent beaucoup sur l'origine de son oeuvre dramatique et romanesque : le premier vrai monde de Michel Tremblay, celui de sa famille, s'y trouve révélé dans toute sa merveilleuse humanité, avec une bonne dose de franche hilarité. 2017.Les belles soeurs
By Michel Tremblay. 1974
Histoires de croisades ((Champs. Histoire ; 960).)
By Alessandro Barbero, Jean-Marc Mandosio. 2010
" C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en…
sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par la force, et prennent la ville. C'est la première croisade ; mais il y en aura ensuite beaucoup d'autres. Car les musulmans, de leur côté, ne restent pas inertes à la vue d'une horde de barbares sanguinaires venus on ne sait d'où - mécréants, qui plus est -, entrant en terre d'Islam, semant la destruction et venant conquérir une de leurs villes saintes. Ils ont évidemment ressenti comme une grande offense le fait que ces mécréants d'Occident se soient emparés de Jérusalem et du tombeau du Christ. Le monde islamique se mobilise donc aussitôt pour reconquérir la Ville sainte et chasser les envahisseurs. Voilà pourquoi la chute de Jérusalem en 1099 est suivie par deux siècles de croisades. " Titre uniforme: Benedette guerre : Crociate e Jihad.Harry Potter et l'enfant maudit (Harry Potter.)
By Jack Thorne, John Tiffany, J. K Rowling, Jean-François Ménard. 2016
Cette pièce met en scène les nouvelles aventures d'Harry Potter dix-neuf ans après la fin de la saga de J.K.…
Rowling. Désormais employé au Ministère de la magie, marié et père de famille, Harry Potter est débordé. De plus, son passé se manifeste par l'entremise de son plus jeune fils, Albus Severus, en butte avec le lourd héritage familial. Père et fils doivent s'unir pour affronter les ténèbres. Années 4-7 et plus. 2016. Titre uniforme: Harry Potter and the cursed child.Indian Arm
By Henrik Ibsen, Hiro Kanagawa. 2016
Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed…
glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as 'special needs' for much of his life. Rita's resentments and frustrations are further embittered by her younger half-sister, Asta, a constant reminder of the innocence, idealism and sexual allure Rita once had and yearns for again. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Drama. 2016.Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By Caroline Elkins. 2005
Recovers the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II…
and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism, the British detained and brutalised hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu - the colony's largest ethnic group - who had demanded their independence. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.A time to die: the untold story of the Kursk tragedy
By Robert Moore. 2003
At 11:28 am on Saturday, August 12, 2000, Captain Gennady Lyachin was taking the Kursk, the pride of Russia's Northern…
fleet, through the last steps of firing a practice torpedo when it exploded, incinerating all seven men in the forward compartment. In order for the surviving 27 crew members to get out, it was a race against the clock. Some descriptions of violence. 2003.A people's tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
By Orlando Figes. 1997
Explores the early-twentieth-century revolution in Russia that led to the removal of Czar Nicholas II and the rise to power…
of Lenin's Bolsheviks. The author places the blame for the failure of the coup d'etat to achieve its social aims at the feet of both the government and the people. 1997.Tudor England (Shire living histories ; #3)
By Derek Wilson. 2010
The Tudor age was a time of massive social change in England, with expanding cities, increasing trade, and growing domestic…
stability after the Wars of the Roses. Derek Wilson offers insight into Tudor England up to the accession of Elizabeth I, revealing what it was really like to live in this period of great growth, and the differences between life in city and country, for both rich and poor. 2010.Gulag: a history of the Soviet camps
By Anne Applebaum. 2003
Washington Post columnist documents the evolution of the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system - from its origins during the…
Bolshevik Revolution, expansion under Stalin, and its dissolution after the dictator's death. The chronicle also examines the lives of prisoners and the unique society they formed. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Bury me standing: the Gypsies and their journey
By Isabel Fonseca. 1996
After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and travelled with the gypsies of Eastern Europe, sharing their daily lives,…
and recording their stories and their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. She traces the gypsies from their exodus out of India, to their enslavement by the princes of medieval Romania, from their massacre by the Nazis, to their new violently contested presence in the political arena.