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Sophia Tolstoy: a biography
By Alexandra Popoff. 2010
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Family biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.An accidental Canadian: reflections on my home and (not) native land
By Margaret Wente. 2004
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente traces her true-life coming-of-age as an expatriate American in suburban Toronto. She also comments,…
often comically, on such topics as Google, day spas, obesity, building your own home, and so-called Canadian royalty, chiefly Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul and Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel. 2004.The rez sisters: a play in two acts
By Tomson Highway. 1988
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Canadian fiction, Indigenous peoples in Canada fictionCanadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Drama
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Seven women attempt to beat the odds by winning the biggest bingo in the world and escaping their tortured lives.…
Winner of the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for the Governor General's Award. 1988.Paddle-to-the-Sea: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Sandpiper books)
By Holling Clancy Holling. 1980
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Adventure stories, Classic fiction, Indigenous peoples fiction, Historical fiction, General fiction, Canadian fiction, Multi-cultural fictionTravel and geography, General non-fiction
Human-transcribed braille
A First Nations boy sets a foot-long canoe afloat on Ontario's Lake Nipigon. As the little dugout drifts through the…
Great Lakes to the ocean, strangers honor the message carved in the wood: "Please put me back in water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea." For grades 3-6. Caldecott Honor Book. 1941