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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material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage.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.

Native peoples and cultures of Canada: an anthropological overview

By Alan D McMillan. 1988

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Canadian fictionCanadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), History, Indigenous peoples history
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A comprehensive overview of all the native groups of Canada -- Indian, Metis and Inuit. Describes their traditional ways of…

life from prehistoric times to the present issues of land claims and self-government. 1988.

Minerva's stepchild (Autobiography ; #3)

By Helen Forrester. 1979

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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival, but for 14 year old Helen, the battle is with…

her parents: to be allowed to lead her own life, after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger siblings. She struggles against illness, caused by severe malnutrition and dirt, and the selfish demands of her parents, with amazing courage and perseverance. Sequel to "By the waters of Liverpool" (DC29720), followed by "Lime Street at two" (DC29719). 1979. (Autobiography ; 3)

Bobbi Lee, Indian rebel: Indian Rebel

By Lee Maracle. 1990

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Canadian fictionBiography, Women biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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The majority of this book, originally published in the 1970s, is an account of the author's early years as a…

native woman in Vancouver, California and Toronto. Filled with anger, pain and apathy, she found the strength to turn her life around.

Another winter, another spring: a love remembered

By Louise de Kiriline Lawrence. 1987

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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Louise de Kiriline Lawrence describes her aristocratic Swedish childhood during the 1890s, her gruelling experiences as a Red Cross nurse,…

her passionate marriage to a Russian army officer, and her heartbreak during the Russian Revolution. 1987.

An accidental Canadian: reflections on my home and (not) native land

By Margaret Wente. 2004

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Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction)Biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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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.

A war bride's story: risking it all for love after World War II (Amazing stories)

By Cynthia J Faryon. 2004

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Canadian fictionBiography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Gwendolyn Cramer was one of 48,000 war brides transported to Canada between 1942 and 1947. Many of them were escorted…

across the ocean and handed over to their husbands with nothing more than a handshake and a cookbook. Following her heart to rural Saskatchewan, Gwen felt like a fish out of water, unable to milk a cow or cook on a wood stove, and then she had her in-laws to contend with. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.

Transient dancing

By Gale Garnett. 2003

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Canadian fiction, General fiction, Serious and literary fictionFamily and relationships
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Johnny Reed is a gifted black actor who leaves America for Greece, where he now has a job and a…

family. Theddo Daniels is an African-American civil rights activist and a closeted homosexual in the early stages of AIDS, in Greece to write his memoirs. The two men meet and become friends, while they and Johnny's wife must deal with the secrets and horrors of their pasts. Some strong language. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.

Too close to the falls

By Catherine Gildiner. 1999

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Canadian fictionBiography, Family biography, Women biography
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A coming of age memoir about growing up in Lewiston, New York, in the 1950's. Though told with humour, the…

author underscores the dark side of what at first seems a Norman Rockwell existence. Her reminiscences include stories about her mother - with her intellectual preoccupations and aversion to housework and visiting neighbours, she is an emblem of prefeminist frustration, and Hollywood - Gildiner delivered sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe on the set of Niagara. Strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 1999.

In search of pure lust: a memoir

By Lise Weil. 2018

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Canadian fictionBiography, LGBTQ+ biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…

culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.

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