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Detachment: an adoption memoir
By Maurice Mierau. 2014
Mierau probes not only the process of adoption but what comes after - the challenges of becoming a family, the…
strain on his marriage. While one of his sons acts out and gets in trouble at school, Maurice feels removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Maurice’s father has a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Maurice can come to understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new sons. Winner of the 2015 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction. 2014.Don't touch that toad & other strange things adults tell you
By Catherine Rondina. 2010
Have your parents ever told you that you shouldn't swallow a watermelon seed because a watermelon will grow in your…
stomach? Or not to cross your eyes, because they'll stay stuck like that? Takes a look at many of the old sayings you've heard, examines them and their history, and gives you the truth about them. You'll find out if holding your breath will cure the hiccups, and if eating sugar will really make you hyper. Winner of the 2012 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Grades 3-6. 2010.Eating dirt: deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe
By Charlotte Gill. 2011
Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada, where she encountered hundreds of clearcuts,…
each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world. She questions the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems, looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. 2011.Hot art: chasing thieves and detectives through the secret world of stolen art
By Joshua Knelman, Trena White. 2011
Knelman spent four years immersing himself in the mysterious world of international art theft, travelling from Cairo to New York,…
London, Montreal and Los Angeles. He befriends the slippery Paul, a master art thief; and meets Donald Hrycyk, a detective working on a shoestring budget to recover stolen art. His investigation finds there are only a handful of detectives, FBI agents and lawyers fighting a global battle against the thriving black market of international art theft, estimated to be one of the largest in the world. Includes strong language. c2011.In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled, and Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of…
the old Hapsburg and Soviet Empires have been trying to invent their own versions of democracy and market-driven economics. But these experiments have led to a widening gap between rich and poor, the worldwide economic crisis has tested Central Europe's determination to live peaceably, and there are many disquieting signs of racial tensions returning. Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing. 2010.Always give a penny to a blind man: A Memoir
By Eric Wright. 1999
Born into a family with ten children during the Great Depression in England, Eric Wright managed to earn a scholarship…
which enabled him to get an education and rise above his circumstances. At the age of twenty-one he decided to emigrate to Canada and ended up living in the wilderness of the Canadian northwest. He now writes crime novels. Winner of the 2000 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1999.How poetry saved my life: a hustler's memoir
By Amber Dawn. 2013
Amber Dawn offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of her experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and how those years took…
away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her. This autobiographical narrative is also a celebration of poetry and literature, which as the title suggests, acted as a lifeline during Dawn's most pivotal moments. 2013.Halifax, warden of the North
By Thomas H Raddall. 1993
The history of Halifax from the Micmac to modern times is presented, with a focus on the city's historic military…
role and the effects of its strategic position. Winner of the 1948 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1993.Brown of the Globe: statesman of Confederation, 1860-1880; Vol. 2
By J. M. S Careless. 1989
The second volume of J.M.S. Careless' biography of George Brown follows Brown's association with the Confederation movement, his resignation from…
Parliament, and his continued influence until his assassination in 1880. Winner of the 1963 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. c1989.Clean protein: the revolution that will reshape your body, boost your energy and save our planet
By Kathy Freston, Bruce Friedrich. 2018
Food and wellness experts Kathy Freston and Bruce Friedrich have spent years researching the future of protein. They have talked…
to the food pioneers and the nutrition scientists, and now they've distilled what they've learned into a strength-building plan poised to reshape your body and change your world. 2018.Genius foods: become smarter, happier, and more productive while protecting your brain for life
By Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal. 2018
Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat, change the way you think about how your…
brain ages, and achieve optimal brain performance with this new guide from media personality and leading health voice Max Lugavere. 2018.Freedom in Congo Square
By Carole Boston Weatherford. 2017
As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday,…
when, at least for half a day, they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. There, they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. Chronicles the daily duties of such slaves--from chopping logs on Mondays, to baking bread on Wednesdays, to plucking hens on Saturday--and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square. Capturing humanity's capacity to find hope and joy even in the most difficult of circumstances and demonstrating how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart. 2017 Caldecott Honor Book. 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Grades 2-4. 2017.Every falling star: the true story of how I survived and escaped North Korea
By Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland. 2016
This first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience is the intense memoir of a North Korean…
boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers"; to be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2019 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2016.Black Elk: the life of an American visionary
By Joe Jackson. 2016
Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial,…
"Black Elk Speaks". Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed--while the historical Black Elk has faded from view. Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him, even after he converted to Catholicism in his later years. Winner of the Spur 2017 best western biography award. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. 2016.Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
By Roxane Gay. 2017
As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between…
self-comfort and self-care. In this memoir, she explores her own past, including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 LAMBDA Bisexual Non-fiction Award. 2017.Chester B. Himes: a biography (Griot audio)
By Lawrence Patrick Jackson. 2017
Chester B. Himes was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left…
a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. The definitive biography of the groundbreaking African American author whose novels unflinchingly confronted sex, racism, and black identity. Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for best critical/biographical book. 2017.Frost takes listeners back to the 1975 World Series in this thrilling account of the greatest baseball game ever played.…
The Reds and Red Sox endured three soggy days of inactivity to reach game six. But all that downtime could not prepare them for what happened when the skies finally cleared. 2009.Forgiveness: a gift from my grandparents
By Mark Sakamoto. 2014
The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War, and a moving tribute to…
the nature of forgiveness. Bestseller. Winner of Canada Reads 2018. 2014.Haunted Canada 6: more terrifying true stories (Haunted Canada Ser. #6)
By Joel A Sutherland. 2016
Get underneath the covers, because between these book covers are stories about a supernatural sea hag that haunts Dobbin’s Gardens…
marsh on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, a used book from a Barrie, Ontario book shop that conjures up a ghostly figure that accompanies the buyer home, and a haunted playground at St. Ignatius School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winner of the 2017 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Grades 3-6. 2016.Hidden figures: young readers' edition
By Margot Shetterly. 2016
The amazing true story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments…
in our space program. Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country. For grades 3-6. 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Best Illustration. 2016.