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Dure soirée: histoires vraies et autres humiliations
By François Morency. 2012
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Qu'est-ce qui fait rire les humoristes? Leurs échecs : spectacles qui tournent mal, numéros de gala qui flopent, erreurs techniques,…
trous de mémoire, spectateurs turbulents et nombreuses autres humiliations. François Morency nous dévoile les histoires cachées mais ô combien divertissantes du métier de comique avec la complicité de vingt-sept de ses confrères. 2012.The sleeping buddha: the story of Afghanistan through the eyes of one family
By Hamida Ghafour. 2007
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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Family biography, History, Asian history, War
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In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.A good place to come from
By Morley Torgov. 1974
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An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.A Funny bone that was: humor between the wars
By David C Jones. 1992
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"The Office Cat" appeared in the "Medicine Hat News" from 1921 to 1951, but only a handful of people knew…
who the Cat was. The column, the longest running of its kind in Canadian history, captured the essence of the era through its witticisms, limericks, jokes and inspirations. 1992.