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Faithful and virtuous night: Poems
By Louise Glück. 2014
A new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. A story of adventure, an encounter with…
the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; a story of the world you've always known. Winner of the National Book Award. 2014.Stalin's daughter: the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
By Rosemary Sullivan. 2015
Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin.…
Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, in 1967 Svetlana shocked the world by defecting to the United States. But she could not escape her father's legacy; her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. Winner of the 2015 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the 2016 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, and the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize. Bestseller. 2015.It was a time of unregulated madness, and nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the…
roaring 1920s. Speakeasies thrived, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination, Chicago's corrupt political leaders fraternized with gangsters, and yellow journalism only contributed to the excesses. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and non-existent oil wells in Panama. When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished and the Chicago State's Attorney began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under an assumed identity. His mysterious death in a Chicago prison topped anything in his almost-too-bizarre-to-believe life. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 Arthur Ellis Best Non-fiction Crime Book Award. 2015.Lake of two mountains
By Arleen Paré. 2014
Arleen Paré's second poetry collection is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network…
of relationships around a lake. It maps, probes and applauds the riparian region of central Canadian geography that lies between the Ottawa and the St. Lawrence Rivers. The poems portray this territory, its contested human presences and natural history: the 1990 Oka Crisis, Pleistocene shifts and dislocations, the feather-shaped Ile Cadieux, a Trappist monastery on the lake's northern shore. As we are drawn into experience of the lake and its environs, we also enter an intricate interleaving of landscape and memory, a reflection on how a place comes to inhabit us even as we inhabit it. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2014.Up Ghost River: a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history
By Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo. 2014
A powerful, raw memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s.…
Even as Metatawabin built the trappings of a successful life, he was tormented by horrific memories. In seeking healing, Metatawabin travelled to southern Alberta. There he learned from elders, participated in native cultural training workshops that emphasize the holistic approach to personhood, and finally faced his alcoholism and PTSD. Now his mission is to help the next generation of residential school survivors. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Speaker's Book Award. c2014.The end of absence: reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection
By Michael Harris. 2014
Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the internet. For everyone who follows us,…
online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives. The author chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we've gained and lost in the bargain. He argues that our greatest loss has been that of absence itself -- of silence, wonder and solitude. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 2014.Seasonal works with letters on fire (Wesleyan poetry)
By Brenda Hillman. 2013
Hillman evokes fire to chart subtle changes of seasons during financial breakdown, environmental crisis, and street movements for social justice.…
She fuses the visionary, the political, and the personal to summon music and matter at once, calling the reader to be alive to the senses and to re-imagine a common life. 2014, c2013.This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate
By Naomi Klein. 2014
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon -…
it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. Here Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth. Winner of the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. c2014.La mauvaise mère: confessions
By Marguerite Andersen. 2013
Dans "La mauvaise mere", Marguerite Andersen se penche sur ses rapports avec ses trois enfants et son rapport à la…
maternité. Ces moments choisis (des fragments) sont présentés de façon chronologique, tout en ménageant des réflexions actuelles sur ces souvenirs. 2013.One hour in Paris: a true story of rape and recovery
By Karyn L Freedman. 2014
Philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent…
hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. We follow Freedman from an apartment in Paris to a French courtroom, from a trauma centre in Toronto to a rape clinic in Africa. At a time when as many as one in three women in the world have been victims of sexual assault and when many women are still ashamed to come forward, Freedman's book is a moving and essential look at how survivors cope and persevere. Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2014.Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre
By Élisabeth Roudinesco. 2014
L'ouverture aux chercheurs de nouvelles archives et la mise à disposition de l'essentiel de la correspondance de Freud sont à…
l'origine de ce nouvel ouvrage sur le fondateur de la psychanalyse, qui apporte un éclairage nouveau sur l'homme et sur son oeuvre. Gagnant de Prix Décembre 2014. 2014.This is war
By Hannah Moscovitch. 2013
In this play, Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through…
an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As each of them is interviewed by an unseen broadcasting organization, they recount their version of events leading up to the horrific incident with painful, relenting replies. What begins to form is a picture of the effects of guilt and the psychological toll of violence in a war where the enemy is sometimes indiscernible. c2013.Think baseball, basketball, and hockey are the only options in the world of sports? Think again! This book uncovers the…
"other" sports, from the local and hidden to the strange, bizarre, and downright crazy. Playing football with over 200 people per team? (Just imagine the pile-up!) Chasing a giant wheel of cheese down an English hillside? Wrestling with your toes? This book contains all the funny facts about these sports — and many more! Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2014-15 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2013.They left us everything: a memoir
By Plum Johnson. 2014
After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings…
of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must empty and sell the beloved family home. The task consumes her, becoming more rewarding than she ever imagined. Items from childhood trigger memories of her eccentric family growing up in a small town on the shores of Lake Ontario in the 1950s and 60s. But unearthing new facts about her parents helps her reconcile those relationships with a more accepting perspective about who they were and what they valued. Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor Award. Winner of the 2016 Evergreen Award. Bestseller. 2014.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.Every day is Malala Day
By Rosemary A McCarney. 2013
This is a letter of sisterhood to Malala Yousafzai, expressing the belief that every girl has the right to go…
to school. After being shot by the Taliban for the simple act of going to school in her native Pakistan, Malala has become an international girls' rights crusader and the youngest person ever to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This book is written as a letter from girls around the world to Malala, whom they recognize as a leader, a champion, and a friend. Winner of the 2015 Golden Oak Award. Grades K-3 and older readers. 2013.Madame de Staël
By Michel Winock. 2010
Notre Chanel (D'un lieu à l'autre)
By Jean Lebrun. 2014
The longer I'm Prime Minister: Stephen Harper and Canada, 2006
By Paul Wells. 2013
Despite a constant barrage of outrage and disbelief from his detractors, Stephen Harper is on his way to becoming one…
of Canada’s most significant prime ministers. No matter the ups and downs, the triumphs and the self-inflicted wounds, Harper has been moving to build the Canada he wants. Wells explores just what Harper’s understanding of Canada is, and who he speaks for in the national conversation. Winner of the 2013 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. c2013.To be a slave
By Julius Lester. 1995
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from…
the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. Junior and Senior High. 1995.