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Cujo: the untold story of my life on and off the ice
By Curtis Joseph. 2018
Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, was an unlikely NHL superstar. The boy from…
Sharon, Ontario, didn’t put on a pair of skates until most kids his age were already far along in organized hockey, and he was passed over by every team in the NHL draft. Despite an unorthodox start, he would go on to play eighteen seasons with the St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes and Calgary Flames; be ranked among the all-time greats in several key categories; and win an Olympic gold medal while representing Canada. Joseph is a legend in Toronto, where his fandom rivals that of other beloved Leaf greats, and he’s widely thought of as one of the best goalies of all time. Joseph talks about his highly unusual upbringing and what led him to put on his first pair of skates. He shares on- and off-the-ice tales no fan has heard before: the untold story behind the legend. Bestseller.The woo-woo: how I survived ice hockey, drug raids, demons, and my crazy Chinese family
By Lindsay Wong. 2018
A young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons…
when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the "woo-woo"-Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo's sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay's foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, 'The Woo-Woo' is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2019. Winner of the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. 2018.During the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Van wakes up one morning to find that her mother, her sisters Loan…
and Lan, and her brother Tuan are gone. They have escaped the new communist regime that has taken over Ho Chi Minh City for freedom in the West. Four-year-old Van is too young--and her grandmother is too old--for such a dangerous journey by boat, so the two have been left behind. Once settled in North America, her parents will eventually be able to sponsor them, and Van and her grandmother will fly away to safety. But in the meantime, Van is forced to work hard to satisfy her aunt and uncle, who treat her like an unwelcome servant. And at school she must learn that calling attention to herself is a mistake, especially when the bully who has been tormenting her turns out to be the son of a military policeman. Winner of the 2020 Yellow Cedar Award. Grades 3-6. 2018.Clifford: a memoir, a fiction, a fantasy, a thought experiment
By Harold Johnson. 2018
When Harold Johnson returns to his childhood home in a northern Saskatchewan Indigenous community for his brother Clifford's funeral, the…
first thing his eyes fall on is a chair. It stands on three legs, the fourth broken off and missing. So begins a journey through the past, a retrieval of recollections that have too long sat dormant. Moving from the old family home to the log cabin, the garden, and finally settling deep in the forest surrounding the property, his mind circles back, shifting in time and space, weaving in and out of memories of his silent, powerful Swedish father; his formidable Cree mother, an expert trapper and a source of great strength; and his brother Clifford, a precocious young boy who is drawn to the mysterious workings of the universe. As the night unfolds, memories of Clifford surface in Harold's mind's eye: teaching his younger brother how to tie his shoelaces; jousting on a bicycle without rubber wheels; building a motorcycle. Memory, fiction, and fantasy collide, and Clifford comes to life as the scientist he was meant to be, culminating in his discovery of the Grand Unified Theory. 2018.This autobiography of Canadian Max Eisen details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the…
infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing. Winner of Canada Reads 2019. Bestseller. 2016. Childhood in Czechoslovakia -- Summers on the Farm -- Big Changes -- Life under Hungarian Rule -- Year of Birth and Death -- Final Seder -- Train -- Arrival in Auschwitz II-Birkenau -- Arbeit Macht Frei -- Draining Swamps -- Walking Ghosts -- Piece of Bacon -- Selections, July 1944 -- Land Reclamation Outside Auschwitz -- Operating Room -- Surgeries in Barrack 21 -- Pot of Stew -- Destruction of Crematorium 4 -- Death March -- Melk, Ebensee, and Liberation -- Ebensee, After Liberation -- From Ceske Budejovice to Moldava -- Emotional and Physical Healing -- Marienbad -- Prague -- Return to Kosice -- Ebelsberg DP Camp -- Canada.My stories, my times
By Sheila Fischman, Donald Winkler, Jean Chrétien. 2018
October 2018 marks twenty-five years since Jean Chrétien took the helm as Prime Minister. In this collection of short essays,…
he has picked up his pen to reminisce about his long years in the public eye, and the many luminaries he met and worked with. Readers will learn why his commonsense judgment continues to influence our lives to this day, in ways both profound and subtle: from forging long-lasting relationships with foreign countries to making it easy to identify our national airline when we travel. He recalls a memorable trip with the royal family to the Northwest Territories in 1970, and how Ross Perot tried to influence his views on free trade in 1992. Of course, many familiar names figure into these stories, including George W. Bush, Boris Yeltsin, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Pierre Trudeau, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. There are reflections on the many different posts over Chrétien's career, including becoming Canada's first-ever francophone finance minister. He pays tribute to old friends and colleagues, where the values of honour and dedication to public service transcend political views. He reserves his greatest admiration for his wife of more than sixty years, Aline, whom he calls his Rock of Gibraltar. Bestseller. 2018. Uniform title: Mes histoires.Master of persuasion: Brian Mulroney's global legacy
By Fen Osler Hampson. 2018
Based on unprecedented access, this book will tell valuable stories about how Canada succeeded in advancing its national interests on…
trade, the environment, national security, and the advancement of democracy and human rights under Brian Mulroney's leadership. It will explore how he built "teams of rivals" both at home and abroad in pursuit of those interests, and a more prosperous, stable, and just international order, while underscoring the importance of his personal interventions and the trust and respect these reflected. 2018.Mamaskatch: a Cree coming of age
By Darrel McLeod. 2018
Growing up in the tiny village of Smith, Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod was surrounded by his Cree family's history. In…
shifting and unpredictable stories, his mother, Bertha, shared narratives of their culture, their family and the cruelty that she and her sisters endured in residential school. Darrel was comforted by her presence and that of his many siblings and cousins, the smells of moose stew and wild peppermint tea, and his deep love of the landscape. Bertha taught him to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds that would return to watch over and guide him at key junctures of his life. However, in a spiral of events, Darrel's mother turned wild and unstable, and their home life became chaotic. Sweet and innocent by nature, Darrel struggled to maintain his grades and pursue an interest in music while changing homes many times, witnessing violence, caring for his younger siblings and suffering abuse at the hands of his surrogate father. Meanwhile, his older brother's gender transition provoked Darrel to deeply question his own sexual identity. Winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 2018.Raôul Duguay: l'arbre qui cache la forêt (Portrait (Éditions du Cram))
By Louise Thériault. 2017
Raôul Duguay est une véritable légende, une icône, du milieu culturel québécois. Tour à tour poète, chansonnier, philosophe, phonéticien, artiste…
visuel, il illumine le paysage culturel québécois depuis plus de cinquante ans et compte parmi les trop rares créateurs qui accordent une importance primordiale à la réflexion et au contenu. Proche de Gaston Miron, avec qui il fonde la revue Passe-Partout, il participe aussi à Parti-Pris , Duguay s'impose jour après jour, depuis 1966, dans le quotidien des gens, distillant une douce folie, d'apparence libre et inconséquente, mais chargée de sens et d'introspection. La profondeur de sa réflexion et de son œuvre sont majeures : près de vingt albums de chansons, de nombreux ouvrages de poésie et de réflexion philosophique, des collaborations, des essais, de l'expérimentation... L'auteur de la bitt à TiBi est une figure majeure de la culture d'ici, et au-delà du folklore que suggère parfois son œuvre, pour ceux qui ne connaissent que quelques-unes de ses chansons, on découvre une profonde intelligence, une réflexion structurée, un profond amour pour le genre humain... et une critique vive des travers de ces mêmes humains ! 2017.Dead reckoning: how I came to meet the man who murdered my father
By Carys Cragg. 2017
A powerful and emotional memoir about a woman whose father was brutally murdered at home by an intruder. Twenty years…
later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and learns startling new information about the crime. "Dead Reckoning" follows the author’s determination to confront the man who destroyed her world in order to find peace. 2017.La suite
By Jérémy Demay. 2018
Oscar Wilde a dit : Peu de gens vivent, la plupart ne font qu'exister. Personnellement, j'ai passé une bonne partie…
de ma vie à simplement exister. Ce livre regroupe tous les outils que j'ai rencontrés sur ma route et qui me permettent aujourd'hui de goûter à la joie, de créer du beau et de connaître la paix. Bref, à me sentir vraiment vivant. Même si notre passé a été douloureux et que notre présent est dur à accepter, la vraie question est : Que voulons-nous pour la suite ? 2018.Juge Garon assassiné: la trame
By Gabriel Fontaine. 0003
Hard road: Bernie Guindon and the rise and fall of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
By Peter Edwards. 2018
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's…
Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the Hells Angels, which Bernie would join briefly in the early 2000s) to national prominence and international infamy. His life wasn't all bikes and crime. He was also a medalist in boxing for Canada at the Pan Am Games. That tension between the very rough life he was born into and the possibility for success in the straight world (and how aspirations in each fed his success in the other) layer Guindon's story, one of the great untold stories in biker history. 2018.Homes: a refugee story
By Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung. 2018
Tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved from Iraq to Syria just before…
the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's immigration experience. 2018.Michelle Blanc: un genre à part
By Jacques Lanctôt. 2012
Quand Marie Vigneault, une femme de Havre-Saint-Pierre vouée à un brillant avenir, et Marcel Leblanc, un enfant de Duplessis à…
qui on a donné ce nom parmi tant d'autres, se sont rencontrés, rien ne les prédestinait à se marier et à avoir des enfants. Pourtant, ils en ont eu quelques-uns, dont Michel, leur deuxième, le premier bébé de l'année 1961 : un beau bébé avec un corps de garçon mais une personnalité de fille, ce que Michel découvrira bien assez vite. 2012.Le jardin de ton enfance
By Francine Noël. 2012
Comme dans La femme de ma vie, cette chronique d'affections familiales est tissée à même les lignes de vie de…
toute tribu. À mesure que le petit Émile, sagouin de nature, prend racine dans la mythologie de son temps, la voix fine et sagace de la narratrice, comme une berceuse sur fond d'actualité, traverse la toile fragile du bonheur des jours : militante et féministe, elle se promène sur la pointe des pieds dans un jardin de vivre qui commence à grandir. 2012.Le coeur sur la main ((Policiers).)
By Frenchie Jarraud. 1998
In search of pure lust: a memoir
By Lise Weil. 2018
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.Meet Viola Desmond (Scholastic Canada biography)
By Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
On the night of November 8th 1946, Nova Scotia businesswoman Viola Desmond stood up for her right to be in…
the "unofficial" whites-only section of a New Glasgow movie theatre... and was arrested for it. Supported by the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NSCAACP) and the black-owned newspaper The Clarion, Viola took her quest for the right to freedom from discrimination to the courts. While she ultimately did not succeed, she was a beacon to other early civil-rights activists. Her sister Wanda worked hard to promote Viola's legacy, which has been finally honoured by Viola's inclusion on the new Canadian $10 bill. This new picture book features historical photos and a timeline. Grades K-3. Winner of the 2019 Silver Birch Express Award. 2018.Chantal Machabée: désavantage numérique : biographie
By Guillaume Lefrançois, Chantal Machabée. 2018
Le 1er septembre 1989, quand le Réseau des sports voit le jour, elle est la première voix que les amateurs…
de sport du Québec entendent. Près de 30 ans plus tard, le paysage médiatique est aujourd'hui méconnaissable, mais Chantal Machabée a traversé les modes et les époques, accumulant rencontres fascinantes et affectations prestigieuses. Le plus extraordinaire, c'est qu'elle y est parvenue en se démarquant dans un milieu outrageusement dominé par des hommes... Lire la vie de Chantal, c'est aussi revivre l'histoire de RDS, dont elle est le visage emblématique. Des balbutiements de la station jusqu'aux crises de fous rires en direct, en passant par la mort tragique du populaire Paul Buisson, Chantal vit à fond les joies et les peines d'une station qui est aussi sa deuxième famille. Le récit inspirant d'une battante qui n'a pas fini de relever les défis! 2018.