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Every Child Matters
By Phyllis Webstad, Karlene Harvey. 2023
Learn the meaning behind the phrase, 'Every Child Matters.' Orange Shirt Day founder, Phyllis Webstad, offers insights into this heartfelt…
movement. Every Child Matters honours the history and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples on Turtle Island and moves us all forward on a path toward Truth and Reconciliation. If you're a Residential School Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor - you matter. For the children who didn't make it home - you matter. The child inside every one of us matters. Every Child Matters.L' Horizon par hasard
By Anne Parent. 2023
Depuis l’enfance, une femme avance, se perd, se métamorphose jusqu’à la disparition, ses pieds dans le sable, ses cheveux au…
soleil, ses mains ouvertes, son corps fatigué. L’intimité de sa chambre abandonnée explose de mystère et révèle à voix basse l’histoire de ses joies et de ses douleurs. En un réseau serré d’échos poétiques, Anne Martine Parent intrique silhouettes et fantômes, constellations, forêts, villes de sable et plages en ruines. Les peaux raccommodées de feuilles mortes, les corps féminins trahis et disloqués, qui se défont et se recomposent, deviennent autant de lieux de réparation, d’horizons fulgurants qu’on échafaude en retenant son souffle.Pageboy: A memoir
By Elliot Page. 2023
The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his truth. "Can I kiss you?"…
It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he'd carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. With Juno's massive success, Elliot became one of the world's most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare. As he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do, until enough was enough. Full of behind the scenes details and intimate interrogations on sex, love, trauma, and Hollywood, Pageboy is the story of a life pushed to the brink. But at its core, this beautifully written, winding journey of what it means to untangle ourselves from the expectations of others is an ode to stepping into who we truly are with defiance, strength, and joy.La série du siècle: Telle que je l'ai vécue
By Ken Dryden. 2022
Le samedi 2 septembre 1972, au Forum de Montréal, les meilleurs affrontent les meilleurs. Pour la première fois, le Canada,…
pays qui a inventé le hockey, et l'Union soviétique, qui a commencé à y jouer 26 ans plus tôt, croisent le fer. Ayant vécu lui-même cet événement historique au cœur de l'action, Ken Dryden, gardien de but légendaire et auteur à succès, nous le raconte comme si nous y étions, nous faisant vivre le jeu minute par minute. Cette série, la plus importante de toutes, changea à jamais le hockey. C'est sans doute aussi l'un des moments les plus marquants de notre histoire. Grâce à Ken Dryden, nous comprenons enfin pourquoi.Discussions avec mes parents
By François Morency. 2017
"J'ai pas seulement ri à en essuyer mes lunettes, j'ai hurlé au point où ma blonde m'a demandé de quitter…
la pièce. François écrit vraiment, vraiment bien." Michel Barrette. "Je trouvais François Morency drôle, mais ce n'est rien à côté de ses parents. J'attends leur spectacle avec impatience." Guy A Lepage. 2017.A man called Intrepid: the secret war
By William Stevenson. 1976
The first integrated intelligence organization of World War II was set up by a Canadian with the code name "Intrepid."…
He was given the extraordinary mission of guarding covert communications between Churchill and Roosevelt in 1940. Bestseller. 1976. (Reissue).Never cry wolf
By Farley Mowat. 1963
The eloquent record of the author's study of the habits and behaviour of wolves in the subarctic barren lands indicates…
that wolves are not as dangerous as tradition has led us to believe. 1963.A doorway in time
By Herbert O'Driscoll. 1985
Hey world, here I am!
By Jean Little. 1986
Kate Bloomfield first made her appearance in Jean Little's novels "Look through my window" (DC03610) and "Kate". This is a…
collection of her poems and short prose pieces about God, love, friends and being Jewish. Grades 5-8. 1986.50 north: an Atlantic battleground (Canadians at war ; #1)
By Alan Easton. 1963
A Canadian naval officer recounts the drama played out on the North Atlantic between the Allied fleet and German U-boats…
during World War II. He reveals the fortitude and endurance of the heroic seamen. 1980, c1963.You mean I don't have to feel this way?: new help for depression, anxiety, and addiction
By Colette Dowling. 1991
Born naked
By Farley Mowat. 1993
One of Canada's best-known writers describes the first 16 years of his life. Born to modest circumstances in south-central Ontario,…
Mowat was a solitary child who early on discovered the world of animals - the "Others." Mowat tells of his friendships with the animals of his childhood, and his discovery and exploration of the natural world. 1993.It all adds up: from the dim past to the uncertain future : a nonfiction collection
By Saul Bellow. 1994
Essays, eulogies, interviews, lectures, and articles collected over forty years from an award-winning author known mainly for his fiction. Bellow…
shares his enthusiasm for the accessibility of Mozart's music and his affection for Chicago; reflects on friendships with other writers and on favourite haunts; and tucks in two autobiographical pieces with curmudgeonly reluctance. 1994.Marshall McLuhan: escape into understanding : a biography
By W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan. 1997
A portrait of the controversial media philosopher who originated the dictum, "the medium is the message." Explores McLuhan's ideas and…
their implications in the electronic age. Traces his childhood, his conversion to Catholicism, and his academic career. 1997.As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl
By John Colapinto. 2000
Describes the traumatic life of Canadian David Reimer, who was born an identical twin in 1965. After a botched circumcision…
left him without a penis, he was castrated, raised as a girl, given hormones, and falsely publicized as a great success. Miserable at fourteen, David reverted to being male. Some strong language. Co-winner of the 2002 CNIB Torgi Award. 2000.Bravo! Miss Brown: a world without sight and sound
By Joan Mactavish. 2001
Biography of Mae Brown (1935-1973), who was the first deaf-blind person to graduate from a Canadian university, and was a…
counsellor at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Her college tutor chronicles Brown's family, education, social and professional life, and triumphs and disappointments.Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
By Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.Sun in My Tummy
By Laura Alary, Andrea Blinick. 2022
In simple but expressive language, a mother describes to her young daughter how the sun’s light becomes the energy in…
her body through the oats, blueberries, and milk in her home-cooked breakfast.Letters in a bruised cosmos
By Liz Howard. 2021
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . GRIFFIN…
POETRY PRIZE, FINALIST I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of living with each other is at the core of Liz Howard's daring and intimate second collection. Letters in a Bruised Cosmos asks who do we become after the worst has happened? Invoking the knowledge histories of Western and Indigenous astrophysical science, Howard takes us on a breakneck river course of radiant and perilous survival in which we are invited to “reforge [ourselves] inside tomorrow's humidex”. Everyday observation, family history, and personal tragedy are sublimated here in a propulsive verse that is relentlessly its own. Part autobiography, part philosophical puzzlement, part love song, Letters in a Bruised Cosmos is a book that once read will not soon be forgotten