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The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided

By Denise Chong. 1994

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio

Chong traces her family's history from China to Canada. Her grandfather left his wife and emigrated to Canada, accompanied by…

the concubine he bought in 1924. In Canada, they stinted and sacrificed to support his family in China. Chong tells of her grandparents and parents, and the visits she made to China to try to unite the strands of her family's past. Winner of the 1995 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1994.

The bite of the mango

By Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland. 2008

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Journals and memoirs, Women biography, Lifestyle
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Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who…

cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her story garnered international interest and assistance, which eventually brought her to Toronto. Her autobiography testifies to Kamara's horrific trauma, but with the aim of fostering hope and reconciliation. Winner of the 2011 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. For junior high and older readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2008.

Ten green bottles: the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai

By Vivian Jeanette Kaplan. 2002

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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Asian travel and geography, World War II
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For a brief period between 1938 and 1941, roughly 20,000 Jews found refuge from the Nazis in the one place…

not requiring visas, police certificates or proofs of financial independence: Shanghai. In 1939, the author's family made a month-long, 7,000-mile journey to Shanghai, struggling with heat, disease, poverty, and fear. With the war's end came the shock of learning what became of family and friends left behind in Europe. Descriptions of violence. 2002.

Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen

By Rosemary Sullivan. 1995

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…

poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.

Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx

By Michel Bock. 2004

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Award winning fictionBiography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, Canadian non-fiction, Lifestyle
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Un ouvrage qui s'adresse aux historiens, universitaires, chercheurs et professeurs. Un autre ouvrage sur Groulx me direz-vous? Je répondrais :…

enfin une analyse complète sur Groulx. Figure incontournable de l'histoire du nationalisme au Québec, quiconque s'intéresse à l'histoire des idées ne peut ignorer Groulx et doit absolument lire cet essai de Michel Bock. Prix du Gouverneur Général 2005. 2004.

L'intolérance: une problématique générale

By Lise Noël. 1989

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Award winning fictionCanadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, Social issues
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L'intolérance et l'oppression peuvent prendre des visages multiples. On n'avait pas encore tente jusqu'ici de dresser un tableau d'ensemble qui…

montre comment s'articulent les rapports dominants/dominés autour des paramètres que sont l'âge, le sexe, la condition physique et mentale, l'appartenance ethnique, la langue ou l'orientation sexuelle. C'est ce que l'on trouve dans ce livre. 1989.

Northrop Frye: a biography

By John Ayre. 1989

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…

In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.

Molière

By Roger Duchêne. 1998

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Award winning fictionArts and entertainment, Biography, Literature biography
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Molière n'a pas laissé de confidences. Pas une lettre, pas un mot. Il a près de quarante ans quand il…

commence à faire parler de lui. Sa vie et son oeuvre font scandale. On l'accuse de ruiner la religion, la famille, la morale. Et d'avoir épousé la fille de sa maîtresse, sa propre fille... Qui ne se priverait pas de le cocufier abondamment. Ses ennemis forgent sa légende noire, ses amis une légende dorée. Cette biographie les replace enfin dans leur contexte. En les prenant au sérieux, sans les tenir pour vraies, en les présentant au lecteur pour qu'il puisse juger à son tour. 1998.

Les artisans de la paix: comment Lloyd George, Clemenceau et Wilson ont redessiné la carte du monde

By Margaret MacMillan. 2006

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Award winning fictionHistory, European history, World War I
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Paris, 1919 : après la " guerre qui devait mettre fin à toutes les guerres ", des hommes et des…

femmes de tous les pays convergent vers la capitale pour la conférence de la Paix où va se redessiner la carte du monde. Outre les représentants des plus grandes puissances victorieuses - Wilson, Lloyd George et Clemenceau -, affluent journalistes, ambassadeurs et porte-parole de cent causes différentes - de T.E. Lawrence à la reine Marie de Roumanie, en passant par J.M. Keynes et Hô Chi Minh. Paris est alors le centre du monde, le lieu où se liquident les empires, où naissent de nouveaux pays, et où vont se nouer drames et malentendus. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2006. Titre uniforme: The peacemakers.

De Kooning: an American master

By Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Willem De Kooning. 2004

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Fine arts biography
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Biography of Dutch-born artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), who became a major figure in the mid-twentieth-century New York abstract expressionism…

scene. Explores de Kooning's bohemian habits, friendship with Gorky, financial backing from Hirshhorn and Fourcade, only marriage, and passion for painting. Some descriptions of sex. Pulitzer Prize. 2004.

The year of magical thinking

By Joan Didion. 2005

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, Death and bereavement
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Writer reflects on her emotional response to the unexpected death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, after a visit to…

their comatose daughter. Discusses the shock of suddenly facing a crisis, the memory of their time together as a family, and the meaning of marriage. National Book Award. Bestseller. 2005.

With Borges

By Alberto Manguel. 2004

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction
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During the 1960s, Manguel, then a teenager, spent many evenings reading to Jorge Luis Borges, a giant of modern literature,…

because Borges had gradually become blind. As the author describes his visits to Borges in his dark, modest apartment, reading out loud and talking about books, we have a privileged look into the inner world of a literary legend, a window into the private life of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. Winner of the Prix du Livre en Poitou-Charentes 2003.

Confessions of an immigrant's daughter (Social History of Canada. #34.)

By Laura Goodman Salverson, K. P Stich. 1981

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Women biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Salverson's autobiography describes the struggles of a young Icelandic woman to rise above an early life of poverty, isolation and…

upheaval. It also depicts the sometimes agonizing process of the immigrant, adjusting to a life in a new country. It discusses the discrimination against women and ethnic minorities she encountered as she attempted to fulfill her own dreams. Winner of the 1939 Governor General's Award. (Social History of Canada ; 34)

The life and death of Adolf Hitler

By James Giblin. 2002

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Historical biography, Politics and government biography, War and military biography, World War II
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Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and…

career from his birth in Austria in 1889 to his death in Berlin in 1945. Briefly discusses this tyrant's legacy. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Siebert Award. 2002.

Willie, the life of W. Somerset Maugham: The Life Of W. Somerset Maugham

By Robert Calder. 1989

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography
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An examination of writer Maugham's homosexuality and unhappy marriage, his Victorian sense of propriety, his wanderlust, his verbal and financial…

generosity, and his turbulent relationship with his daughter. Winner of the 1989 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1989.

Vimy

By Pierre Berton. 1986

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, War, World War I
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In 1917, the Canadian Corps seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front, a feat thought impossible…

by the British, French and German forces. The author believes they succeeded because the men were civilians, with flexible minds unfettered by military rules. Bestseller 1986. Winner of the 1987 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award.

Village of the small houses: a memoir of sorts

By Ian Ferguson. 2003

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Historical biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Humour
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Ferguson has crafted a delightfully idiosyncratic account of growing up in the North, where Fort Vermilion Alberta seemed as exotic…

as Australia or Mexico. The memorable cast of characters includes Lloyd Loonskin, Sixtoes Mitchell, Ellen "No Refunds" McTeer, and Ferguson's father Hank, a con man of consummate charm. 2003.

Touch the dragon: a Thai journal

By Karen Connelly. 1992

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Canadian non-fiction, Travel and geography, Asian travel and geography
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Karen Connelly, 17 years old and bored with her life, was accepted by an exchange program which took her from…

Calgary to a small town in Thailand. She describes her assimilation into the Thai language and culture and her despair at leaving when the year came to an end. Winner of the 1993 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1992.

The Russian album

By Michael Ignatieff. 1987

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Award winning fiction, Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, European history
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Through the use of his grandparents' diaries, the author recreates his family history. The Ignatieffs, firmly entrenched in the Russian…

nobility, served in the tsarist government. In late 1917, the events of the Revolution overtook the family and they chose exile in the West. 1987 Governor General's Award winner. 1987.

The right cheek: an autobiography (The French writers of Canada series)

By Claire Martin. 1968

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, General non-fiction
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In the second part of her autobiography, the author describes her adolescence and early womanhood in her father's house, one…

of gloom and oppressive brutality. The attitudes of the times towards sex and women are bitterly attacked and ridiculed. Sequel to "In an iron glove" (DC00901). 1975, c1968. Uniform title: Dans un gant de fer, v. 2, La joue droite.

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