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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.

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.

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.

Freewheeling: the feuds, broods, and outrageous fortunes of the Billes family and Canada's favorite company

By Ian Brown. 1989

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Business biography, Family biography, Canadian biography, Business and economics, Canadian non-fiction
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Canadian Tire was founded by A.J. and John Billes in 1922 and grew to become a national institution. In 1986,…

one of A.J.'s sons decided to sell his company shares to a group of Canadian Tire dealers, sparking a feud with his sister, Martha. 1990 winner of the National Business Book Award. Strong language.

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.

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.

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 man in the white sharkskin suit: my family's exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado. 2007

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Family biography, History, Lifestyle
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Lagnado's father, Leon, used to conduct business in his signature white sharkskin suit in Cairo in the years between World…

War II and Nasser's rise to power. But with the fall of King Farouk, Leon and his family, like other Egyptian Jews, lost everything and had to flee. With all of their belongings packed into 26 suitcases, the family departed for any land that would take them. 2007.

The Reformation: Europe's house divided 1490 - 1700

By Diarmaid MacCulloch. 2003

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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, European history, Christianity
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The Reformation is often chronicled as a single, momentous period in the history of the Church, where a number of…

competing groups of reformers challenged a monolithic and corrupt Roman Catholicism over issues ranging from authority and the role of the priests to the interpretation of the Eucharist and the use of the Bible in church. MacCulloch argues instead that there were many reformations. He challenges common assumptions about the relationships between Catholic priests and laity, and explains that even within various groups of reformers there was scarcely agreement about ways to change the Church. 2004, c2003. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.

Take my family - please!

By Gary Lautens. 1981

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Award winning fictionFamily biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Humour
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Lautens, winner of the 1981 Leacock Medal for humour, shares his hilarious and entertaining recollections of living, loving, and savouring…

his experiences with a wife, three children, and a dog. Nominated for the 1984 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. Winner of the 1981 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal. 1981.

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