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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 land of Ulro
By Czeslaw Milosz. 1984
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Award winning fictionAward winning non-fiction, General non-fiction, Philosophy, Social issues
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The author contends that the spirit of the 1980s, molded by mass media and political manipulation, is as immoral as…
the 1930s when various fanaticisms held sway. Ulro, Blake's mythical realm of spiritual pain, is used as a metaphor. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. 1984. Uniform title: Ziemia Ulro.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.An anthropologist on Mars: seven paradoxical tales
By Oliver W Sacks. 1995
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Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs. Comfortable with his forty-five years…
of blindness, one man is confused by the sudden restoration of his sight. An autistic zoology professor is at ease with animals but cannot bear human contact. Each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia. Bestseller. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1995.