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The concubine's children: portrait of a family divided
By Denise Chong. 1994
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
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.Tempting Faith DiNapoli: A Novel
By Lisa Gabriele. 2002
Faith genuinely wants to be a good Catholic girl and she's pretty sure Jesus loves her, though the evidence is…
sometimes difficult to find. The trouble is, Faith's angry with everyone in her family. She breaks every commandment and finds herself torn between who she wants to be and who she is. 2002.Shingwauk's vision: native residential schools in Canada
By J. R Miller. 1996
A comprehensive study of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s.…
Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.Profit is not the cure: a citizen's guide to saving medicare
By Maude Barlow. 2002
Activist Maude Barlow traces the history of medicare in Canada, which began in 1966. She compares it with both public…
and private systems in other parts of the world, and describes the proponents of privatization in Canada. Barlow argues against the notion that medicare is a luxury that Canadians can no longer afford. 2002.Pride: celebrating diversity & community
By Robin Stevenson. 2016
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people around the world, Pride is both protest and celebration. It's about embracing diversity.…
It's about fighting for freedom and equality. It's about history, and it's about the future. It's about all of us. Grades 4-7. 2016.Land to light on
By Dionne Brand. 1997
Brand writes about Canada as it is seen by an outsider and about the outsiders who have come here over…
and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves. Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English poetry.Lake of the prairies: a story of belonging
By Warren Cariou. 2002
Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.Child soldier: when boys and girls are used in war (CitizenKid)
By Jessica Dee Humphreys, Michel Chikwanine. 2015
It's 1993, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is going through major political changes. Five-year-old Michel is playing with friends…
one day when, without warning, a group of rebel soldiers pulls up to the school grounds. Forced onto trucks, the frightened boys are taken to a camp in the hills. There they are thrust into a terrifying and violent world. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Non-Fiction Award. 2015.As long as the rivers flow
By Oskiniko Larry Loyie, Connie Brissenden. 2005
It is Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, a time of learning and adventure. He cares for an…
abandoned baby owl, watches his grandmother make winter moccasins, helps the family prepare for a hunting and gathering trip. But soon, a truck comes to forcibly take Lawrence and his siblings away to their new school, which would try to erase their traditional language and culture. Grades 3-6. 2002.Andy Russell's campfire yarns (Andy Russell Ser.)
By Andy Russell. 1998
A place within: rediscovering India
By M. G Vassanji. 2008
Author M. G. Vassanji was born in Africa, where his Indian grandparents had settled, and his relationship to India had…
been complex and contradictory. Vassanji describes his many visits to India, encompassing bustling cities, quiet landscapes, fantastic stories and fascinating characters, in this his part travelogue and description, part history and meditation, and above all a quest for a lost homeland. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2008.A good place to come from
By Morley Torgov. 1974
An account of life in a small town community in Sault Ste. Marie in the late 1930's and early 1940's.…
Winner of the 1975 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Strong language. 1974.The storyteller: memory, secrets, magic and lies
By Anna Porter. 2000
In this memoir, the author shares stories told by her grandfather while she was growing up in Budapest, describing how…
these tales of heroes, strife and survival give her a sense of personal history. She also tells of her own experiences, from hiding Jews in her basement during World War II, through the advent of the Communist era, the 1956 Revolution in Hungary, and the family's exile to New Zealand. c2000.The Russian album
By Michael Ignatieff. 1987
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.Il y a 25 ans, le déluge: des héros et des témoins racontent
By Mikaël Lalancette. 2021
Du 19 au 21 juillet 1996, des pluies diluviennes s'abattent sur les régions du SaguenayLac-Saint-Jean, de Charlevoix, de la Haute-Mauricie…
et de la Haute-Côte-Nord. Jusqu'à 275 millimètres d'eau tombent 50 heures durant, phénomène météorologique qui ne se produit qu'une fois tous les 10 000 ansEmpreintes de résistance: filiations et récits de femmes autochtones, noires et racisées
By Alexandra Pierre. 2021
Y a-t-il quelque chose de commun entre la mort de Joyce Echaquan en 2020 et celle de Marie-Joseph Angélique en…
1734? La militante de longue date Alexandra Pierre en aurait long à dire sur le sujet. Dans ce livre, elle s'entretient avec neuf femmes autochtones, noires et racisées afin de connaître leurs traditions de résistance et faire apparaître le fil qui les unit les unes aux autres. Des échanges avec ces femmes engagées, elle en tire un matériau inédit, ancré dans les luttes passées et futures, et détaché des grandes trames du féminisme blanc et du militantisme de gauche. Habilement orchestré, alternant de l'intime au politique, cet essai personnel nous fait découvrir la perspective décoloniale d'une penseuse insoumiseSmile So Big
By Sunshine Quem Tenasco. 2023
A magical mirror helps a young girl understand her true beauty in this new picture book from the creators of…
Nibi’s Water Song.When Challa comes home in tears after being teased about her smile, her mom gives her a special gift. It’s a magic mirror — shiny, beaded and beautiful — passed on from her mom, and from her djo djo before her.Challa’s mom tells her that when anyone looks into the mirror, they will see their true self. There’s just one rule: Everyone has to say what they see in the reflection.At first the mirror seems to work for everyone but her. Challa keeps looking and looking. The more beauty she sees in herself, the happier she feels, and the longer she looks into the mirror, the more beauty she sees, until finally Challa sees so much beauty, she can't contain her smile!This special story, from award-winning activist Sunshine Quem Tenasco and artist Chief Lady Bird, introduces readers to concepts of self-acceptance, self-empowerment, and recognition of the unique beauty that comes from within.L'été funambule: nouvelles (Romanichels)
By Louise Dupré. 2008
"Ce recueil de nouvelles est tout entier consacré aux femmes. Il est pour ainsi dire un constat, mais aussi un…
questionnement. Sommes-nous rivées, pensent-elles, à notre destin ou est-il possible de faire le saut dans le vide ? Et qu'est-ce qui nous attend en bas? La catastrophe ou un monde nouveau susceptible d'effacer en un tournemain le passé et son emprise? [...]" -- 4e de couvLouis le magnétiseur
By Serge Gauthier. 2005
En 1837, Louis Larouche, un habitant de la paroisse de Sainte-Agnès dans la région de Charlevoix, prétend connaître le magnétisme…
et posséder des pouvoirs quasi surnaturels. L’abbé Godefroy Tremblay, curé de cette même paroisse et chargé par son évêque de trouver l’argent nécessaire pour la construction d’une belle église de pierre, est d’abord choqué par les présomptions du magnétiseur, mais, peu à peu, fasciné malgré lui, il se prend à écouter d’une oreille beaucoup plus attentive les propos de Larouche, qui affirme connaître l’emplacement d’un trésor fabuleux. Envoûté, le curé de Sainte-Agnès se met à rêver, à croire que cet improbable trésor pourrait enfin permettre à sa paroisse de se doter de l’église qu’elle mérite. Ainsi donc, malgré les objurgations de certains de ses fidèles, il plonge aveuglément dans cette aventure étrange, aux charmes maléfiques… Inspiré de documents d’archives, ce court récit présente un Canada français du XIXe siècle moins uniforme, où la foi catholique est moins monolithique et incontestée que ne le voudrait l’imagerie courante de la vie paysanne de cette époque. Certaines pratiques magiques, dont la base est une recherche spirituelle, ont connu leur vogue aussi bien en ce temps-là que de nos jours. Louis le Magnétiseur en est une démonstration brillante, digne de nos légendes les plus belles.