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Out standing in the field: a memoir of military service
By Sandra Perron. 2017
Throughout her military training, Sandra Perron was repeatedly identified as top of her class, but was also subject to "pranks"…
that included stripping her uniform of insignia (which is a not-so-subtle way of informing her that her platoon did not have her back). The lessons she learned, however, weren't all negative - through several deployments, including Bosnia and Croatia, she forged lasting friendships with men and women. Her memoir shows that while the Canadian military did eventually let her down, she did not do the same to her fellow soldiers or her country; it also shows that the spirit of a true hero cannot be bent or broken. Winner of the 2017 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction (QWF). 2017.Out of darkness: the Jeff Healey story
By Cindy Watson. 2010
Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, opened a door to another world for Jeff Healey. Out…
of darkness he created music, becoming one of the most influential blues-rock and jazz performers of our time. Winner of the 2012 Golden Oak Award. Grades 5-8. 2010.Outwitting history: the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books
By Aaron Lansky. 2006
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge…
of extinction. Precious volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their non-Yiddish-speaking children only to be discarded or destroyed. So Aaron Lansky, just twenty-three, issued a worldwide appeal for unwanted Yiddish works. 2006.Our life with the Rocket: the Maurice Richard story
By Sheila Fischman, Roch Carrier. 2001
Maurice Richard, The Rocket, was one of the greatest hockey players of his era and he remains an enduring icon…
of hockey excellence. This book captures a world in which a brooding, taciturn athlete became a powerful, enduring symbol for French Canadians. It also follows the story of a young boy, the author himself, whose youthful worship of Richard was tempered by politics and personal life, and evolved into an entirely different sort of appreciation for an extraordinary man. Winner of the 2003 CNIB Torgi Award. 2001.La lenteur du monde: [poésie]
By Michel Pleau. 2007
Michel Pleau poursuit ici sa quête de lumière. Un peu en retrait, il se met à l'écoute et cherche à…
dire la beauté du monde. L'enjeu, qui sous-tend le titre, est brillamment relevé et la poésie en sort grandie. 2007.Comment le signale le préfacier, des études portant sur cette période ont paru depuis 1980 (date où cet essai a…
été écrit) mais le travail d'Annette Hayward, qui recourt "systématiquement aux sources primaires", "est le seul à offrir un tel panorama, à nous livrer le récit, presque au jour le jour, des débats qui marquèrent le processus par lequel la littérature allait enfin s'autonomiser sur le plan institutionnel et faire son entrée dans la modernité". 2006.La vie est cool
By Neil Pasricha, Lise Malo. 2010
Le système de santé est surchargé, les voleurs sont en cravate et les maisons coutent cher. Déprimant! Heureusement, tout n'est…
pas gris foncé. Il reste ces petites choses anodines qui illuminent notre quotidien: profiter de l'ouverture d'une nouvelle caisse à l'épicerie, se rendre compte que l'ascenseur est déjà là lorsqu'on appuie sur le bouton, trouver 20$ dans la poche d'un manteau. Véritable pied de nez à la loi de Murphy, " La vie est cool " nous rappelle que la vie nous réserve de jolies surprises. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier. Lauréat du Prix Red Maple 2012. 2010. Titre uniforme: The book of awesome.Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada
By Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette, Jacques Mathieu. 2014
Le Vinland que les Vikings visitent vers l'an 1000 pourrait-il se situer dans la région de Québec ? En 1534,…
Jacques Cartier décrit l'usage du maïs, du tabac et d'une mystérieuse plante, l'annedda, qui guérirait du scorbut et de la syphilis. Mais quel est donc ce miraculeux conifère ? Quel usage fait-on de la gomme de sapin dans les églises en Europe ? Quelle sorte de chapelet mangeaient donc les Amérindiens ? Il est stimulant de constater que plusieurs questions concernant les premières observations des plantes canadiennes demeurent sans réponse et requièrent encore des efforts de recherche. Cette histoire détaillée, palpitante et pleine de rebondissements, est aussi riche en informations scientifiques, culturelles et historiques souvent méconnues. 2014.La réduction: l'autochtone inventé et les amérindiens d'aujourd'hui
By Jean-Jacques Simard. 2003
Sociologue travaillant avec les autochtones depuis plus de trente ans, conseiller des Inuits à la Convention de la Baie-James puis…
fortement impliqué dans les travaux de la commission Bélanger-Campeau, l'auteur rassemble une vingtaine de textes où il aborde la question des populations autochtones du Québec sous l'angle de leur reconnaissance nationale et de leur accession à une souveraineté qui seule leur permettra de remédier à leurs difficultés socioéconomiques tout en conservant leur identité. 2003.La mauvaise mère: confessions
By Marguerite Andersen. 2013
Dans "La mauvaise mere", Marguerite Andersen se penche sur ses rapports avec ses trois enfants et son rapport à la…
maternité. Ces moments choisis (des fragments) sont présentés de façon chronologique, tout en ménageant des réflexions actuelles sur ces souvenirs. 2013.Ossuaries
By Dionne Brand. 2010
At the centre of this poem is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past…
actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. While living in solitude, she crosses borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises of the contemporary world. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.Oscar Wilde
By Richard Ellmann. 1987
Wilde's parents and his Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and his lovers, enemies…
as well as friends, clothes and even the decor are all presented in this biography. The saga of his 1882 American tour and, later, his storming of the bastions of the French literary establishment are followed by the London of the 1890s, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, and his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. Pulitzer Prize winner. 1987.Notre Chanel (D'un lieu à l'autre)
By Jean Lebrun. 2014
One hour in Paris: a true story of rape and recovery
By Karyn L Freedman. 2014
Philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent…
hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. We follow Freedman from an apartment in Paris to a French courtroom, from a trauma centre in Toronto to a rape clinic in Africa. At a time when as many as one in three women in the world have been victims of sexual assault and when many women are still ashamed to come forward, Freedman's book is a moving and essential look at how survivors cope and persevere. Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2014.Spiritual readings and exercises that offer a way to find peace through contemplation and writing journal entries. Examples from the…
author's life illustrate how she worked through emotional pain and distress to achieve a more balanced perspective on life. c1998.Nous avons tant de choses à nous dire: pour un vrai dialogue entre chrétiens et musulmans (Espaces libres ; #88)
By Rachid Benzine, Christian Delorme. 1998
Les deux auteurs, l'un musulman, l'autre prêtre catholique, racontent leur cheminement dans leur foi respective et comment ils en sont…
venus à connaître et à respecter la religion de l'autre; ils sont favorables au dialogue entre chrétiens et musulmans. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire et plus. 1997.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
By Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)
By Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996
The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.Notes from a feminist killjoy: essays on everyday life (Essais ; #no. 2)
By Erin Wunker. 2016
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara…
Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. She attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism, and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices of being a mother and a feminist, to building friendship amongst women as a community-building and -sustaining project, to writing that addresses rape culture from the Canadian context and beyond, Wunker invites the reader into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world. Winner of the 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. 2016.