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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.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.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.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.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.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.By Jean Lebrun. 2014
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.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.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.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.By György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.By Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.By John Ayre. 1989
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.By Rob Laidlaw. 2011
Dogs have been loyal to humankind for thousands of years, but today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished, and…
millions of other dogs are used in scientific research and for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions. Laidlaw explores the world of homeless, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face, but he also focuses on the people he calls "dog champions" – people around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Winner of the 2013-14 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2011.By Joey Slinger. 1985
By Don McKay. 1991
By Robyn Sarah, Eric L Ormsby. 2015
Poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of thinking on…
the “hazardous … treasurehouse” that is the past. Natural, musical, meditative, warm, and unexpectedly funny, this is a restorative and moving collection from one of Canada’s most well-regarded poets. Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. 2015.