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Power to the people
By Laura Ingraham. 2007
Political talk-show host and author denounces politicians, Hollywood, public schools, the media, and judges for degrading traditional values. Discusses the…
war in Iraq, immigration, terrorism, and pornography and calls on Americans to reconnect to their heritage. 2007.Price paid: the fight for First Nations survival
By Bill Wilson, Bev Sellars. 2016
The book begins with glimpses of foods, medicines, and cultural practices North America's indigenous peoples have contributed for worldwide benefit.…
It documents the dark period of regulation by racist laws during the twentieth century, and then discusses new emergence in the twenty-first century into a re-establishment of Indigenous land and resource rights. The result is a candidly told personal take on the history of a culture's fight for their rights and survival. It is Canadian history told from a First Nations point of view. Bestseller. 2016.Precious cargo: my year driving the kids on school bus 3077
By Craig Davidson. 2016
Tells the story of one year in the author's life - driving a school bus full of special-needs kids. Shows…
us how his evolving relationship with the kids on that bus, each of them struggling physically as well as emotionally and socially, slowly but surely changed his life along with the lives of the precious cargo in his care. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2018. 2016.Policing Black lives: state violence in Canada from slavery to the present
By Robyn Maynard. 2017
An exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. Dispels many prevailing myths that…
cast Canada as a land of benevolence and racial equality, and uncovers long-standing state practices that have restricted Black freedom. Creates a framework that makes legible how anti-Blackness has influenced the construction of Canada's carceral landscape, including the development and application of numerous criminal law enforcement and border regulation practices. Traces the historical and contemporary mobilization of anti-Blackness spanning from slavery, 19th and 20th century segregation practices, and the application of early drug and prostitution laws through to the modern era. Maynard makes visible the ongoing legacy of a demonized and devalued Blackness that is manifest today as racial profiling by police, immigration agents and social services, the over-representation of Black communities in jails and prisons, anti-Black immigration detention and deportation practices, the over-representation of Black youth in state care, the school-to-prison pipeline and gross economic inequality. Bestseller. 2017.Pleins gaz (Vis-à-vies)
By Ivan Steenhout, John Pitt. 1986
L'auteur abandonne sa vie routinière et ennuyeuse et part à l'aventure sur sa moto. Dans ce livre, il raconte son…
voyage de 32,000 milles à travers les Amériques à l'âge de 61 ans. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle. 1986.Gens de rivières
By André Noël. 1994
Reportages sur dix rivières du Québec et sur un fleuve en Inde. Précédés d'un historique sur le rôle qu'ont joué…
les rivières dans le développement du Québec, ces reportages tracent le portrait des gens très différents, mais qui partagent un même amour de l'eau vive. 1994.Philomena: the true story of a mother and the son she had to give away
By Martin Sixsmith. 2013
Journalist chronicles the life of Philomena Lee, an Irish unwed mother who was forced to give her young son up…
for adoption in 1955, then spent fifty years trying to find him. 2013. Uniform title: Lost child of Philomena LeeAmériquoisie ((Collection Cadastres).)
By Jean Désy. 2016
C'est au fil de mes pérégrinations dans tout le territoire de la péninsule Québec-Labrador, dans les villes le long du…
Saint-Laurent, au sud, mais surtout au nord, sur la Côte-Nord / Nitassinan, à la Baie-James / Eeyou Istchee et dans le Grand Nord / Nunavik, que j'ai fini par mieux comprendre les extraordinaires qualités de la vie métisse. À n'en point douter, l'avenir harmonieux de ce pays passe par la métisserie. Amériquoisie rassemble des essais portant sur l'autochtonie, le nomadisme, le paysage et la nordicité. Témoin, auteur, promeneur et acteur, Jean Désy court le territoire et nous parle de cette aventure dite métisserie. 2016.Maudit hiver: toutes les raisons de ne pas l'aimer
By Alain Dubuc. 2016
" Avec une durée moyenne de cinq mois, l'hiver au Québec, on peut dire que ça nous connaît! Peu d'entre…
nous savent cependant que Montréal, avec sa température moyenne de -8,3°C en hiver, est la métropole la plus froide du monde. Cela fait-il de nous des Nordiques au même titre que les Scandinaves, qui, géographiquement, vivent beaucoup plus au nord que nous? Quel est notre réel rapport à l'hiver? Combien nous coûte-t-il, tant individuellement que collectivement? Y sommes-nous acclimatés ou nous contentons-nous d'y survivre? Serions-nous en train de tourner le dos à l'hiver? Avec la rigueur et la verve qu'on lui connaît, Alain Dubuc s'indigne contre l'hiver et, au passage, remet en question notre "nordicité". " -- 4e de couv.Peanuts: a golden celebration : the art and the story of the world's best-loved comic strip
By Charles M Schulz, David Larkin. 1999
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip, Schulz offers an autobiographical sketch and tells how his…
own life experiences and those of people around him provided inspiration for the daily strips. Contains text of more than one thousand Peanuts cartoons. Bestseller. 1999.Paul McCartney: the life
By Philip Norman. 2016
An official biography approved by the former Beatle covers the whole span of his life, from losing his mother in…
childhood to his often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after The Beatles' breakup, his time with Wings, and the death of his wife, Linda. Bestseller. 2016.Paris to the moon
By Adam Gopnik. 2000
In 1995 an American writer moved with his wife and young son to Paris, fulfilling a childhood dream. He recorded…
his expatriate family experience and views on French culture and society during their five-year stay. Bestseller. 2000.Paris 1919: six months that changed the world
By Margaret MacMillan. 2001
Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president…
Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - the author's great-grandfather - as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2001. Uniform title: PeacemakersPaddlenorth: adventure, resilience, and renewal in the Arctic wild
By Jennifer Kingsley. 2014
Paddlenorth tells the riveting story of Kingsley's 54 day paddling adventure on the Back River, in the northern wilderness of…
the subarctic, as she and her five companions battle raging winds, impenetrable sea ice, and treacherous rapids. The perils include rising tensions among the group, but these are tempered by grizzly sightings, icy swims, and the caribou's summer migration. Woven through this spellbinding narrative are the harrowing accounts of earlier explorers, some of whom perished, but whose traces along the river warn us against romantic notions of the wild. Paddlenorth paints an indelible portrait of the spectacular northern landscape and eloquently explores what wilderness means to us. 2014.Out standing in their field: the rural adventures of Hap & Edna
By Robert Collins. 2000
Meet Hap and Edna Fitzpatrick, BC's best loved farm couple, and tag along on their rural adventures and misadventures. The…
tales they tell feature a colourful cast of hilarious characters, both human and animal. 2000.Paddle to the Arctic: the incredible story of a kayak quest across the roof of the world
By Don Starkell. 1995
Don Starkell decided to kayak from Churchill, Manitoba to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories in the summer of 1990. While he didn't…
make it that year, he tried twice more and was finally successful. Here he shares the diary where he recorded his adventures and details about the many people and places he encountered on his journey. 1995.Papal sin: structures of deceit
By Garry Wills. 2000
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author--for "Lincoln at Gettysburg"--and practicing Catholic indicts the Church's hierarchy for the papal sin of deception. Calls…
for internal reform regarding teachings on birth control and abortion, priests' celibacy, and the ordainment of women. Challenges the Vatican's attitude towards the Holocaust. Bestseller. 2000.Our turn
By Kirstine Stewart. 2015
Kirstine Stewart got her first job when she applied for a position as a "girl Friday" at a film distribution…
house. Having worked her way up from the bottom--under women and men, leaders good and bad--she believes it's time we leaped past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way. The digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the work force with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created a new reality that demands a new style of leader with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners. The opportunity is there. The question Stewart tackles is, how do we seize it? Bestseller. 2015.Mon premier guide de voyage au Québec
By Christine Ouin, Louise Pratte. 2009
Edgar, un sympathique chien grassouillet, et Julie, une jolie libellule, invite les enfants à les suivre dans leur exploration des…
différentes régions du Québec et des attractions susceptibles de les intéresser. Parcourant tour à tour la campagne, les montagnes, la route du fleuve, le bord de la mer, les amusantes mascottes font découvrir aux enfants la diversité des paysages québécois, sa faune et sa flore, ses monuments, son folklore, ses mets typiques, proposant au passage des haltes historiques, culturelles, sportives, gourmandes ou bucoliques. Des anecdotes judicieusement choisies permettent quant à elles de prendre le pouls de chaque région visitée, qu'elles abordent des légendes amérindiennes, la "parlure québécoise" ou la réputation des bleuets du lac Saint-Jean! Années 2-4. 2009.Le Sentier transcanadien au Québec (Espaces verts)
By Yves Séguin. 2002
Ce guide vous propose d'effectuer la traversée du Québec par le Sentier transcanadien, ce long terrain de jeux où la…
pratique de plusieurs activités de plein air est à l'honneur: randonnée pédestre, vélo, équitation, ski de fond, motoneige... Tout au long des divers chapitres, l'auteur Yves Séguin présente des renseignements pratiques (état du sentier, distances entre les attraits, points d'intérêt et municipalités) permettant un séjour d'une journée, d'une fin de semaine ou de vacances. 2002.