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By Anne Helen Petersen. 2017
A popular BuzzFeed columnist examines the phenomenon of popular provocative womanhood to discuss the rise of such counterculture stars as…
Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, and Caitlyn Jenner, exploring why they are popular in spite of nonconforming behaviors. 2017.By Scaachi Koul. 2017
In suburban Calgary, at a young and impressionable age, Scaachi Koul learned what made her miserable. Not just uncomfortable, not…
just mild irritants, not just the long commute you have in the morning: things that make you doubt your humanity. And it turns out, everything did. Scaachi shares her observations, fears and experiences as a woman of colour growing up in Canada. These are stories ranging from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to internet garbage, to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrated parents and bled down a generation. Stories of returning to India where her parents grew up, and ultimately about trying to find her place in the world. 2017.By Matthew Whyman. 2000
Drawing on real teenagers' experiences and statistics, this guide discusses smoking. It includes advice on coping with peer pressure and…
resisting temptation. It also provides practical strategies for giving up smoking and hard-hitting information on its effects.By Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.By David Rhodes. 2000
A collection of daily meditations for Lent, Holy Week and Easter. The author draws on the social justice aspect of…
Christ's teaching, relating the gospel to everyday life. Each Sunday's meditation is based on a phrase from the Lord's Prayer; this phrase is echoed in the following week's meditations. 2000.By Margaret Silf. 1999
'Daysprings' offers a fragment of the living Word for every day, together with a short reflection connecting the words of…
Scripture to simple events, thoughts, or encounters in our daily lives. These fragments are small enough to carry through a busy life, yet big enough to nourish hungry hearts. (Given by Guild of Church Braillists) 1999.By Philip Sheldrake, William J Short. 1999
The author examines the roots of the Franciscan order and then explores persistent themes such as incarnation, suffering, poverty, peace…
and creation. Through his insights we see the relevance of their spirituality for our lives today. 1999.By Michael Longley. 2000
This book of poetry leads the reader through the various hells we made last century. The author takes us from…
the fields of Flanders, through Terezin and Auschwitz to the troubles of Northern Ireland.By Elaine Brook, Julie Donnelly. 1986
Julie Donnelly has been blind since the age of eight - the result of glaucoma. She is a switchboard operator…
in a London bank and travels to and from work with her yellow Labrador guide dog, Bruno, her first release from the prison of blindness. She met Elaine Brook, an experienced mountaineer, and her horizons took another great leap. After learning to climb in this country they began to plan the impossible: the trek, in winter, to the 18,000 foot summit of Kala Patthar. 1986.By Lennard Bickel. 1988
Bickel tells the life of Louis Braille, creator of the code of raised dots which allows the blind to read…
and write. He tells of how Braille was blinded in an accident, and how he began to work on his tactile system of writing. He also describes the difficulties Braille faced in the initial lack of acceptance of the code by those who refused to recognize a system not based on the shapes of the print alphabet. 1988.By Peter Vardy. 1997
Exploring where sex, God and religion meet, this book asks whether there is a clear teaching in the Church and…
the Bible about how we should behave sexually. It also considers whether these are matters over which the modern church is out of touch and has no business ruling on.By Michael W Higgins, Douglas Richard Letson. 2002
The Catholic Church has been in existence for two thousand years, reaches around the globe with 1 billion followers, and…
is considered meaningful and vital even in modern times. However, the Church's role in modern life is greatly debated around the world. Recently, there has been little immunity from calls for change, and its response will reveal whether it is inclusive or withdrawn. 2002.By J. D. Vance. 2016
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan…
that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past. Bestseller. 2016.By Dallas Willard. 1999
By Jivani. Jamil. 2018
The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men…
responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man’s future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. 2018.By Laurie Lawlor. 2001
Biography of the blind and deaf girl whose spirit knew no limitations. Discusses Keller's achievements in the context of the…
social expectations for women and people with disabilities in the early twentieth century. Describes her disappointments and frustrations as well as her accomplishments. Grades 5-8. 2001.By Kim E Nielsen. 2004
Feminist professor analyzes the political and social views of Helen Keller. Describes Keller's support of the Socialist Party of America…
in 1909, women's suffrage and birth control, and radical labour unions. But, according to the author, "the disability politics she adopted were frequently conservative, consistently patronizing, and occasionally repugnant." 2004.By George Sullivan. 2000
Biography of the gifted woman who successfully dealt with her own disabilities while trying to better the lives of other…
deaf and blind people. Uses excerpts from Helen Keller's writings. For grades 3-6. 2000.By James Wilson, Kenneth A Stuckey. 1995
Collected and edited by Kenneth Stuckey from the four original editions of 1821 through 1838. "Offers insights into the lives…
of blind people before the great emancipators of the blind," says Stuckey. Subjects include Homer, Milton, Handel, and many others. 1995.By Lawrence Scadden. 2008
Autobiography of California-born (1939) Scadden, who was blinded at age five. Describes his career as a research psychologist with a…
doctorate degree. Discusses his work in developing assistive technology for visually impaired people and promoting science education. Examines the effects of blindness, Scadden's personal development, and his experiences abroad. 2008.