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The author writes of her conversion from a Southern Baptist with a patriarchal view of the world to a feminist…
who glories in the spiritual consciousness of womanhood. Kidd includes research from the Bible, fairy tales, myths, and feminist religious leaders to illustrate her beliefs. 1996.The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. His letters to such…
luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. 1970.The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell; Vol. 3: As I please, 1943-1945
By George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia Orwell. 1970
The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell: Volume 1 ; An age like this, 1920-1940
By George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia Orwell. 1970
The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. His letters to such…
luminaries as Julian Symons, Anthony Powell, Arthur Koestler, and Cyril Connolly are poignant and personal. His essays, covering everything from "English Cooking" to "Literature and Totalitarianism," are memorable, and his books reviews are among the most lucid and intelligent ever written. V.1 "An age like this, 1920-1940." 1970.The Burgess Shale: the Canadian writing landscape of the 1960s (CLC Kreisel lecture series)
By Margaret Atwood. 2017
Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that…
contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of those times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today - from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals. 2017.The book of William: how Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world
By Paul Collins. 2009
English professor and NPR contributor recounts his journeys around the world to trace the fate of Shakespeare’s rare extant folios…
- early compilations published by his business partners, actors John Heminge and Henry Condell - after the bard’s death in 1616. Discusses the collection’s printing history, auction appearances, and various owners. c2009.The brief reincarnation of a girl
By Susan Goyette. 2015
In 2006, a four-year-old Massachusetts girl died from prolonged exposure to a cocktail of drugs that a psychiatrist had prescribed…
to treat ADHD and bipolar disorder; her parents were convicted of her murder. Goyette strives to confront the senselessness of this story, answering logic’s failure to encompass the complexity of mental illness, poverty and child neglect with a mythopoetic, sideways use of image and language. Goyette portrays the court proceedings’ usual suspects in unusual ways, evokes the ghost of the girl, personifies poverty as a belligerent bully and offers an unexpected emblem of love and hope in a bear. 2015.The Breakwater book of contemporary Newfoundland poetry
By Mark Callanan, James Langer. 2013
Gathering the strongest poetry published by Newfoundlanders since the death of E.J. Pratt in 1964, this groundbreaking anthology features selections…
from twelve of the province’s most impressive poets, including Al Pittman, Tom Dawe, Mary Dalton, John Steffler, Patrick Warner, and Ken Babstock. With over forty years of poetry on display, this collection celebrates the rousing and the rebirth of contemporary Newfoundland verse. 2013.The Canadian UFO report: the best cases revealed
By Geoff Dittman, Chris Rutkowski. 2006
What were the "ghost airplanes" seen over the Parliament Buildings in 1915, or the flying saucers seen by officers over…
Goose Bay Air Force Base in the 1940s and 1950s? Was a prospector burned by a UFO in Manitoba in 1967, did a UFO crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, and was Quebec invaded by UFOs in 1973? Drawn from government documents and civilian case files, this book includes a chronological overview of the best Canadian UFO cases, from the very first sighting of "fiery serpents" over Montreal in 1662 to more recent reports. c2006.The caregiver: a life with Alzheimer's
By Aaron Alterra. 2007
Alterra made the decision to become the primary caregiver for his wife once she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He soon…
discovered that life with an Alzheimer's patient is an ever-changing series of challenges - for instance, his wife lost her ability to walk but not to dance, so husband and wife dance from bed to chair or room to room. He covers the search for understanding, the hallucinations, mood changes, loss of mental and physical functioning, and unpredictable nature of the disease. 2007, first published 1999.The change: women, aging and the menopause
By Germaine Greer. 1991
Drawing on anthropological, medical, historical, and literary sources, Germaine Greer passionately argues that "the change" need not be a dreaded…
tragedy, but rather, a spiritual liberation of women. Among her arguments, she questions estrogen replacement therapy, and goes on to propose a new "art" of aging through menopause. 1991.The chameleon couch: poems
By Yusef Komunyakaa. 2011
The changing faces of Jesus
By Géza Vermès. 2001
Rather than attempting to retrieve the historical Jesus by eliminating later theological accretions, this book starts by setting out our…
fully developed portraits, beginning with the most evolved and retreating towards the more primitive. 2001.Atheist-turned-Christian, Strobel focuses on rediscovering the real Jesus, whose identity and message have come under attack in recent years. He…
addresses six major challenges and claims. He attacks the issues as an investigative journalist. He searches out experts to refute each objection, offering readers evangelical scholarship revealed in everyday language while challenging the claims of liberal writers. c2007.Strobel turns his journalistic skills to the most persistent emotional objections to belief - the eight "heart" barriers to faith.…
The Case for Faith is for those who may be feeling attracted to Jesus but who are faced with intellectual barriers. It will also deepen the convictions of Christians and give them fresh confidence in discussing Christianity with even their most skeptical friends. c2000.The bones of cuttlefish: from Ossi di seppia
By Eugenio Montale, Antonio Mazza. 1983
The first book of Montale's poems is one of the greatest of modern poetry. Mazza has been translating Montale for…
some years, faithfully conveying his lyrics and expressing the musical, rhythmic, incantatory and lexical elements of the Italian language. 1983.The bridge across forever: a lovestory
By Richard Bach. 1984
The author writes of his long quest for his soulmate. In this book, he shares an intimate view of their…
discovery of each other, and their love which has led them on many journeys, including out-of-body experiences. Bestseller 1984.The blue flames that keep us warm: Mike McCardell's favourite stories
By Mike McCardell. 2007
Mike McCardell has spent over 30 years on a B.C. news program showing that the truly important events that make…
our world go round are not the wars and murders that grab the headlines, but the little things that happen on back streets to people we never hear about. He sees the same streets we all see, but stops to ask the questions we don't. 2007.The bloody red hand: a journey through truth, myth and terror in Northern Ireland
By Derek Lundy. 2006
Author Derek Lundy, bearing in mind that the name "Lundy" is synonymous with traitor in Ulster, delves into the lives…
of ancestors Robert Lundy, Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, William Steel Dickson, a Protestant preacher of the early 19th century who advocated resisting the English, and Billy Lundy, born in 1890 and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants became - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the prospect of an independent Ireland. 2006.Solitude face à la mer (Collection de l'onde qui passe)
By Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Nicole Bogliolo, Georges Roditi. 1983
Une méditation d’Anne Lindbergh sur son mode de vie, son équilibre personnel, ses rapports avec autrui dont se dégagent une…
force et une sérénité incroyables. Un livre qui incite chacun à l’introspection et à l’isolement, passages obligés pour s’épanouir, se recentrer et s’ouvrir aux autres. 1983. Titre uniforme: Gift from the sea