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The glass menagerie
By Tennessee Williams. 1972
Drama written in 1945 about a southern family with pretensions to gentility. Centres around the crippled daughter, Laura, who lives…
in a dream world so full of illusions that she becomes like the pieces in her own glass collection - too fragile to move from the shelf. 1972, c1945.The crystal bible: a definitive guide to crystals
By Judy Hall. 2003
This text covers all the major stones currently available and many lesser known, recently discovered crystals. This is a comprehensive…
guide to crystals, their shapes, colours and applications. The text also covers the practical and esoteric properties of each crystal, including spiritual, mental, psychological, emotional and physical effects, plus its use in crystal healing. 2003.The end of ownership: personal property in the digital economy (The Information Society Series)
By Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz. 2016
Explores how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and makes an argument for the benefits of personal…
property. E-books, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But consumers should be aware of the trade-offs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. The authors argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But more importantly, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us. 2016.The end of absence: reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection
By Michael Harris. 2014
Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the internet. For everyone who follows us,…
online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives. The author chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we've gained and lost in the bargain. He argues that our greatest loss has been that of absence itself -- of silence, wonder and solitude. Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction. 2014.The haunted: one family's nightmare
By Robert Curran, Jack Smurl, Janet Smurl, Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren. 1988
Jack and Janet Smurl live in West Pittston, Pennsylvania with their four daughters, Jack's parents, and four spirits. A gruesome…
saga of supernatural encounters based on statements by the Smurls, their neighbours and the Warrens, a demonology team who investigated the possession of the house. c1988.The Dunsmuirs: alone at the edge
By Rod Langley. 1991
Robbie Dunsmuir, exiled from Scotland, becomes an indentured labourer in the Nanaimo coalfields. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the…
top when he discovers a coal deposit on Vancouver Island. Some strong language. Followed by "The Dunsmuirs : a promise kept". c1991.The Donnellys: a trilogy
By James Reaney. 1983
A trilogy of three controversial plays, 'Sticks & Stones', 'St. Nicholas Hotel' and 'Handcuffs', telling the story of a generation…
of Irish settlers to Canada. A secret society organizes their massacre at the hands of more than thirty vigilante killers. Based on the true story of the Donnellys of Lucan, Ontario, in 1844. 1983.The devils of Loudun (The collected Works Of Aldous Huxley Ser.)
By Aldous Huxley. 1952
A reconstruction of sensational occurrences at the Ursuline Convent in Loudun during the early 1600s. After a group of nuns…
were swept into a prolonged state of frenzy, they accused Urbain Grandier, Loudun's parson, of witchcraft. Huxley includes insights of modern psychology as well as his own speculations on good and evil. 1952.The digital economy: promise and peril in the age of networked intelligence
By Don Tapscott. 1996
Tapscott argues that new information technologies are creating a revolution, resulting in changes in economic and social relationships as profound…
as any ever experienced. "Internetworking" will affect business, government, and media. Using examples of business which are implementing these new systems, Tapscott presents both the promises and the perils of the new technologies. c1996.The comedy of errors: Critical Essays (Arden Shakespeare Ser.)
By William Shakespeare, R. A Foakes. 1993
A dramatic comedy about a family divided exactly in half by a shipwreck. Each half contains one parent, one twin…
son and one twin slave. Their attempts to become reunited cause many mistaken identity mix-ups and are complicated by the father's impending execution if he does not produce a ransom. 1993.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 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 art of dreaming
By Carlos Castaneda. 1993
Using powerful ancient techniques to alter his state of consciousness, Castaneda travels into new worlds and encounters remarkable but dangerous…
beings; he conjoins energy bodies with another dreamer in order to dream and explore together, and thus acquires new knowledge and understanding. This book is an extraordinary and exciting adventure of the psyche unlike any other, which enables the reader to participate fully in the author's latest eye-opening and thrilling discoveries and explorations. 1993.The Berlin blues
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2007
A consortium of German developers arrives at Otter Lake Reserve with an offer: they want to improve the local economy…
with the creation of "OjibwayWorld", a Native theme park. Designed to attract European tourists, it instead causes personal and political divisions within the local community, as well as hilarity. 2007.The best of Shakespeare: Retellings Of 10 Classic Plays (The Opie library)
By E Nesbit, William Shakespeare. 1997
Ten of Shakespeare's plays retold in simple language. Nesbit compiled the collection after a visit to the poet's home with…
her children. She encouraged them to try reading some of the original plays, only to be told the writing was too difficult to understand. This volume includes Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Othello. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1997.The ascension mysteries: revealing the cosmic battle between good and evil
By David Wilcock. 2016
Describes the secret cosmic battle between positive and negative happening every day, hidden in both the traumas of our own…
lives and the world's headlines. Through his contact with a positive higher intelligence behind the UFO phenomenon, groundbreaking scientific information, and data from high-ranking government whistle-blowers, David reveals that the earth is now on the front lines of a battle that has been raging between positive and negative extraterrestrials for hundreds of thousands of years. By unifying ancient texts from a variety of religions with scientific data and insider testimony, David posits that Earth is on the verge of a massive cosmic event that will transform matter, energy, consciousness, and biological life as we now know it, and will utterly defeat the great villains of our time. 2016.The Amityville horror
By Jay Anson. 2006
In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew…
that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his family in the house, but the property and the price had been too good to pass up. Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family flee the house in terror. 2006, c1978.More and more of our social, political and religious activities are modelling themselves after the World Wide Web. A committed…
anarchist, Vaidhyanathan shows how the key information structure of our time is the 'peer-to-peer network'. These networks have always existed - gossip is one example, as is word-of-mouth advertising - but with the rise of electronic communication, they are suddenly coming into their own. And they are drawing the outlines of a battle for information that will determine much of the culture and politics of our century. Everything from culture to terrorism and extremist politics to religion will be affected. 2005.Si les Ricains n'étaient pas là... ... nous aurions tous une vie privée (First document)
By Daniel Ichbiah, Jean-Martial Lefranc. 2014
" Si c'était un film, on aurait accusé les scénaristes d'être outrageusement irréalistes... Telle est pourtant la réalité que le…
monde a découverte le 6 juin 2013 : une surveillance d'une ampleur démesurée s'est mise en place. Elle vise à recueillir les moindres détails de nos vies : communications téléphoniques, e-mails, consultation du Web, déplacements... Enquête sur l'espionnage numérique. Comment est née la NSA, comment a-t-elle été dotée d'un pouvoir presque sans limites au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, avec des milliards de dollars à l'appui ? Comment Edward Snowden a-t-il réussi ? un véritable thriller ? à extraire des milliers de documents afin d'exposer ce que nos gouvernants cherchaient à nous cacher, et de poser cette question : est-ce là le monde où nous désirons voir nos enfants grandir ? Ce livre expose une réalité qui dépasse la science-fiction la plus audacieuse. Une situation dans laquelle la vie privée de chacun de nous n'existe pratiquement plus. Il se trouve aussi que ? en dépit des protestations de façade de nos dirigeants ? les agences de renseignement collaborent allègrement entre elles pour mieux pister la trace de chacun de nous. Au cas où... Comme l'a déclaré Ira Hunt, l'un des partisans de cette collecte à très grande échelle : Nous essayons de tout recueillir et de le conserver à tout jamais. Existe-t-il encore des possibilités de communiquer en toute quiétude, sans être espionné par des oreilles ou yeux indiscrets ? Oui, dans une certaine mesure, et ce livre s'attache également à décrire les moyens de défendre ce qui nous reste de vie privée. " -- 4e de couv.Talking to heaven: a medium's message of life after death
By James Van Praagh. 1998