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Shakespeare's dog (New Press Canadian classic)
Par Leon Rooke. 1984
Shakespeare's dog, Hooker, tells the story of Will's youth in Stratford upon Avon. This is a bawdy and extremely funny…
tale in which Shakespeare is treated with a total lack of reverence. Strong language. Winner of the 1983 Governor General's Literary Award. 1984. (New press Canadian classics)Shake hands with the devil: the failure of humanity in Rwanda
Par Roméo A Dallaire, Brent Beardsley. 2003
As former head of the 1993 U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, Canadian general Dallaire's initial proposal called for 5,000 soldiers,…
to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. Nothing like this number was supplied, and the result was an outright attempt at genocide against the Tutsis that nearly succeeded, with 800,000 dead over three months. Dallaire's argument that Rwanda-like situations are fires that can be put out with a small force if caught early enough will certainly draw debate, but the book documents in horrifying detail what happens when no serious effort is made. Explicit descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Canada Reads 2012. 2003.Shadow of a bull
Par Maia Wojciechowska. 1964
Everyone expects Manolo to become a great bullfighter like his father, but he wants to follow his own heart and…
become a doctor. As he prepares to fight his first bull, Manolo realizes that he is afraid. Grades 5-8. 1965 Newbery Award winner. 1964.Shadow maker: the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Par Rosemary Sullivan. 1995
Using the personal impressions of the poet's intimate friends, Rosemary Sullivan builds a composite portrait of Gwendolyn MacEwan, the Toronto…
poet who died in 1987 at the age of 46. The daughter of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, MacEwen's story is a painful one, yet the richness of her art and inner life redeemed the pain. Winner of the 1995 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Schindler's ark
Par Thomas Keneally. 1982
In 1939, Oskar Schindler, a young, wealthy, enterprising German interested in drinking and women is a less-than-exemplary Catholic. In this…
"nonfiction novel," Keneally tells the story of his transformation into a man who, at great personal risk, saves hundreds of Jews from death during World War II. 1982 Man Booker Prize. Includes violence and strong language. 1982.Sauver Mozart: le journal d'Otto J. Steiner : roman (Domaine français)
Par Raphaël Jérusalmy. 2012
Été 1939, au lendemain de l'Anschluss, Otto J Steiner égrène ses jours dans un sanatorium de Salzbourg tandis qu'au-dehors l'Histoire…
montre les crocs. Autrichien, juif, seul, il n'aime plus que la musique et la tuberculose le ronge autant que l'humiliation d'être malade, ou les privations qui achèvent de le pousser à la marge du monde. Tout semble joué, quand un événement inattendu le conduit à deux doigts de faire basculer le siècle. c2012.Salut Galarneau!: roman (Collection Points. Série Roman. R12)
Par Jacques Godbout. 1967
Correspondance entre deux frères de St-Henri, dont l'un a la chance d'aller à Paris et d'écrire ses impressions à son…
jeune frère. Celui-ci écrit son ennui et sa révolte face à l'éducation obligatoire. Il veut écrire un livre pour faire de l'argent et sortir de son milieu pauvre. Il se révolte contre une société qu'il trouve injuste. 1967.Salvage the bones: a novel
Par Jesmyn Ward. 2011
Mississippi, August 2005. Young black teenager Esch Batiste - pregnant, hungry, and rejected - helps her widowed father and three…
brothers prepare for the approaching hurricane. When the storm arrives, the family seeks refuge in the attic. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. National Book Award. 2011.Sand dance: by camel across Arabia's great southern desert
Par Bruce Kirkby. 2000
In the winter of 1999, three Canadians and three Omani Bedu set out across Arabia's great southern desert in an…
attempt to authentically recreate the 1947 crossing by Sir Wilfred Thesiger. Here they share the adventures and misadventures they experienced while crossing the vast, desolate desert. Winner of the 2001 Torgi Talking Book of the Year Award.Sarah Binks (New Canadian Library ; #44)
Par Paul Hiebert, A. Lloyd Wheeler. 1947
A critical, satirical biography of the mythical poet Sarah Binks, "the Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan". Binks found inspiration in everything…
from Ole, the hired man, to Rover the dog, and died a martyr to her poetic muse. Includes a wide selection of the poet's tenderest and most inspiring writings. Canada Reads 2003. Winner of the 1947 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. 1947.Saving Agnes
Par Rachel Cusk. 1993
Agnes Day, a recent college graduate, moves to London with two former classmates and takes a job with a trade…
magazine. As she recovers from her first love affair, she struggles to find her place in the adult world by trying to control everything around her. Some strong language. Whitbread First Novel Award. 2000, c1993.Ru
Par Kim Thúy. 2009
Ru est composé de très courts récits liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle : la première phrase du chapitre…
reprend le plus souvent l’idée qui terminait le chapitre précédent, permettant ainsi de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, la fuite avec les boat people, son accueil dans une petite ville du Québec, ses études, ses liens familiaux, son enfant autiste, etc. La vie de l’auteure est bourrée de gens charmants, singuliers, de situations difficiles ou saugrenues vécues avec un bonheur égal, et elle sait jouer à merveille avec les sentiments du lecteur, oscillant entre le tragique et le comique, entre le prosaïque et le spirituel. 2009.Rosie Carpe
Par Marie Ndiaye. 2001
La vie de Rosie Carpe commence à Brive-la-Gaillarde, entre son frère Lazare et ses deux parents. Ensuite, à Anthony, Rosie…
Carpe est adulte. Elle met au monde Titi, travaille, et doucement chavire. Quand Rosie Carpe débarque en Guadeloupe, elle a perdu depuis longtemps la maîtrise de ce qu'elle fait. Et tout ce qui lui arrive, enfant ou désastres, concerne tout aussi bien quelqu'un qui n'est peut-être pas elle. Prix Fémina 2001.Rouge Brésil (Folio)
Par Jean-Christophe Rufin. 2003
Histoire de la conquête du Brésil à travers le destin de deux enfants, Just et Colombe, qui servent d'interprètes auprès…
des tribus indiennes. Mise en scène de deux conceptions opposées de l'homme et de la nature, avec d'un côté, la civilisation européenne et de l'autre, le monde indien. Prix Goncourt 2001. 2003, c2001.Rose's run
Par Dawn Dumont. 2014
Rose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some…
self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that would be for her to run the reserve's annual marathon. Though Rose hasn't run in twenty years, smokes and initially has little motivation, she announces her intention to run the race. But one strange and unforeseen outcome of her decision is that she will have to do battle with an old inadvertently conjured demon that feeds off the strength of women. She is a truly mean old spirit who can invade other women and have them do her bidding and in no time has the Rez in an uproar. As Rose discovers, the old demon has been unintentionally called forth by Rose's teen daughter, Sarah, which complicates Rose's life just a little more. Winner of the 2015 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction. 2014.Royal murder: the deadly intrigue of ten sovereigns
Par Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Pulling, Heather Sangster. 2008
What would you do for absolute power? Step into the world of palatial intrigue, where holding the throne means evading…
death... or causing it. While Cleopatra of Egypt once rolled herself into a rug and was carried out past her enemies' noses, other royals were brutal when dealing with foes. Read the stories of ten sovereigns, including Vlad the Impaler, "Bloody Mary", and The Romanovs of Russia. Descriptions of violence. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 2009 Red Maple Non-fiction Award. 2008.Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil
Par Andrew Nikiforuk. 2002
Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.Safe as houses
Par Eric Walters. 2007
October 15, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Torontonian Elizabeth is a typical grade 8 girl, with a crush on a boy in her…
class and a baby-sitting job. Every day, she walks Suzie and her older brother David home after school, and then stays there until their mother gets home. On this particular evening, Hurricane Hazel roars down on Toronto, bringing torrential rains and flooding - and David and Suzie's house is on a street that will be practically wiped out. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Winner of the 2008 Red Maple Award. 2007.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
Par Stephen Kimber. 2002
In May 1945, the city of Halifax erupted in a riot - a two-day orgy or boozing, looting, window-smashing, dancing…
in the streets, public fornication, and mindless mayhem to 'celebrate' the end of the war. The paternalism, privations, overcrowding, and tensions of a city at war created a situation waiting to explode, and an admiral's pride provided the match that set it off. Includes interviews with the people who lived through it - sailors, slackers (civilians), street urchins, prohibitionists, spies, profiteers, reporters, and just plain local folks. Some strong language. Winner of the 2004 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 2002.Saint George and the dragon: a golden legend
Par Margaret Hodges, Edmund Spenser. 1984
A dramatic retelling of the classic tale recounts the battle between brave Saint George, the Red Cross Knight, and the…
deadly dragon that has terrorized the countryside for years. Grades 2-4. 1984.