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Voices on the wind: poems for all seasons
Par David Booth. 1990
The waking comes late
Par Steven Heighton. 2016
A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that…
continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just beneath the surface of contemporary life. These are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. Winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Waving goodbye: a collection of real life stories from World War II evacuees
Par Michael Bentick. 1999
In 1939, on the very eve of war, the government made the decision to evacuate 1.5 million children from Britain's…
towns and cities. This book contains stories and letters from people who went through those evacuation schemes. There are tales of happiness, sadness, laughter and tears. Some are still coming to terms with what they went through all those years ago.Tattoos for Mothers day
Par Jean Sprackland. 1997
The piano war: A True Story Of Love And Survival In World War Ii
Par Graeme Friedman. 2003
August 1939. On her summer break from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, young South African pianist Olda…
Mehr and her parents leave London to visit relatives in Eastern Europe. A dreamy holiday descends into nightmare when Germany invades Poland, and the Mehrs find themselves, as Jews, caught up in Hitler's Holocaust. For Olda, Gestapo torture and the threat of the gas chamber are relieved by letters from her boyfriend, the artist-musician-doctor, Bennie Hermer, now a captain in the South African army fighting in North Africa. After the Allied disaster at Tobruk, Ben is imprisoned in the dusty, dysentery-ridden POW camp at Benghazi. Via infrequent Red Cross messages the couple keep their love alive, until awesome daring on both their parts leads to a startling conclusion. 2003.Accidental warrior: in the front line from Normandy till victory
Par Geoffrey Picot. 1993
Accidental warrior is a vivid and exact account of how a timid and unaggressive lad of 19 is transformed by…
the inexorable pressures of war into a competent infantryman. Caught up in the battle of Normandy - one of the decisive clashes of history and perhaps the last of its kind - he saw others master the extremities of fear and copied them.Time's tidings: greeting the twenty-first century
Par Carol Ann Duffy. 1999
"Time's tidings" is a rich and varied collection of poems on the theme of time. Carol Ann Duffy has chosen…
poems by fifty contemporary poets - twenty five men and twenty five women from all parts of the UK and Ireland. In addition, each of these poets has chosen another poem from the heritage of poetry in English. Thus the anthology travels through time and place and it reflects the meaning of time in our lives.The poetry of Robert Frost: the collected poems, complete and unabridged
Par Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem. 1969
The last Canadian poet: an essay on Al Purdy
Par Sam Solecki. 1999
This study takes into account not only Purdy's more than forty published books, but also the manuscripts from the Purdy…
archives at the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University. Suggests that Purdy's work articulates a vision of Canada, both of what it is and of what it might be. Purdy's poems record his sense of being in the world as a Canadian, of being rooted in a particular landscape, way of life, and history. Some strong language. 1999.The path: creating your mission statement for work and for life
Par Laurie Beth Jones. 1996
This book provides inspirational and practical advice to lead readers through every step of both defining and fulfilling a mission.…
Proffering information for both business and life projects, the author discusses the three key elements of a successful mission statement. 1996.The destruction of the Bismarck
Par David Jay Bercuson, Holger H Herwig. 2001
An account of the destruction of the feared but short-lived German WWII warship. The authors examine recently opened diplomatic files…
from England and America that provide new data concerning the supposedly neutral America's involvement in the hunt for the Bismarck. Also included are concise biographies of the major officers from both sides, brief histories of the major naval vessels involved, and an analysis of the crucial command decisions that sealed the Bismarck's fate. 2001.The collected poems of F.R. Scott
Par F. R Scott. 1981
Scott was a historian and lawyer, but foremost a poet. This collection, which was compiled by Scott himself, showed both…
a reflective man and a public figure committed to human progress. Winner of the 1981 Governor General's Award for Poetry. 1981. Uniform title: PoemsThe cinnamon peeler: selected poems
Par Michael Ondaatje. 1989
Rare courage: veterans of the Second World War remember
Par Rod Mickleburgh, Rudyard Griffiths. 2005
Twenty Canadian Second World War veterans candidly describe their experiences, including the sinking of the Bismarck and landing on the…
beaches of Normandy. Describes the search of a Jewish nurse for survivors of the Holocaust and provides tales of shot-down airmen on the run in occupied Europe. Some strong language. 2005.The family pack
Par John Hegley. 1997
Locomotion
Par Jacqueline Woodson. 2003
When Lonnie Collins Motion - Locomotion - was seven years old, his life changed forever, and now at eleven, his…
life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn't so bad after all. Grades 4-7. 2003.The life and death of Adolf Hitler
Par James Giblin. 2002
Biography of the German political leader whose racial prejudice and personal ambition shaped World War II. Traces Hitler's life and…
career from his birth in Austria in 1889 to his death in Berlin in 1945. Briefly discusses this tyrant's legacy. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. Siebert Award. 2002.Where light and shadow meet: a memoir
Par Erika Rosenberg, Emilie Schindler. 1997
The woman who married Oskar Schindler tells the true story of their life together, what they did to save the…
Jews in their factories, and how this led to "Schindler's List". This is the story of a woman's daily acts of bravery during Hitler's reign and how it mattered. Uniform title: Memorias.Love, dishonor, marry, die ; cherish, perish
Par David Rakoff. 2013
In this novel written in verse, Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive…
homeland - a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. 2013.Sailors, slackers, and blind pigs: Halifax at war
Par Stephen Kimber. 2003
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. 2003.