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T. rex and the crater of doom
Par Walter Alvarez. 1997
A geologist recalls the first scientific proposals of the theory that a large asteroid or comet had collided with Earth…
sixty-five million years ago, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs. Describes the vehement debate that followed, the accumulation of evidence, and the discovery of a crater beneath the Yucatan peninsula that appears to substantiate the impact claim. c1997.Talk with your child
Par Harvey S Wiener. 1988
The author believes that parents are able to enhance their children's language skills by engaging in conversations with them. He…
provides strategies for interacting with children about their ideas, experiences and surroundings. 1988.Takeoff!: the story of America's first woman pilot for a major airline
Par Bonnie Tiburzi. 1984
The author describes how she was hired by a major airline and gives details of her career as flight engineer…
and co-pilot. She includes some of the harassment she and other female pilots have faced. 1984.Strong fathers, strong daughters: 10 secrets every father should know
Par Margaret J Meeker. 2007
Teen health expert Meg Meeker, M.D., documents the powerful influence dads have on daughters. The most crucial factor for girls…
growing up into confident, well-adjusted women is a strong father with conservative values. Such fathers preempt eating disorders, failing grades, STDs, unwed pregnancy, and substance abuse - and promote academic achievement, successful marriage, and a satisfying emotional life. 2007.Stumbling in the bloom
Par John Pass. 2005
A celebration of the enticements and entanglements of wilderness, along with poems about a wry excursion to the chiropractor, a…
fanciful flight from a student driver's parallel parking practice, and a moving Canadian journey towards and away from the "ground zero" of the 9/11 tragedy. 2006 Governor General's Award winner for Poetry. 2005.Survivors!: true death-defying escapes
Par Larry Verstraete. 2003
Think about your worst fears - being attacked by a wild animal, swept away by a killer storm, trapped in…
a wrecked car or a burning building. Here are 29 stories of real people who survived life-threatening situations. Each section includes Survival Tips that give readers essential information about what to do in dangerous circumstances. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award. Grades 4-7. Bestseller 2005. 2003.Supergiants!: the biggest dinosaurs
Par David Peters, Don Lessem. 1997
Lessem explains that the "biggest" dinosaurs weighed the most. They were plant-eating dinosaurs,the sauropods. He details how dinosaur bones have…
been discovered and what scientists have learned from them. He concludes with a description of the Argentinosaurus, officially named in 1993, which may prove to be the biggest dinosaur ever. Grades 3-6. c1997.Surviving adolescents: the must-have manual for all parents
Par Michael Carr-Gregg. 2005
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour. "Surviving Adolescents" is a clear and very down-to-earth…
manual, drawing on his wealth of experience and wisdom. It has advice on all the thorny issues that confront families with teenagers - sexuality, risky behaviours, laziness, school and study problems, and much more. And it is full of practical tips for everyday survival, including: communicating effectively with young people, defusing family conflict, setting limits, keeping the stress of parenting at bay, avoiding common mistakes like fighting over things that don't matter. 2005.Surprises (I can read book)
Par Lee Bennett Hopkins. 1984
Stowaways
Par Ariel Gordon. 2014
In a series of smart and funny poems, 'Stowaways' careens between life as we-know-it on the Canadian prairies and the…
frayed yet familiar edges of what-if. What if a beluga from Churchill hooked up with a Gore-Texed tourist? What if knowing Morse Code would save your bacon during the zombie apocalypse? Half survival guide, half invasive species list, these are poems that stick to your socks. Winner of the 2015 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. 2014.Silvija: poems
Par Sandra Ridley. 2016
In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Ridley combines narrative lyric and experimental verse styles to manifest dark themes related…
to love and loss: the traumas of psychological suffering (isolation and confinement), physical abuse (by parent and partner), terminal illness (brain tumour and heart attack), revelation, resolution, and healing. With a blend of fervour and sangfroid, these serial poems accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry's ability to wrestle chaos into meaning. Because of its overarching themes and serial form, "Silvija" is best read cover-to-cover, analogous to a work of fiction, rather than a book of individual or occasional poems. 2016.Sequence
Par A. F Moritz. 2015
In "Sequence", the reader accompanies the poet step after step through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun…
on sand. Alternating moments of spare clarity with deep narrative flashes, the poem wanders the borders of the self, pursuing the eternal moment through imagined landscapes and the lush world waiting outside the writer's window. This is poetry of intense observation, finely tuned to a pattern that is sustained with breaks and returns, alive with eros and a hunger for Breton's "convulsive beauty." 2015.Shackleton's boat journey: the narrative from the Captain of the Endurance
Par Frank Arthur Worsley. 2001
Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, the boat Ernest Shackleton and his men were on while attempting an Antarctic…
expedition in 1914. When the Endurance became trapped in ice, which eventually crushed the ship, the expedition became one of survival as the crew camped on a giant drifting ice floe. Eventually, Shackleton took five men, Worsley included, on an 800-mile journey on the open seas to get help on inhabited South Georgia Island. 2001.Solitude: seeking wisdom in extremes : a year alone in the Patagonia wilderness
Par Robert Kull. 2008
For his Ph.D. dissertation, Kull built a cabin in the Patagonian wilderness with the intention of studying the effect of…
deep wilderness solitude on a human being. He describes a tradition of solitaries and hermits and surveys the various cultural understandings of solitude, as well as providing his physical explorations and observations of the surrounding area. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2008.Sit how you want
Par Robin Richardson. 2018
Plane crashes and automobile mishaps are the backdrop for female narrators who grapple with terror, anxiety, and powerlessness: "When I…
say I'm fine I mean the sky has opened / like an old wound under scurvy." In their grim wit, sinister straight talk, and sometimes violent bawdiness, Richardson's poems work as counter-charms against the lingering trauma of abusive relationships, both familial and romantic. The book embodies a belief in poetry as an instrument of change, a tool for transforming pain into exuberant verbal energy: "It is the thrill of ruination / makes us innovate." Winner of the 2019 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. 2018.Stranger music: selected poems and songs
Par Leonard Cohen. 1993
A comprehensive collection of the poetry and song lyrics of Leonard Cohen, taken from Cohen's eight books of poetry and…
11 record albums. Includes some poems not previously published. Some strong language. 1993.Stereoblind
Par Emma Healey. 2018
In "Stereoblind", no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose…
poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar--where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath & Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects--from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder--to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits. 2018.Stealing from a deep place: travels in southeastern Europe
Par Brian Hall. 1988
Smart love: The Compassionate Alternative To Discipline That Will Make You A Better Parent And Your Child A Better Person
Par Martha Heineman Pieper, William Joseph Pieper. 1999
Starting out in the afternoon: a mid-life journey into wild land
Par Jill Frayne. 2002
After Jill Frayne's long-term relationship with her lover ended and her daughter left home, she packed up her life and…
headed for the Yukon. Sleeping in her car or pitching a tent by the road, she became a solitary traveller and lived close to the natural world. What started out as a three-month trip became a personal journey that lasted several years. 2002.