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Suddenly they heard footsteps: storytelling for the twenty-first century
Par Dan Yashinsky. 2004
The art of storytelling is very much alive in today's world. Yashinsky has lived with storytelling all his life, first…
listening to storytellers and then becoming one himself. It's the traveler who stops to hear the voice of the dusty little mouse on the road who is rewarded with the treasure. 2004.Sleepers: in search of lost Old Masters
Par Philip Mould. 1995
This book presents an insider's view of the art world. The author, a dealer, reveals the processes of identification, deduction…
and restoration which can turn a grubby misattributed 'sleeper' into a major masterpiece. He reveals the men and women who have made these discoveries, the auctioneers whose job it is to spot the 'sleepers', and the dealers whose job it is to outwit them. 1995.Show time!: music, dance, and drama activities for kids
Par Lisa Bany-Winters. 2000
Introduces the concepts of music, dance, and acting, suggesting how to create a musical production through games and role-playing, and…
describing all aspects of a show from auditions to curtain call. Grades 4-7. 2000.Stolen from our embrace: the abduction of First Nations children and the restoration of aboriginal communities
Par Suzanne Fournier, Ernie Crey. 1997
Describes the treatment of aboriginal children in Canada who were taken to live in residential schools. The story is told…
using interviews and anecdotes shared by those who attended the schools. The current state of aboriginal affairs is also discussed. 1997.Sex and the city and us: how four single women changed the way we think, live, and love
Par Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. 2018
Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the iconic television series, this book tells the story of how a columnist, two…
gay men -- Darren Star and fellow executive producer Michael Patrick King -- and a writers' room full of women used their own poignant, hilarious, and humiliating stories to launch a cultural phenomenon. Featuring interviews with the cast and writers, including star Sarah Jessica Parker, the book presents a behind-the-scenes look at a TV series that changed the way women everywhere see themselves. 2018.Stormy weather: the life of Lena Horne
Par James Gavin. 2009
Biography of African American singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917 Brooklyn, who first performed at Harlem's Cotton Club at age…
sixteen. Interprets Horne's multiracial family background in the pre-civil rights era as the reason for emotional conflicts in both her personal and professional lives. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2009.Stolen life: the journey of a Cree woman
Par Yvonne Johnson, Rudy Wiebe. 1998
Rudy Wiebe collaborates with Yvonne Johnson, a great-great-granddaughter of Cree Chief Big Bear, to tell the story of her life.…
Born in Montana with a double-cleft palate, she experienced a life of physical and sexual abuse, and slid into alcoholism before participating in the murder for which she is now in prison. Strong language, descriptions of violence, descriptions of sexual violence. 1998.Stolen continents: the new world through Indian eyes since 1492
Par Ronald Wright. 1992
Speaking our truth: a journey of reconciliation
Par Monique Gray Smith. 2017
Canada's relationship with its Indigenous people has suffered as a result of both the residential school system and the lack…
of understanding of the historical and current impact of those schools. Healing and repairing that relationship requires education, awareness and increased understanding of the legacy and the impacts still being felt by Survivors and their families. Guided by Indigenous author Monique Gray Smith, readers will learn about the lives of Survivors and listen to allies who are putting the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into action. For senior high readers. 2017.Starlight tour: the last, lonely night of Neil Stonechild
Par Susanne Reber, Rob Renaud. 2005
On a Saskatoon night in November 1990, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared, to be found dead in a field, his body…
frozen, three days later. The police investigation was cursory, but Neil's mother Stella refused to give up, as did witness Jason Roy, who had seen Neil, beaten and bleeding, in the back of a Saskatoon police cruiser the night he disappeared. It was only in January 2000, when two more men were found frozen to death, that the truth about Neil Stonechild's fate began to emerge. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Star trek memories
Par William Shatner, Chris Kreski. 1993
William Shatner, known to "Star Trek" fans as Captain James T. Kirk of the starship "Enterprise," tells the behind-the-scenes story…
of the original "Star Trek" television series that ran from 1966 to 1969. Gathering his memories with those of other cast members, writers, and technicians, Shatner shares anecdotes of writing, filming, and producing the fledgling series that became a cultural phenomenon. c1993.Someone with me: the autobiography of William Kurelek
Par William Kurelek. 1980
The inspiring odyssey of a boy from an impoverished prairie farm who became one of Canada's greatest artists. This is…
a story of triumph over loneliness and mental anguish, of a lifelong spiritual quest. 1980.Stan and Ollie: the roots of comedy : the double life of Laurel and Hardy
Par Simon Louvish. 2001
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy…
double act. The author examines the duo from their early lives, to solo careers and through their serendipitous teaming at the Hal Roach Studios. 2001.Sinc, Betty, and the morning man: the story of CFRB
Par Donald Lamont Jack. 1977
Sisters: the story of Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine
Par Charles Higham. 1984
Seven fallen feathers: racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
Par Tanya Talaga. 2017
Over the span of ten years, seven high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of…
miles away from their families, forced to leave their reserve because there was no high school there for them to attend. Award-winning journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest, and struggle with, human rights violations past and present against aboriginal communities. Bestseller. Winner of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize and the 2018 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2017.Signing on: the birth of radio in Canada
Par Bill McNeil, Morris Wolfe. 1982
Signor Marconi's magic box: how an amateur inventor defied scientists and began the radio revolution
Par Gavin Weightman. 2003
On a winter's evening in the East End of London in 1896, an unassuming young Italian gave the first public…
demonstration of a device he had created in the attic of his family home near Bologna. It consisted of two wooden boxes, one of which could apparently transmit messages to the other. Many of those in the audience suspected that they were witnessing a mere conjuring trick. None can have guessed that Signor Marconi's magic box would be regarded as the most remarkable invention of the nineteenth century, and that he himself would become one of the most famous men in the world. 2003.Shingwauk's vision: native residential schools in Canada
Par J. R Miller. 1996
A comprehensive study of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s.…
Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. Miller explores all three players in the story: the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 1996.Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the 'Indian Hospitals' were underfunded, understaffed,…
overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the 'Indian Hospitals, ' the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, "Separate Beds" reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten. 2016.