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Ossuaries
Par Dionne Brand. 2010
At the centre of this poem is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past…
actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. While living in solitude, she crosses borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises of the contemporary world. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.Oscar Wilde
Par Richard Ellmann. 1987
Wilde's parents and his Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and his lovers, enemies…
as well as friends, clothes and even the decor are all presented in this biography. The saga of his 1882 American tour and, later, his storming of the bastions of the French literary establishment are followed by the London of the 1890s, Whistler, the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, and his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. Pulitzer Prize winner. 1987.Le régiment de Maisonneuve vers la victoire, 1944-1945
Par Gérard Marchand. 1980
Voici le récit des péripéties vécues par les soldats du Régiment de Maisonneuve durant la phase la plus meurtrière de…
la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vous revivrez de l'intérieur les drames et les joies de ces combattants dont la vie ne tenait qu'à un fil. 1980.Novembre 1918, une révolution allemande: Bourgeois & soldats; T. 1
Par Alfred Döblin, Maryvonne Litaize, Yasmin Hoffmann. 2009
Une chronique historique à la fois minutieuse, puisqu'elle explore le seul mois de novembre 1918 et ses entours en 2000…
pages, et épique, puisqu'elle élabore une vaste fresque ironique et féroce sur cet événement catastrophique pour les Allemands, événement dont l'auteur voit dans l'hitlérisme - le roman est écrit de 1939 à 1943 - l'inévitable aboutissement. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle et de violence. 2009. Titre uniforme: November 1918, Eine Deutsche Revolution.Notre Chanel (D'un lieu à l'autre)
Par Jean Lebrun. 2014
One hour in Paris: a true story of rape and recovery
Par Karyn L Freedman. 2014
Philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent…
hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. We follow Freedman from an apartment in Paris to a French courtroom, from a trauma centre in Toronto to a rape clinic in Africa. At a time when as many as one in three women in the world have been victims of sexual assault and when many women are still ashamed to come forward, Freedman's book is a moving and essential look at how survivors cope and persevere. Winner of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. 2014.One day my soul just opened up: 40 days and 40 nights toward spiritual strength and personal growth
Par Iyanla Vanzant. 1998
Spiritual readings and exercises that offer a way to find peace through contemplation and writing journal entries. Examples from the…
author's life illustrate how she worked through emotional pain and distress to achieve a more balanced perspective on life. c1998.Nouvelle histoire de Vichy, 1940-1945 (Nouvelles études historiques)
Par Michèle Cointet. 2011
Retracer l’histoire de Vichy suppose de se débarrasser d’abord des certitudes assénées depuis soixante-dix ans par les camps opposés. Puis…
de reprendre au plus près des archives, publiques comme privées, l’étude de ces cinq années tragiques pour en comprendre les paradoxes, décortiquer la politique, conduire et décrypter les mythes que le régime a suscités.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
Par Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.On board the Titanic: what it was like when the great liner sank (I was there book)
Par Shelley Tanaka, Ken Marschall. 1996
The story of the Titanic, once the world's largest ocean liner, as told through the experiences of two of its…
survivors. Detailed explanations about the ship, passengers, and crew are interwoven with an account of its tragic sinking in 1912. Grades 4-7. Winner of the 1997 Silver Birch Award. c1996.Le camp des femmes: Ravensbruck (Collection Dossiers et documents)
Par Christian Bernadac. 1980
Ravensbruck est unique. Seul camp de concentration réservé aux femmes, il fut un enclos de travail et d'extermination pour des…
dizaines de milliers de femmes. L'auteur a préféré laisser la parole à celles qui furent les personnages réels de cette monstrueuse tragédie de l'histoire, les déportées. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1980.Louis XVII, où, Le secret du roi
Par Michel Wartelle. 1990
L'affaire Louis XVII, un des plus grands mystères de l'histoire de France après celui du Masque de fer. Cette énigme…
qui fascine les historiens depuis près de deux cents ans, éclairée sous un jour nouveau, pourrait bien trouver ici une solution intéressante et inédite. 1990.Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes: guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne
Par Roland Viau. 1997
Cet ouvrage explique les moeurs guerrières de Iroquoiens qui menaient des guerres de capture, la cruauté dont ils faisaient usage…
à l'égard de leurs prisonniers, le cannibalisme auquel ils se livraient. 1997.Notes from a feminist killjoy: essays on everyday life (Essais ; #no. 2)
Par Erin Wunker. 2016
Erin Wunker is a feminist killjoy, and she thinks you should be one, too. Following in the tradition of Sara…
Ahmed (the originator of the concept "feminist killjoy"), Wunker brings memoir, theory, literary criticism, pop culture, and feminist thinking together in this collection of essays that take up Ahmed's project as a multi-faceted lens through which to read the world from a feminist point of view. She attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism, and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices of being a mother and a feminist, to building friendship amongst women as a community-building and -sustaining project, to writing that addresses rape culture from the Canadian context and beyond, Wunker invites the reader into a conversation about gender, feminism, and living in our inequitable world. Winner of the 2017 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. 2016.Notes from the rainforest
Par György Faludy. 1988
The entries in this diary, written at night in the silence of the forest, range from philosophical aphorisms to acid…
comments on the state of Communism, the excesses of the American way of life, and the characteristics of Canadian culture. Winner of the 1990 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1988.Notes from the Hyena's belly: an Ethiopian boyhood
Par Nega Mezlekia. 2000
The author relates stories and myths from his youth in Jigiga, Ethiopia. Mezlekia recalls that, as the nation's feudalism gave…
way to Marxism, he found himself in a revolutionary student cell and later became a teenage guerrilla. He survived imprisonment, famine, turmoil, and near execution by a firing squad. Governor General's Award. 2001, 2000.Northrop Frye: a biography
Par John Ayre. 1989
Northrop Frye authored three of the most influential books of literary criticism and his revolutionary theories established his international fame.…
In this biography, Ayre describes Frye's impoverished childhood and traces the progression of his work. Nominated for the City of Toronto and Trillium Awards.No shelter here: making the world a kinder place for dogs
Par Rob Laidlaw. 2011
Dogs have been loyal to humankind for thousands of years, but today, millions of dogs are neglected and malnourished, and…
millions of other dogs are used in scientific research and for entertainment, and kept as pets in a remarkable diversity of conditions. Laidlaw explores the world of homeless, mistreated, and exploited dogs, and the challenges they face, but he also focuses on the people he calls "dog champions" – people around the world who dedicate their lives to helping dogs. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 3-6. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Award. Winner of the 2013-14 Hackmatack Award for non-fiction. 2011.No axe too small to grind
Par Joey Slinger. 1985
Night witches: the untold story of Soviet women in combat
Par Bruce Myles. 1990
In 1941, as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for female volunteers…
to join the Russian air force. Making up three regiments, the lives, exploits, loves and fears of these women are captured here - the pilots whom the Germans came to dread as the "Night witches". 1990.