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Son of a gun: récit
Par Justin St. Germain, Santiago Artozqui. 2014
" Septembre 2001. Alors que les Twin Towers viennent d'être attaquées à New York, un autre drame, plus intime, se…
joue à Tombstone, en Arizona. Debbie, la mère de Justin St. Germain, est retrouvée morte dans sa caravane, le corps criblé de balles. Son cinquième mari, Ray, est introuvable. Dix ans plus tard, Justin revient sur ce tragique événement, redécouvrant les paysages désolés de son enfance et ceux qui les ont peuplés, fouillant le passé pour tenter de comprendre l'insondable : la descente aux enfers d'une femme instable, fragile malgré les apparences, et aimante. Sa mère. "Que Debbie ait été tuée à Tombstone ville qui fut le théâtre de la fameuse fusillade d'O.K. Corral prend alors une autre dimension... Sans complaisance ni apitoiement, Justin St. Germain brosse le portrait d'une société qui n'est pas prête à rendre les armes. Une voix juste et percutante, tout en finesse et émotion. Un récit saisissant. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Son of a gun.Tall in the saddle: ranch life in the Cariboo
Par Eldon Lee, Todd Lee. 1995
A 1930s Cariboo Ranch with its isolation, indifferent summers and sub-zero winters that could last six months was a startling…
contrast to sunny California. But to the two young Lee boys, their new home promised to be a huge adventure. This is the story of their early years in B.C.'s ranch country. 1995.Talking tails: the incredible connection between people and their pets
Par Jane Drake, Ann Love. 2012
From our earliest beginnings, we have shared our lives with animals. Jane Drake and Ann Love explore the ties that…
humans and their pets have formed. With fun and fascinating facts, they address Dog People and Cat People. They also introduce us to more unusual pets, like Polly the parrot, who lived through the Klondike Gold Rush to be 126 years old by belting back whiskey, swearing, and biting gold miners. And, of course, there are fish and reptiles, rodents and horses, all of whom can be beloved pets. Grades 4-7. 2012.Supreme at last: the evolution of the Supreme Court of Canada
Par Peter James McCormick. 2000
Until 1949, court decisions in Canada were open to Britain for appeal. Since then, the Supreme Court has emerged as…
a powerful Canadian institution. The author tells the story of how the Court evolved and describes many of the well-known personalities who have sat on the bench. He also provides a portrait of the major events and daily life of the Court over the last five decades of the 20th century. 2000.Tall blondes: a book about giraffes
Par Lynn Sherr. 1997
Tall animal tales: amazing true stories from the star of TV's Animal Hospital
Par Mike Lepine, Mark Leigh, Rolf Harris. 2001
Rolf Harris presents a collection of true animal tales featuring the cleverest and cheekiest animals and birds you'll ever meet.…
These tales include: Pepsi, the cat who hitched a 70mph ride on a van roof; the sheep dog who rounds up stray supermarket trolleys; the seals who saved a woman from drowning; and Barney, the police dog who was afraid of the dark. 2001.Strength of conviction
Par Tom Mulcair. 2015
The inside story of Thomas Mulcair's rise from modest beginnings to the threshold of power. Discover the man behind the…
headlines, who he is, how he thinks, and the struggles he faced - from fighting sexual misconduct, to protecting our environment, to his work alongside Jack Layton leading the NDP to a historic breakthrough in Quebec. Bestseller. 2015.Susanna Moodie: letters of a lifetime
Par Susanna Moodie, Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, Michael A Peterman. 1985
Follows Susanna, author of "Roughing it in the bush" (DC00892), from her Suffolk childhood and her experiences as an aspiring…
young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. c1985.Swing low: a life
Par Miriam Toews. 2000
Speaking in the voice of her deceased father, Miriam Toews recounts his lifelong battle with depression that led to his…
eventual suicide. Mel Toews was a bubbly, creative and talkative teacher in Manitoba, who privately struggled with depression and personal torment. The author chronicles his experiences, as she imagines he would have told them.Stung: the incredible obsession of Brian Molony
Par Gary S Ross. 1987
Moloney, a loans officer at a bank, set up a fraudulent loan to cover his immediate gambling debts. Taking the…
money was too easy--by the time he was caught, he had embezzled millions of dollars, all lost at casinos and race tracks. Some strong language. 1987 winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award. Bestseller 1987.Switchbacks: true stories from the Canadian Rockies
Par Sid Marty. 1999
Sid Marty presents a collection of true Rock Mountain tales drawn on his own memories and those of friends and…
former colleagues. Among his subjects are: the old guide who built a staircase up a cliff; the stranded snowshoer who was rescued between rounds of beer in a Banff tavern; the man who catered to hungry grizzlies; an opinionated packrat with a gift for larceny; and a horse named Candy whose heart was as big as a stove. 1999.Suleiman the elephant
Par Margret Rettich, Elizabeth D Crawford. 1986
In 1551, Prince Max of Austria married Princess Maria of Spain. One of their wedding presents was an Indian elephant.…
As the procession went from Spain to Vienna, the people came to watch the gigantic beast pass by. Grades K-3. c1986. Uniform title: Soliman der Elefant.Spaghetti western: how my father brought Italian food to the West
Par Maria L Cioni. 2006
Genesio (Gene) Cioni was sixteen when he left Italy in the 1920s to find a vibrant, close-knit Italian community in…
the burgeoning city of Calgary. Gene left behind the barber trade to follow his passion for food and cooking, as he worked his way up from busboy to cook to become one of western Canada's first celebrity chefs. His daughter Maria's recollections of growing up in the family restaurant bring alive the food and treasured traditions that enriched her family's life. Includes recipes. 2006.Scalpels & buggywhips: medical pioneers of Central BC
Par Eldon Lee. 1997
This book is a series of short historical profiles about medical pioneers in Central British Columbia, many of whom set…
up practices in the latter part of the 19th century. 1997.Seven angels for seven days: A True Story Of Mystery, Grief, Healing And God's Amazing Faithfulness
Par Angelina Fast-Vlaar. 2005
Angelina Fast-Vlaar recounts the true story of a camping trip taken through the Australian outback with her husband Peter, that…
produces an untimely encounter with death, and an adventure more amazing than they could ever have dreamed. This amazing account will leave readers spellbound, and constantly moving between deep sorrow and bubbling joy. Angelina's gripping testimony of her personal struggle with loneliness, depression, and intense grief becomes a major tribute to the grace and love of our God. 2005.Six degrees of dignity: disability in an age of freedom
Par David W Shannon. 2007
The right to dignity for all is explicitly recognized in Canadian law; in practice a variety of individuals and groups…
have been excluded from the concern and respect that their nature as persons demands. Prominent among these excluded groups are members of the disabled community, who are marginalized by a society that regularly neglects to recognize their needs, capacities, and merits as individuals. Shannon identifies the social and attitudinal barriers still present in Canadian society today, and cites the factors needed to reverse the process of exclusion. 2007.Stars between the sun and moon: one woman's life in North Korea and escape to freedom
Par Lucia Jang, Susan McClelland. 2014
Born in the seventies in North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in…
the factories, and the family scraped by on government rations of rice and what little food they could grow in their small garden. For the nation, it was the beginning of a chaotic period. The country would face a decade-long famine resulting in more than a million dead. In this bleak landscape Jang dedicates herself to helping her parents and siblings survive. Eventually, she risks everything to flee her home country forever, determined to start a new life. This is her story. c2014.Stories about storytellers: publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others
Par Anthony Jenkins, Douglas Gibson. 2011
An autobiography that reviews the author’s accomplishments working - and playing - alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. Relates the…
projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands, which ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Provides an inside view of Canadian publishing that is rarely revealed. Some strong language. 2011.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.Steal away home: one woman's epic flight to freedom-- and her long road back to the South
Par Karolyn Smardz Frost. 2017
Fifteen-year-old slave Cecelia Reynolds made her dangerous bid for freedom from the United States, across the Niagara River and into…
Canada. Escape meant that she would never see her mother or brother again. She would be cut off from the young mistress with whom she grew up, but who also owned her. Cecelia found a new life in Toronto’s vibrant African American expatriate community. Her rescuer became her husband, a courageous conductor on the Underground Railroad helping other freedom-seekers reach Canada. Widowed, she braved the Fugitive Slave Law to cross back into the United States, where she again found love, and followed her William into the battlefields of the Civil War. Finally, with a wounded husband and young children in tow, she returned to the Kentucky she had known as a child. But her home had changed: hooded Night Riders roamed the countryside with torches and nooses at the ready. When William disappeared, Cecelia relied on the support and affection of her former mistress - the Southern belle who had owned her as a child. Winner of the 2018 Speaker's Book Award. 2017.