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Runaway dreams: poems
Par Richard Wagamese. 2011
Novelist Wagamese presents a collection of poems, including descriptions of his life on the road when he repeatedly ran away…
at an early age, and the abuse he received when the authorities tried “to beat the Indian right out of me.” Yet even in the most desperate situations, Wagamese shows us Canada as seen through the eyes and soul of a well-worn traveller, with his love of country and his love of people. c2011.Sailing to Babylon: poems
Par James Pollock. 2012
Poems of exploration and discovery from the pen of James Pollock. Here is a schoolboy’s fascination with the English teacher;…
the grandmother's old Bible; a Dantean-style extended account of a hiking adventure with a young son. Further out in time and geography, Pollock muses on figures from Canadian history, including explorer Henry Hudson, literary theorist Northrop Frye and pianist Glenn Gould. 2012.Runny Babbit: a billy sook
Par Shel Silverstein. 2005
Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake,…
and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own. Grades 3-6. 2005.Rudolf Nureyev: the life
Par Julie Kavanagh. 2008
Born in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. His achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out…
of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe and much more. 2008.Room to dream
Par David Lynch, Kristine McKenna. 2018
The extraordinary, highly anticipated memoir from visionary filmmaker David Lynch. In this memoir, David Lynch, co-creator of Twin Peaks and…
writer and director of groundbreaking films like Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, opens up about a lifetime of extraordinary creativity, the friendships he has made along the way and the struggles he has faced--sometimes successful, sometimes not--to bring his projects to fruition. Part-memoir, part-biography, 'Room to Dream' interweaves Lynch's own reflections on his life with the story of those times, as told by Kristine McKenna, drawing from extensive and explosive interviews with ninety of Lynch's friends, family members, actors, agents, musicians, and collaborators. Lynch responds to each recollection and reveals the inner story of the life behind the art. 2018.Rodin
Par Pierre Daix. 1988
Si l'on ne connait qu'un seul nom de sculpteur, c'est celui de "Rodin" qui vient à l'esprit. Qui était ce…
génie inclassable que sa liaison avec Camille Claudel a récemment mis en lumière? Ce livre nous présente Rodin dans son ampleur et son intimité. 1988.Robert Desnos, un poète
Par Robert Desnos. 1998
Robert Frost in recital
Par Robert Frost. 1992
Robert Burns: poems
Par Robert Burns, Henry William Meikle, William Beattie. 1977
Revolting rhymes & Dirty beasts
Par Roald Dahl. 1982
Revolting rhymes. Humorous retellings in verse of six well-known fairy tales featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after.…
Grades K-3. 1982. Taped with: Dirty beasts. A collection of humorous poems about amazing or nasty creatures, including a flying cow, a pig who turns the tables on a farmer, and crocodiles, lions, and anteaters who delight in devouring people. Grades K-3. 1983.Resonant Leadership: how great leaders create-- and sustain-- resonance in turbulent times (Your coach in a box)
Par Richard E Boyatzis. 2008
Authors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee argue that today's leaders face unprecedented challenges that result in a vicious cycle of…
stress and sacrifice. Here, they marshal decades of multidisciplinary research and hands-on consulting work to provide a practical framework for how leaders can create and sustain resonance in their relationships, their teams, and their organizations. Through vivid examples, the authors show how three key elements - mindfulness, hope, and compassion - are essential to enabling renewal and sustaining resonance. 2008.Resumes for mid-career job changes: with sample cover letters, third edition (VGM professional resumes series)
Par McGraw-Hill Staff. 2006
Includes nearly 100 sample resumes in a variety of eye-catching formats, and 20 cover letters. Explains how to create a…
concise and stylish resume using worksheets, and how to format and submit them electronically. 2006.Reprieve: a memoir
Par Agnes De Mille. 1981
Rembrandt's eyes (Allen Lane History Ser.)
Par Simon Schama. 1999
This biography examines the life of the Dutch artist Rembrandt. The author conjures the world in which Rembrandt moved -…
its sounds, smells and tastes as well as its politics - and the influences on him including the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, and the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries. Above all the profound effect on Rembrandt of the leading master of the immediately preceding generation, Rubens, with whom Rembrandt was obsessed for the first part of his life. 1999.Red sings from treetops: a year in colors
Par Joyce Sidman. 2010
Red doc>
Par Anne Carson. 2013
In an original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative, Anne Carson brings the red-winged Geryon from “Autobiography of Red”, now…
called "G," into manhood, and through the complex labyrinths of the modern age. We join him as he travels with his friend and lover "Sad", and Ida, an artist, across a geography that ranges from plains of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures; from a psychiatric clinic to the somber house where G's mother must face her death. c2013.Ravir: poèmes (Clepsydre ; #58)
Par Hélène Dorion. 2005
Une poésie harmonieuse, d'un classicisme parfois convenu, parfois factice malgré quelques images vibrantes et un indéniable savoir-faire. Une poésie souvent…
décorative dans laquelle l'être joue les trouble-fêtes. Prix du Gouverneur général 2006, catégorie poésie. 2006.Rebel talent: why it pays to break the rules at work and in life
Par Francesca Gino. 2018
From an early age, we are taught to follow the rules. But going along to get along comes at a…
steep price for our careers and personal lives. Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why creative rebellion is essential at work and in life. 2018.Reading the river: a traveller's companion to the North Saskatchewan River
Par Myrna Kostash, Duane Burton. 2006
A compendium of writings including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, from those who have spent time reading the river. Beginning at…
the rivers source, Kostash takes the reader through 21 communities along the North Saskatchewan. Includes the work of Hugh McLennan, Eli Mandel, Aritha van Herk, John V. Hicks and Thompson Highway. c2006.Rag cosmology
Par Erin Robinsong. 2017
In this time of ecological precarity, "Rag Cosmology" is an urgent invitation to reinvent our modes of engagement with the…
environment we not only inhabit, but are. Refusing the lamentation that leaves us as resigned witnesses to devastation, "Rag Cosmology" counters fatalist narratives with the pleasures of ecological entanglement and engagement. Tracing relationships between seemingly irreconcilable things--economy and ecology, weather and lust, bills and inner voices, wages of avoidance and wages of listening--these poems offer the intimate and lush language of thought that yearn for an imaginative reinvention of how we understand what we are part of and what we are losing. Winner of the 2017 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QWF). 2017.