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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
Soldiers of a different cloth: Notre Dame chaplains in World War II
Par John F Wukovits. 2018
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.Scram!: the gripping first-hand account of the helicopter war in the Falklands
Par Harry Benson. 2012
April 2nd 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands. This is the thrilling untold story…
of the young helicopter pilots - most barely out of their teens - who risked their lives during this brief but ferocious war. 2012.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.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.Shadow warriors of World War II: the daring women of the OSS and SOE
Par Gordon Thomas, Greg Lewis. 2017
Unveils the history of the courageous women who volunteered to work behind enemy lines. Sent into Nazi-occupied Europe by the…
United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE), these women helped establish a web of resistance groups across the continent. Their heroism, initiative, and resourcefulness contributed to the Allied breakout of the Normandy beachheads, and they even infiltrated Nazi Germany at the height of the war, into the very heart of Hitler's citadel--Berlin. Young and daring, the female agents accepted that they could be captured, tortured, or killed, but others were always ready to take their place. 2017.Storming St Nazaire: the gripping story of the dock-busting raid, March, 1942
Par James Dorrian. 1998
The author tells the story of the raid to destroy the docks at St Nazaire so as to deny a…
berth to the German battleship Tirpitz. He describes the strategic situation, outlines the plan, and gives some background on the primary individuals involved before providing a highly-detailed account of the raid itself. 1998.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.Storm over Leyte: the Philippine invasion and the destruction of the Japanese navy
Par John Prados. 2016
As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was…
placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey's unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf - the greatest naval battle in history. Prados gives readers an unprecedented look at both sides of this titanic naval clash, demonstrating that, despite the Americans' overwhelming superiority in firepower and supplies, the Japanese achieved their goal, inflicting grave damage on U.S. forces. And for the first time, readers will have access to the naval intelligence reports that influenced key strategic decisions on both sides. Drawing upon a wealth of untapped sources--U.S. and Japanese military records, diaries, declassified intelligence reports and postwar interrogation transcripts--Prados offers up a masterful narrative of naval conflict on an epic scale. 2016.Spain in our hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Par Adam Hochschild. 2016
Hochschild presents a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen American characters, including Ernest Hemingway: a…
tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed. Bestseller. 2016.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.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
Song of Rita Joe: autobiography of Mi'kmaq poet
Par Lynn Henry, Rita Joe. 1996
Mi'kmaq poet Rita Joe reflects on the tumultuous events of her life. Raised in foster homes and educated in an…
Indian residential school, she endured prejudice, sexism, and poverty. She began to write poetry, and soon discovered the voice through which she could reclaim her Aboriginal heritage. 1996.SOG: the secret wars of America's commandos in Vietnam
Par John L Plaster. 1997
Recounts covert operations by American special forces codenamed the Studies and Operations Group in the Vietnam War. The SOG rescued…
downed pilots, sabotaged targeted installations, and sapped enemy troop strength. The author depicts the valour and sacrifices of these secret warriors. Descriptions of violence. c1997.Sobbing superpower: selected poems of Tadeusz Różewicz
Par Edward Hirsch, Tadeusz Różewicz, Joanna Trzeciak. 2011
Widely held to be the most influential Polish poet of a generation that includes Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, Tadeusz…
Róźewicz gives voice in the sharpest, most disturbing way to the crisis of values that has plagued our civilization. Joanna Trzeciak's new translation displays Róźewicz's supernatural simplicity, his stark diction and sudden turns. Includes violence. 2011. Uniform title: Poems.Songs of innocence and of experience (Oxford Student Texts)
Par William Blake, Richard Willmott. 1990
This edition provides comprehensive notes on the poems and an approaches section offering commentary and activities on key themes and…
techniques, such as Blake's political beliefs and the role of imagery within his poetry. The poems were originally written in 1789 and 1794. 1990.