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Rapid Ray: the story of Ray Lewis
Par John Cooper. 2002
After an outstanding career as a high-school track-and-field star, Ray Lewis went on to become the first Canadian-born black man…
named to a Canadian Olympic team, winning medals at the 1932 Olympics and the 1934 British Empire Games. What makes him more remarkable is that Ray faced poverty and prejudice everyday, working on the railway. Grades 4-7. 2002.The piano war: A True Story Of Love And Survival In World War Ii
Par Graeme Friedman. 2003
August 1939. On her summer break from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, young South African pianist Olda…
Mehr and her parents leave London to visit relatives in Eastern Europe. A dreamy holiday descends into nightmare when Germany invades Poland, and the Mehrs find themselves, as Jews, caught up in Hitler's Holocaust. For Olda, Gestapo torture and the threat of the gas chamber are relieved by letters from her boyfriend, the artist-musician-doctor, Bennie Hermer, now a captain in the South African army fighting in North Africa. After the Allied disaster at Tobruk, Ben is imprisoned in the dusty, dysentery-ridden POW camp at Benghazi. Via infrequent Red Cross messages the couple keep their love alive, until awesome daring on both their parts leads to a startling conclusion. 2003.The Blacks in Canada: a history (Carleton library series ; #192)
Par Robin W Winks. 2000
Covers all aspects of the Black experience in Canada, from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave…
of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Details the diverse experiences of Black immigrants to Canada, looks at Black settlement in the prairie provinces and on the west coast, and explores efforts by African-Canadians to establish and maintain meaningful lifestyles in Canada. 2000.Things no longer there: a memoir of losing sight and finding vision
Par Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.The complete idiot's guide to a great retirement for Canadians
Par Carolyn Janik, Ruth Rejnis, Bruce McDougall. 1996
The authors address the critical issues that we face as retirement draws nearer. They talk about how much money you…
really need in order to retire, how to get value from RRSPs, government programs, purchasing a retirement home, and estate planning.Yesterday, I cried: celebrating the lessons of living and loving
Par Iyanla Vanzant. 1998
An empowerment specialist and ordained minister, Vanzant offers help in turning painful situations into learning experiences. She discusses the various…
pains she has endured and the fact that crying about them can allow healing to begin. She encourages celebrating life each and every day. c1998.Y a pas que du sable dans le désert !: à la rencontre des Touaregs
Par Moussa Ag Assarid, Nathalie Valera Gil. 2011
Son arrivée en France l'avait tellement marqué que Moussa Ag Assarid, jeune Touareg du Mali, en avait tiré un livre,…
Y a pas d'embouteillage dans le désert !. Dix ans après, il revient auprès des siens dans son désert natal. Pour ce retour tant attendu, il met en œuvre la Caravane du Cœur avec Nathalie Valera Gil, globe-trotteuse passionnée par l'Afrique. Accompagnés de volontaires français, parmi lesquels des chômeurs, des retraités, des chefs d'entreprises, des hommes, des femmes et des enfants, ils vont parcourir huit mille kilomètres par la route, à travers la France, l'Espagne, le Maroc, la Mauritanie et le Mali, pour vivre le quotidien des campements touaregs. Moussa leur permet de découvrir sa culture, le mode de vie nomade et sa beauté, mais aussi le combat des hommes Bleus pour rester libres. Le dépouillement, la simplicité et la profondeur de ces moments inoubliables bouleversent les caravaniers, notamment Bastien, 9 ans, qui notera dans son carnet de voyage " qu'il y a aussi des hommes dans le désert ", lui qui pensait n'y trouver que du sable et des scorpions ! 50 % des droits d'auteurs sont reversés à l'association Caravane du Cœur pour soutenir l'éducation et la santé des nomades du nord du Mali.Worse than slavery: Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice
Par David M Oshinsky. 1996
History of the notorious Mississippi penitentiary, infamous for its brutality and deplorable conditions. Examines the state's profitable use of inmates…
as labour on the twenty-thousand-acre prison plantation and the earlier practice of leasing convicts out to work on cotton farms in the area. Strong language and violence. 1996.With wings as eagles
Par Perry Epler Gresham. 1980
Wise and healthy living: a commonsense approach to aging well (Self-counsel retirement series)
Par Richard Underwood, Brenda Breeden Underwood. 1989
This guide to a healthy, active retirement includes tips on creating an exercise plan, starting a healthy diet, and creating…
goals for your retirement years. The authors also discuss personal security, support groups and coping with loss. 1989.Winter in the morning: a young girl's life in the Warsaw ghetto and beyond, 1939-1945
Par Janina Bauman. 1986
A personal account of life in and out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Describes the experiences and emotions of a well-to-do,…
irreligious, non-Yiddish-speaking teenager who suffers the horrors of being Jewish in a land controlled by Nazis. Based on her diaries from the war years, the book depicts Bauman's growing self-awareness as she fights for survival. 1986.Willie Mays: the life, the legend
Par James S Hirsch. 2010
Authorized biography of baseball outfielder Willie Mays, born in 1931 Alabama. Follows Mays from the Negro Leagues to the New…
York Mets. Highlights Mays's best games, including his astonishing catch when playing for the Giants in the 1954 World Series. Discusses his personal life and baseball's racial integration. Bestseller. Some violence and strong language. 2010.Widower of the novelist Iris Murdoch tells an inspirational, painful, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple…
with his fate as a man by beginning life anew, in his mid-seventies. 2001.Whylah Falls
Par George Elliott Clarke. 1990
A collection of prose and poetry by Canadian writer George Elliott Clarke. Based on a mythical village in Nova Scotia,…
the poems speak of love, wisdom, and the black experience in Nova Scotia. Short-listed for the "Canada Reads" programme 2002. 1990.White tribe dreaming: apartheid's bitter roots : notes of an eighth-generation Afrikaner
Par Marq De Villiers. 1987
The author explains the thoughts, emotions and actions of the apartheid-supporting Afrikaners by tracing their history from the 17th century.…
De Villiers believes that the solutions to the problems of South Africa will work only if they are at least minimally acceptable to the Afrikaners. 1987.Who wrote the Dead Sea scrolls?: the search for the secret of Qumran
Par Norman Golb. 1995
A scholarly inquiry into the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the first of which was discovered in the Qumran…
caves in 1947. The author refutes the theory that scribes produced the scrolls in a local Essenean monastery and asserts that the manuscripts were transferred from Jerusalem when the city was under Roman siege. c1995.Where did I leave my glasses?: the what, when, and why of normal memory loss
Par Martha Weinman Lear. 2008
Perhaps the greatest source of anxiety for America's aging boomers is what's happening to their memory. Lear provides reassurance (a…
certain amount of forgetfulness in the middle-aged and young elderly is normal) along with the holy quartet of memory aids: eat healthily, avoid stress, get lots of sleep, and exercise both body and mind regularly. For those who fear early-onset Alzheimer's, Lear provides a chart differentiating normal memory loss from dementia, and describes new research on drugs that improve memory and cognition. 2008.When evils were most free
Par Eric Johnson, György Faludy, George Gabori. 1981
What's a black critic to do?: interviews, profiles and reviews of black writers
Par Donna Bailey Nurse. 2003
Whatever happened to Maggie and other people I've known
Par Edna Staebler. 1983
This collection of pieces read like fiction, but have the impact of real life. Ranges from Memmonites in Kitchener, Hutterites…
in Alberta, an orphanage in Nova Scotia, and the fishermen on Cape Breton Island. 1983.