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- Author: Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
- Author: Grubisic, Brett Josef ; Grubisic, Brett JosefSummary:
Meet Marcus O, a man who's feeling older but not much wiser as he sets jaded eyes on that last vigorous stretch before the dreaded sunset years. With the approach of the terminal semester of a long-winded career, he's...
- Author: Nördlinger McDonnell, LillooetSummary:
Explores the lives and contributions of five leading Jews living in British Columbia between 1860 and 1970. Cecelia Davies Sylvester, Hannah Director, Leion Koerner, Harry Adaskin, and Nathan Nemetz are memorable for their contributions...
- Author: Giblin, DavidSummary:
"Tall tales of coastal adventures, colourful locals, privileged tourists, and elusive fish abound in this hilariously offbeat sequel to The Codfish Dream. David Giblin's stint as a seasonal salmon fishing guide on Stuart...
- Author: Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
Jason, 14 ans, aide son père avec son service de taxi en hydravion. Une jeune archéologue les emploie pour atteindre une caverne sur un ilot désert difficile d'accès et marquée d'un signe mystérieux. Les dangers de cette...
- Author: Kogawa, JoySummary:
"Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan...
- Author: Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
Boris the husky enjoys his life spent begging salmon scraps from Dad, walking with sister, and stalking the cat next door. Many of his activities put a smile on his face. The husky's life is described, along with his thoughts....
- Author: Marcotte, Danielle S.Summary:
Will Piper Super Cub, Max, and Jim be able to save the French twins from a hungry cougar? Can the little plane dance through clouds of mosquitoes and thunderstorms? Can he land on a beach? Join this father and son adventures on board...
- Author: Prendergast, GabrielleSummary:
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, 14-year-old Blue Jasper must enter the enchanted Crosswood when his twin siblings are kidnapped by a Faerie king."--
- Author: Slade, ArthurSummary:
"In the second novel of this series for teen readers, a vampire librarian learns a secret organization is behind her mother's disappearance."--
- Author: Carr Jr, Thomas M.Summary:
Marie-André Duplessis (1687-1760) guided the Augustinian sisters at the Hôtel-Dieu of Quebec - the oldest hospital north of Mexico - where she was elected mother superior six times. Although often overshadowed by colonial nuns who...
- Author: Horner, DanSummary:
The 1840s were a period of rapid growth and social conflict in Montreal. The city's public life was marked by a series of labour conflicts and bloody sectarian riots; at the same time, the ways that elites wielded power and...
- Author: Brownlee, Billie JeanneSummary:
The Arab Spring did not arise out of nowhere. It was the physical manifestation of more than a decade of new media diffusion, use, and experimentation that empowered ordinary people during their everyday lives. In this book, Billie...
- Author: Guba Jr, David A.Summary:
Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize...
- Author: Bennett, Paul W.Summary:
Over the last fifty years, Canada's public schools have been absorbed into a modern education system that functions much like Max Weber's infamous iron cage. Crying out for democratic school-level reform, the system is now a...
- Author: Dickey Young, Pamela ; Shipley, HeatherSummary:
Growing numbers of young adults are either nonreligious or "spiritual but not religious," but this does not signal a lack of interest in religion and meaning-making. Though the lexicon describing sexuality and gender is...
- Author: Crocker, Diane ; Minaker, Joanne ; Neland, AmandaSummary:
We live in a moment of renewed and highly visible action on the issue of sexual violence. Rape culture is a real and salient force that dominates campus climates and student experiences. Canada has drafted a national framework,...
- Author: Hutchings, KevinSummary:
Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation,...
- Author: Marland, AlexSummary:
Canadians often see politicians as little more than trained seals who vote on command and repeat robotic talking points. Politicians are torn by dilemmas of loyalty to party versus loyalty to voters. Whipped examines the hidden ways...
- Author: Mathen, Carissima ; Plaxton, MichaelSummary:
The process by which Supreme Court judges are appointed is traditionally a quiet affair, but this certainly wasn’t the case when Prime Minister Stephen Harper selected Justice Marc Nadon – a federal court judge – for appointment to...