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  • Dirk Danger Loves Life
    Author:
    Rothe, Chris
    Summary:

    Dirk Danger Loves Life, the début novel by Chris Rothe, is a comedic tale of a sad little man who cannot function in any self-sufficient capacity. As his life swirls down the drain, serendipity provides a phone number that launches him...
  • Disappearing Moon Cafe
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  • Discovering Numbers
    Author:
    Auger, Neepin
    Summary:

    From apple to zigzag and from 1 to 10, Neepin Auger’s books for children will be certain to educate and entertain preschoolers, parents and teachers alike. Inspired by her training as a First Nations artist and her academic...
  • Discovering Words
    Author:
    Auger, Neepin
    Summary:

    From apple to zigzag and from 1 to 10, Neepin Auger’s books for children will be certain to educate and entertain preschoolers, parents and teachers alike. Inspired by her training as a First Nations artist and her academic...
  • Disinherited Generations
    Author:
    Carlson, Nellie, Steinhauer, Kathleen
    Summary:

    This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities. Nellie Carlson and Kathleen...
  • Diversity, Culture and Counselling
    Author:
    France, M. Honoré, Rodriguez, Maria del Carmen, Hett, Geoffrey G.
    Summary:

    Canada is one of the most diverse nations in the world. As counsellors increasingly deal with people from many different cultures and backgrounds, there is a need to shift from Eurocentric counselling theories and methods towards an...
  • Divine Music
    Author:
    Mohan, Suruchi
    Summary:

    Set in the historic Indian city of Lucknow, rich in its classical musical and cultural traditions, this novel weaves in, exquisitely, the themes of spirituality and sensuousness, the divine and the carnal, decay and regeneration. The...
  • Doors to the Sky
    Author:
    Reiff, Tana
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Leena's children are older, so she goes back to school. All goes well until Omar, her husband...
  • Doubt's Boots
    Author:
    Noble, Charles
    Summary:

    Charles Noble’s long poem playfully connects autobiography, narrative, philosophy, history, and satire and experiments with language and structure in a way that pushes the limits of contemporary poetry. Noble leaves no leaf...
  • Dramatic Licence
    Author:
    Ladouceur, Louise
    Summary:

    Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a...
  • Dreamers
    Author:
    Williams, Donna Glee
    Summary:

    By the time she's sixteen, the town's Dreamer has long ago given up her own life. She only dreams for others now, every morning delivering up to them the divine guidance that comes to her in the night. In exchange, they treat...
  • Dreaming of Elsewhere
    Author:
    Edugyan, Esi
    Summary:

    Home, for me, was not a birthright, but an invention.. It seems to me when we speak of home we are speaking of several things, often at once, muddled together into an uneasy stew. We say home and mean origins, we say home and mean...
  • Dreamwork
    Author:
    Hart, Jonathan Locke
    Summary:

    Dreamwork is a poetic exploration of the then and there, here and now, of landscapes and inscapes over time. It is part of a poetry series on dream and its relation to actuality. The poems explore past, present, and future in different...
  • Dressed to Rule
    Author:
    Vollmer, John E.
    Summary:

    Art takes many forms. In this selection of Asian court attire, dating from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), the phrase "you are what you wear" resonates. Vollmer journeys back to the thirteenth-century Chinese Empire, where...
  • Drift Child
    Author:
    Leslie, Rosella
    Summary:

    Emma Phillips is a 35-year-old divorcee with an undemanding job, a rustic old house, and a friend who provides all the benefits she needs. She's comfortable, complacent, and accustomed to getting her own way – until she...
  • Driftwood and the Necessary Forest
    Author:
    Davidge, James
    Summary:

    Hans Blekansit, estranged father of the young sorceress Driftwood Ellesmere and ruthless businessman, is aggressively logging the Stoltmann Wilderness Area. AsDriftwood and her friends fight to defend the land near Camp Magee, she is...
  • Driftwood Ellesmere
    Author:
    Davidge, James
    Summary:

    The amazing origin of our heroine is learnt as Driftwood and her friends grapple with a monster that creates evilly hypnotic video games.It was during a normally quiet day on Ellesmere Island that Old Bart was interrupted by a pregnant...
  • Driftwood Saves the Whales
    Author:
    Davidge, James
    Summary:

    Angering the Inuit sea goddess Sedna brings about powerful visions and overwhelming abilities for the young sorceress Driftwood Ellesmere. Giants created by Hans Blekansit continue to spew Blekan-Marts all over the world. Odin, Thor and...
  • Driftwood's War
    Author:
    Davidge, James
    Summary:

    To increase profits, Hans Blekansit is threatening to bring the world into a horrible war. Meanwhile, Driftwood struggles with the rigorous magic instructional the Regimental Conservatory of the Order of the Good and True but gets...
  • Drones, Clones, and Alpha Babes
    Author:
    Relke, Diana M.A.
    Summary:

    The Star Trek franchise represents one of the most successful emanations of popular media in our culture. The number of books, both popular and scholarly, published on the subject of Star Trek is massive, with more and more titles...

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