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  • Ancestral portraits : the colour of my people
    Author:
    McDonald, Frederick R.
    Summary:

    Ancestral Portraits is a retrospective of the art and life of Frederick R. McDonald, one of Alberta's most exciting Alberta First Nations artists working today, and a celebration of a rich Cree heritage. With one foot in the world...
  • And God Created Manyberries
    Author:
    Wood, Ron
    Summary:

    Bizarre political plots, schemes and wild-eyed government policies inspired by conversations overheard in the dining room of the House of Commons.
  • Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
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  • Animal Tracks of Alberta
    Author:
    Sheldon, Ian, Eder, Tamara
    Summary:

    Animal Tracks of Alberta will help you identify tracks of all shapes and sizes, from the Deer Mouse to the Mule Deer. This book is perfect for children, teachers, parents, backwoods explorers and naturalists: * Excellent illustrations...
  • Anti-Saints
    Author:
    Delany, Sheila
    Summary:

    Compiled by a radical journalist and poet in the early days of the French Revolution, these subversively satirical lives of women saints sought to win both women and men away from religion. Though based on authentic hagiography,...
  • Any Bright Horse
    Author:
    Pasold, Lisa
    Summary:

    SHORTLISTED FOR A GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD When Marco Polo was captured by the Genoese he whiled away his year in prison by dictating a memoir, the Livre des Merveilles. Polo’s Book of Wonders became a raging best...
  • Apartheid in Palestine
    Author:
    Ageel, Ghada
    Summary:

    “Of all the crimes to which Palestinians have been subjected through a century of bitter tragedy, perhaps none are more cruel than the silencing of their voices. The suffering has been most extreme, criminal, and grotesque in Gaza,...
  • Aphra
    Author:
    Cullen, Nancy Jo, Patience, Alexandria, Scollard, Rose
    Summary:

    Aphra opens on 17th century playwright Aphra Behn writing feverishly in her small, poorly furnished room. The weather is cold and bleak and she is seriously ill. It is two days before her death. The moral forces that would silence her...
  • Apostrophes VII
    Author:
    Blodgett, E.D.
    Summary:

    Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address. (OED) Renowned poet E.D....
  • Archaeology on the edge
    Author:
    Kelley, Jane Holden
    Summary:

    Dedicated to the memory of Richard G. Forbis, this collection of papers presented by his students and colleagues represents more than a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology. Dick Forbis was seminal in putting...
  • Arctic comics
    Author:
    Burns, Nicholas, Kusugak, Jose, Kusugak, Michael
    Summary:

    The book contains five tales of myth, adventure, and humour told at the top of the world, written and drawn by Inuit and northern Canadian comic creators. Stories include On Waiting, award-winning Inuit author Michael Kusugak (Baseball...
  • Arctic scientist, gulag survivor
    Author:
    Ermolaev, A. M.
    Summary:

    One of the most prominent Soviet Arctic scientists of the 1920s and 1930s, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev was a geologist, physicist, and oceanographer. After working in the Arctic for some thirteen years, he was arrested by the NKVD,...
  • Are We There Yet
    Author:
    Heather, Jane
    Summary:

    Are We There Yet? is a funny, participatory play and workshop about sexuality health education for fourteen- to sixteen-year-olds. The play draws a parallel between mastering driving skills and negotiating relationships, and humorously...
  • Arrhythmia
    Author:
    Zorn, Alice
    Summary:

    "Joelle is about to lose her husband Marc, who has become obsessed with Ketia, a young Haitian woman. Ketia lies to her family to conceal her liaison with Marc. Joelle’s friend Diane does not realize that her boyfriend...
  • Arriving: 1909-1919
    Author:
    Jeffery, Corinne
    Summary:

    Corinne Jeffery’s Canadian historical fiction trilogy, Understanding Ursula, vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. You’ll lose yourself between the...
  • As Fate Decrees
    Author:
    Bridger, Denysé
    Summary:

    In ancient Greece the young maiden, Amarantha, is captured and sold in the slave market of Athens. "What fates await?" she wonders. "And what divine design will the Olympian gods have for me?" As unexpectedly as...
  • As I Remember Them
    Author:
    Olsen, Jeanne-Elise
    Summary:

    Originally written in the early 1970s, As I Remember Them is based on Jeanne-Elise Olsen's extraordinary recall of her childhood and youth spent in an isolated part of the Laurentians in the Lièvre River Valley in the early...
  • as if
    Author:
    Blodgett, E.D.
    Summary:

    as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into...
  • As Long As This Land Shall Last
    Author:
    Fumoleau, Rene
    Summary:

    A historically accurate study that takes no sides, this book is the first complete document of Treaties 8 and 11 between the Canadian government and the Native people at the turn of the nineteenth century. On the basis of those treaties...
  • Ask Now of the Days that are Past
    Author:
    Segal, Eliezer
    Summary:

    Written for a general audience, the essays collected here present refreshing and often humorous glimpses of various topics in Jewish history and traditional religious literature. Inspired by the diversity of Jewish thought, author and...

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