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  • Treasures
    Author:
    Cairns, Kathleen, Silverman, Eliane
    Summary:

    Treasures: The Stories Women Tell about the Things They Keep is a book about memory and meaning; these texts bring to light the patterns of story and emotion that women have woven around the objects they have kept and treasured, objects...
  • Treaty elders of Saskatchewan : our dream is that our peoples will one day be clearly recognized as nations
    Author:
    Cardinal, Harold, Hildebrandt, Walter
    Summary:

    "It is my hope, and the hope of the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, that this publication can help provide the historical context needed to intelligently and respectfully forge new relations between First Nations people and non-...
  • Tribb's Troubles
    Author:
    Cole, Trevor
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Tribb has always been a thinker, not a doer. But he needs to do something about the mice in his house...
  • Trouble with Lions (The)
    Author:
    Haigh, Jerry
    Summary:

    The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the lion's other end. That is one lesson that Jerry Haigh brings home in this...
  • Trying Again to Stop Time
    Author:
    Barzanji, Jalal
    Summary:

    “It’s a losing battle: my words have no chance against time. Sometimes, unable to catch up with imagination, I leave the battle, candle in hand, in complete darkness.” — from “Trying Again to Stop Time"...
  • Turning Conflict Into Profit
    Author:
    Axelrod, Larry, Johnson, Rowland (Roy)
    Summary:

    Conflict in the workplace becomes expensive when an organization's efficiency is damaged by friction between employees. Conflicts can threaten the profitability and innovation of business, the sustainability of public institutions...
  • Turning Tiger
    Author:
    Clements, Richmond
    Summary:

    Take one state of the art fully armed sentient military attack robot, let it go rogue, then set the US army and more robots after it. And let it happen in down town USA. If things get bad, have it kidnap a child and see if you can stop...
  • Twelve Modern Houses 1945-1985
    Author:
    Livesey, Graham, McMordie, Michael, Simmins, Geoffrey
    Summary:

    Twelve Modern Houses 1945-1985, is part of the ongoing mandate of the Canadian Architectural Archives to examine the characteristics of Canadian architecture as reflected in the collections of the University of Calgary Library, examines...
  • Two Blackbirds
    Author:
    Ryan, Garry
    Summary:

    The fires of the Second World War are beginning to burn down, but legendary Canadian aviatrix Sharon Lacey is not out of danger just yet. Complications enter the young ace's life as deep-seated racial and class prejudice, potential...
  • Ukrainian Through its Living Culture
    Author:
    Nedashkivska, Alla
    Summary:

    Placing language learning within a cultural framework enlivens the learning process and jumpstarts contextual conversations in the classroom. Experienced instructor Dr. Alla Nedashkivska has crafted a textbook that presents a modern...
  • Umbrella
    Author:
    Palmer, Judd
    Summary:

    This is the first title in Bayeux's NEW series, "An Odd Little Book". The series is in a small format, 4" x 5", and the subjects are intended to appeal to all ages, starting from 7-year olds. The stories or...
  • Under the Holy Lake
    Author:
    Haigh, Ken
    Summary:

    A child’s face, a forgotten scent, or a distinctive flavour engages memory and inspires longing. Ken Haigh brings us tantalizingly close to his own vision of longing for a place, a people, a time, as he revisits those all-too...
  • Understanding Atrocities: Remembering, Representing and Teaching Genocide
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  • Understanding Brain Disease
    Author:
    Martin, Joseph
    Summary:

    Understanding Brain Disease is as much for the specialist as it is for the lay person interested in finding out where we are today in the scientific attempts to understand and control such conditions as stroke, Alzheimer’s,...
  • Understanding stone tools and archaeological sites
    Author:
    Kooyman, Brian P.
    Summary:

    Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites is a valuable volume of investigative archaeology focuses on stone tools, the artifacts produced by these tools, and the revealing debris left behind at sites where they were produced....
  • Understanding terror
    Author:
    Kassam, Karim-Aly S
    Summary:

    While much has been said about the global war on terror, the concept remains cunningly elusive and yet undeniably pervasive. This collection of essays is an effort to discover the Canadian "self" through exploration of the terrorist "...
  • Underworld
    Author:
    Kindzierski, Lovern
    Summary:

    Hector Ashton staggers out of the St. Boniface Hospital psych ward and falls into the Red river. In his delusional state he thinks that he is Odysseus and has been swept into the river Styx. By the time Hector manages to struggle out of...
  • Unguilded
    Author:
    Glatt, Jane
    Summary:

    Mage Guild wants to enslave her. Can Kara survive among the Unguilded?
  • Unifarm
    Author:
    Jaques, Carrol
    Summary:

    Alberta farmers and ranchers know that, in the frustrating business of agriculture, years of bounty inexplicably turn into years of despair. Looking back over the past half century, Jaques recounts the tumultuous history of the Alberta...
  • Unmagic
    Author:
    Glatt, Jane
    Summary:

    Kara Fonti finally has a home, people she considers family, and a magical ability that keeps Reo free from his Guild. Nothing can ruin her happiness; not Mage Guild, not her mother, not even the fact that Reo is avoiding her.

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