In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in...
Canada
- Author:Vance, Jonathan F.Summary:
- Author:Wieler, DianaSummary:
Hockey is the only game worth playing in the rough-and-tumble prairie town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. When sixteen-year-old A.J. Brandiosa makes the Triple A team of his dreams, he can hardly believe that his life is finally coming...
- Author:Robin, MartinSummary:
- Author:Antoniou, HelenSummary:
To most Canadians, the Molson name is part of the very fabric of Canada. Since 1786, when John Molson founded his first brewery in Montreal, it has become synonymous with beer, hockey, and philanthropy. Few realize, however, how close...
- Author:Wister, Andrew V.Summary:
- Author:Duder, CameronSummary:
The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ’50s and...
- Author:Urquhart, JaneSummary:
An Irish family escapes the potato famine by emigrating to Canada. The novel traces its contribution to the culture of its adopted land--from Irish sense of humor to Irish idealism--the latter leading one of its members to engage in...
- Author:Mousseau, NormandSummary:
Partout sur la planète, les grands gisements s’épuisent alors que les prospecteurs reviennent les mains vides. Il devient de plus en plus difficile d’extraire le pétrole alors que la demande explose. La crise énergétique est à nos...
- Author:Soucy, Gaetan, Fischman, SheilaSummary:
Atonement is Sheila Fischman's translation of Gaetan Soucy's brilliant novel, originally published in French as L'Acquittement. Twenty years after leaving the tiny village of Saint Aldor, Louis Bapaume has come home to make amends....
- Author:Moss, John, Morra, Linda M.Summary:
At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon...
- Author:Cuthand, DougSummary:
Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past, present, and future of Saskatchewan's Aboriginal people.
In his trademark direct prose style, Cree journalist and filmmaker Doug Cuthand articulates the past,...
- Author:Cuthand, DougSummary:
- Author:Waldram, James B.Summary:
In past treaties, the Aboriginal people of Canada surrendered title to their lands in return for guarantees that their traditional ways of life would be protected. Since the 1950s, governments have reneged on these commitments in order...
- Author:Martin, Ruth Elwood, Korchinski, MoSummary:
Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose...
- Author:Feagan, RobertSummary:
After his father is transferred to the Northwest Territories with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Mike misses lacrosse until his father recognizes the athleticism of his new friends and the Inuvik lacrosse team is born.
- Author:Dalton, AnthonySummary:
Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years. In 1929 he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue...
- Author:Rivera, RaquelSummary:
Describes true dramatized events in the lives of four modern Inuit artists. The stories range from a boy's survival adventure with his dog on shifting ice and a hunter's close-up encounter with a polar bear, to a shaman's...
- Author:Braz, AlbertSummary:
In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated...
- Author:Noell, MarilynSummary:
Marilyn Noell looks back over the past forty-three years of her life as a quadriplegic. Her struggles have been many – fear, depression, surgery, learning to use what "moving parts" remained after her diving accident when she was just...
- Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:
Anne, a young orphan from the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real community of New London), is sent to Prince Edward Island after a childhood spent in strangers' homes and orphanages. Marilla and Matthew...