Il y a plus de 400 ans, Samuel de Champlain, précédé d’Étienne Brûlé, arrivait sur le territoire qui forme aujourd’hui la province de l’Ontario. Depuis, la population francophone, qui s’élève aujourd’hui à plus d’un demi-million de...
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La mort non résolue du pape Victor III, l’inexplicable suicide d’une fillette de sept ans, un psychologue beaucoup trop impliqué dans la vie de ses patients, des voix meurtrières très convaincantes, un inspecteur de police opportuniste...
- Author:Draper, PennySummary:
Jack Gordon and Henry Addison meet when the Great Lakes cruise ship, the Noronic, docks at Ward Island, just before the ship catches fire - with Henry on board.
Two young teens, Jack Gordon and Henry Addison, meet when the Great...
- Author:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSummary:
With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals others and preaches pacifism while enduring the torment of this own damaged soul. Then his...
- Author:Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements. Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set...
- Author:Favro, TerriSummary:
A gritty tragi-comic fairy tale of sexual obsession and longing, based in equal parts on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Once Upon A Time In West Toronto is the story of outsiders...
- Author:Fradkin, BarbaraSummary:
Did Inspector Green put the wrong man behind bars? Twenty years ago, a raw and impressionable Detective Michael Green helped convict a young professor for the murder of an attractive co-ed. From behind bars, the man continued to hound...
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How can educators implement an inclusive and effective curriculum for ESL students?
Sandra Schecter and Jim Cummins provide some answers from school-based practitioners and university-based researchers who worked on a...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to read, unable to concentrate, full of pain, lost and confused, haunted by her...
- Author:Snell, JamesSummary:
Macdonald Institute traces the evolution of a small post-secondary institution specializing in the education of rural Ontario women into a world-respected, co-educational college at the University of Guelph. Built in 1903 with funds...
- Author:Donovan, Marie-AndréeSummary:
Du présent au passé, entre l’ombre et la lumière, ce récit nous guide à pas feutrés à travers un paysage étrange, habité de personnages parfois insolites, souvent tendres. Sous les soleils calcinés couve une mémoire perdue qui n’attend...
- Author:Hotte, Lucie, Paré, François, Carrière, Marie, Holtz, Grégoire, Kellett, Kathleen, Ladouceur, Louise, Morency, Jean, Sing, Pamela, Thibault, Jimmy, Tremblay, EmmanuelleSummary:
« Les littératures de l’exiguïté, dont font partie les ensembles littéraires franco-canadiens, restent fascinées par les sémantiques de l’espace. Elles en oublient leur longue histoire et renoncent, par là, aux riches taxonomies liées...
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Le troisième roman pour adultes de Daniel Marchildon est aussi son projet le plus ambitieux en vingt ans de carrière littéraire. La science qu'il a acquise passionnément sur la fabrication et l'histoire du whisky s'y trouve habilement...
- Author:Schultz, EmilySummary:
Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he's sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. But he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town's only video...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Chronicling the early years of the formidable manor Jalna and the Whiteoak family who inhabit it, this bundle gathers together the first four novels in Mazo de la Roche's treasured Canadian saga. Includes: The Building of Jalna Morning...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
History flows swiftly on, and even the formidable family home of Jalna is swept up in its currents in this collection of books 9-12 of the Jalna series. Fortunes rise and crumble as older generations give way to the young, and the reins...
- Author:de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Perhaps the most classic novels of Mazo de la Roche's monumental family saga are these four, which were the first books written in the series, though they fall in the middle of her books' multi-generation narrative. These, including the...
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All good things must come to an end, and this four-book bundle closes Mazo de la Roche's beloved Jalna series with stories of return, rebirth, and hope for a new day. As the dark clouds of World War II begin to clear, the scattered...