Translators connect languages and landscapes, sparking conversations that enlarge our imagination. In Canada, where translation has had an especially important role to play, the nature of the...
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Auteur:Sommaire:Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts, Essays
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Auteur: Slaughter, KarinSommaire:
Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter:...
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Auteur: Kortes-Miller, KathySommaire:
This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying
Death is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in...
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Auteur: Terry, Bill, Bates, RosemarySommaire:
You may never look at a garden in the same way again. Though not a “how-to” book, Beauty By Design is a treasure trove of ideas and enchantment for seasoned gardeners and beginners alike. Eleven...
Genre: Gardening, Canadian nonfiction -
Auteur: Hilburn, RobertSommaire:
A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation'but without editorial control'by acclaimed...
Genre: Music, Biographies and autobiographies -
Auteur: Reichs, KathySommaire:
Her plans for a romantic vacation interrupted by the discoveries of two murdered bodies and a small plane crash, Tempe Brennan traces leads to an isolated North Carolina farm.
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Auteur: Page, KathySommaire:
The stories in The Two of Us focus on pairs: intense one-on-one relationships and encounters. Characters undergo genetic testing, garden, overeat, starve themselves, consider suicide, travel, have...
Genre: Short stories, Canadian fiction -
Auteur: Calvert, KathySommaire:
June’s strength of character was forged by living in the wilderness west of Turner Valley as a young girl with her mother and her stepfather, Tip Johnson, a renowned cowboy and horse...
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Auteur: Megyery, KathySommaire:
"Women are the most under-represented social group in the elected assemblies of the worl. Women everywhere constitute m ore than one-half of the population and … rarely, are more than a...
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Auteur: Kacer, KathySommaire:
Laura has just three weeks to go before her Jewish “coming of age” ceremony, called a Bat Mitzvah, when she is assigned a special project. She is to read the diary of Sara Gittler, a young girl...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Auteur: Stinson, KathySommaire:
David’s younger sister Ivy, born with multiple disabilities, needs constant attention. She may be eleven years old, but in many ways she’s still a baby. She embarrasses him in public. She takes...
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Auteur: Kacer, KathySommaire:
Do young people today find meaning in the Holocaust? That’s the question that prompted a writing project across North America, Italy, and Australia asking young people to share their ideas about...
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Auteur: Kacer, KathySommaire:
The story of the Reesers, a Jewish family who emigrated to Canada from Czechoslovakia on the eve of WWII. They fled the Nazis and left behind four valuable oil paintings. It would take years for...
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Auteur: Kacer, KathySommaire:
The true story of the ship St. Louis, which left Germany in May 1939 full of Jewish passengers seeking refuge in Cuba. Denied port in Cuba, the US, and finally Canada, the St. Louis was forced to...
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Auteur: Clark, KathySommaire:
Based on the true story of two sisters sheltered from the Nazis by a group of Catholic nuns during World War II. Mama had always told twelve-year-old Susan that there was no safe place for a Jew,...
Genre: Juvenile fiction