This collection takes a holistic view of well-being, seeking complementarities between Indigenous approaches to healing and Western biomedicine. Topics include traditional healers and approaches...
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Author: Harris, YvonneSummary:
This sweeping saga is set in the 1860s when Canada was emerging as a nation, during the Cariboo gold rush and against the backdrop the U.S. Civil War. Alice, a strong-minded woman, witnesses the...
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Author: Haygood, WilSummary:
When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had...
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Author: Fancy, David, Skott-Myhre, HansSummary:
How can we imagine a future not driven by capitalist assumptions about humans and the wider world? How are a range of contemporary artistic and popular cultural practices already providing...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Philosophy -
Author: Atkinson, Andrew, Harris, MarkSummary:
In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale’s Back presents a host of Eastern Canada’s brightest literary talents, all putting pens to paper to explore the...
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Author: Marske, FreyaSummary:
Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell : debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light unfolds in an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies....
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C.Summary:
The Nine Billion Names of God and Other Stories, the third volume in the Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke, is comprised of those 22 stories which Clarke considered personal favorites among his...
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Author: Lorinc, John, McClelland, Michael, Scheinberg, Ellen, Taylor, TatumSummary:
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.' From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto - Irish, Jewish, Italian...
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Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by...
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Author: Choyce, Lesley, Swan, JuliaSummary:
“Alistair MacLeod was the most deeply satisfied person I ever met,” writes Alexander MacLeod of his father, “and every day I miss his quiet presence in my life, his unhurried walk, his slow...
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Author: Crerar, David, Crerar, HarrySummary:
A new, full-colour guidebook for outdoor enthusiasts interested in exploring the dynamic and awe-inspiring peaks and trails of Vancouver's internationally renowned coastal-mountain landscape...
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Author: SPARKS, NicholasSummary:
The words of love ... "I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name...
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Author: HIGGINS, JackSummary:
An Irish prisoner has, with the help of the Mafia, escaped from a high security prison and is thought to be en route to Ireland. His plans could blow the peace process out of the water. Both...
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Author: GORING, AnneSummary:
Orphans Carrie and Adele must leave Singapore for an uncertain future in England. Rescued from servitude by their father's former colleague, Sanderson, they are groomed for marriage. Then...
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Author: CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
It is 1811 and the intrepid Richard Sharpe and his riflemen find themselves in one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War.