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Author: Vanderpool, ClareSummary:Genre: Historical fiction, Juvenile fiction
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Author: Snow, Michael, Dompierre, LouiseSummary:
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength....
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Author: Guichard, DavidSummary:
"In 2013, Lyryx forked the now-popular Calculus open textbook written by David Guichard. Michael Cavers of the University of Calgary, together with the Lyryx editorial team, further redeveloped...
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Author: Allen, Jocelyn TerellSummary:
Early Days, Early Dancersdocuments the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler...
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Author: Bailey, Jim, Blenkinsop, Mark, Cavers, Michael, Hartman, Gregory Neil, Ling, Joseph, Guichard, DavidSummary:
"Calculus: Early Transcendentals, originally by D. Guichard, has been redesigned by the Lyryx editorial team. Substantial portions of the content, examples, and diagrams have been redeveloped,...
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Author: Silversides, AnnSummary:
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Silversides, AnnSummary:
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body...
Genre: Political science -
Author: Posner, MichaelSummary:
The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has...
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Author: Layland, MichaelSummary:
Just how, and why, did Vancouver Island get onto the map? How was knowledge of our immediate geography acquired and recorded? With 130 maps, dating between 1593 and 1915, this cartographic history...
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Author: Silverwood, RogerSummary:
In the Yorkshire town of Bromersley there's a serial killer on the loose. Detective Inspector Michael Angel and his team of regulars search for the killer. However, the available clues are as...
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Author: PALIN, MichaelSummary:
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich...
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Author: Singer, SandraSummary:
Compiled and edited by Sandra Singer, J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works is a critical look at PEI writer J. J. Steinfeld's extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction and theatre,...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Literary arts -
Author: Chabitnoy, AbigailSummary:
In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Germanic and Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of...
Genre: Poetry, Indigenous materials -
Author: Tuohy, Leigh AnneSummary:
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own inspiring story. First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie, but until now, Leigh Anne and...
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Author: Sims, MichaelSummary:
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest.Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories