In Black and Blue, author and radio personality Stanley Péan guides us through a history of jazz, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He takes us behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the...
Essays
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Author:Péan, StanleySummary: - Author:Ladouceur, Barbara, Spence, PhyllisSummary:
In this bestseller, thirty-six Canadian war brides recount their early lives, their involvement in wartime duties, the magical/funny moments when they met their Canadian husbands-to-be and their journeys from Britain to Canada. The...
- Author:Philip, M. NourbeSeSummary:
Bla_K is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition...
- Author:Philip, M. NourbeSeSummary:
Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of...
- Author:Tunstall, Kate E.Summary:
Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of theEncyclopedie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and...
- Author:MacKinnon, RobertSummary:
This eclectic collection of stories shares with readers many other aspects of Robert's professional and personal experience. He tells a chilling story of being the first RCMP officer at the crash site of Air Canada Flight 621 in 1970,...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests recorded history, and considers art and visual phenomena. Gathering personal genealogies...
- Author:Febos, MelissaSummary:
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the...
- Author:Chabon, MichaelSummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences.
- Author:New, W.H.Summary:
Borderlands traces some of the ways in which border metaphors pervade Canadian consciousness. Addressing a variety of social issues - among them, separatism, marginalization, multiculturalism, colonial attitudes, national policies,...
- Author:Ellis, HelenSummary:
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women.
- Author:Lawson, JennySummary:
"Jenny Lawson returns to narrate her third installment in a disheveled saga of finding the light at the end of a long, winding, ludicrous tunnel...Another treasure in the Lawson collection, this audiobook shines with a powerful...
- Author:Nagoski, Ph.D, EmilySummary:
Être une femme, c'est tenter de répondre à des attentes irréalistes et se blâmer lorsqu'on n'y parvient pas. C'est affronter une suite sans fin de problèmes souvent mineurs, mais qui contribuent à l'...
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This collection challenges misconceptions that rural Canada is a bastion of intolerance. While examining the extent and nature of contemporary cultural and religious discrimination in rural Canadian communities, the editors and...
- Author:Arcan, NellySummary:
Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and...
- Author:Klosterman, ChuckSummary:
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what...
- Author:Hemingway, ErnestSummary:
Across three continents and four decades...here is Hemingway -- the adventurer, the reporter, the man! More intimately than all his fiction, Hemingway the reporter reveals Hemingway the man -- driving an ambulance through a bullet-...
- Author:Ellis, Jim, 1964-Summary:
How have our interactions with animals shaped Calgary? What can we do to ensure that humans and animals in the city continue to co-exist, and even flourish together? This wide-ranging book explores the ways that animals inhabit our city...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris' cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with...
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Collection of essays by 16 contributors, including David Suzuki, Ralph Nader, Kevin Page, Maude Barlow, and Linda McQuaig. These and other experts in their fields document key changes put in place by the Harper government in the areas...
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