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Canadian nonfiction
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Author:AlbertaSummary: - Author:Kennedy, Gregory, Kagume, KristaSummary:
The Alberta Nature Guide lets you discover the wondrous diversity of nature that lies right outside your front door. Covering every inch of Alberta's incredibly varied landscape, this book teaches you to identify 411 species of mammals...
- Author:Ronaghan, Brian M, Beaudoin, Alwynne B., Blakey, Janet, Bouchet, Luc, Burns, James A., Clarke, Grant M., Fedirchuk, Gloria J., Fisher, Timothy G., Froese, Duane G., Gryba, Eugene M., Ives, John W., Le Blanc, Raymond J., Lobb, Murray, Lowell, Thomas V., Reeves, Brian O. K., Robertson, Elizabeth C., Roskowski, Laura, Saxberg, Nancy, Tischer, Jennifer C., Wolfe, Stephen A., Woywitka, Robin J., Young, Robert R., Younie, Angela M.Summary:
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind...
- Author:Revelle, RickSummary:
Painting a vivid picture of the original peoples of North America, long before European colonization changed the face of the continent, the Algonquin Quest novels show the traditions, the legends and the intrigue that shaped the First...
- Author:Quinn, Norm, Ward, Cassandra, Strickland, DanSummary:
Algonquin Wildlife: Lessons in Survival is a celebration of the vast array of wildlife studies ongoing in Ontario’s very first provincial park. Probably more research has been done in Algonquin than in any other protected landscape in...
- Author:Pfaus, BrendaSummary:
Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers. In this unique, intriguing collection, Brenda Pfaus gives fresh insights into some of Munro’s most enduring works:...
- Author:Ross, Catherine SheldrickSummary:
Canadian-born Alice Munro has established herself as one of the world's finest contemporary short story-writers. Since the publication of her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades in 1968, she has tantalized a steadily expanding...
- Author:Fiamengo, Janice, Lynch, GeraldSummary:
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro’s career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an...
- Author:Rutkowski, Chris A.Summary:
Astronomer and ufologist Chris A. Rutkowski has spent the past forty years investigating reports of UFOs and other strange phenomena. This collection of his writings about people's experiences with UFOs, alien abductions, and other...
- Author:Powers, Lyall HarrisSummary:
Margaret Laurence remains one of Canada’s best-known and most beloved writers. Twice winner of the Governor General’s Award for fiction, she was, as the late William French wrote, “more profoundly admired than any other Canadian...
- Author:Bergeron, Emilie, Villeneuve, CorineSummary:
Atractiva y apetitosa, la colección Alimentos ofrece una hermosa variedad de palabras y ilustraciones de alimentos simples y verdades. El concepto de los grupos alimentarios es una de las pistas de aprendizaje que se proponen en este...
- Author:Bergeron, Emilie, Villeneuve, CorineSummary:
Attrayant et appétissant, Aliments offre une belle variété de mots et d’illustrations d’aliments simples et vrais. Le concept des groupes alimentaires est l’une des pistes d’apprentissage proposées dans ce livre. Prêts à passer à table...
- Author:Henshaw, BlainSummary:
Chronicles the last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off...
- Author:Talaga, TanyaSummary:
In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia,...
- Author:James, Ron.Summary:
Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage. His legion of fans—the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out—...
- Author:Necyk, BradSummary:
All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and words to uncover and...
- Author:Fisher, Rachel, Stretch, Heather, Tunnicliffe, RobinSummary:
New farmers, experienced growers, budding environmentalists, and fans of natural, organic produce alike are sure to love All the Dirt. Filled with beautiful photographs and covering a wide variety of topics, from agrofuels and food...
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All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it...
- Author:Ward, RobertSummary:
Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compelled to walk and experience this historic road. From his first journey along the Camino de...
- Author:Tootoo, JordinSummary:
It seemed as though nothing could stop Jordin Tootoo on the ice. The captain of Canada's Under-18, a fan favourite on the World Junior squad, and a WHL top prospect who could intimidate both goalies and enforcers, he was always a leader...
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