"Gage Crossroads 10 Anthology" offers a variety of literary genres and themes, featuring contemporary and classic authors from Canada and around the world. The selections were chosen for their impact, student appeal, values...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Kirkland, GlenSummary: - Author:Dahlgren, KalebSummary:
An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural...
- Author:Frolick, LarrySummary:
For over 50,000 years, the Great Hunt has shaped human existence, creating a vital spiritual reality where people, animals, and the land share intimate bonds. In this compelling book, Larry Frolick takes the reader deep into one of the...
- Author:Frolick, Larry, Carlucci, PaulSummary:
“It was a different crow, but the same crow, you understand? Because there is only one Crow. God made them all black and identical-looking because there is no reason for them to be different birds. That’s why you can never kill a crow,...
- Author:Smith, Peter B.Summary:
Ten gripping tales of murder and missing persons show how skulls and skeletons reveal their secrets to forensic investigators. A skull is found on a scree slope high above the mirror-calm waters of Spray Lakes. Bones rumoured for years...
- Author:Dubinsky, KarenSummary:
Havana is Cuba's soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
- Author:Dubinsky , KarenSummary:
Havana is Cuba';s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets,...
- Author:Robichaud, ValoisSummary:
« Pour l’auteur, le bonheur n’est jamais immédiatement donné, mais doit toujours être conquis : « il faut vouloir être heureux, et y mettre du sien ». Mais cela ne signifie pas se lancer dans une recherche spécifique et éperdue du...
- Author:Day, Kirstie McLellan, Joseph, CurtisSummary:
In this revealing memoir, NHL superstar Curtis Joseph, known affectionately to hockey fans around the world as Cujo, talks about his highly unusual upbringing and what led him to put on his first pair of skates.
- Author:Amor, AlexandraSummary:
Think you could never join a cult? Think again. Cults thrive on secrecy, isolation, deception, and manipulation as they coerce even worldly and intelligent people into their cruel grip. In this award-winning memoir, Alexandra Amor...
- Author:Marshall, AlisonSummary:
In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money...
- Author:Breede, H. ChristianSummary:
Countries have instituted policies to make their armed forces more inclusive, and soldiers now undergo cultural awareness training before seeing active duty. Policy makers and military organizations agree that culture is important. But...
- Author:Plant, JudithSummary:
The time is the early 1980s. Judith Plant and her new partner, Kip, are ready for a change. Inspired by the charismatic Fred Brown, their communications professor at Simon Fraser University, they join a commune in a remote valley near...
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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 connections has changed. These wide-ranging...
- Author:Béchard, Deni Y.Summary:
Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard believes his charismatic father is infallible. Wild, unpredictable, even dangerous, André is worshipped by his young son, who believes that his father can do no wrong. When the boy...
- Author:Mott, Morris KennethSummary:
Mott’s and Allardyce’s Curling Capital details through four chronologically based chapters of approximately thirty years each, the emergence and evolution of curling in Winnipeg from its beginnings through to 1988. Their work confirms...
- Author:Payne, StewartSummary:
Cut from the Cloth of Fogo is Stewart Payne’s memoir, tracing his humble beginnings on Fogo Island in the 1930s and his journey to becoming one of the most respected Anglican clergymen in Newfoundland and Labrador. With modesty...
- Author:Clarkes, LincolnSummary:
Cyclists is an exquisite collection of hundreds of candid photographs. This book is a selection of 150 men and women riding bicycles on Toronto’s streets in 2011 and 2012. These remarkable pictures are street style/fashion portraits....
- Author:Rudnicki, RichardSummary:
Growing up in rural Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Cyrus Eaton never dreamed he'd become a Nobel Peace Prize-winning billionaire. In Cyrus Eaton: Champion for Peace, award-winning artist Richard Rudnicki uses vibrant imagery and accessible text...
- Author:Raska, JanSummary:
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-...
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