Living through the Nazi occupation of Holland and arriving in Montreal with little more than a film reel under his arm, Co Hoedeman had a dream to work for the National Film Board of Canada’s renowned animation unit. It was there where...
Creative nonfiction
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Author:Hoedeman, Co.Summary: - Author:Bissinger, H. G.Summary:
The timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town...
- Author:Golakai, Hawa Jande, Allfrey, Ellah WakatamaSummary:
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a...
- Author:Prado, EmillySummary:
Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and...
- Author:Lester, LouellaSummary:
What does it really mean to work for a living? Told in short prose, Lester shares her experience working both traditional and non-traditional jobs. Sometimes raw and often humourous, Glass Bricks explores the significance of our basic...
- Author:Ruffo, Armand GarnetSummary:
Award-winning author Armand Garnet Ruffo's compelling collection delves into his family's personal connection with Archie Belaney and into the questions of voice and appropriation that swirl around Grey Owl at a time when these...
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In GUSH, more than 100 women and nonbinary writers from Canada and around the world take apart the bloody instruction of menstruation: its cultures, its lessons, its equipment, and its lexicon. Co-edited by Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald...
- Author:Simonds, MerilynSummary:
An intimate narrative exploring the past, present, and future of books
Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization...
- Author:Christakos, MargaretSummary:
Her Paraphernalia, the new book of creative non-fiction from noted Canadian poet Margaret Christakos, presents an intimate and original collection of midlife writings that seeks to make readers think in a very personalized way about...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
If you had to name a statue, any statue, odds are good you'd mention the Statue of Liberty. Have you seen her' She's in New York. She's holding a torch. And she's taking one step forward. But why' In this...
- Author:Manuel, VeraSummary:
This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the...
- Author:McNeil, JeanSummary:
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean...
- Author:Meersch, Maxence Van der, Newsome, W. BrianSummary:
Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary research, Invasion 14 portrays the German occupation of northern France during World War I. Regarded by critics as Maxence Van der Meersch’s finest work, the novel is set...
- Author:Gatto-White, LorettaSummary:
The persistence of misconceptions about Italian-Canadian food culture raises many questions for us. Are we gluttonous, inebriate and too loud? Do we force-feed guests? Are we in fact food-obsessed? How many grains of truth can a...
- Author:Flett-Paul, JaysenSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Jaysen Flett-Paul's true story of how Elders guided him through his first Sundance ceremony to heal the anger and grief stemming from his mother’s violent murder. It sensitively tackles the heart-breaking problem of...
- Author:Jackson, John C.Summary:
Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era. In this creative non-fiction account, Jackson meticulously reconstructs...
- Author:Joe, MendelsonSummary:
A series of energetic and vivid portraits that capture the character and integrity of rural life
Outsider artist Mendelson Joe is a painter, activist, musician, and renowned “self-taughter.” But to the people living in...
- Author:Pronovost, AndréSummary:
Kerouac & Presley starts in the Montreal neighbourhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in the International Year of the Woman, and from there it moves to Connecticut and the Abbey where one of Elvis's co-stars became...
- Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary:
Advice, stories, and inspiration from a revered leader and thinker In these inspiring letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki speaks passionately about their future. He challenges them to speak out and act on their beliefs, explains...
- Author:Czajkowski, ChrisSummary:
The story is told by the author's dog, Lonesome. She did not share her human's love of the wilderness, and wore a martyred expression for most of her life. She would have much preferred a life in the suburbs. Her dog's eye view provides...
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