Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns...
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Author: Awumey, EdemSummary:
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Author: Cragg, CarysSummary:
The author writes of her experiences corresponding with and ultimately meeting the man who murdered her father.
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Author: Watt, K. JaneSummary:
Surrey: A City of Stories is the legacy project proposed by the Surrey Heritage Advisory Commission in celebration of Canada 150. The Commission's aspirations were high: they hoped to create a book that would be an experience--both a...
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Author: Nicholson, CecilySummary:
Wayside Sang concerns entwined migrations of Black-other diaspora coming to terms with fossil-fuel psyches in times of trauma and movement. This is a poetic account of economy travel on North American roadways, across the Peace and...
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Author: Richardson, BillSummary:
When night falls, a peculiar thief steals each letter of the alphabet, creating a topsy-turvy world as she goes.
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Author: Elliott, Marilyn DavidsonSummary:
Eric Davidson lost both eyes in the Halifax Explosion when he was two years old. Against all odds, he taught himself to become an auto mechanic and had a successful decades-long career as “one of the boys.” Eric Davidson was a beautiful...
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Author: Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:
Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis brings his trademark humor and heart to the story of a boy struggling to do right in the face of history's cruelest evils. Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the...
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Author: Sarah HenstraSummary:
The battle of the sexes goes to college in this nervy debut adult novel by a powerful new voice. A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go,'The Red Word'is a campus novel like no...
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This guide outlines how to start and manage a Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) in B.C. It was developed by the Registered Disability Savings Plan Action Group and is supported by the Vancouver Foundation and the Government of...
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The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who survived one was black. The rescuers,...
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This "radio archaeology project" excavates the chronicle of Saint Brendan in the 21st century with the help of Marcel Proust and modern sound recording equipment.
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Author: Coles, Megan ; Hynes, Joel Thomas ; Tilley, Sara ; Winter, MichaelSummary:
An interactive site-specific audio fiction is set into the landscape of a city park in eastern Canada, experienced via an iphone app. Short stories by four award-winning authors are GPS-linked to actual locations where the story events...
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An investigation of Guglielmo Marconi and the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. Created for the centenary of Marconi's transmission. On December 12th, 1901 Guigliermo Marconi received the world's first trans-Atlantic...
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When the North Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the 1990's, it catapulted over 30,000 fishers out of work - the largest layoff in Canadian history. This is the story of two brothers in a remote community who had built their own...
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This 52-minute “documentary novel” about British women who married foreign soldiers during World War II is based upon real wartime diaries, letters, photos and recordings. More than a reconstruction of history, it is also a personal...
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Leon Perlee restores antique street organs in Holland's oldest surviving street organ business. On the other side of the Atlantic, Cubans too play these unusual instruments. On a visit to Cuba, Leon meets Milades Sosa, the niece of...
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A tale of two Jacks: one Jack the hero of traditional folktales; the other a retired fisherman passing the time in his fishing stage spinning tales of his youth. The documentary weaves together the real and the mythical Jack, and...
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The multiple award-winning feature documenting the aftermath of the 20th century's greatest marine ecological disaster: the near-elimination of the largest fish biomass on the planet - the great Northern Cod stocks, and the...
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In 1930's Newfoundland, times are desperate. People salvage cast-off food from St. John's harbour, the dole is 6 cents a day, and families are ripped apart in the struggle for survival. A popular movement of the unemployed...
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On July 2, 1992 the once-gigantic Newfoundland cod fishery was shut down. Twelve years later, 70,000 people had left, and coastal communities were struggling to survive. The blow to the culture was as dramatic as the economic effect,...
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