Arthur Ney, a twelve-year-old smuggler outside the Warsaw ghetto walls when the ghetto uprising began in the spring of 1943, fled to the countryside with false papers to work on a farm. Almost a year later, he returned to Warsaw and...
Canada
- Author:Ney, ArthurSummary:
- Author:Johnson, PeterSummary:
A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new...
- Author:Staley, RobertaSummary:
Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women's rights. This book charts her incredible journey - from arriving in Canada...
- Author:Pottle, AdamSummary:
In Voice, Adam Pottle explores the crucial role deafness has played in the growth of his imagination, and in doing so presents a unique perspective on a writer's development. Born deaf in both ears, Pottle recounts what it was like...
- Author:Drabek, JanSummary:
In 1939 the botanist Vladimir Krajina joined the Czech Resistance and quickly became one of its leaders. Incredible escapes from the Gestapo followed while some 20,000 radio messages were sent by his group to London, among them those...
- Author:Bennett, Colin J., Haggerty, Kevin D., Lyon, David, Steeves, ValerieSummary:
"Nombre de Canadiens savent que les organismes du gouvernement s’adonnent à de la surveillance de masse en utilisant les données téléphoniques et électroniques. Néanmoins, peu d’entre eux sont réellement conscients de l’influence réelle...
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Much of the discussion of social transformation and resistance in socio-legal studies centres around the question of whether and how the law can be used to achieve practical change. However, the editors of this volume argue that it will...
- Author:Cook, TimSummary:
Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity? Tim Cook, Canada’s...
- Author:Berton, PierreSummary:
Drawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men, some no more than sixteen years old, who clawed their way up the sodden, shell-torn slopes in a struggle they innocently...
- Author:Barris, TheodoreSummary:
On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-...
- Author:Eversole, Linda J.Summary:
From the establishment of Fort Victoria, BC's capital city has had a long history of prostitution. But little has been written on the lives of the women themselves--some of the most enterprising women in Victoria's past....
- Author:Henderson, Scott B., Yaciuk, Donovan, Robertson, DavidSummary:
"Brady is abducted by the Mikho corporation, while Eva and Cole fight an old enemy. Cole barely escapes the fight alive, so once again, it's up to Eva to save the day. After a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject, Eva...
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
When a judge's body is found in Wascana Park, Joanne and friend Hilda Mc Court must determine if the judge had come to regret the harsh sentences she had handed down, or was she getting senile? She had left two wills and the murder...
- Author:Attridge, Michael, Clifford, Catherine E., Routhier, GillesSummary:
Le deuxième concile du Vatican (1961-1965) fut l’un des événements religieux les plus importants du vingtième siècle. Au Canada, il coïncida avec une période de changements culturels et sociétaux sans précédent, entraînant...
- Author:Stern, GeorgeSummary:
A month before George Stern’s thirteenth birthday, Germany invaded his native Hungary, anti-Jewish edicts were passed and a ghetto was established. A rebel even then, George refused to wear the Jewish star. “Passing” as a Christian boy...
- Author:Schneider, JasonSummary:
Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which they were raised, while simultaneously connecting with a mass audience. While nearly every songwriter who successfully crossed this divide...
- Author:Sewell, Anna MarieSummary:
What wilderness seethes beneath the skin? Knowing your wild potential, is it possible to live a life both urban and urbane? 'Urbane' continues the stories of the people, human and otherwise, we met in 'Humane', Anna...
- Author:Bresnahan, Andrew, Brindamour, Mahli, Charles, Christopher, Meili, RyanSummary:
When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place – stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing....
- Author:Wall, Karen, Reichwein, PearlAnnSummary:
In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a...
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award Young Tommy and Baby Bridget, the girl with the trillium-shaped eyes, discover that living, healing and dying are not always what they seem. And they make that discovery...