Histoire d’amour dans laquelle le narrateur trouve sa bien-aimée, l’ange de Jean Chicoine termine la trilogie du Village Osborne, quartier populaire et flyé près du centre-ville de Winnipeg. Ce roman bilingue et bilangue poursuit l’...
Manners and customs
- Author:Chicoine, JeanSummary:
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees will successfulyly navigate the ocean and...
- Author:Kumai, CandiceSummary:
From the author of Clean Green Eats, a Japanese-inspired guide to finding balance, joy, and good health--A Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up for wellness--that emphasizes a simple, streamlined method for cleaning up your eating habits...
- Author:MARCHAND, PhilipSummary:
A collection of Philip Marchand's magazine journalism from the early 1970's, focussing on the exhilarating and deeply unsettling social changes of that era, from the point of view of individuals caught up in those changes....
- Author:Steel, DanielleSummary:
Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a different story...
- Author:TROLLOPE, AnthonySummary:
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia...
- Author:Wodehouse, P. G.Summary:
Michael Hordern stars as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But...
- Author:Jellison, KatherineSummary:
What's white, costs billions of dollars, and embodies the American dream? For years, a white-gowned bride, multi-tiered white cake, and shiny gold rings have been the central icons for a grand American tradition that remains vibrant...
- Author:Sebra, RichardSummary:
Carefully leveled text and fresh, vibrant photos engage young readers in learning about the traditions and celebrations of Chinese New Year. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions and a photo glossary help build nonfiction learning...
- Author:Bushnell, CandaceSummary:
Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? gathers Bushnell's signature short, sharp, satirical commentaries on the love and dating habits of middle-aged men...
- Author:De Villiers, MarqSummary:
Recounts a modern trip through Africa, discussing its history, people, languages, governments, cultures, art, music, and wildlife, along the way.
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A collection of perspectives by and about Indigenous Toronto, past, present, and future. Beneath every major city in North America lies a deep and rich Indigenous history that has been colonized, paved over, and ignored. Few of its...
- Author:Harper, KennSummary:
Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will...
- Author:Chekhov, Anton PavlovichSummary:
Here are twelve short stories by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is acknowledged to be a difficult genre. There is the richly comic Oh! The Public, about a hassled ticket inspector, a wry look at morals and manners in...
- Author:Roberts, JuliaSummary:
In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds – Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white – negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories...
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Through interviews with current elders from three regions of Nunavut, Ilagiinniq: Interviews on Inuit Family Values provides a wealth of information on traditional family life. Covering relationships between siblings, elders and...
- Author:Curtis Higgs, LizSummary:
Lady Elisabeth Kerr est une gardienne de secrets. Née dans les Highlands, puis mariée à un gentilhomme d’Édimbourg, elle demeure fidèle aux rites ancestraux, même si des doutes et des peurs s’agitent douloureusement en elle. Son mari,...
- Author:Wharton, ThomasSummary:
In 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slips on the ice of the Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slides into a crevasse, wedged upside down nearly sixty feet below the surface. As he fights losing consciousness, a stray beam of...
- Author:Frankel, MilesSummary:
In 1969, Miles Frankel, a young British doctor, was recruited by the International Grenfell Association to provide medical services to communities in northern Newfoundland and coastal Labrador. From St. Anthony he travelled—by boat,...
- Author:Angelou, MayaSummary:
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography, starring Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal and Pippa Bennett-Warner. Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their...