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As nature made him
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John Colapinto |
The true story of a family who spends 14 years trying to raise their son as a girl after his botched circumcision. |
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The literary legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
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Ruth Panofsky |
"Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country… |
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Northern rover
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A. L. Karras |
"From 1919 to 1970, Olaf Hanson was a trapper, fur trader, prospector, game guardian, fisherman, and road blasting expert in northeastern Saskatchewan. He told his life story to popular Saskatchewan … |
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Chris Jericho
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Pete Delmar |
"Describe the life and career of pro wrestler Chris Jericho"-- |
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Justin Bieber
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Millie Rowlands |
Examines the life and career of Justin Bieber, discussing his childhood, rise to fame, album, family, and other related topics, and includes an overview of one of his tours, a poster, and facts about… |
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Love's civil war
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Elizabeth Bowen |
The love affair between writer Elizabeth Bowen & Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed after their first meeting in 1941 & continued over the next 30 years until Bowen's death in 1973. When Rit… |
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A Country Year, Living the Questions (Unabridged audiobook on four tapes)
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Sue Hubbell,Verrill Darhansoff |
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself … |
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Kid Dynamite
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Ron Smith |
"Gerry James, aka Kid Dynamite, was not only the youngest player ever to play in the CFL at 17, but he was one of the toughest athletes of his time. While playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 19… |
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Game change
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Ken Dryden |
"The story of NHLer Steve Montador, who was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after his death in 2015, and of the remarkable evolution of hockey itself" -- adapted from jacket. |
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Up Ghost River
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Edmund Metatawabin |
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious fo… |
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Footprints
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Margaret Fishback Powers |
Margaret Fishback was a young woman searching for direction when she was inspired to write the poem "Footprints". The creation of the poem, its subsequent loss, and astonishing rediscovery are intert… |
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Sisters in the wilderness
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Charlotte Gray |
Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill were writers and artists who left England for Canada during the great wave of emigration that saw over twelve million Britons abandon their homeland for the C… |
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Dispatches from the front
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Halton, David (News correspondent) |
A biography of Canadian foreign and war correspondent, Matthew Halton, written by his son, David Halton, drawn from archival research and interviews. |
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Captain Paul Watson
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Lamya Essemlali |
Tells the life story of the marine animal rights activist, including his personal life, his cofounding Greenpeace at age eighteen, and his decision to move to more aggressive tactics to protect the o… |
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The cooler king
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Patrick Bishop |
The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier brought up in Depression-hit Texas, who after being shot down in his Spitfire over France in early 1942 spent the rest of… |
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We Have Always Been Here
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Samra Habib |
A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Canada as a refugee, before escaping an arra… |
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Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist
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Martina Scholtens |
1 online resource (171 pages) |
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Bad Blood
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Peter Edwards,Antonio Nicaso |
xviii, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm |
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James Cameron
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Wil Mara |
James Cameron's father wanted him to be an engineer--instead, he went into making movies. The result was blockbusters such as Avatar and Titanic, the only films to have grossed more than $2 billion. … |
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Too Young to Die
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John Boileau,Dan Black,John de Chastelain |
484 pages : 24 cm |
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