The author's memoirs of growing up in Nova Scotia, the hardship of life on the prairies, her marriage, her children, and her working life as a teacher.
Fil d'Ariane
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Author:McDonald, Ellen
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- Running Time: 18:15:58Narrator: Pat BarlowPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Kluckner, Michael
Summary:The old buildings and historic places of B.C. form a "roadside memory", a tangible link with stories of settlement, change, and abandonment that reflect the great themes of our history.
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- Running Time: 25:27:18Narrator: Jacqui BishopPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Choy, Wayson
Summary:Follows Kiam-Kim as he learns the responsibilities and rewards of family and community, as he approaches adulthood in 1930s and 1940s Vancouver, a city much divided, as he faces decisions about wha
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- Narrator: Richard NazarewichPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Deverell, William
Summary:Now, after six years of retirement, Arthur Beauchamp, the scholarly, self-doubting legend of the B.C.
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- Running Time: 42:37:28Narrator: Harold RobertsPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Vaillant, John
Summary:In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest.
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- Running Time: 26:28:37Narrator: Richard NazarewichPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Godfrey, Rebecca
Summary:The murder of Reena Virk is one of the most notorious - and heartbreaking - cases in Canadian history.
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- Running Time: 33:47:27Narrator: Harold RobertsPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Bolan, Kim
Summary:When Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri walked out of a Vancouver courtroom as free men in March 2005, the nation gasped in disbelief.
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- Running Time: 40:27:16Narrator: Harold RobertsPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Gaston, Bill
Summary:Called to the deathbed of Claude, her long-ago first love, Evelyn succumbs to a cascade of grief for Claude, and their estranged son Tom.
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- Running Time: 50:00:24Narrator: Barbara KarmazynPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Young, Terence
Summary:Fergus, owner of Goodlake's Deli, is having an affair with a much younger woman - a relationship that starts out carefree but eventually collapses the foundations of everything in his life.
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- Running Time: 29:15:44Narrator: Bryon JohnsenPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Plecas, Bob
Summary:The inside story of Bill Bennett's time as premier of British Columbia and his government's extraordinary accomplishments, told anecdotally through the eyes of one of the province's
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- Running Time: 30:45:14Narrator: Richard NazarewichPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Thien, Madeleine
Summary:Her parents' hidden past in wartorn Asia continues to shadow Gail Lim's life.
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- Narrator: Trish GraingePublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Freir, Pam
Summary:The author travels from her childhood Nova Scotia home where she collects periwinkles to be eaten with a pin, to Toronto, where she discovers pizza and the miracle of canned cream of mushroom soup,
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- Running Time: 25:02:35Narrator: Trish GraingePublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Knighton, Ryan
Summary:Knighton tells the story of his 15-year descent into blindness. Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, and into adulthood, he provides a window into the human condition.
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- Running Time: 20:48:23Narrator: Robert AdamsPublisher: Public Library InterLINK,
Author:MacKinnon, J.B.
Summary:On June 22, 1965, a soldier in the Dominican Republic reported that he had just shot two policemen and an outspoken Canadian priest.
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- Running Time: 31:18:29Narrator: Harold RobertsPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative
Author:Kalla, Daniel
Summary:Dr. Noah Haldane knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, so when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in China, he expects trouble.
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- Running Time: 36:53:49Narrator: Richard NazarewichPublisher: BC Libraries Cooperative