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Author:Wald, George
Summary:Genre: Discursive works, PhilosophyAvailable Formats:
Author:Nabokov, Vladimir
Summary:For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.
Genre: Discursive works, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Nabokov, Vladimir
Summary:The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate.
Genre: Discursive works, General fictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Bivins, Jason
Summary:In a world where violence in the name of religion can impact so many other people's lives, it's critical to understand the intersection between religion and violence.
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Author:Wenner, Jann S.
Summary:During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner recorded a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock.
Genre: Music, Discursive worksAvailable Formats:
Author:Whittaker, Alice Irene
Summary:A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature.
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Discursive works, Nature and the environment, Canadian nonfictionAvailable Formats:
Author:Rilke, Rainer Maria
Summary:These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century.
Genre: Discursive works, Literary artsAvailable Formats:
Author:Apollinaire, Guillaume
Summary:1914. Mobilisation générale. La France est en guerre. Le Polonais Apollinaire fait sa demande de naturalisation pour s'engager auprès des soldats français.
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Author:Sullivan, J. M.
Summary:The early 1970s marked the beginning of Newfoundland's cultural renaissance.
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Author:Gollner, Adam
Summary:Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Discursive worksAvailable Formats:
Author:Olive, David
Summary:Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America’s attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004.
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Author:Souaid, Carolyn Marie
,Farkas, Endre
Summary:"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times.
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Author:Diane Croft
Summary:Our braille catalogs always include a unique quotation on the cover.
Genre: Discursive worksAvailable Formats:
Author:Summary: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.
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Author:Summary:Presents the correspondence of various composers from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Genre: Discursive works, MusicAvailable Formats: