At the heart of Waiting for First Light is a no-holds-barred self-portrait of a top political and military figure whose nights are invaded by despair, but who at first light faces the day with the
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Author:Dallaire, Roméo
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- Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Running Time: 15:20:36Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Running Time: 15:20:36Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Publisher: Toronto, Random House Canada,
Author:McDonald, Glen
Summary:Covers the highlights of 26 years in the career of Judge Glen McDonald, who was the colorful and often controversial Vancouver Coroner from 1954 to 1980 and supervisory coroner for the province of
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- Running Time: 31:13:20Narrator: Multiple ReadersPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Ruurs, Margriet
,Gibson, Katherine
Summary:A Brush Full of Colour is the story of a boy whose passion for learning would save him from a life in the coalmines.
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Author:MacLeod, Elizabeth
Summary:A unique look at Canadian history, this book captures these milestones and many more in ten chapters outlined with sidebars, biographies, quotes, trivia and illustrations.
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- Running Time: 17:03:20Narrator: Jacqui BishopPublisher: CAPER-BC,
Author:Malarek, Victor
Summary:The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked
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- Running Time: 23:39:10Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Running Time: 23:39:10Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Publisher: Toronto,
Author:Waiser, Bill
Summary:Sometime during the summer of 1690, in east-central Saskatchewan, Englishmen Henry Kelsey and his Indian escorts walked out of the boreal forest and into a new world -- the northern great plains of
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Author:Lawrence, Katherine
Summary:In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern and darkly funny.
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- Running Time: 03:13:20Narrator: Marcelle O’ReillyPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Parley, Kay
Summary:Before she became a psychiatric nurse at "The Mental" in the 1950s, Kay Parley was a patient there, as were the father she barely remembered and the grandfather she'd never met.
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- Running Time: 11:46:40Narrator: Multiple ReadersPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Halfe, Louise
Summary:Burning in this Midnight Dream is the latest collection of poems by Louise Bernice Halfe.
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- Publisher: Coteau Books,
- Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Running Time: 03:32:19Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
- Running Time: 03:32:19Narrator: Apple Alex (synthetic)Publisher: BC Libraries Cooperative,
Author:Robertson, Carmen
Summary:Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness?
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Author:Bird-Wilson, Lisa
Summary:This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generat
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- Running Time: 03:05:00Narrator: Multiple ReadersPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Zink, Valerie
,Eaton, Emily
Summary:Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread.
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- Running Time: 04:15:00Narrator: Dolores SignoriPublisher: Crane Library,
Author:Anderson, Mark Cronlund
Summary:Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history.
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Author:Kordan, Bohdan S
Summary:An exploration of the "enemy alien" experience in Canada during the Great War.
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Author:Ridley, Sandra
Summary:Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.
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