Come-By-Chance is a collection of poems, often narrative, sometimes lyrical, always ruminative, about home, family, and place, about leaving and retu ing, about growing up and growing old, about le
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Author:Leggo, Carl
Summary:Genre: Canadian poetryAvailable Formats:
Author:Gullachsen, Arthur W.
Summary:An army may march on its stomach, but it needs more than hot dinners to fight. As Canadians battled through Northwest Europe in the Second World War, how did they reinforce their front lines?
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Author:Summary:New technologies are transforming healthcare work and changing how patients interact with healthcare providers.
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Author:Downe, Lise
Summary:Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe's first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: "Propositions" is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of
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Author:Neveu, Chantal
Summary:In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making
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Author:Eng, Jean
Summary:Festival of All Souls explores the experience of an Asian woman born in Canada.
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Author:Mercredi, Duncan
Summary:mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems.
Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materialsAvailable Formats:
Author:Scanlon, T. Joseph
Summary:On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured.
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Author:McLeod, James
Summary:Newfoundland and Labrador had three premiers in a single year-- three and a half, if you count Frank Coleman. An elected politician broke down crying on live radio.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Bartlett, Steve
,Morrow, Hilda
Summary:First in Line: The Incredible Life of Leonard Stick documents the life of Leonard Stick, a distinguished war veteran, lawman and federal politician who was the 'first' in many historically signific
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, War and military, History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Linehan Young, Ida
Summary:On a June night in 1980, the Linehan household in North Harbour went up in flames.
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Author:Rowe, Ted
Summary:In 2009, author Ted Rowe published his fascinating book about the transatlantic cable called Connecting the Continents.
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Author:Fitzgerald, Jack
Summary:The Jack Ford Story: The Newfoundlander in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Biographies and autobiographies, War and militaryAvailable Formats:
Author:Loeffler, TA
Summary:Writing with remarkable openness and passion, T.A. Loeffler recounts her powerful story of preparing for, and attempting to scale, the mighty summit of Mount Everest.
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Author:Rowe, Ted
Summary:Connecting the Continents tells the story of the struggles and successes of a pioneer cable station whose elite group of operators added a new social class to the community.
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