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  • We are bridges : a memoir
    Author:

    Lane, Cassandra

    Summary:

    When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty-five, she turns to creative nonfiction to recreate her great-grandparents' history, which was never officially documented by the state, in order

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction

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  • Remembering Air India : the art of public mourning
    Author:
    Summary:

    On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Creative nonfiction

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  • Jemmy Jock Bird : marginal man on the Blackfoot Frontier
    Author:

    Jackson, John C.

    Summary:

    Jemmy Jock Bird, the son of a Cree woman and an English trader employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, has become part of the mythology of the mountain man era.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction, Indigenous materials

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  • Spíləxm : a weaving of recovery, resilience, and resurgence
    Author:

    Campbell, Nicola I.

    Summary:

    In this exceptional memoir, bestselling author Nicola I.

    Genre: Canadian poetry, Indigenous materials, Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction

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  • The (other) F word : a celebration of the fat & fierce
    Author:

    Manfredi, Angie

    Summary:

    Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories.

    Genre: Creative nonfiction, Young adult nonfiction

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  • Shout : the true story of a survivor who refused to be silenced
    Author:

    Anderson, Laurie Halse

    Summary:

    A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way sh

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction, Poetry

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  • The little book : story reader for a free Ukraine
    Author:

    Shyba, Volodymyr

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    Matwijszuk, Mykola

    Summary:

    Publisher proceeds from the book go to humanitarian aid for Ukrainian people displaced by Russian aggression.

    Genre: Juvenile nonfiction, Canadian nonfiction, Creative nonfiction

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  • The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
    Author:

    Pollan, Michael

    Summary:

    What should we have for dinner?

    Genre: Creative nonfiction, Food and drink, History and geography

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  • The prophet
    Author:

    Gibran, Kahlil

    Summary:

    The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays about Al-Mustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home.

    Genre: Creative nonfiction, Essays, Poetry

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  • The taking of Jemima Boone : colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
    Author:

    Pearl, Matthew

    Summary:

    In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Bo

    Genre: Creative nonfiction, History and geography

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  • Earth keeper : reflections on the American land
    Author:

    Momaday, N. Scott

    Summary:

    "Dazzling... In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance.

    Genre: Creative nonfiction, Poetry, Indigenous materials, Essays

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  • Changing the face of Canadian literature
    Author:

    Swan, Dane

    Summary:

    Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Creative nonfiction, Literary arts

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  • Sarah Bernhardt, le rire incassable
    Author:

    Sagan, Françoise

    Summary:

    Voici une biographie littéraire où la voix de l’autrice, sa musique, son style comptent autant que le personnage auquel elle s’attache.

    Genre: French language materials, Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction

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  • Frances Barkley : eighteenth-century seafarer
    Author:

    Converse, Cathy

    Summary:

    A rivetingly imagined re-telling of the voyages of Frances Barkley (1769–1845), who as a young woman travelled the world on a trading mission with her sea captain husband.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Biographies and autobiographies, Creative nonfiction, History and geography

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  • The swerve : how the world became modern
    Author:

    Greenblatt, Stephen

    Summary:

    Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivi

    Genre: History and geography, Creative nonfiction

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      Running Time: 94100
      Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
      Publisher: Recorded Books, Sat, 01/01/2011 - 12:00

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