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2007., Anansi ; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West Call No: 821 T974t Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library
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2020., Playwrights Canada Press Call No: NEW QWF 812.6 S555b Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing into a brutally recognizable story. In Unit B-1717, a woman is trying to clean out her storage locker and say goodbye to the past, but an overwhelming feeling of dread forces her to confront the way she has historically subjugated herself to the needs of others. In And then there was you, a mother addresses her child as they both visit milestones that offered them each independence, and in the process explores how the profound connection between mother and child evolves.
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2017., General, The University of Alberta Press Call No: 811.6 M379b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Robert Kroetsch series.Summary Note: Lisa Martin's new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones, and subjects, as well as both traditional and contemporary forms - from sonnets to prose poems. A collection imbued with the light of an enduring, if troubled, faith. With its focus on spirit, ethics, and how to live well, Believing is not the same as Being Saved offers a tender meditation on the moments that make a life. "There's a way of speaking as if the difference matters, as if the road home is finite / everything begins and ends somewhere, like your hand in mine, or how last light fractures in the limbs of pine / while beyond my window, a coyote follows a trail into the dusk that only it can see."-- from "Map for the road home." Poet, essayist, and editor Lisa Martin is the author of One Crow Sorrow (2008) and co-editor of How to Expect What You're Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss (2013). She teaches literature and creative writing at Concordia University of Edmonton.
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By Pick, Alison2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: BIO Bio P594b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the Man Booker-nominated author of the novel Far to Go comes an unflinching, moving and unforgettable memoir about family secrets and the rediscovered past. Alison Pick was born in the 1970s and raised in a supportive, loving family in Kitchener, Ontario. As far as Pick knew, both her parents were Christian. Then as a teenager, Alison made a discovery that instantly changed her understanding of her family. She learned that her Pick grandparents, who had escaped from the Czech Republic during WWII, were Jewish--and that most of this side of the family had died in concentration camps. In her early thirties, engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend but struggling with a crippling depression, Alison slowly but doggedly began to research and uncover her Jewish heritage. Eventually she came to realize that her true path forward was to reclaim her history and indentity as a Jew. In this by times raw, by times sublime memoir, Alison recounts her struggle with the meaning of her faith, her journey to convert to Judaism, her battle with depression, and her path towards facing and accepting the past and embracing the future. Illuminated with heartbreaking insight into the very real lives of the dead, and hard-won hope for the lives of all those who carry on after. Alision Pick has published two volumes of poetry, and is a faculty member at the Humber School for Writers and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She lives in Toronto.
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2017., General, MisFit, an imprint of ECW Press Call No: QWF 811.54 D535b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts of translation of text and of self. The collection opens with a kind of hymn to life on the planet, sung from the peak of that urban island, Montreal - an attempt to see beyond death. The book moves into a sequence of poems described by Sharon Thesen as the poet "envisioning the passage of time under the 'full and waning' moon of Mount Royal's beacon cross, recalling her Italian immigrant parents in Toronto and her current life in Montreal [. . .] a sort of Decameron." Thesen's description is apt for the collection as a whole, which moves into the poet's autobiography - in search of catharsis through literature - and pays tributes to poets who have been part of the literary landscape di Michele now inhabits. Bicycle Thieves is poetry as time machine, transcending the borders between life and death, language and culture. Mary di Michele, born in Lanciano, Italy, is an Italian-Canadian poet and author. She immigrated to Toronto with her family in 1955. She is a professor at Concordia University in Montreal where she teaches in creative writing.
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2021., Shearsman Books Call No: NEW 811.6 M379b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Poems.
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-- Bourbon and Eventide2014., Adult, Snare, Invisible Publishing Call No: QWF 811.6 S771b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bourbon & Eventide confronts the history and mythology of a failed couple, and through a subjective narrator finds humour and heartbreak in the story of the flawed pair. In a collection of tercets--fragments of memory that could stand alone, but together tell a more complete story of a couple<U+2019>s past and failure--Mike Spry blends wit and honesty to bring to life a simple tale of love unrealized."--From publisher.
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Ã2018., Adult, Patrick Crean Editions Call No: 305.31 G455b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "What does it mean to be growing up male right now, when ideas about masculinity are in flux and power differences between the sexes are shifting? Award-winning Canadian journalist Rachel Giese connects with readers on both sides of the gender divide as she investigates how we can support boys to become their fullest and most honest selves. Drawing on history, pop culture and sociological and psychological research, she looks at the forces that shape how boys see themselves and how we see them. With empathy and insight, she tells stories of how boys from different races, classes and backgrounds are navigating the transition into manhood.".
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2022., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: 814.54 A887b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes an brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump, and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.
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2007., Anansi Call No: QWF 811.54 M931o Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryConnect to Internet resource
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2015., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: 338.971 R896c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: " In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how Harper's economic vision for the country is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US--where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking--are quickly turning Harper's dream into an economic nightmare. The same trade and investment ties to oil that pushed the Canadian dollar to record highs are now pulling it down, and the Toronto Stock Exchange, one of the most carbon-intensive stock indexes in the world--with over 25 percent market capitalization in oil and gas alone--will be increasingly exposed to the rest of the world's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Rubin argues that there is a lifeline to a better future. The very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: our water and our land. In tomorrow's economy, he argues, Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the makings of one of the world's great breadbaskets. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, food will soon be a lot more valuable than oil."--From publisher.
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c2009., ECW Press Call No: Fic Sin Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Hurricane Hazel tore through Toronto on October 15, 1954, it left its mark on both the city and its inhabitants. In the aftermath, a young cop named Ray Townes emerges as a hero--numerous accounts detail the way he battled the raging Humber River to save those trapped in their homes--and his story is featured prominently in the newspapers, thrusting him into the spotlight as a local celebrity. Meanwhile, his wife Mary is wrestling with doubts about her husband's heroism. While performing her own miracles the night of the storm as a nurse at a mud-filled, overcrowded emergency room, Mary met a woman-disoriented and near death-with a disturbingly peculiar recollection of events. While Mary tries to shake her suspicions about Ray as they rebuild their life in the shell-shocked city, she can't help but wonder about her husband and that fateful night. When a reporter comes knocking 50 years later to revisit that horrendous night, the truth begins to surface and threatens to destroy them.
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2018., Memoire d'encrier Call No: FR 811.6 M472c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of poetry, including the poem "The Song of Moses", by the Canadian poet Seymour Mayne.
![Le chant de Moïse [The Song of Moses]](/Library/images/~imageCT102343.JPG "Le chant de Moïse [The Song of Moses]")
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c2010., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: BLK 305.896 G656C Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada."Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine."When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young Somali refugees soon coming to Canada, she did not anticipate the impact the journey would have on her. A year later, in August of 2008, she decided to embark upon a new journey, starting in the overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya, and ending in university campuses across Canada. For a year, she recorded the lives of eleven very lucky refugee students who had received coveted scholarships from Canadian universities, guaranteeing them both a spot in the student body and permanent residency in Canada. We meet them in the overcrowded confines of a Kenyan refugee camp and track them all the way through a year of dramatic and sometimes traumatic adjustments to new life in a foreign country called Canada. This is a snapshot of a refugee's first year in Canada, in particular a snapshot of young men and women lucky and smart enough to earn their passage from refugee camp to Canadian campus.
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2010., General, A.A. Knopf Canada Call No: Bio K69k Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., BookThug Call No: QWF 811.6 N519c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Coit, minimalist traces of language cling to a series of mapped channels. Every channel is a tenuous archive of choreographed gestures recorded by the poet from the edges of dance stages. Here, spaces hold words and words hold movement. A book marked by inexhaustible passages, this exquisite English-language translation of Québécoise poet Chantal Neveuœs fourth book invites the reader to collaborate in the making of both texts and spaces. Here, Coït refers not only to coitus but to the act of moving in unison. Conceptual and intimate, Coït is a consensual experiment that exceeds the form of the book.
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c2010., Peuplade Call No: QWF FR 811.6 N519c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Avec ce livre intitulé coït - signifiant étymologiquement « aller ensemble , Chantal Neveu continue d''exposer un parti pris pour la littéralité des mots et des gestes au sein des échanges amoureux et/ou chorégraphiques. En effet, ayant scripté paroles et observations en différents plateaux de danse et d''intimité, l''auteur joue d''un télescopage d''échelles et de situations - physiologiques, artistiques ou érotiques pour révéler ce qu''engagent les corps et les mots, leur mise en relation dans un esprit de confiance, de permissivité, voire de confidence. Livré telle une double partition, à la faveur de nombreuses permutations de sens et de cadrages, ce livre tente un pari du dépouillement, multivocal. Éloge des corps, dansants.
