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George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-04-24
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Christmas is trumpeted as a time of peace, joy, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when circumstances conspire against them.Recollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging voices from across...
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Tidewater Press
Parution :
2023-11-09
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Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-FictionFinalist, Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)Nominated for 3 Gourmand AwardsA National BestsellerA Hill Times Top 100 SelectionFebruary 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did...
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Goose Lane Editions
Parution :
2020-10-06
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An updated edition of Herb Belcourt’s remarkable life story with a brand-new foreword by the author. The eldest of ten children, Belcourt grew up in a small log home near the Métis settlement of Lac Ste. Anne during the Depression. His father purchased furs from local...
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Touchwood Editions
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2017-10-17
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along with the numerous essays and articles he penned, embodied both a rich literary tradition and...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2017-10-03
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After a fifteen-year career as a sled dog racer, musher Dave Olesen turned his focus away from competition and set out to fulfill a lifelong dream. Over the course of four successive winters he steered his dogs and sled on long trips away from his remote Northwest...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-12-05
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Life Writing
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Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapes—several years' worth—with his spectacular life, triumphs, and...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-09-15
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Life Writing
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In Facing the Sea, authors Harold Chubbs and Wade Kearley have captured an important era in the maritime history of Newfoundland and Labrador. These tales of rescue and tragedy, of love lost and redeemed, describe first-hand what life was like for lightkeepers and their...
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Flanker Press
Parution :
2013-11-04
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“You Could Lose an Eye” is the expression David Reich’s mother often used for those she loved. It is the story of a family’s transition from the wretched oppression they left behind when they arrived in Quebec. They had only to learn new languages and adapt to a new...
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Baraka Books
Parution :
2010-10-11
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Helen Creighton was born at the turn of the nineteenth century and until her death in 1989, she made a remarkable contribution towards retrieving the stories, songs, and legends that have shaped the culture and the people of the Maritimes. Written by her protégé and...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2009-01-15
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