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Paper Boat New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 [electronic resource] : by Atwood, Margaret.aut; cloudLibrary;
One of the Toronto Star’s 25 books to read this season • One of Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age. Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.      In pieces that are at once brilliant, beautiful, and hyper-imagined, Atwood gives voice to remarkably drawn characters—mythological figures, animals, and everyday people—all of whom have something to say about what it means to live in a world as strange as our own. “How can one live with such a heart?” Atwood asks, casting her singular spell upon the reader and ferrying us through life, death, and whatever comes next. Atwood, in her journey through poetry, illuminates our most innate joys and sorrows, desires and fears.      Spanning six decades of work—from her earliest beginnings to brand-new poems—this volume charts the evolution of one of our most iconic and necessary authors.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Subjects & Themes; Canadian; Women Authors;
© 2024., McClelland & Stewart,
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Shame on me : an anatomy of race and belonging / by McWatt, Tessa,author.;
'Shame on Me' is an exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story. Tessa McWatt has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and the Toronto Book Awards. Her parents emigrated to Canada from Guyana when she was three. She lives in London. A Dewey Diva Pick. Book Club.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; McWatt, Tessa.; McWatt, Tessa; Authors, Canadian; Authors, Guyanese; Race.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My road from Damascus : a memoir / by Saeed, Jamal,1959-author.; Cobham, Catherine,translator.;
"Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. My Road from Damascus not only tells the story of Saeed's severe years in Syria's most notorious military prisons but also his life during the country's dramatic changes. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. It paints a picture of village life, his rebellion as a young Marxist and evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teenager for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police, his youthful love affairs, how he survived his brutal prison years, his final release, and his family's harrowing escape to Canada. While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed's whole life. It looks squarely at brutality, but also at beauty and poetry, hope and love."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Saeed, Jamal, 1959-; Authors, Canadian; Political refugees; Political refugees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stephen Leacock : the sage of Orillia / by Doyle, James,1937-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79)
Subjects: Leacock, Stephen (Stephen Butler), 1869-1944; Authors, Canadian (English); Humorists, Canadian;
© c1992., ECW Press,
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Stephen Leacock / by MacMillan, Margaret,1943-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).LSC
Subjects: Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944.; Authors, Canadian (English); Humorists, Canadian (English);
© 2009., Penguin Group,
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Where beauty survived : an Africadian memoir / by Clarke, George Elliott,author.;
'Where Beauty Survived' is a vibrant, revealing memoir about the cultural and familial pressures that shaped George Elliott Clarke's early life in the Black Canadian community that he calls Africadia, centered in Halifax, NS.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Clarke, George Elliott; Authors, Canadian; Authors, Black; Authors, Canadian (English); Black Canadian authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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W.O. : the life of W.O. Mitchell : beginnings to Who has seen the wind 1914-1947 / by Mitchell, Barbara.; Mitchell, Ormond.;
Subjects: Mitchell, W. O. (William Ormond), 1914-1998.; Authors, Canadian (English);
© c1999., McClelland & Stewart,
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After Anne : a novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life / by Steiner, Logan,author.;
"As a young woman, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors, but she knew she was meant to create, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud's mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled--Anne with an "e." But the day Maud writes the first lines of Anne of Green Gables, she gets a visit from the handsome new minister in town, and soon faces a decision: forge her own path as a spinster authoress, or live as a rural minister's wife, an existence she once called "a synonym for respectable slavery." The choice she makes alters the course of her life. With a husband whose religious mania threatens their health and happiness at every turn, the secret darkness that Maud herself holds inside threatens to break through the persona she shows to the world, driving an ever-widening wedge between her public face and private self, and putting her on a path towards a heartbreaking end."--Publisher website.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942; Authors; Authors, Canadian; Man-woman relationships; Women authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The snag : a mother, a forest, and wild grief / by McWatt, Tessa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Tessa McWatt, takes on personal and collective grief, and the solace and inspiration to be found in connecting with nature ... and each other. Every day, we hear about and experience griefs, large and small, in our families, friendships, communities, and worldwide. The grief of a loved one passing. The grief of a way of life ceasing to exist. The grief of global pandemic, war, climate collapse. As her mother's dementia advances and she can no longer live independently, Tessa McWatt confronts griefs personal and political, and finds herself wandering in a forest asking, how do we grieve? And what can we learn from nature and those whose communities are rooted in nature about not only how to grieve but also how to live? From the newest seedling, to the oldest snag in the forest, there is meaning to be found in every stage of a tree's life, all of which contribute to a thriving forest community. In this forest thinking, Tessa begins to find answers to her questions about how to live (for each other), how to grieve (radically), and how to die (with love and connection). The Snag is an essential book about living and dancing and singing and praying, even in the face of unimaginable sadness, and in this way, growing together and supporting one another, like the trees in the forest."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; McWatt, Tessa.; McWatt, Tessa; Authors, Canadian; Mothers and daughters.; Death.; Grief.; Nature; Authors, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Missed connections : a memoir in letters never sent / by Francis, Brian,1971-author.;
Based on the hit play 'Box 4901', 'Missed Connections' is an extraordinary love letter to the timeless search for connection, love, and self-acceptance. Brian Francis was born in Sarnia, ON. From the Canada Reads-shortlisted author of 'Fruit'.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Francis, Brian, 1971-; Gay authors; Gay men; Authors, Canadian (English);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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