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  • MOST OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS TRUE
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    MOST OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS TRUE
    MICHAEL CRUMMEY
    The prizewinning author of The Innocents examines the relationships among fact, fiction, fictionalization, and appropriation in this thought-provoking work. "In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business." In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey ex...

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  • FLORA ANNIE STEEL
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    FLORA ANNIE STEEL
    SUSMITA ROYE
    A collection of essays on the writer who "after Rudyard Kipling . . . was the most famous nineteenth-century British author to depict India" ( Nineteenth-Century Literature). Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent twenty-two year...

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  • SURVIVING THE GULAG
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    SURVIVING THE GULAG
    ILSE JOHANSEN
    One woman's story of her struggle to survive while imprisoned in a Soviet gulag following World War II. "The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back." Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a resourceful woman who survived five grueling years i...

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  • THE WOMAN PRIEST
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    THE WOMAN PRIEST
    SYLVAIN MARÉCHAL
    "In providing a modern translation . . . Sheila Delany sheds light on a text that illustrates the complexity of Enlightenment attitudes toward religion." — Reading Religion "My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes—I feel this in the purity of my intentions." —Agatha, wr...

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  • A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE
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    A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE
    ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL / JOSEPH PENNELL
    Journey across Europe aboard a tandem tricycle in these two Victorian-era travelogues that take readers to England and Italy. A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. "You have a good horse," he then said; "it eats nothing." —from An Italian Pilgrimage The 1880s was an exhilar...

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  • THE LITTLE THIRD REICH ON LAKE SUPERIOR
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    THE LITTLE THIRD REICH ON LAKE SUPERIOR
    ERNEST ROBERT ZIMMERMANN
    An in-depth history of one of Canada's World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike. For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and r...

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  • A CANADIAN GIRL IN SOUTH AFRICA
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    A CANADIAN GIRL IN SOUTH AFRICA
    E. MAUD GRAHAM
    A Canadian woman shares her story of traveling to South Africa to teach Boer children in concentration camps following the South African War. As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration ca...

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  • PURSUING CHINA
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    PURSUING CHINA
    BRIAN L. EVANS
    A memoir of one academic's lifelong fascination with China, examining China's history as well as its relationship with Canada. Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses Ch...

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  • PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
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    PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
    MYRNA KOSTASH
    "Part spiritual quest, part scholarly inquiry, part travel memoir, Prodigal Daughter is as richly layered as the civilization [Kostash] explores." — The Edmonton Journal A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in Edmonton, ra...

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  • FROM THE ELEPHANT'S BACK
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    FROM THE ELEPHANT'S BACK
    LAWRENCE DURRELL
    Rare and previously unpublished essays and letters showcasing "Durrell's wit, elegance, philosophy, joie de vivre and flaming intelligence" ( The Irish Times). "The proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." ?Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and trave...

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  • DISINHERITED GENERATIONS
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    DISINHERITED GENERATIONS
    NELLIE CARLSON / KATHLEEN STEINHAUER
    Two Cree women tell the story of how they took on the Canadian government and helped change the lives of thousands. This oral autobiography of two remarkable Cree women tells their life stories against a backdrop of government discrimination, First Nations activism, and the resurgence of First Nations communities. Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, who helped to organize t...

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  • HEALING HISTORIES
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    HEALING HISTORIES
    LAURIE MEIJER DREES
    A social history of tubercular hospitals and Canada's indigenous population, built around "poignant and at times heartbreaking" firsthand accounts ( Choice). Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system, Healing Histories presents a fresh perspective on health care history that includes the diverse voices and insig...

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  • CONRAD KAIN
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    CONRAD KAIN
    ZAC ROBINSON
    Examine the life of the pioneering guide in these 144 letters sharing his thoughts on immigrating to Canada, his passion for nature, his travels, and more. Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek—a life-long friend—offer a candid view into the deepest thoughts of the Austrian m...

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  • HEAVY BURDENS ON SMALL SHOULDERS
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    HEAVY BURDENS ON SMALL SHOULDERS
    SANDRA ROLLINGS-MAGNUSSON
    Focusing on children's work on family farms in western Canada, an "absolutely fascinating . . . marvellously fresh account of the lives of prairie pioneers." — The Calgary Herald The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents, working the land, cleaning s...

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