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Point zéro : évènements du 11 septembre

Gratz, Alan, 1972-,


Traduction de : Ground zero. Le 11 septembre 2001, Brandon, neuf ans, s’en va travailler avec son père au World Trade Center à New York. Sorti de nulle part, et comme dans un cauchemar, un avion s’enfonce dans la tour, semant terreur et confusion. Le même jour, en Afghanistan, une bataille éclate dans le village de Reshmina, une fillette de onze ans. Elle rencontre un soldat américain blessé et doit prendre une décision difficile. Ce choix affectera-t-il la famille de Reshmina? Brandon survivra-t-il au chaos de New York?
Date Published:2021

Traduction de : Ground zero. Le 11 septembre 2001, Brandon, neuf ans, s’en va travailler avec son père au World Trade Center à New York. Sorti de nulle part, et comme dans un cauchemar, un avion s’enfonce dans la tour, semant terreur et confusion. Le même jour, en Afghanistan, une bataille éclate dans le village de Reshmina, une fillette de onze ans. Elle rencontre un soldat américain blessé et doit prendre une décision difficile. Ce choix affectera-t-il la famille de Reshmina? Brandon survivra-t-il au chaos de New York?

Date Published:2021

What's inside? : Fire extinguisher


Ever wonder what's inside a fan? A cell phone? What about a stapler? WHAT'S INSIDE? answers those very questions! From winter coats to bicycles, each interstitial explores what's inside the objects we use every day. Using stop-motion animation and fast-paced music, WHAT'S INSIDE? unveils the many different parts of an item by breaking them down piece-by piece - until every last screw has been pulled, and spring has been released, captivating early engineering curiosity in young children.
Date Published:2017

Ever wonder what's inside a fan? A cell phone? What about a stapler? WHAT'S INSIDE? answers those very questions! From winter coats to bicycles, each interstitial explores what's inside the objects we use every day. Using stop-motion animation and fast-paced music, WHAT'S INSIDE? unveils the many different parts of an item by breaking them down piece-by piece - until every last screw has been pulled, and spring has been released, captivating early engineering curiosity in young children.

Date Published:2017

Bone. 2, The great cow race /

Smith, Jeff, 1960-


Now that they are reunited, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone plan to return home, but Phoney Bone risks everything on a get-rich-quick scheme and it all goes wrong. Plus, a war is brewing and Fone Bone helps his new friends to defend their idyllic valley from a formidable enemy.
Date Published:2005

On the come up

Thomas, Angie.


Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother.
Date Published:2019

The chaos curse

DasGupta, Sayantani,


Prince Lal has been spirited away to, of all places, Parsippany, so Kiranmala must leave the the Kingdom Beyond and return home to rescue him; but reality seems to be wavering around her because something is causing a dangerous disruption in the multiverse, and she must face the disturbing prophecy about her own role in the approaching conflict between good and evil--not to mention her own growing feelings for Prince Neel.
Date Published:2020

Prince Lal has been spirited away to, of all places, Parsippany, so Kiranmala must leave the the Kingdom Beyond and return home to rescue him; but reality seems to be wavering around her because something is causing a dangerous disruption in the multiverse, and she must face the disturbing prophecy about her own role in the approaching conflict between good and evil--not to mention her own growing feelings for Prince Neel.

Date Published:2020

COP26 : A Crucial Climate Summit. December 2021


From the Curio channel: News in Review. Billed as the last, best hope to tackle the world's climate crisis, the UN climate change conference, COP26, got underway in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Attended by 200 countries, it was seen as the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement was reached. It was there that members agreed to cap global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But there's a greater urgency this year with the world on the brink of climate disaster by the end of the century.
Date Published:2021

From the Curio channel: News in Review. Billed as the last, best hope to tackle the world's climate crisis, the UN climate change conference, COP26, got underway in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. Attended by 200 countries, it was seen as the most significant climate event since the 2015 Paris Agreement was reached. It was there that members agreed to cap global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But there's a greater urgency this year with the world on the brink of climate disaster by the end of the century.

Date Published:2021

The Bad Guys in The others?!

Blabey, Aaron,


"OK. A lot of the stuff we said on the back of the last book was NOT TRUE. We now admit that The Bad Guys is WEIRD. We also admit that it features ALL the weird stuff we said it didn't. PLUS there's now a whole bunch of even weirder stuff involving an over-sharing bat, a really scary new character who lives in the woods, and a strangely confident little guy with a mullet. So, uh, don't relax, maybe FREAK OUT a little and have your MIND BLOWN by the BAD GUYS!"--
Date Published:2022

"OK. A lot of the stuff we said on the back of the last book was NOT TRUE. We now admit that The Bad Guys is WEIRD. We also admit that it features ALL the weird stuff we said it didn't. PLUS there's now a whole bunch of even weirder stuff involving an over-sharing bat, a really scary new character who lives in the woods, and a strangely confident little guy with a mullet. So, uh, don't relax, maybe FREAK OUT a little and have your MIND BLOWN by the BAD GUYS!"--

Date Published:2022

One true loves

Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)


Title proper from title frame. "While on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise with her family, Lenore Bennett meets a hopeless romantic with a ten-year plan who helps her find something she's been looking for--love"--OCLC.
Date Published:2022

Generating Electricity Within the Body


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. One challenge for medical devices that are implanted within the body - such as pacemakers, drug pumps or neural stimulators - is power. Generally, they're powered by batteries, but when the power runs out, the batteries have to be replaced, requiring further invasive surgery. Professor John Rogers, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed a device that can generate electricity from the movement of organs within the body. His device uses a piezo-electric material that produces electricity when bent. When attached to a beating heart, it produces enough electricity to run a pacemaker or other device, while apparently having no impact on the heart's function.
Date Published:2014

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. One challenge for medical devices that are implanted within the body - such as pacemakers, drug pumps or neural stimulators - is power. Generally, they're powered by batteries, but when the power runs out, the batteries have to be replaced, requiring further invasive surgery. Professor John Rogers, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has developed a device that can generate electricity from the movement of organs within the body. His device uses a piezo-electric material that produces electricity when bent. When attached to a beating heart, it produces enough electricity to run a pacemaker or other device, while apparently having no impact on the heart's function.

Date Published:2014

The witch's apprentice

Elliott, Zetta,


Now that he is Ma's apprentice Jax is finding himself mixed up with all sorts of magical doings, like taking care of a phoenix egg which is going to hatch soon, trying to bring back the creatures Sis stole, finding his grandfather, and convincing Sis, the guardian, to reunite the two realms--and hopefully living to see Brooklyn again.
Date Published:2023

Le premier Canadien


Plus de 1 700 cérémonies de citoyenneté ont lieu chaque année au Canada. Mais comment la citoyenneté canadienne a-t-elle vu le jour? Le 3 janvier 1947, William Lyon McKenzie King est devenu le premier citoyen officiel du Canada.
Date Published:2022

The library bus

Rahman, Bahram, 1984-,


Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access to education. Inspired by the first library bus to operate in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Date Published:2020

Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access to education. Inspired by the first library bus to operate in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Date Published:2020

Leon. 1, Leon the Extraordinary

Nicholas, Jamar,


Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! In the city where Leon lives, superheroes--and supervillains--are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon gets his chance to prove that using his brain and following his heart can save the day.
Date Published:2022

Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save his school! In the city where Leon lives, superheroes--and supervillains--are commonplace. So how does an ordinary kid like Leon, who has no superpowers himself, become the superhero he wants to be? When all his classmates suddenly become obsessed with a new phone app that turns them into zombies, Leon gets his chance to prove that using his brain and following his heart can save the day.

Date Published:2022

Dragon kingdom of Wrenly. 2, Shadow hills /

Quinn, Jordan,


Ruskin the dragon and his friend Cinder are sent to Shadow Hills, the most mysterious place in all of Wrenly, under false pretenses by sinister forces.
Date Published:2021

Mud city

Ellis, Deborah, 1960-


This novel conveys a distinctive sense of place, describing in discomfiting detail the sights and sounds of the impoverished refugee camp and the poorest sections of Peshawar.
Date Published:2003

Racing Thoughts


This is a film about children who thought they were “crazy.” Who wanted to die. Who felt fear, anger and hopelessness. Four young people living with mental illness and their loved ones make the courageous decision to open up about their stories. Their voices are complemented by that of the director, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as an adult and powerfully evokes the initial symptoms, which emerged in her childhood. Racing Thoughts skirts the specialists’ debates in favour of a more personal tone, moving away from the alarming vocabulary of diagnoses and allowing viewers to discover the children affected.
Date Published:2010

This is a film about children who thought they were “crazy.” Who wanted to die. Who felt fear, anger and hopelessness. Four young people living with mental illness and their loved ones make the courageous decision to open up about their stories. Their voices are complemented by that of the director, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as an adult and powerfully evokes the initial symptoms, which emerged in her childhood. Racing Thoughts skirts the specialists’ debates in favour of a more personal tone, moving away from the alarming vocabulary of diagnoses and allowing viewers to discover the children affected.

Date Published:2010

A girl called Echo. Vol. 3, Northwest resistance /

Vermette, Katherena, 1977-


"Echo Desjardins just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. In Northwest Resistance, she travels to a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help. However, battles between Canadian forces and the Métis and their allies lead to a defeat at Batoche. Through it all, Echo gains new perspectives about where she came from and what the future may hold"--Back cover.
Date Published:2020

"Echo Desjardins just can't stop slipping back and forth in time. In Northwest Resistance, she travels to a period of turmoil. The bison are gone, settlers from the East are arriving daily, and the Métis and First Nations of the Northwest face hunger and uncertainty as their traditional way of life is threatened. The Canadian government has ignored their petitions, but hope rises when Louis Riel returns to help. However, battles between Canadian forces and the Métis and their allies lead to a defeat at Batoche. Through it all, Echo gains new perspectives about where she came from and what the future may hold"--Back cover.

Date Published:2020

Reach your potential


Reach Your Potential is a course designed for everyone at any level. People can expect multiple jobs in their lifetime, and a career path that is anything but a straight line to the top. What is important is to find ways to reach your potential. In this course psychologist Peter Quarry invites you to consider how you can reach your potential. You will learn to consider capacity-building questions: Am I in the right career? Have I identified my purpose and my path? Am I achieving results in my current role? Am I my own best friend or worst enemy? What is holding me back? Am I taking practical steps to reach my potential? Reaching your potential is finding your purpose and your path to achieving it. Reach your potential by first finding your true purpose in life; Ask yourself whether you are achieving maximum results; Address what holds you back; Take practical steps to take you forward;
Date Published:2022

Reach Your Potential is a course designed for everyone at any level. People can expect multiple jobs in their lifetime, and a career path that is anything but a straight line to the top. What is important is to find ways to reach your potential. In this course psychologist Peter Quarry invites you to consider how you can reach your potential. You will learn to consider capacity-building questions: Am I in the right career? Have I identified my purpose and my path? Am I achieving results in my current role? Am I my own best friend or worst enemy? What is holding me back? Am I taking practical steps to reach my potential? Reaching your potential is finding your purpose and your path to achieving it. Reach your potential by first finding your true purpose in life; Ask yourself whether you are achieving maximum results; Address what holds you back; Take practical steps to take you forward;

Date Published:2022

How Snakes Fly


From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. It is well known how quickly and efficiently snakes can slither across the ground. But a group of snakes called Chrysopelea use similar movements to help them sustain flight. These one-metre-long snakes use their signature "S" shape to swim through the air, as they glide down from the tree-tops in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. But that's not all. Dr. Jake Socha, an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering, Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech University, has found that these snakes change their body shape while in the air, in order to increase aerodynamics. By moving their ribs forward and closer to their spine, the snake's body flattens to allow it to slice through the air. This same reconfiguration creates a concave trough along its underbelly to help maintain loft.
Date Published:2014

From the Curio.ca streaming audio-visual collection. It is well known how quickly and efficiently snakes can slither across the ground. But a group of snakes called Chrysopelea use similar movements to help them sustain flight. These one-metre-long snakes use their signature "S" shape to swim through the air, as they glide down from the tree-tops in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. But that's not all. Dr. Jake Socha, an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering, Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech University, has found that these snakes change their body shape while in the air, in order to increase aerodynamics. By moving their ribs forward and closer to their spine, the snake's body flattens to allow it to slice through the air. This same reconfiguration creates a concave trough along its underbelly to help maintain loft.

Date Published:2014

Bone adventures

Smith, Jeff, 1960 February 27-,


For the youngest fans of the bestselling graphic novel series BONE, Jeff Smith has created two hilarious tales to delight beginning readers. In Finders Keepers, the Bone cousins find a coin -- finders keepers! -- but the boys can't agree on how to spend it. Fone Bone wants an apple and bananas they can share. Smiley Bone wants an ice cream cone with a pickle on top. And Phoney Bone wants to build a giant statue ... of himself! Whose idea will win out? In Smiley's Dream Book, Smiley Bone walks through the woods on a beautiful morning. During his journey, he meets a flock of friendly and playful birds. Smiley is having such a good time that he must find a fantastical way to keep up with his new friends as they soar into the big, blue sky.
Date Published:2020

For the youngest fans of the bestselling graphic novel series BONE, Jeff Smith has created two hilarious tales to delight beginning readers. In Finders Keepers, the Bone cousins find a coin -- finders keepers! -- but the boys can't agree on how to spend it. Fone Bone wants an apple and bananas they can share. Smiley Bone wants an ice cream cone with a pickle on top. And Phoney Bone wants to build a giant statue ... of himself! Whose idea will win out? In Smiley's Dream Book, Smiley Bone walks through the woods on a beautiful morning. During his journey, he meets a flock of friendly and playful birds. Smiley is having such a good time that he must find a fantastical way to keep up with his new friends as they soar into the big, blue sky.

Date Published:2020