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All the light we cannot see : a novel

Doerr, Anthony, 1973-


Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
Date Published:2014

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall. In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner, grows up with his younger sister, Jutta, both enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.

Date Published:2014

Les expériences décoiffantes des Débrouillards

Bergeron, Yannick, 1977-,


Apprends à fabriquer une tempête de neige, à cuisiner de délicieuses guimauves maison ou à faire décoller une fusée à réaction chimique. 28 expériences décoiffantes pour jouer avec la science!
Date Published:2025

Words matter


This short documentary follows Mi'kmaw poet, published author, educator and activist Rebecca Thomas on a journey to reclaim her language. Despite using words for a living, she can't speak the language stolen from her father at a residential school. Thomas is from Lennox Island, and is based in Nova Scotia. She was the Halifax poet laureate from 2016 to 2018. Stephanie Joline is an award winning, Inuit writer and film director and a Nova Scotia Community College graduate.
Date Published:2022

This short documentary follows Mi'kmaw poet, published author, educator and activist Rebecca Thomas on a journey to reclaim her language. Despite using words for a living, she can't speak the language stolen from her father at a residential school. Thomas is from Lennox Island, and is based in Nova Scotia. She was the Halifax poet laureate from 2016 to 2018. Stephanie Joline is an award winning, Inuit writer and film director and a Nova Scotia Community College graduate.

Date Published:2022

Canoe


On the intimidating Cape Breton shores of the Atlantic Ocean, six Indigenous strangers must come together in order to survive with no food or modern technology. Following a difficult canoe paddle, they work to set up camp before nightfall. The documentary series 'Merchants of the Wild, Season 2' portrays traditional Mi'kmak (L'nu'k) culture and teachings, survival, and reconnection to the land. Six Indigenous adventurers embark on a 25-day journey, attempting to survive off the land while paddling birchbark canoes through the vast territory know as Unama'ki (Cape Breton).
Date Published:2021

On the intimidating Cape Breton shores of the Atlantic Ocean, six Indigenous strangers must come together in order to survive with no food or modern technology. Following a difficult canoe paddle, they work to set up camp before nightfall. The documentary series 'Merchants of the Wild, Season 2' portrays traditional Mi'kmak (L'nu'k) culture and teachings, survival, and reconnection to the land. Six Indigenous adventurers embark on a 25-day journey, attempting to survive off the land while paddling birchbark canoes through the vast territory know as Unama'ki (Cape Breton).

Date Published:2021

Musicians


First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists are making pop music in their own languages. Our Raven's Quest kids teach us some music words in their languages: Métis, Ojibwe, Mohawk, and Oneida. The song 'Blackbird' by the Beatles was translated into the Mi'kmaw language and sung by teenager Emma Stevens who now sings other songs in Mi'kmaw as well.
Date Published:2022

Animorphs. 1, L'invasion

Grine, Chris,


Traduction de: Invasion. La Terre est envahie, mais personne n’est au courant. Lorsque Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie et Marco rencontrent par hasard un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre et son pilote mourant, ils reçoivent un incroyable pouvoir. Ils peuvent prendre la forme de n’importe quel animal qu’ils touchent. Ils deviennent alors les Animorphs, les champions improbables d’une guerre secrète pour la planète. Les ennemis qu’ils combattent peuvent être n’importe qui, même leurs proches.
Date Published:2021

Traduction de: Invasion. La Terre est envahie, mais personne n’est au courant. Lorsque Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie et Marco rencontrent par hasard un vaisseau spatial extraterrestre et son pilote mourant, ils reçoivent un incroyable pouvoir. Ils peuvent prendre la forme de n’importe quel animal qu’ils touchent. Ils deviennent alors les Animorphs, les champions improbables d’une guerre secrète pour la planète. Les ennemis qu’ils combattent peuvent être n’importe qui, même leurs proches.

Date Published:2021

The left hand of darkness

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.


When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue -- a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.
Date Published:1969

When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue -- a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.

Date Published:1969

American War

El Akkad, Omar, 1982-,


Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.
Date Published:2018

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war.

Date Published:2018

Teepee builds a birdhouse


Today in Teepeeville, Teepee builds a birdhouse for the very first time. When he's finished, he dances to a fun song about a little tipi that lives in a birdhouse before listening to the story about the magic bird nest!
Date Published:2019

Fatty legs : a true story

Jordan-Fenton, Christy,


The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children's Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret's grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories, discusses the impact of the book in a new preface.
Date Published:2020

The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A Stranger at Home. New content includes a foreword from Dr. Debbie Reese, noted Indigenous scholar and founder of American Indians in Children's Literature, while Christy Jordan-Fenton, mother of Margaret's grandchildren and a key player in helping Margaret share her stories, discusses the impact of the book in a new preface.

Date Published:2020

The boat people : a novel

Bala, Sharon.,


When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks -- and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security.
Date Published:2018

When the rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches the shores of British Columbia, the young father believes the struggles that he and his six-year-old son have long faced are finally over. But their journey has only just begun. The group is thrown into a detention processing centre, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among "the boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks -- and that these insurgents now pose a threat to Canada's national security.

Date Published:2018

Rush

Silver, Eve


Rochester, New York, high schooler Miki Jones is pulled into a sort of a game in which she and other teens battle real-life aliens and the consequences of each battle could be deadly.
Date Published:2013

The Stephen Sondheim collection

Sondheim, Stephen.


For voice(s) and piano. 52 selections from 17 musicals or film scores. With program notes. Anyone can whistle. Anyone can whistle ; Everybody says don't ; With so little to be sure of -- Assassins. The ballad of Booth ; The ballad of Czolgosz -- Company. The little things you do together ; Sorry-grateful ; Another hundred people ; The ladies who lunch ; Being alive -- Dick Tracy. Sooner or later ; What can you lose? -- Evening primrose. I remember ; Take me to the world -- Follies. Broadway baby ; In Buddy's eyes ; I'm still here ; Too many mornings ; Buddy's blues ; Losing my mind -- The frogs. Fear no more -- A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Comedy tonight ; Lovely ; Everybody ought to have a maid -- Into the woods. Agony ; no more ; No one is alone ; Children will listen -- A little night music. You must meet my wife ; Every day a little death ; Send in the clowns ; The miller's son -- Merrily we roll along. Like it was ; Old friends ; Not a day goes by ; Good thing going -- Pacific overtures. Someone in a tree ; Pretty lady -- Passion. Happiness ; I wish I could forget you ; Loving you -- Road show. Talent ; The best thing that ever has happened -- Saturday night. So many people ; What more do I need? -- Sunday In the park with George. Sunday in the park with George ; Finishing the hat ; Sunday ; Move on -- Sweeney Todd. Johanna ; Pretty women ; Not while I'm around.
Date Published:2012

For voice(s) and piano. 52 selections from 17 musicals or film scores. With program notes. Anyone can whistle. Anyone can whistle ; Everybody says don't ; With so little to be sure of -- Assassins. The ballad of Booth ; The ballad of Czolgosz -- Company. The little things you do together ; Sorry-grateful ; Another hundred people ; The ladies who lunch ; Being alive -- Dick Tracy. Sooner or later ; What can you lose? -- Evening primrose. I remember ; Take me to the world -- Follies. Broadway baby ; In Buddy's eyes ; I'm still here ; Too many mornings ; Buddy's blues ; Losing my mind -- The frogs. Fear no more -- A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Comedy tonight ; Lovely ; Everybody ought to have a maid -- Into the woods. Agony ; no more ; No one is alone ; Children will listen -- A little night music. You must meet my wife ; Every day a little death ; Send in the clowns ; The miller's son -- Merrily we roll along. Like it was ; Old friends ; Not a day goes by ; Good thing going -- Pacific overtures. Someone in a tree ; Pretty lady -- Passion. Happiness ; I wish I could forget you ; Loving you -- Road show. Talent ; The best thing that ever has happened -- Saturday night. So many people ; What more do I need? -- Sunday In the park with George. Sunday in the park with George ; Finishing the hat ; Sunday ; Move on -- Sweeney Todd. Johanna ; Pretty women ; Not while I'm around.

Date Published:2012

The outsiders

Hinton, S. E.


The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Date Published:2003

The child finder : a novel

Denfeld, Rene,


Three years ago Madison Culver went missing at the age of five while looking for a Christmas tree with her family. Private investigator Naomi Cottle continues the investigation and believes that Madison's disappearance can only be the result of an abduction. Naomi's personal journey from foster child to adulthood parallels her search for Madison, and as her fears and sources of determination come to light, the narrative also dips into Madison's mind, allowing readers to experience her terrifying ordeal at the hands of her captor.
Date Published:2017

Three years ago Madison Culver went missing at the age of five while looking for a Christmas tree with her family. Private investigator Naomi Cottle continues the investigation and believes that Madison's disappearance can only be the result of an abduction. Naomi's personal journey from foster child to adulthood parallels her search for Madison, and as her fears and sources of determination come to light, the narrative also dips into Madison's mind, allowing readers to experience her terrifying ordeal at the hands of her captor.

Date Published:2017

The ministry of utmost happiness

Roy, Arundhati,


In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.
Date Published:2017

In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.

Date Published:2017

The night diary

Hiranandani, Veera,


Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Date Published:2018

Fifteen lanes

Laidlaw, S. J.


Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in the fifteen lanes of Mumbai's red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother: a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. She must act soon to have any chance of escaping this grim future. Across the sprawling city, fifteen-year-old Grace enjoys a life of privilege. Her father, the CEO of one of India's largest international banks, has brought his family to Mumbai where they live in unparalleled luxury. But Grace's seemingly perfect life is shattered when she becomes a victim of a cruel online attack. When their paths intersect, Noor and Grace will be changed forever. Can two girls living in vastly different worlds find a common path?
Date Published:2016

Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in the fifteen lanes of Mumbai's red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother: a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. She must act soon to have any chance of escaping this grim future. Across the sprawling city, fifteen-year-old Grace enjoys a life of privilege. Her father, the CEO of one of India's largest international banks, has brought his family to Mumbai where they live in unparalleled luxury. But Grace's seemingly perfect life is shattered when she becomes a victim of a cruel online attack. When their paths intersect, Noor and Grace will be changed forever. Can two girls living in vastly different worlds find a common path?

Date Published:2016

Moon of the crusted snow : a novel

Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-,


A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.
Date Published:2018

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadearship loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision. Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.

Date Published:2018

Rabbit ears

De Vries, Maggie.


A story rooted in the real-life tragedy of Vancouver's missing women and victims of the sex industry, "Rabbit Ears" is about two orphaned sisters, one of whom runs away to a life of drugs and sex work, the other of whom takes refuge in magic.
Date Published:2014