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Depression

Depression

An Information Guide
by Christina Bartha & Carol Parker
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This recently updated guide is written for people living with depression, their families, and anyone interested in gaining a basic understanding of this illness and its treatment and management. The guide gives information on:

  • what depression is and how it is diagnosed
  • the different kinds of depression
  • the causes and current theories of depress …
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Le trouble bipolaire

Le trouble bipolaire

Guide d'information
by Clinique du trouble bipolaire de CAMH
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tagged : mood disorders, bipolar disorder

Les sautes d’humeur extrêmes d’une personne pourraient être les manifestations d’un trouble bipolaire (ou trouble maniaco-dépressif). Ces hauts et ces bas peuvent se produire sans rapport avec ce qui arrive dans la vie de la personne. De plus, les symptômes du trouble bipolaire se répercutent sur sa façon de penser, d’agir et de se co …

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La thérapie cognitivo-comportementale

La thérapie cognitivo-comportementale

Guide d'information
by Neil A. Rector
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La thérapie cognitivo-comportementale (TCC) est recommandée par un grand nombre de spécialistes comme traitement de premier recours en cas de dépression, d’angoisse et d’autres problèmes émotionnels. La TCC repose sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle la façon de penser peut avoir une incidence sur les problèmes émotionnels. Les personnes …

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Défis et décisions

Défis et décisions

Trouver des services de santé mentale en Ontario
by Le Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale (CAMH)
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 Il peut être déroutant, frustrant, terrifiant et difficile de trouver son chemin dans le système de soins de santé mentale. Rédigé dans un style claire et simple, Défis et décisions offre de l’information pratique sur les services de santé mentale en Ontario et sur les moyens de les trouver. Il s’adresse aux personnes qui recherchent …

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Les troubles concomitants de toxicomanie et de santé mentale

Les troubles concomitants de toxicomanie et de santé mentale

Guide d'information
by W.J. Wayne Skinner & Caroline P. O'Grady
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Les personnes qui ont un problème de santé mentale risquent davantage de connaître des problèmes d’alcoolisme ou de toxicomanie, tout comme les personnes qui présentent des problèmes d’alcoolisme ou de toxicomanie risquent davantage d’avoir un problème de santé mentale. Le guide décrit :
* les symptômes et les causes des troubles c …

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Le double diagnostic

Le double diagnostic

Guide d'information
by Yona Lunsky & Jonathan Weiss
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La publication Double diagnostic : Guide d’information a été conçue à l’intention des familles dont un membre est atteint de déficience intellectuelle. Les lecteurs trouveront des renseignements de base sur le double diagnostic et sur les divers services et formes de soutien existants ainsi que sur la meilleure façon d’y accéder. Le gu …

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La dépression

La dépression

Guides d'information
by Christina Bartha & Carol Parker
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Récemment mis à jour, ce guide a été rédigé à l’intention des personnes déprimées, de leur famille et de toute personne désireuse de se familiariser avec la maladie, son traitement et sa gestion. Le guide contient de l’information sur :
ce qu’est la dépression et comment en faire le diagnostic ;
les différents types de dépressio …

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Le trouble de la personnalité limite

Le trouble de la personnalité limite

Guide d'information
by Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
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Une personne qui a un trouble de la personnalité a généralement de la difficulté à entretenir des relations et à faire face à des situations sociales, à composer avec ses émotions et ses pensées, à comprendre comment ou pourquoi son comportement cause des problèmes et à changer pour s’adapter à différentes situations. De leur côt …

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Challenges & Choices

Challenges & Choices

Finding Mental Health Services in Ontario
by CAMH
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Finding your way around the mental health system can be confusing, frustrating, scary -- and difficult. Written in easy-to-understand language, Challenges & Choices gives practical information about mental health services in Ontario and how to find them. You could be looking for services for yourself or for a family member, partner or friend. Or yo …

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy

An Information Guide
by Neil A. Rector
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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is widely recommended as a first-line treatment for a wide variety of emotional problems, including depression and anxiety. CBT works on the basic assumption that the way people think can contribute to their emotional problems. In CBT, people learn to identify, question and change patterns of thinking that contri …

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

An Information Guide for Families
by CAMH
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People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have difficulty dealing with relationships and social situations, handling emotions and thoughts, and in controlling their impulses. They may also have trouble understanding why their behaviour is causing problems. Having a family member or friend who has BPD presents unique challenges.

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Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

Concurrent Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

An Information Guide
by W.J. Wayne Skinner & Caroline P. O'Grady
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A person with a mental health problem has a higher risk of having a substance use problem, just as a person with a substance use problem has an increased chance of having a mental health problem.

This guide:

  • explains the symptoms and causes of concurrent disorder
  • outlines the different kinds of treatments available, including psychosocial and bio …
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Dual Diagnosis

Dual Diagnosis

An Information Guide
by Yona Lunsky & Jonathan Weiss
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Dual Diagnosis: An Information Guide was developed for the families of people who have developmental disabilites and mental health problems. It provides basic information about dual diagnosis and explains what we know about services and supports and how best to access them. It also suggests ways to take care of yourself while caring for your family …

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First Stage Trauma Treatment

First Stage Trauma Treatment

A Guide for Mental Health Professionals Working with Women
by Lori Haskell
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While post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been recognized for some time, only recently have therapists begun to recognize and address complex post-traumatic stress responses in female clients who have a history of early or chronic abuse.

 

Most mental health service providers recognize the challenges in offering help when a client’s problems …

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Hope and Healing after Suicide

Hope and Healing after Suicide

A practical guide for people who have lost someone to suicide in Ontario
by CAMH
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When people die by suicide, they leave behind family and friends who suddenly find themselves mourning the person’s loss and wondering what happened. This guide addresses many personal issues related to a death by suicide, including telling others, working through the grief, finding what helps people to heal, and grieving in children and youth. T …

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La toxicomanie

La toxicomanie

Guide d'information
by Marilyn Herie & Tim Godden
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Rédigé par des conseillers professionnels, ce guide concis et facile à lire s’adresse aux personnes aux prises avec des problèmes liés à l’alcool et à d’autres drogues ainsi qu’à leur famille. Il fournit des renseignements sur :

  • ce que représente la toxicomanie ;
  • les causes de la toxicomanie ;
  • le traitement de la toxicomanie et …
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

An Information Guide
by Neil A. Rector & Christina Bartha
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe and debilitating anxiety disorder that affects one person in 40. It affects not only how people feel or think, but also how they behave. OCD symptoms -- such as compulsive hoarding or handwashing -- often evoke uncomfortable emotions in family and friends.

This guide discusses:

  • what OCD is and what c …
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A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders

A Family Guide to Concurrent Disorders

by Caroline O'Grady & W.J. Wayne Skinner
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Concurrent substance use and mental health problems affect the person experiencing the problems, and also his or her family members and friends. Families need help to deal with the impact of concurrent disorders, but families are also a key to finding effective solutions. This guide can help families to support their family member with concurrent d …

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The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes

The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes

illustrated by Janet Perlman
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Grade: p to 3
Reading age: 4 to 8
tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, clothing & dress, adaptations, humorous stories

This much-loved Hans Christian Andersen classic is repopulated with a cast of penguins, and the Emperor is the best dressed of them all. When two scoundrels convince him that they can make him a suit of magic cloth, it’s not just the Emperor’s vanity that is showing when he wears it in the grand parade for all to see! Recommended reading ages 4 …

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L’espoir et la guérison après un suicide

L’espoir et la guérison après un suicide

Guide pratique pour les personnes qui ont perdu un proche à la suite d’un suicide en Ontario
by CAMH
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Quand une personne se suicide, elle laisse derrière soi sa famille et ses amis qui soudainement vivent la perte et le deuil, et se posent de nombreuses questions sur ce qui vient de se passer. Ce guide aborde un éventail d’enjeux personnels engendrés par la mort d’un suicidé tels que parler du décès, assumer le deuil, trouver le chemin de …

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Addiction

Addiction

An Information Guide
by Marilyn Herie & Tim Godden
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Written by professional counsellors, this concise and easy-to-read booklet for clients and families includes information on:

  • what addiction is
  • what causes addiction
  • addiction treatment and other support options
  • recovery and relapse prevention
  • help for partners and families
  • explaining addiction to children.

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Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

An Information Guide
by Neil A. Rector & Danielle Bourdeau
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This guide explores the difference between normal anxiety and anxiety disorders, and the different ways that anxiety is expressed. It explains the causes and theories of anxiety in simple, straightforward language, and gives an overview of treatments. The guide also looks at long-term strategies to manage anxiety and prevent relapse, and suggests w …

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Promoting Recovery from First Episode Psychosis

Promoting Recovery from First Episode Psychosis

A Guide for Families
by Sabrina Baker & Lisa Martens
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Family members can play a significant role in helping to identify early signs of psychosis, in seeking prompt and appropriate treatment for their relative, and in promoting the recovery process. Promoting Recovery from First Episode Psychosis is based on research, practice guidelines and the authors’ own experience working with clients and their …

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Guide à l’intention des familles sur les troubles concomitants

Guide à l’intention des familles sur les troubles concomitants

by Caroline O'Grady & W.J. Wayne Skinner
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Les troubles concomitants de toxicomanie et de santé mentale affectent non seulement la personne atteinte, mais aussi les membres de sa famille et ses amis. Si les familles ont besoin d’aide pour gérer l’impact des troubles concomitants, ce sont néanmoins elles qui jouent un rôle clé dans la recherche d’une solution efficace. Ce guide pe …

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C'est Assez!

C'est Assez!

Comment arrêter de boire ou réduire votre consommation d’alcool
by Martha Sanchez-Craig
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p>Un grand nombre de personnes savent que leur consommation d’alcool est problématique bien avant d’être prêtes à demander de l’aide. Cette reconnaissance du problème peut être une première étape importante en vue d’arrêter de boire ou de réduire sa consommation d’alcool. Toutefois, il est parfois difficile de déterminer les au …

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Past Imperfect

Past Imperfect

by Suzanne Buffam
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There is the heartbreak tied to human love and there is heartbreak that points to notions of the divine. The poems in Suzanne Buffam's debut collection, Past Imperfect, enter the darkness of both -- at times simultaneously -- giving utterance to the breakage and shards of weak light found therein. Employing humour and directness to equal effect, Pa …

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by Charmaine Cadeau
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Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second collection navigate flexible and shifting terrains where the speaker’s emotional directness tethers us as we dare to read on. Though Cadeau is capable of some stunning acrobatics—somersaulting mid-line, the imagery defying gravity, the language …

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These Good Hands

These Good Hands

by Carol Bruneau
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Set in the early autumn of 1943, the These Good Hands interweaves the biography of French sculptor Camille Claudel and the story of the nurse who cares for her during the final days of her thirty-year incarceration in France's Montdevergues Asylum. Biographers have suggested that Claudel survived her long internment by writing letters, few of which …

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Oyama Pink Shale

Oyama Pink Shale

by Sharon Thesen
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Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award

Governor General's Literary Award finalist Sharon Thesen's Oyama Pink Shale is a sly, self-directed, yet joyously emancipatory work. By animating and voicing various moments and selves -- indebted adult friend to artists, cold documentarian of a haunted sanatorium, engaged contemporary ticking off beauties, …

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Upgraded to Serious

Upgraded to Serious

by Heather McHugh
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National Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being upgraded to serious from critical condition …

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Rock Recipes

Rock Recipes

The Best Food From My Newfoundland Kitchen
by Barry C. Parsons
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From RockRecipes.com creator Barry C. Parsons’ home kitchen to yours – Rock Recipes: The Best Food from my Newfoundland Kitchen gathers together some of the most popular dishes Parsons has ever posted – and includes a healthy serving of brand new fare as well! A self-described “lifelong food obsessive”, Parsons has spent years developing …

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Does Canada Matter?

Does Canada Matter?

Liberalism and the Illusion of Sovereignty
by Clarence Bolt
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In this lucid yet impassioned book Clarence Bolt reveals how Canada is rapidly losing its sovereign status to the liberal, globalizing drive that has, since Confederation, endeavoured to eliminate regional diversity, self-reliance and distinctiveness by blending our regions into a centralized economic and political system. Echoing George Grant, Bol …

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The Glorious Mysteries

The Glorious Mysteries

by Audrey J. Whitson
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At the heart of every story in Audrey Whitson’s collection is a character seeking personal purpose amongst the deep mysteries of self, and a wholeness amid the fractious nature of life. Whitson’s evocative narration guides us effortlessly through these often turbulent journeys, seamlessly taking in a vast range of time and place along the way. …

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Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis

Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis

by Robin Richardson
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Sexy, irreverent, and inventive

Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona … With Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. Yearning, unapologetic women who delight in the mo …

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Elysium

Elysium

by Pamela Stewart
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Pamela Stewart is a self-described “literary proctologist,” and her writing often looks into places that people generally don—t want to look. The stories in Elysium are about the difficulties of life we all encounter as human beings, the fragility of life—the physical, mental, and spiritual challenges we must try to overcome. They are about …

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Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

by Stuart Ross
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Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress

Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough)

Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been active in the Canadian literary underground for a quarter of a century: he …

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Dirtbags

Dirtbags

by Teresa McWhirter
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Longlisted for the ReLit Award

Editor's Pick, Vancouver Sun

Dirtbags is a novel about reckoning—with one's past, one's choices, and one's expectations for the future. Spider is a scrappy kid growing up in rural B.C., and when a tragic event causes her world to implode she heads to Vancouver for solace, distraction, and experience.

We witness a shift …

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Rock Reject

Rock Reject

by Jim Williams
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Wracked with guilt and self-loathing after the death of his wife, Peter abandons his life in Toronto for one of exile and desolation in rock reject, a ghastly mountain-top asbestos mine in northern British Columbia.

 

As Peter adapts to his dangerous new surroundings, he witnesses the devastating effects of mining on the health of his fellow miners, …

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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue

Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue

An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright
by Yoko Tawada, translated with commentary by Chantal Wright
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt einer Zunge’, 2002]. Yoko Tawada is a n …

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Swinging the Maelstrom

Swinging the Maelstrom

A Critical Edition
by Malcolm Lowry, edited by Vik Doyen, introduction by Miguel Mota, notes by Chris Ackerley, foreword by Patrick A. McCarthy & Paul Tiessen, cover design or artwork by Philip Surrey
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Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a geneti …

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The Deaf House

The Deaf House

by Joanne Weber
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The Deaf House is Joanne Weber’s life story. It illustrates the work and passion of a woman who grew up deaf and became an advocate for the deaf. It is a story of pain, loss and defeat balanced with joy, gain, and victory. Joanne Weber’s creative memoir, shows how deafness can be a brutal oppression of the mind. Her torment of not knowing exact …

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Hiding Places

Hiding Places

by Timothy Brownlow
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These essays are forays into what Wordsworth called the "hiding places" of the creative impulse. Sometimes in aphoristic form, this selection of meditations on the arts of poetry and teaching functions as an indirect self-portrait and probes the poet’s Irish heritage. For Brownlow, there is a fruitful tension between scholarship and poetry; too o …

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The Incomparables

The Incomparables

by Alexandra Leggat
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The Incomparables is the debut novel from the Trillium nominated author of Animal. Lydia Templar is obsessed with fabric, the texture and weight of cloth. Through fabrics, curtains, costumes, she expresses herself in a way she feels incapable of doing in words. For the past ten years she’s apprenticed in the wardrobe department of a small Shakesp …

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Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

Alden Nowlan Selected Poems

by Alden Nowlan, volume editor Patrick Lane & Lorna Crozier
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From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their lo …

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The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner

by Deborah Ellis
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Grade: 5 to 9
Reading age: 10 to 14
tagged : middle east, girls & women, self-esteem & self-reliance

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times

The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her …

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Wheels for Walking

Wheels for Walking

by Richmond, Sandra
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tagged : self-esteem & self-reliance, love & romance, diseases, illnesses & injuries

Sally and Brian are in love. But at the end of a wonderful ski weekend together, a car accident leaves Sally fully paralyzed for life.

This powerful, honest book tells of Sally's struggle immediately following the accident as she goes through rehabilitation. Her anger, her flirtation with drugs, and a dangerously angry fellow patient, and her slow, …

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BawB's Raven Feathers

Reflections on the simple things in life, Volume II
by Chomany, Robert
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BawB's Raven Feathers, Volume II is filled with inspirational thoughts and quotes about living and life.

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Objects in Mirror

Objects in Mirror

by Tudor Robins
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age: 12 to 18
Grade: 7 to 12
tagged : horses, depression & mental illness, self-esteem & self-reliance

Grace is looking forward to spending her summer weekends at horse shows riding new and spirited horse Sprite to the medal podium. But things don't always go as planned. It seems that her summer is ruined when Sprite is sold by the riding stable to a new owner. But then other opportunities present themselves — Grace is now going to live her dream. …

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Wolf Spirit

Wolf Spirit

A Story of Healing, Wolves and Wonder
by Gudrun Pflüger
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When diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour, Gudrun Pflüger was told she had eighteen months left to live. Taking the wolf—a true “endurance athlete”—as her model, she immerses herself in the wilderness of the mountain ranges of western Canada and focuses her mind and body on a mysterious and inspirational path toward self-healing.

Throu …

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Fostergirls

Fostergirls

by Liane Shaw
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age: 13 to 18
Grade: 8 to 12
Reading age: 13 to 18
tagged : orphans & foster homes, self-esteem & self-reliance

Her name is Sadie, but she might as well be called Fostergirl. Grouphomegirl. That’s how everyone thinks of her. Sadie doesn’t care. In fact, she’d be happier if they didn’t think of her at all. Her goal is to go unnoticed, to disappear. After living in twelve different foster homes, Sadie’s learned that nothing good comes from being noti …

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