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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Alexa! Changing the Face of Canadian Politics	Alexa McDonough’s impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she …	Stephen Kimber	288	2021	View
Asleep in the Deep Nursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War	On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members …	Dianne Kelly	223	2021	View
At Home Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice	In this intimate investigation of the artistic process, Lezli Rubin-Kunda explores the nuanced path of creative work and the way artists make sense of home and place within their art practice and …	Lezli Rubin-Kunda	232	2018	View
Back to the Well Rethinking the Future of Water	Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 …	Marq de Villiers	378	2018	View
Bamboo Cage The P.O.W. Diary of Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943	In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed …	Jonathan F. Vance	147	2009	View
NEW! Bombs and Barbed Wire Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945	Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada’s armed forces during the Second World War. In fact, the prevailing notion suggested that Acadians refused to support the war …	Ronald Cormier	204	2022	View
Breaking the Word Barrier Stories of Adults Learning to Read	In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are …	Angela Ranson; Marilyn Lerch	128	2009	View
Captured Hearts New Brunswick's War Brides	Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war …	Melynda Jarratt	148	2008	View
Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers Canadian Internment Camp B, 1940-1945	From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some 35 kilometres east of Fredericton, played a considerable role in the Second World War. Chosen for its remote rural New Brunswick location, …	Andrew Theobald	178	2019	View
NEW! Earthkeeping love notes to tough times	The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, …	Gary Saunders	316	2022	View
F-Bomb Dispatches from the War on Feminism	From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head …	Lauren McKeon	280	2017	View
NEW! Len & Cub A Queer History	Leonard "Len" Keith and Joseph "Cub" Coates grew up in the rural New Brunswick village of Havelock in the early 20th century. The two were neighbours, and they clearly …	Dusty Green; Meredith J. Batt	192	2022	View
New Brunswick and the Navy	From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the …	Glenn Leonard; Marc Milner	156	2010	View
On Borrowed Time North America's Next Big Quake	Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a …	Gregor Craigie	248	2021	View
NEW! On Opium Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance	A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	364	2021	View
Pay No Heed to the Rockets Palestine in the Present Tense	Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of …	Marcello Di Cintio	264	2018	View