Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950

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The Basketball Game

Warning: This book, which is based on a true story, has depictions of anti-Semitism and contains racial stereotypes and hateful language. It is intended for an audience of 12 years and older.

Healing ...

Through Their Eyes

By (author) Matthew Barrett & Robert C. Engen
Categories: First World War

By the summer of 1917, Canadian troops had captured Vimy Ridge, but Allied offensives had stalled across many fronts of the Great War. To help break the stalemate of trench warfare, the Canadian Corps ...

Adélaïde au couvent

Après avoir embauché trois gouvernantes, le père d’Adélaïde, notaire à Québec, n’en peut plus : Adélaïde ira pensionnaire au couvent de Lamèque. Pour une jeune fille qui a habité toute ...

Un bisou coquelicot

By (author) Marie-France Comeau
Illustrated by Jean-Luc Trudel
Categories: Children’s picture books

Aly passe le jour du Souvenir avec son arrière-grand-père. Ce dernier s’est fait tout beau, béret sur la tête et médailles bien alignées sur sa poitrine de vétéran. Cling, clang, cling... Une ...

Canada 1919

With compelling insight, Canada 1919 examines the year following the Great War, as the survivors attempted to right the country and chart a path into the future.

Veterans returned home full of both sorrow ...

Du beurre ou des canons

Ce livre explore l’expérience de la faim et des privations, constitutive de l’histoire allemande au début du XXe siècle, ainsi que le reflet de cette expérience dans la mémoire sociale, comprise ...

Canada at War

By (author) J.L. Granatstein
Categories: Second World War

Canada at War examines the impact of both world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime ...

The Taste of Longing

By (author) Suzanne Evans
Categories: Second World War

Half a world away from her home on Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World ...

The Spoon Stealer

Emmeline has liberated hundreds of spoons over her lifetime—from the local library, Cary Grant, Winston Churchill. She is a compulsive spoon stealer. When Emmeline unexpectedly inherits the farm she ...

La mauvaise mère

Marguerite Andersen a huit ans quand Hitler prend le pouvoir, quinze quand la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, vingt au lendemain de l’armistice. Yeux baissés devant l’horreur, toute à sa soif de ...