Just in time for Canada’s 150th birthday – Vancouver Public Library has crunched the numbers to reveal Vancouver’s top 10 Canadian books borrowed ‘of all time’ (technically, as far back as the library’s computer records go, which is 15 years).
Top 10 adult books borrowed:
1. The Corporation by Joel Bakan
2. Obasan by Joy Kogawa
3. Room by Emma Donoghue
4. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
5. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
6. When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
7. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
8. The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky by Karen X. Tulchinsky
9. The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
10. My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
ISBN: | 978-5-8459-1150-6, 0743247442 |
Год издания: | 2007 |
Издательство: | Вильямс |
Язык: | Русский |
"Obasan is a powerful and passionate novel that tells, through the eyes of a young girl, the moving story of the Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.
Naomi Nakane, a sheltered and beloved child, is only five years old in 1941 when her mother leaves to visit relatives in Japan. Then comes Pearl Harbour - and without warning her gentle world is thrown into unimaginable turmoil."
AlpertOlga 10 июля 2017 г., 07:31
ISBN: | 978-5-389-11044-1 |
Год издания: | 2016 |
Издательство: | Азбука, Азбука-Аттикус |
Язык: | Русский |
ISBN: | 0676973116, 9780676973112 |
Год издания: | 2003 |
Издательство: | Knopf Canada |
Язык: | Английский |
In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness.
AlpertOlga 10 июля 2017 г., 19:11
ISBN: | 1582433224, 9781582433226 |
Год издания: | 2005 |
Издательство: | Counterpoint |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 1551925567, 9781551925561 |
Год издания: | 2005 |
Издательство: | Raincoast Books |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 9780224093613 |
Год издания: | 2011 |
Издательство: | McLelland |
Язык: | Английский |
Кошкин стол - Майкл Ондатже
AlpertOlga 10 июля 2017 г., 18:33
ISBN: | 0140280464 |
Год издания: | 1999 |
Издательство: | Penguin Books |
Язык: | Английский |