As a reporter for a weekly newspaper on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vernon Oickle became increasingly aware of the expansion of the drug trade in the region. His research into the situation...
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Auteur: Oickle, VernonSommaire: -
Auteur: Malarek, VictorSommaire:
The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being...
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Auteur: Wesley, GloriaSommaire:The American Revolutionary War is being waged, and the fate of slaves in the colonies is on the line. Sarah Redmond, a slave on a South Carolina plantation, watches as her father steals away in...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction -
Auteur: Frolick, VernonSommaire:
This amazing true life story of Charles Fipke, the mining exploration geologist who discovered the vast diamond fields in Canada's North, reads like spell-binding adventure fiction. Fire into Ice...
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Auteur: Challenger, Robert JamesSommaire:This is Robert James Challenger's fifth collection of beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read short stories that impart practical, moral lessons about life in today's world. As in Aesop's fables and...
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Auteur: McCulloch, Linda Sloan; Mills, David; Scherer, JaySommaire:
When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret deals, and corporate greed undergirding the project...
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Auteur: Patsauq, MarkoosieSommaire:
Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials -
Auteur: O’Loughlin, EdSommaire:
It begins with a chance encounter at the top of the world.
Fay Morgan and Nelson Nilsson have each arrived in Inuvik, Canada, about 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Both are in search...
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Auteur: Bergen, DavidSommaire:Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the...
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Auteur: Bouchard, SergeSommaire:
Connaissez-vous Massassoit, le vieux sage de la nation wampanoag, Jean-Baptiste Faribault et Jean Baptiste Eugène Laframboise, ces aventuriers canadiens-français qui ont bâti l’Ouest américain, ou...
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Auteur: Cooper Diallo, HabibaSommaire:
A young Black writer documents the systemic racism in her high school diary and calls for justice and change. The prevalence of anti-Black racism and its many faces, from racial profiling to...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Discursive works -
Auteur: Arbour, Louise; Schama, Simon; Farage, Nigel; Steyn, MarkSommaire:The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million...
Genre: Discursive works, Political science -
Auteur: Graham, BillySommaire:In Just As I Am, Billy Graham looks back at it all - remembering his dairy farm upbringing, his early preaching experiences, and the overwhelming international response to his public ministry...
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Auteur: West, CooperSommaire:Gary Winston is a professional musician with a debilitating problem: stage fright. Between his failing career and his failing relationship, Chicago has little left to offer him, so when he...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Dorries, Heather; Henry, Robert; Hugill, David; McCreary, Tyler; Tomiak, JulieSommaire:
While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been...