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Auteur:Fisher, Rachel, Stretch, Heather, Tunnicliffe, RobinSommaire: -
Auteur:Penny, LouiseSommaire:The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a...
- Auteur:Richardson, C.S.Sommaire:
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and...
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Auteur:Kuitenbrouwer, KathrynSommaire:September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto with his mother, Thao, and his four-year-old sister, who was born severely disfigured from the effects of...
- Auteur:Dueck, DoraSommaire:
Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her aging mother to revive a mysterious...
- Auteur:James, Ron.Sommaire:
Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage. His legion of fans—the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is sold out—...
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Auteur:Talaga, TanyaSommaire:In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia,...
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Auteur:Patriarca, GiannaSommaire:All My Fallen Angelas is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Italian-Canadian women living in Toronto from the 1960s to the present. The stories document their strength and resilience, their power and vulnerability...
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Auteur:Wishinsky, FriedaSommaire:An old Canadian flyer sled in the attic of Emily's new house transports eight-year-old Emily and nine-year-old Matt to a series of thrilling adventures in the past. Here, the sled takes the inquisitive pair to an old train -- one that's...
- Auteur:Kimber, StephenSommaire:
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 helped transform Nova Scotian and Canadian...
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Auteur:Ronaghan, Brian M, Beaudoin, Alwynne B., Blakey, Janet, Bouchet, Luc, Burns, James A., Clarke, Grant M., Fedirchuk, Gloria J., Fisher, Timothy G., Froese, Duane G., Gryba, Eugene M., Ives, John W., Le Blanc, Raymond J., Lobb, Murray, Lowell, Thomas V., Reeves, Brian O. K., Robertson, Elizabeth C., Roskowski, Laura, Saxberg, Nancy, Tischer, Jennifer C., Wolfe, Stephen A., Woywitka, Robin J., Young, Robert R., Younie, Angela M.Sommaire:Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind...
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Auteur:Rotondo, JonathanSommaire:A magical, airborne story of father and son.Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Antonio, died. Numb with grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much joy: a tiny single-seat biplane called...
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Auteur:Silversides, AnnSommaire:Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of...
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Auteur:Quinn, Shawna M.Sommaire:Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing...
- Auteur:Mukbil, HudaSommaire:
In Agent of Change, Huda Mukbil, a Black Arab-Canadian Muslim, chronicles her life as an intelligence officer in Canada's lead spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Mukbil was at forefront of the fight against...
- Auteur:Berger, Thomas R., Dorough, Dalee Sambo, Teillet, Jean, Wake, Drew AnnSommaire:
Against the Odds documents the remarkable achievements of Thomas R. Berger in the legal field, including his pioneering work in advocating for Indigenous rights that courts in Canada and the US had previously overlooked. Mid-career,...
- Auteur:Doyle, Debbie J.Sommaire:
Like its predecessors in the Durvile True Cases series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services. Stories in this...
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Auteur:McIver, Susan B. , Wyndham, RobinSommaire:Moving stories underline serious issues with medical errors and empower patients. Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands, and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors...
- Auteur:Mulder, MichelleSommaire:
Ten-year-old Rosario Ramirez and her family are political refugees from Mexico, trying to make a new life in Canada. After being teased at school, Rosario vows not to speak English again until she can speak with an accent that’s one...
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Auteur:Johnstone, RachaelSommaire:The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone...
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