Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt...
Quebec
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Auteur:Peddie, Francis, Loewen, RoydenSommaire: - Auteur:Nungak, ZebedeeSommaire:
For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace. In this concise, lively...
- Auteur:Wilhelmy, AudréeSommaire:
White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named...
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Auteur:White, TaraSommaire:This moving tale of self-discovery takes place during the Oka uprising in the summer of 1990. Adopted as an infant, Carrie has always felt somehow out of place. Recurring dreams haunt her, warning her that someone close to her is in...
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Auteur:Andrews, JanSommaire:Follows the foolish, yet wise, Ti-Jean through three adventures as he outwits a greedy princess, a tiny scoundrel, and a very clever girl, in a collection of stories based on French-Canadian folk literature.
- Auteur:Desjardins, MarieSommaire:
Hongrois d’origine, fils d’un violoniste éleveur de chevaux, Vic est l’enfant doué du jazz. Musicien, arrangeur, chef d’orchestre et compositeur, il a joué aux côtés de Miles Davis, d’Oscar Peterson, de Sammy Davis, de Michel Legrand. A...
- Auteur:Poirier St-Georges, EmmanuelleSommaire:
"Je m’appelle Emmanuelle, j’ai vingt-huit ans et j’ai l’ataxie de Friedreich. C’est clair, concis, direct. Ce sont trois faits. Il y a en un d’entre eux que je n’ai pas accepté du jour au lendemain, je vous laisse deviner lequel. J’ai...
- Auteur:Otis, Léonard, Desjardins, RichardSommaire:
Ce livre est un éloquent plaidoyer en faveur d’une gestion éclairée de la forêt. Une dénonciation du laxisme des gouvernements qui ont abandonné cette richesse collective aux mains des grandes compagnies sans se soucier de la préserver...
- Auteur:Leonard, Richard, Duclos, GermainSommaire:
Les auteurs s’attardent à la façon de contourner les obstacles des apprenants et aux ressources pouvant être mobilisées pour diminuer les exclusions et permettre aux enfants handicapés ou en difficulté d’apprendre et de s’épanouir...
- Auteur:Langlois, RichardSommaire:
Les prévisions de l’Organisation Mondiale pour la Santé s’avèrent fort pessimistes en ce qui concerne les problèmes de santé mentale sur notre planète pour les prochaines décennies. Dépressions, troubles bipolaires, troubles anxieux,...
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Auteur:Saucier, JocelyneSommaire:With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown...
- Auteur:Moisan, MartinSommaire:
Several therapeutic approaches are presented in this book, including psychology, acupuncture, osteopathy, naturopathy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, massage therapy, kinesiology, yoga, Qi Gong and integrative medicine. A total of 39...
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Auteur:Bélanger, Damien-ClaudeSommaire:Thomas Chapais is one of the great French-Canadian political and intellectual figures of the beginning of the 20th century. Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1892, then to the Senate of Canada in 1919, he played a...
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Auteur:Soderstrom, MarySommaire:Bujumbura, Burundi is one of the last places you would expect to find Thomas Brossard. Once a powerful cabinet minister in Brian Mulroney’s Conservative government, Thomas never had a particular interest in the continent of Africa and...
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Auteur:Armstrong, KelleySommaire:In this paranormal YA thriller, Tess embarks on a quest to find out the truth about her parents and realizes that she possesses unusual powers that link her to the past.
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Auteur:Ignatieff, MichaelSommaire:With an updated preface by the author. Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card...
- Auteur:Rotchin, GlenSommaire:
A bevy of colorful characters cross paths with each other in this novel about Montreal's garment district and its Orthodox Jewish community. If there is one thing Gershon Stein, the rent collector, knows it's that life is...
- Auteur:Penny, LouiseSommaire:
"...listeners will be able to sense the benevolent heart and soul of a careful investigator amidst choices that cause deadly consequences." — Booklist "Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of...
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Auteur:Lucht, Bernie, Galbraith, John Kenneth, Goodman, Paul, Jacobs, Jane, Kierans, Eric W., King, Martin Luther, Jr.Sommaire:The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for...
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Auteur:LeBlanc, Perrine, Lederhendler, LazerSommaire:The latest from Governor General’s Literary Award winner Perrine Leblanc is a mesmerizing story about the disappearance of three young women and a deeply disturbing portrait of a small town gone bad.In between the mountains and the sea...
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