The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of "...
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Auteur:Saunders, DougSommaire:A groundbreaking current affairs book documenting the largest population move in human history, as a third of the world's people migrate into cities, rupturing societies across the globe.
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Les Bridgerton sont stupéfaits : le vicomte Anthony veut se ranger ! Et il sait ce qu'il veut : une femme dont il ne risque pas de tomber amoureux, car l'amour est subalterne dans le couple. Edwina Sheffield est la reine de la saison,...
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Auteur:Younge, GarySommaire:Award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States. It's a searing portrait of youth, family, and the way that lives can be shattered in an instant on any day...
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Auteur:Tolstoy, LeoSommaire:Anna Karenina is the wife of a prominant Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband and an...
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A string of gruesome, ritualistic murders of Hungarian immigrants has the Thames River Police Commander stuck on solving the pattern in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling William Monk series. When a Hungarian...
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Auteur:McCoy, Doris LeeSommaire:McCoy has collected the opinions and ideas of such noted figures as Steve Forbes, J.W. Marriott, Patricia Schroeder, and others, who offer their wisdom on such crucial issues as business practices, health, and the reawakening American...
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Auteur:Pompe, JeffreySommaire:The constant assault of natural forces make fragile barrier islands some of the most rapidly changing locations in the world, but human activities have had enormous impact on these islands as well. In Altered Environments, Jeffrey and...
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Auteur:Brouwer, SigmundSommaire:It's the All-Star team, made up of the WHL's young hockey players, just one short step away from the NHL. Their goal is to beat the Russian All-Stars in a best-of-seven series to be shown as a television special. Hog Burnell, one of the...
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Annie is the eldest daughter of a laundress in Acton, London, raised to keep the rich families of Kensington spick and span. As she grows up in poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, her life centres on the family business, working long hours...
- Auteur:Bärtås, Magnus, Ekman, Fredrik, Vogel, SaskiaSommaire:
In 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is founded by General Kim Il-sung. In 1978, North Korea celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its founding, and Kim Jong-il, who at the time is the head of the Propaganda and...
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Auteur:Patterson, James, DiLallo, RichardSommaire:The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington, DC, Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at...
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Auteur:Hazelgrove, William ElliottSommaire:Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression-the story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on the 1933 World...
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Auteur:hooks, bellSommaire:Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of Back womanhood, Black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the Black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and...
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Auteur:Brontë, AnneSommaire:Like her sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Anne Brontë’s classic lays bare the vulnerable position of the governess in 19th century England. Let down by irresponsible parents, ill-treated by employers, Agnes’s one chance at happiness lies,...
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Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she's heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the...
- Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de...
- Auteur:Edizel, LorenSommaire:
John arrives in a Montreal airport with a suitcase in hand. We do not know where he is from, or who he is. The novel sets out to explore his identity by following his daily movements and intimate thoughts, as well as his connections to...
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Auteur:Wheeler, JoshuaSommaire:A rollicking debut book of essays that takes listeners on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to...
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Auteur:Harris, JohnSommaire:In May 1936, George Dalziel flew far up the Nahanni River to check on Bill Eppler and Joe Mulholland, who were working one of his traplines. He found their cabin burned to the ground and no sign of them anywhere. What had happened to...
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