Halifax women won the Second World War--but not in the ways you might have been told. We all know the stories of Canadian women during the war who trained as machinists, welders, and streetcar drivers to fill the shoes of men who...
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Auteur:Kendzior, SarahSommaire:From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory. "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly...
- Auteur:Cornejo Villavicencio, KarlaSommaire:
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on...
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Auteur:Krotz, LarrySommaire:The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to ‘do good’. The persistence of this impulse is...
- Auteur:Myers, AdeleSommaire:
Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a...
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Auteur:Dumas, Alexandre, Leloir, MauriceSommaire:When young d'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the ranks of the Musketeers, he soon finds himself challenged to three duals with Athos, Porthos and Aramis. However, the foursome is abruptly attacked by the evil Cardinal Richelieu's...
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Auteur:Dumas, AlexandreSommaire:Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women, priceless treasures and scandalous...
- Auteur:Hartmann, ThomSommaire:
Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you’ll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures Hypothesis, which...
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Auteur:Dyja, ThomasSommaire:Much of what defined America as it grew into a superpower was produced in Chicago. Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America.
- Auteur:DyckFehderau, RuthSommaire:
This is a collection of literary creative non-fiction stories of James Bay Cree First Nations people who are living with diabetes.
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Auteur:MILL, John StuartSommaire:The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both detailed argumentation...
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Auteur:Schama, SimonSommaire:"It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to...
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Auteur:Brown, William Garrott, Baker, Bruce E.Sommaire:In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton" Brown published 20 epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his...
- Auteur:Trigiani, AdrianaSommaire:
The fateful first meeting of Enza and Ciro takes place amid the haunting majesty of the Italian Alps at the turn of the last century. Still teenagers, they are separated when Ciro is banished from his village and sent to hide in New...
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Auteur:Carter, Anne LaurelSommaire:Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award for Children, the Society of School Librarians International Best Book Award and a Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book. Ever since she was a little girl, Amani...
- Auteur:Jackson, Steven ElliottSommaire:
In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man. In what seems at first to be a simple encounter, The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men...
- Auteur:McPhail, Diane C.Sommaire:
The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared....
- Auteur:Everhart, DonnaSommaire:
During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy,...
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Auteur:Manuel, Arthur, Derrickson, Ronald M.Sommaire:In this book Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson challenge virtually everything that non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous Peoples and the steps that are needed to place this relationship...
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Auteur:Robinson, RandallSommaire:A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community. In this powerful book, he convincingly argues that African Americans must fight...
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