'Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...' Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So...
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Author:Actis, AndreaSummary: - Author:Proulx, DanielSummary:
La cause de l'avocate Claire Lortie, acquittée du meurtre de son ami, était-elle défendable?? Qu'en est-il de celle de Benoît Proulx, condamné par un jury de Québec puis acquitté par la Cour d'appel?? Que retient-on du procès du...
- Author:Dubois, René-DanielSummary:
Sir Thomas et Steve ont peu en commun. Le chef d'orchestre britannique et le discret historien américain ne se connaissent pas. Pourtant, quand le deuxième réussit à approcher le premier, il lui suffit de mentionner un nom pour qu...
- Author:Graham, KateSummary:
Only twelve women have ever served as the premier of a Canadian province or territory, and only one has risen to the very top to serve as prime minister. In Govern Like a Girl,Kate Graham tells the stories of these thirteen women, from...
- Author:B. Montminy, MélopéeSummary:
L'astrologie nous attire, parce qu'elle parle de nous. Elle est réponse dans les jours sombres et source d'espoir pour le futur. Un peu de magie pour nous rappeler que nos vies sont meublées d'impondérable, un peu de...
- Author:Addison, MarilouSummary:
Moi (en changeant mes sacs d'épicerie de main, car je commençais à avoir mal aux paumes) : P'pa… Tu vas y retourner quand, chez le concessionnaire, pour choisir une autre auto ? Mon père (en fixant le bout de la rue et en gardant le...
- Author:Charlton, VictoriaSummary:
La youtubeuse Victoria Charlton, connue pour ses vidéos consacrées au True Crime, nous entraîne sur la piste des 15 disparitions les plus énigmatiques des 100 dernières années, de la France aux États-Unis, en passant par le...
- Author:Léveillé, J. R.Summary:
L'été à Ganiishomong : l'écriture poursuit la fiction dans l'extase du temps. Les souvenirs d'enfance (la nudité des cousines est désirable ; le piano de la mère un délice) se prélassent sur la plage d'une...
- Author:Villeneuve, Pierre-YvesSummary:
Maintenant que Laurianne a infecté KPS avec son rétrovirus, il ne lui reste plus qu'une chose à faire : attendre. Attendre que ce programme se propage et contamine à son tour les serveurs du Spectre, afin que Gabryelle et elle...
- Author:Donoghue, EmmaSummary:
It is 1876, and San Francisco, the freewheeling "Paris of the West," is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is...
- Author:Brum Schäppi, PaulaSummary:
Cet ouvrage aborde les manières dont l'activisme en santé mentale contribue aux transformations des rapports sociaux à la folie. Il propose de penser l'articulation entre folie et politique à partir d'une enquête qualitative auprès de l...
- Author:Bose, RanaSummary:
A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage over Northern Quebec, Canada. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical failure. The case was closed in a rush. A young actor from Montreal dies in Afghanistan, killed by...
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Substate nationalism is often studied as a question of political identity and cultural recognition. The same applies to the study of multinational federalism - it is mainly conceived as a tool for the accommodation of minority cultures...
- Author:Paré, ArleenSummary:
Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost...
- Author:Babcock, HeatherSummary:
Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a nineteen-year-old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store, but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her hard-working widowed mother and...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
'[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.' — Publishers Weekly STARRED review Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left —...
- Author:Schönmaier, EleonoreSummary:
A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
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Author:Barr, Marleen S.Summary:The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Author:Jacka, BenedictSummary:
In the heart of Camden is the Arcana Emporium, run by one Alex Verus. He won't sell you a wand or mix you a potion, but if you know what you're looking for, he might just be able to help. That's if he's not too busy investigating a...
- Author:Maharaj, RabindranathSummary:
A heartrending novel about one man's search for meaning in a difficult life A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favored brother, a husband who falls short of his wife's ambitions, an old man with a broken heart… As...
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