The year is 1980. Three struggling, ambitious young lawyers set up their own practice. Partner Carrie Barr, fresh from her success defending a drifter charged as the notorious Midnight Strangler, takes on the case of a suave hit man who...
Politicians
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Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary: - Author:Loney, Andrea J.Summary:
Stacey Abrams is an activist who works for fair voting rights. She's a lawyer, an author, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Experience all the exciting moments in Stacey's life in this middle grade biography.
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Author:Norman, RonSummary:Malcolm Bidwell is young, smart, and ambitious—and he’s just been hired by mistake by newly elected Premier Steven Davis as his “go-to guy” for every political mess that needs cleaning up. And there are plenty of messes—from a cabinet...
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Author:Churley, MarilynSummary:In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options...
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Author:Summary:A collection of biographical essays on the twelve premiers who led the province of Saskatchewan during the twentieth century.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this illuminating and "scoop-rich biography...the tell-all tales rush forth" ( Los Angeles Times ) offering a "penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of...
- Author:Rowe, TedSummary:
The foremost political figure from the years of responsible government in Newfoundland, Robert Bond led a spectacularly successful but often tortured life. Cultured and well-to-do, he tried to play the game of politics like a gentleman...
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Author:Koop, Royce, Bastedo, Heather, Blidook, KellySummary:Canadian members of Parliament (MPs) are often dismissed as “trained seals,” helpless to do anything other than take commands from party leaders. Representation in Action challenges this view of MPs and shows that the ways they...
- Author:Newman, Peter CharlesSummary:
A biography of Diefenbaker.
- Author:Borowitz, AndySummary:
The winner of the first-ever National Press Club award for humor, Andy Borowitz has been called a "Swiftian satirist" ( The Wall Street Journal ) and "one of the country's finest satirists" ( The New York Times ). Millions of fans and...
- Author:Whitman, DaveSummary:
The McNeils and Mombourquettes established a joint heritage that first began in Cape Breton, then to Spryfield and it continues in Upper Granville in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. Stephen, our present Premier and the twelfth of...
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Author:Harcourt, Mike, Lekich, JohnSummary:An inspiring and revealing memoir by one of Canada's most revered public figures. Mike Harcourt fought back from a near-fatal accident that doctors initially thought could leave the former B.C. premier permanently confined to a...
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Published by McClelland & Stewart in 1979, this biography of Alberta's premier from 1971 to 1985 was written midway through his career by notable Canadian author and journalist Alan Hustak.
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Author:Cashin, Peter J., Roberts, EdwardSummary:Peter Cashin was at the centre—the stormy centre—of Newfoundland’s political and public life for more than thirty years. Known to many as “the fighting Major,” in a tribute to his wartime service with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, he...
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A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking in this New York Times bestseller. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law...
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Author:Macnair, LoganSummary:When underachieving writer Larry Mann is granted the lucrative opportunity to ghostwrite the memoirs of the notorious and eccentric businessman-turned-politician Maxime Montblanc, he accepts immediately, tantalized by the financial...
- Author:Davies, LibbySummary:
Libby Davies is a Canadian activist and politician from British Columbia. She moved to Vancouver in 1968 and served as a city councillor from 1982 to 1993, then represented the federal riding of Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015 under...
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Author:McMillan,TomSummary:This outspoken, timely book by former Mulroney Cabinet Minister Tom McMillan indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him of turning a force for...
- Author:Green, Simon R.Summary:
The Organization has learned that an attempt is to be made on Sir Dennis Gregson's life as he travels to Bath. But when a body is found on the train, Ishmael Jones has just 56 minutes to solve the crime.
- Author:Chow, OliviaSummary:
What drives Olivia Chow? How did she emerge from a turbulent childhood to become an inspiring political force? What influences and events have shaped her life? And how is she continuing her quest after losing her partner in life and...
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