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  • White riot : the 1907 anti-asian riots in vancouver
    Author:
    Tsang, Henry
    Summary:

    Essays and photographs that document the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a...
  • The Marrow of Tradition
    Author:
    Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
    Summary:

    Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the...
  • The hidden thread : a novel
    Author:
    Trenow, Liz
    Summary:

    The Hidden Thread is a breathtaking novel about the intricate craft of silk and the heartbreak of forbidden love. When Anna Butterfield's mother dies, she's sent to live with her uncle, a silk merchant in London, to make a good match...
  • The Badger riot
    Author:
    Ricketts, J. A.
    Summary:

    In 1959, the small town of Badger was the centre of a labour confrontation that forever changed the social and political landscape of Newfoundland. For two and a half months, loggers had been striking for better wages and working...
  • Super sad true love story
    Author:
    Shteyngart, Gary
    Summary:

    In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela...
  • Riot baby
    Author:
    Onyebuchi, Tochi
    Summary:

    Ella has a Thing. She sees things that haven't happened yet. Kev wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer.
  • Riot act
    Author:
    Tullson, Diane
    Summary:

    Seventeen-year-old Daniel gets caught up in a postgame riot. And then he and his best friend escape police by breaking into a store. They only intend to cut through to the alley, but rioters follow and trash the place. Daniel prevents...
  • Riot
    Author:
    Moodie, Andrew
    Summary:

    Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police...
  • Reading the riot act : a brief history of riots in Vancouver
    Author:
    Barnholden, Michael Dorn
    Summary:

    “Reading the Riot Act” is a phrase that has entered the popular lexicon, meaning the action taken by authority figures when they perceive that their “charges” are getting out of hand. The act itself is a seldom-used piece of legislation...
  • Paris notebooks : essays & reviews
    Author:
    Gallant, Mavis
    Summary:

    A selection of non-fiction writings composed of essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985. Beginning with an account of Mavis Gallant's impressions of the student uprising in May 1968, the book presents a whole range of subjects...
  • Magic city
    Author:
    Rhodes, Jewell Parker
    Summary:

    In 1921 Tulsa, a white woman and a black man get on an elevator. The woman screams and suddenly the man is on the streets--barely ahead of a lynch mob gathering behind him. Accused of rape, aspiring magician Joe is on the run for a...
  • Eight for eternity : a John the Lord Chamberlain mystery book 8
    Author:
    Reed, Mary, Mayer, Eric
    Summary:

    In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a murderous backdrop lit by raging fires, John, Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those seeking to use the Nika Riots to dethrone the emperor. But...
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