How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of...
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Author:Wall, Karen L.Summary: -
Author:Maillard, Kevin NobleSummary:Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us....
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Author:Poelzer, Greg, Coates, KennethSummary:Canada is a country founded on relationships and treaties between Indigenous people and newcomers. Although recent court cases have strengthened Aboriginal rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage...
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Author:Ikebuchi, ShellySummary:For decades, the Chinese Rescue Home was a feature of the landscape of Victoria, British Columbia. Originally a refuge for Chinese prostitutes and slave girls rescued from captivity, it became a residence and school where the Methodist...
- Author:Crenshaw, DanSummary:
Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and rising star in Republican politics. In 2012, on his third tour of duty in...
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Author:Che, SunnySummary:Told against the backdrop of World War II and the Korean War, the author recounts the events of her childhood as a foreigner in Japan and her subsequent return to Korea.
- Author:Lysenko, AdrianSummary:
In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras...
- Author:Waters, SarahSummary:
Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, "mother" to a host of pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt, she joins legendary thief Gentleman in swindling an innocent woman out of her inheritence.
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Author:Proulx, AnnieSummary:Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain," National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral collection of new stories. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the...
- Author:Laurens, CamilleSummary:
Née en 1959 dans une famille de la petite-bourgeoisie de Rouen, Laurence Barraqué a été élevée dans l'idée d'une supériorité des hommes. Une domination qui se manifeste partout : à l'école, dans son cours de danse ou à la...
- Author:Lupick, TravisSummary:
Tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in downtown Vancouver who throughout the 1990s and 2000s demanded that they be given the same rights as other citizens.
- Author:Minatchy-Bogat, ArletteSummary:
- Author:Conradi, AlexaSummary:
In response to rapid and unsettling social, economic, and climate changes, fearmongering now features as a main component of public life. Right-wing nationalist populism has become a hallmark of politics around the world. No less so in...
- Author:Eaton, Emily, Zink, ValerieSummary:
Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006–2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Author:Zink, Valerie, Eaton, EmilySummary:Oil is not new to Saskatchewan. Many of the wells found on farmland across the province date back to the 1950s when the industry began to spread. But there is little doubt that the recent boom (2006-2014) and subsequent downturn in...
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Author:Thomas, H. NigelSummary:In Fate's Instruments, picking up the story from where Paul's brother Jay left it in No Safeguards, Paul, an aspiring writer, marries Carlos, with whom he lived in Guatemala, and brings him to Montreal. Things go wrong from...
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Author:Pick, AlisonSummary:Winner of the Helen and Stan Vine Jewish Book Award and finalist for the Man Booker Prize In Far to Go, one of our most accomplished young writers takes us inside the world of an affluent Jewish family in Prague during the lead-up to...
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Author:Nzegwu, NkiruSummary: -
Author:René ForgetSummary:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
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Author:Barnes, ColinSummary:
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