Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer - and...
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Author:Muller, MarciaSummary:A knock on the door in the middle of the night. It can only be bad news, and it is: Sharon McCone's father, Elwood, has been the victim of a vicious, racially motivated attack. With little progress on the investigation from police, she...
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Author:Klein, Aaron J.Summary:The first full account, based on access to key players who have never before spoken, of the Munich Massacre and the Israeli response-a lethal, top secret, thirty-year-long antiterrorism campaign to track down the killers.
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Author:Hunt, Dallas, Starblanket, GinaSummary:Storying Violence explores the 2018 murder of Colten Boushie and the subsequent trial of Gerald Stanley. Through an analysis of relevant socio-political narratives in the prairies and scholarship on settler colonialism, the authors...
- Author:National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada)Summary:
The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA...
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Author:Hetherington, VictoriaSummary:Mooncalves follows the bloody implosion of a cult in Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec, understood through the urgent voices of the living and a ring of ghostly, shape-shifting watchers. Sensing the impending dissolution of society by...
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Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:"A young mother, one of the many missing indigenous women, watches over her small daughter as she grows up without her nimama. Together, but separated, they experience important milestones: the first day of school, first dance, first...
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Author:Summary:In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly. This important collective volume both witnesses the significance of the travelling...
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Author:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, MichaelSummary:Detective Michael Bennett arrests an infamous Mexican crime lord in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett's lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain epic violence down upon New York City and get revenge...
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Author:Frédéric ParrotSummary:Les Amazones sont passées du luxe indécent de Moskva-city à la laideur harassante de résidences pour aînés de Québec. Elles y découvrent des horreurs : contention, gavage, aliénation, malpropreté et un homme véreux, Denis...
- Author:Sadet, MélissaSummary:
Clara, jeune femme de 28 ans, mène une vie simple mais heureuse, jusqu'à cette soirée de mi-avril. Agressée et enlevée par un parfait inconnu, elle se retrouvera prisonnière de cet individu. Au fil des semaines et des...
- Author:Ignatius, DavidSummary:
Deep within Pakistan's borders, a secret CIA team is being systematically dismantled by a cunning enemy. Soon, Sophie Marx, a young, ambitious agent, is on the ground searching for answers. But as she gets closer to the truth, she...
