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All Things Move

By (author) Jeannie Marshall
Categories: Memoirs

A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes—and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age.

What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie ...

Crying Wolf

By (author) Eden Boudreau
Categories: Memoirs

It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.

After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain ...

Harvesting Freedom

In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system.

When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural ...

The Mysterious Stranger

By (author) Walter Bates
Edited by Cristina Artenie
Categories: True crime

This true-crime story about a famous confidence man who eluded law enforcement in both Canada and the US was first published in 1817. Walter Bates conducted interviews with the man who escaped from custody ...

An Anthology of Monsters

An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help ...

On Writing and Failure

By (author) Stephen Marche
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Field Notes

Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.

Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book ...

François-Albert Angers

Animateur influent des réseaux intellectuels entre les années 1930 et 1980, militant dynamique associé au mouvement nationaliste et indépendantiste, et expert économique proche des milieux politiques, ...

Il était une fois le Québec

Bruno Hébert, clerc de Saint-Viateur, est l’un des derniers frères d’une communauté qui a contribué à bâtir le Québec. Peintre, il est aussi la dernière figure d’artiste de l’illustre ...

Chartier de Lotbinière sur tous les fronts (1723-1798)

La trajectoire de Michel Chartier de Lotbinière est spectaculaire. Entre sa naissance à Québec en 1723 et sa mort à New York en 1798, cet ingénieur de formation s’est fait soldat, astronome, explorateur, ...

Je ferai le tour du monde

À l’aube de l’adolescence, Alexandra Szacka est chassée de son pays natal et forcée à renoncer à sa citoyenneté polonaise. Elle devient donc apatride, pour plusieurs années. Est-ce cela qui ...