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The Mantle of Struggle

By (author) Irving Andre
Foreword by David Austin
Categories: Biography: general

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, under ...

The Life and Times of Augustine Tataneuck

One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century—separated from his family, community, and language—finding his place in history.
 
Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the ...

Who Gets In

By (author) Norman Ravvin
Categories: Biography: general

An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man’s battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies.
 
In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Yogi stripper

Y avait pas juste l’argent pour rendre ça plaisant. Tout ce désir axé sur ma petite personne enivrait mon ego trop mal nourri... en plus des plaisirs sensoriels, sensuels et sexuels qui sont montés ...

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 ...

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, ...