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Bushman’s Lair, The

By (author) Paul McKendrick
Categories: Biography: general

Evocative of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce and Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, this fascinating portrait of John Bjornstrom—a far-from-ordinary fugitive—makes for a page-turning read. | The ...

Enlightenment and Ecology

Throughout his life, prophetic American philosopher Murray Bookchin created social ecology as a comprehensive social program for the challenges of our present era. Enlightenment and Ecology is an international ...

Infertilité

By (author) Véronique Leduc
Illustrated by Mathilde Corbeil
Categories: Autobiography: general

En voulant devenir maman, la journaliste Véronique Leduc ne se doutait pas qu’au cours des cinq années qui suivraient s’enchaîneraient les injections, les médicaments, les inséminations et les ...

La Grande Marie

C’est le portrait de Marie de l’Incarnation que brosse ici Carl Bergeron, séduit par la force de caractère et les qualités d’organisatrice d’une femme portée par un désir d’absolu. Il tend ...

Valide

By (author) Chris Bergeron
Categories: Autobiography: general

An autobiographical fiction that weaves in elements of sci-fi and hints of cyberpunk, Valide defies genres in more ways than one. This novel offers a retelling of the author’s past and her own transition ...

Approaching Fire

By (author) Michelle Porter
Categories: Biography: general

In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and ...

A White Lie

The Women’s Voices from Gaza collection honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. In “A White Lie,” the first ...

Brotherhood to Nationhood

By (author) Peter McFarlane & Doreen Manuel
Foreword by Pamela Palmater
Categories: Biography: general

Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George ...

The Taste of Longing

By (author) Suzanne Evans
Categories: Second World War

Half a world away from her home on Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World ...

Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites

Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition: Climbing Literature Award

The first English-language biography of one of the most renowned Italian climbers, Emilio Comici, who bagged over 200 first ascents ...