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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 ...

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 ...

Jeannie’s Demise

By (author) Ian Radforth
Categories: Social and cultural history

August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out ...

Vieillir, chemin de vérité

By (author) Roland Bourneuf
Categories: True stories: general

These pages, integrating testimony, reflection and a view of the world, accompany the journey of our aging society. Past, present and future merge into a music of words that leads us where everything ...

Picking Up the Pieces

By (author) Carey Newman & Kirstie Hudson
Categories: Biography: general

Picking Up the Pieces tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art conceived and created by Indigenous artist Carey Newman. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential ...

Une justice coloniale

By (author) Pierre Rousseau
Categories: True stories: general

L’auteur raconte les années qu’il a vécues en milieu autochtone, surtout comme procureur de la Couronne, alors qu’il s’éveillait progressivement au colonialisme judiciaire et à l’effet néfaste ...

Seul l'amour a de l'avenir

By (author) Yves Bériault
Preface by Jean Vanier
Categories: True stories: general

Morts par amour, refusant d’échapper seuls au danger menaçant tout un peuple, ils ont persisté à croire en l’être humain et franchi les frontières religieuses et politiques pour jeter les bases ...

Nous étions invincibles

Nul ne peut prétendre connaître réellement ces hommes en noir qu’un hélicoptère vient de déposer aux abords d’un petit village d’Afghanistan. Denis Morisset a fait partie des premiers membres ...

Dépasser l'horizon

Nouvelle édition augmentée – sept nouveaux chapitres ! Mylène Paquette est la première personne des Amériques à avoir traversé l’Atlantique Nord à la rame, en solitaire. Une aventure humaine ...

The Embattled General

Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner (1871-1961) was a capable but controversial Canadian general who played a critical role in the development of the Canadian Corps up to 1917 and contributed significantly ...