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Tireur embusqué

Un adolescent rescapé de la guerre en Syrie vit son premier hiver à Montréal. Après s’être violemment battu à l’école, il doit suivre une psychothérapie. S’étant lié d’amitié avec Kevin, ...

The Mongolian Chronicles

By (author) Allen Smutylo
Categories: Asian history

In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting ...

Enterrer la lune

In a village in rural India, Latika, a courageous and determined young girl, takes advantage of the visit of a government representative to try to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of ...

Homes

Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone—and found safety in Canada—with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. ...

The Dragon Run

By (author) Tony Robinson-Smith
Categories: Travel and holiday
Series: Wayfarer

From the mystical kingdom of Bhutan, a memoir about running, teaching, and what really matters.

Brit by origin, Canuck by marriage, Tony Robinson-Smith couldn’t imagine that he, his wife, 10 Bhutanese ...

My Beautiful Birds

A gentle yet moving story of refugees of the Syrian civil war that illuminates the ongoing crisis as it affects its children and the reality of the refugee camps, where people attempt to pick up their ...

Spark of Light

Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these ...

Apartheid in Palestine

Edited by Ghada Ageel
Categories: Middle Eastern history

“This collection of essays is a poignant cry for justice, far too long delayed. ” –Noam Chomsky

There are more than two sides in the conflict between Palestine and Israel. There are millions. Millions ...

Inside Chinatown

By (author) Robert Amos & Kileasa Wong
Categories: Asian history

Victoria’s Chinatown is Canada’s oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocollages, Robert Amos and Kileasa Wong take you behind ...