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S'édenter la chienne

S’édenter la chienne, c’est mettre fin aux peurs, aux carcans, aux limites qu’on s’impose. Dans ce recueil, l’auteur, qui est champion mondial de slam, romancier, chroniqueur, nous invite à ...

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War and became the co-founder of what would soon become multi-million-dollar skin care company NeoStrata. / Ruey Yu évite la famine qui déferle ...

BDQ

Edited by Andy Brown
Translated by Helge Dascher
Categories: Literary essays

The comics community in Quebec has long been heralded as unique, blending the clear-lined aesthetic of Europe with the underground influences of North America - think Tintin meets R. Crumb. However, most ...

Notes From a Feminist Killjoy

By (author) Erin Wunker
Categories: Biography: general
Series: Essais Series

Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life attempts to think publicly about why we need feminism and especially why we need the figure of the feminist killjoy, now. From the complicated practices ...

The World's Most Travelled Man

By (author) Mike Spencer Bown
Categories: Memoirs

The World’s Most Travelled Man is an eye-opening account of the universal human experience as seen from each corner of the changing world. Blending a romantic connection to nature through solitude and ...

Where the Stars Rise

Follow twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors on their journeys through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, identities, and choices. Stories that challenge ...

Mixing Memory & Desire

The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased—memory became history. But Brian Kennedy argues that our collective ...

Seven Fallen Feathers

By (author) Tanya Talaga
Categories: Biography: general

The shocking true story covered by The Guardian and The New York Times of the seven young Indigenous students who were found dead in a northern Ontario city. Winner of the RBC Taylor Prize and the Shaughnessy ...

In Search of A Better World

Part memoir and history as well as a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times by internationally ...

The Sum of Us

What happens without essential services and front-line workers? What would the world be like without someone to care for, or to care with? The greatest gift to us is caring and sharing, no matter who ...