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Magic Weapons

By (author) Sam McKegney
Foreword by Basil Johnston
Categories: Ethnic studies

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many ...

La proie

By (author) Martine Ayotte
Categories: True stories: general
Series: Victime

Le témoignage prenant d’une fillette agressée sexuellement.

– Un fait vécu
– Un titre vendu à plus de 50 000 exemplaires
– Droits club vendus pour la France

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Robert Weaver

By (author) Elaine Kalman Naves
Categories: Biography: general

Over the course of half a century, as radio producer, editor, talent scout, impresario, and anthologist, Robert Weaver nurtured and sustained three generations of writers. Among those he gave their earliest ...

Second Finding

The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. ...

New Readings of Yiddish Montreal - Traduire le Montréal yiddish

The texts collected in this volume unveil the practice and the methods of the translators and scholars who contributed to the reemergence of Yiddish in contemporary Canada. Each of the personalities discussed ...

163256

By (author) Michael Englishman
Categories: Memoirs
Series: Life Writing

163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of ...

Hummocks

By (author) Jean Malaurie
Categories: Biography: general

Jean Malaurie is an anthropogeographer, a world-renowned expert on the Inuit, and the founder and director of the Editions Plon’s Terre Humaine anthropological series, whose authors include Claude Levi-Strauss ...

O Cadoiro

By (author) Erin Moure
Categories: Poetry

O Cadoiro is an astonishing exploration of lyricism by one of our greatest poets, best known in recent years for her challenging experimental work. But where experimental poets often disdain lyric, Moure ...

Comfort Food for Breakups

By (author) Marusya Bociurkiw
Categories: Memoirs

Finalist,The Golden Crown Literary Award, Lesbian Short Story Essay Collection
Winner, Independent Publisher Award (SILVER), Autobiography/Memoir
Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), ...