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Voyages en Afghani

By (author) Guillaume Lavallée
Categories: Middle Eastern history
Series: Essai

En janvier 2017, un jeune homme tue six hommes priant à la grande mosquée de Québec. Journaliste au Moyen-Orient, l’auteur Guillaume Lavallée s’interroge sur les raisons et origines de cette haine. ...

Canadian Rajah

By (author) Dave Carley
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Canadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now ...

Quest for Coomaraswamy

Text by Pratapaditya Pal
Categories: History of art

A biography of one of the pioneers in Asian art by the world’s foremost specialist in the arts of India, the Himalayas and South East Asia.

An intimate biography by Dr. Pratapaditya Pal, viewed by many ...

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 ...