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Award winning non-fiction, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Law and crime, True crime
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In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border,…
they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. The author braids together the strands of this mystery and brings to life the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida and the harrowing world of logging. Canada Reads 2012. Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. Bestseller. 2005.
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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Poetry
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Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems. Includes two short essays on poetry. 1985.
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Literature, Poetry
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Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems is a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various…
relationships. From the shattered pieces of our environmental puzzles to the labyrinth of family dynamics, Lilley makes these dilemmas come alive. Chillingly sparse, attractively odd and refreshingly frank, these poems embrace the complexities of human life with an unsettling mix of the sardonic and the compassionate. c2014.
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Animal stories, Humourous fictionPoetry
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A collection of rhyming poems set in such places as Tuscaloosa, Tucumcari, and the Grand Canyon. These funny verses are…
about people and animals, often doing unusual things, like "Seven snails and seven snakes/ swam around the five Great Lakes." For grades K-3. 2002.
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Law and crime, True crime
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The "Feather Men," so named because of their light touch, were a group of Englishmen recruited to stop an organization…
of contract killers from murdering former members of the Special Air Service. This true story of their vigilante activities during the 1980s is set mainly in Oman and is told in chilling detail with action-packed narrative. Includes violence. 1991.
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Law and crime biography, Law and crime, Police and military, True crime, Lifestyle, Social issues
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The Fence documents the true story of a Boston police incident during which an undercover officer was brutally beaten by…
fellow officers who mistook him for a murder suspect. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2009.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
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In this collection of poems, the author asks: is our world really what it appears to be? How do we…
shape it through language? And if language can create our world, can it also transform or destroy it? She brings us to the edges of dreams and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. 2016.
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Literature, Poetry
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This poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgement seat of God. First published in 1865, 2009.
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Literature, Poetry
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Contemporary translation of spiritual poetry by the Sufi mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). These poems were created during Rumi's work with…
a dervish learning community that was "exploring the mystery of union with the divine." Includes sex. 1995. Uniform title: Selections.
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Law and crime, True crime
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Drawing on detailed reporting and extensive evidence, English reveals how an entire generation of political exiles, refugees, racketeers, corrupt cops,…
hitmen, and their wives and girlfriends became caught up in an American saga of desperation and empire building, set against the larger backdrop of revolution, exile, and ethnicity. 2018.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
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A sustained, confessional new collection of poems that tells the story of Crosbie's father’s battle with frontotemporal dementia and blindness,…
following a stroke. The poems chronologically recount the poet’s conversations and time with her father, and capture his still-astonishing means of communicating. The book’s title is his sardonic remark. Crosbie considers dementia to be a symbolic language and as such, similar to poetry. The author’s attempts to understand her father’s distress, pain, fear, and brave love are assisted by her understanding of the “negative capability” required of readers of poetry. 2017.
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Law and crime, True crime
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The untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias, and how they risked everything to bring it down. 2018.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Poetry
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Crafted as a long poem, a libretto for stage presentations, this book is less about Clarence Thomas than it is…
about the devastating reign of the Bush administration. The central idea of the book is: ‘War is an Evil product of Evil/Hypocritical Minds’. The ‘Chorus of the Homeless’ occupies a central role in the poem, performing a function much like the Chorus in Greek Tragedies, providing a reasonably objective commentary. In a sense, the central story is a tragedy too – George Bush is a tragic figure. And, towards the end, he is conceived as a tragic hero, a Samson-like figure who pulls down the temple over his head to crush the Philistines. 2007.
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Award winning non-fiction, European history, Law and crime, Philosophy
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Drawn from reports, letters, witnesses, and the Nobel Prize winner's own 11-year incarceration at Archipelago. This is an intense portrayal…
of the history of the Soviet prison system. Bestseller. 1973. Uniform title: Arkhipelag GULag, 1918-1956.
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Law and crime, True crime
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In 1901, pinup girl and penniless actress Evelyn Nesbit was taken advantage of by legendary architect Stanford White. Four years…
later, Nesbit would tell her husband Harry Thaw of the encounter, leading Thaw to publicly murder White. 2018.
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Canadian non-fiction, Poetry
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A collection of fifty poems, ranging in subject from the personal to the political. They investigate the mysterious writing of…
poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. 2007.
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Journals and memoirs, History, Poetry, Philosophy, Politics and government
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Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides…
insights into the Middle East from Arabic sources: fiction, poetry, memoirs, and political commentaries. c1998.
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Law and crime biography, Law and crime, True crime
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A sensational trial -- questions about the influence of the media, expert witnesses, the issue of the death penalty, and…
the advantage of wealth. While it sounds like one of today's headlines, this actually happened in 1900. The author investigates the remarkable trial of two men accused of murdering William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University. 1994.
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Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Law and crime, True crime
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On the night of October 10, 2008, Johnny Altinger was heading to his first date with a woman he had…
met online. He was never seen again. Two weeks earlier, aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell, with a devotion to the television series Dexter, began a three-day shoot for his latest short film. His horror story featured a serial killer who impersonates women on an online dating site to lure unsuspecting men to his suburban kill room. But his script was actually the blueprint for a real-life murder. Includes violence and strong language. Winner of the 2013 Arthur Ellis Best Crime Non-fiction Award. c2012.
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Movie and television tie-insLaw and crime, True crime
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Each of the dozen stories in this collection reveals a hidden and often dangerous world, and pivots around the gravitational…
pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Throughout, Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power--and often the willful perversity--of the human spirit. 2010.