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The giants of Russian literature: Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov (The modern scholar)

By Liza Knapp. 2006

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Literature, Criticism
Human-narrated audio
Columbia University professor Liza Knapp delivers lectures on the lives, times, and most important works of four great Russian authors. 2006.

The great code: the Bible and literature

By Northrop Frye. 1982

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Canadian non-fiction, Criticism, Christianity, Religious texts, Writing
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Canada's renowned literary critic and theorist analyses the Bible as the single most important influence in the imaginative tradition of Western art and literature. 1982.

The golden spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness And Greed

By John Vaillant. 2005

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Award winning non-fiction, Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Canadian non-fiction, Law and crime, True crime
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

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.

The great game: the myth and reality of espionage

By Frederick Porter Hitz. 2004

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General non-fiction, Espionage, Criticism
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A study of how the literature of espionage compares with its actual practice, written by a former CIA officer. Hitz…

concludes that in most instances truth is more surprising and peculiar than fiction. For espionage fans interested in an insider's assessment of the reality behind the entertainment. Some strong language. 2004.

The glass air: selected poems

By P. K Page. 1985

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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Contains all of Page's classic poems, as well as several unpublished poems.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.

The golden thread: a reader's journey through the great books

By Bruce Meyer. 2000

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Criticism, Writing
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Meyer shows how all the greats - Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and numerous other classic writers - are still…

very relevant. Using his trademark approach to reading and understanding, he takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery through some of the most important works of Western literature. 2000.

The feather men

By Ranulph Fiennes. 1991

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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.

The fence: a police cover-up along Boston's racial divide

By Dick Lehr. 2009

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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.

The enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

By Robertson Davies, Judith Skelton Grant. 1979

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Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Anthologies, Criticism
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This collection of Davies' non-fiction writing, culled from four decades of dialogues, diaries and sketches, gives his views of people, literature, and himself. 1979.

The Corporation: an epic story of the Cuban American underworld

By T. J English. 2018

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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.

The good mothers: the true story of the women who took on the world's most powerful mafia

By Alex Perry. 2018

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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.

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation

By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡ìsyn. 1973

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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.

The girl on the velvet swing: sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century

By Simon Baatz. 2018

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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.

The diaries of Northrop Frye, 1942-1955 (Collected works of Northrop Frye. book VIII)

By Northrop Frye, Robert D Denham. 2001

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Literature biography, Journals and memoirs, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Criticism
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Frye's entries contain self-analysis and self-revelation, as well as humour, dark moods and claustrophobia, and some self-congratulating. They also serve…

as a chronicle of Frye's life, as we watch him teach classes, plan his career, record his dreams, register his reactions to the people he meets, and reflect on books, music, movies, and religious and political issues. Some strong language. 2001.

The death of old man Rice: a true story of criminal justice in America

By M. L Friedland. 1994

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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.

The devil's cinema: the untold story behind Mark Twitchell's kill room

By Steve Lillebuen. 2012

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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.

The devil and Sherlock Holmes: [tales of murder, madness, and obsession]

By David Grann. 2010

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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.

The collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell; Vol. 3: As I please, 1943-1945

By George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sonia Orwell. 1970

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Literature, Criticism
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The best selection of George Orwell's non-fiction available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism. 1970.

The Burgess Shale: the Canadian writing landscape of the 1960s (CLC Kreisel lecture series)

By Margaret Atwood. 2017

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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Literature, Criticism
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Margaret Atwood considers the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to be like the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that…

contains the fossils of many weird and strange early life forms, different from but not unrelated to contemporary writerly ones. Atwood also gives readers some insight into the fashions and foibles of those times. Her recollections and anecdotes offer a wry and often humorous look at the early days of the institutions taken for granted today - from writers' unions and grant programs to book tours and festivals. 2017.

The cases that haunt us: from Jack the Ripper to JonBenet Ramsey, the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds new light on the mysteries that won't go away

By Mark Olshaker, John E Douglas. 2016

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Law and crime, True crime
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Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed…

JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and filmmaker Mark Olshaker, explores those tantalizing questions and more. With unique analysis, the authors reexamine and reinterpret the accepted facts, evidence, and victimology of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime, including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Zodiac Killer, and the Whitechapel murders. Utilizing techniques developed by Douglas himself, they give detailed profiles and reveal chief suspects in pursuit of what really happened in each case. 2016.

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