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Enquêtes sur les services secrets
By Normand Lester. 1998
Hell's Angels: le clan de la terreur
By Yves Lavigne. 1988
Les Hell's Angels sont des rapaces; ils s'emparent de ce qu'ils veulent, quand ils le veulent. Malgré ce manque de…
scrupules, on en a fait des héros romantiques, de farouches individualistes cruellement incompris par une société disciplinée ont l'excès. Certains les considèrent comme les derniers hommes vraiment libres. Ce mythe doit mourir. Descriptions régulières de nature sexuelle et de violence, et beaucoup de langage grossier. 1988. Titre uniforme: Hell's Angels, taking care of business.Lone star rising: the revolutionary birth of the Texas Republic (Lone Star audio)
By William C Davis. 2004
Following the Louisiana Purchase, Spanish officials in Mexico began to worry about the expansionist desires of the young country now…
bordering their own territory. Once Mexico became independent from Spain, conflicts between the Mexican government and the Texas leaders such as Stephen F. Austin continued. In time, the residents of Texas declared their independence from Mexico and, after many battles, eventually established their own free nation. 2004.Lincoln's last trial: the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
By David Fisher, Dan Abrams. 2018
At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois.…
Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer, the young man Lincoln would defend, was the son of a close friend and loyal supporter. And to win this trial he would have to form an unholy allegiance with a longtime enemy, a revivalist preacher he had twice run against for political office. Bestseller. 2018.Lincoln's lieutenants: the high command of the Army of the Potomac
By Stephen W Sears. 2017
The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the…
fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting against the administration in Washington instead of for it, increasingly cast as political pawns facing down a vindictive congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War. President Lincoln oversaw, argued with, and finally tamed his unruly team of generals as the eastern army was stabilized by an unsung supporting cast of corps, division, and brigade generals. With characteristic style and insight, Stephen Sears brings these courageous, determined officers, who rose through the ranks and led from the front, to life and legend. 2017.Lincoln's greatest case: the river, the bridge, and the making of America
By Brian McGinty. 2015
Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln successfully argued a trial pitting railroad vs. steamboat. In the course of this untold story,…
listeners follow the creation of a transnational railroad while witnessing the future president's ascension to the national stage. 2015.Life extension: a practical scientific approach
By Durk Pearson, Sandy Shaw. 1982
Life sentence
By Christie Blatchford. 2016
When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would…
cover as a newspaper reporter, little did she know she was also at the start of a self-imposed life sentence. She has been reporting from Canadian courtrooms ever since. Back in '78, she loved the courts, lawyers and judges, but slowly, surely, she suffered a loss of faith. It was at the recent Mike Duffy trial she had the epiphany: judges are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled. Yet unlike senators, they continue to get away with it because any questioning by government or its agents is deemed an intrusion onto judicial independence. Blatchford revisits trials from throughout her career and asks about judges playing with the truth, bad or troubled judges, and how judges are handmaidens to the state, as in the Bernardo trial when a small-town lawyer and an intellectual writer were pursued with more vigor than Karla Homolka. 2016.La petite histoire du crime au Québec
By Hélène-Andrée Bizier. 1981
Véritable anthologie du crime, cet ouvrage renferme des récits débordant d'aventures, de drames, d'amour et de secrets révèles. Que ce…
soit dans le dossier de "Cordelia", de la "Corriveau", d' "Aurore l'enfant-martyr" ou celui du "Viol de la maison close"; l'auteur projette sur tous (assassins et victimes) une lumière qui nous les rend présents et...vivants. 1981.Marching home: Union veterans and their unending Civil War
By Brian Matthew Jordan. 2015
For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union…
soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans - tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions - tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America. 2015.Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin…
Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically altered the face of the Civil Rights Movement. Grades 4-7. 2013.March to Armageddon: the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1939 to the present
By Ronald E Powaski. 1987
A detailed history of the arms race, from the Manhattan Project to the Iceland Summit of 1986. The dynamics of…
the international system, the Cold War, technological pressure and mistrust have proven to have a greater impact on decisions than the virtues of arms control. 1987.Manhattan Project: the untold story of the making of the atomic bomb
By Stéphane Groueff. 2000
Madeleine: Our Daughter's Disappearance And The Continuing Search For Her
By Kate McCann, Gerry McCann. 2011
Mafia assassin: the inside story of a Canadian biker, hitman, and police informer
By Cecil Kirby, Thomas C Renner. 1986
Kirby was a high-ranking member of the Satan's Choice motorcycle gang and also worked for the Mafia as a hitman.…
He eventually became a police informer, resulting in almost 100 arrests. His story is a disturbing look at the criminal underworld. Strong language and descriptions of violence. c1986.Love wins: the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
By Jim Obergefell, Debbie Cenziper. 2016
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking…
as Roe v Wade and Brown v Board of Education. Through insider accounts and access to key players, this definitive account reveals the dramatic and previously unreported events behind Obergefell v Hodges and the lives at its centre. This is a story of law and love--and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. 2016.Chronique d'un cancer ordinaire: ma vie avec Igor
By Dominique Demers. 2014
" Le cancer. Un mot horrible, qui fait peur. Pour mieux dompter, apprivoiser et haïr tout à la fois la…
tumeur maligne qui sétait incrustée dans son sein, l'auteure Dominique Demers a choisi de lui donner un nom : Igor. Armée de son humour, énergisée par son amour du sport et du voyage, la dynamique et impatiente patiente a entrepris les traitements comme elle mène la barque de sa vie : en se lançant des défis, en osant rire de l'absurde et questionner l'intolérable. En acceptant, aussi, qu'il y a des jours gris. Elle livre ici la chronique de cette période charnière, rédigée sous forme de courts billets parfois drôles et parfois déchirants : autant d'instantanés de moments clés, depuis cette sieste fatidique où elle a repéré la masse, le fameux et monstrueux Igor, jusqu'à l'orée de sa rémission. Car, en plus d'être un récit qui propose des réflexions éclairantes pour qui côtoie la réalité du cancer, c'est une histoire qui finit bien. " -- 4e de couv.Dans les coulisses d'Enquête: les reportages qui ont mené à la Commission Charbonneau (Dossiers documents)
By Pierre Cayouette, Marc-André Sabourin. 2014
" La plupart des témoins qui défilent devant la juge France Charbonneau ont été révélés au public dans les reportages…
d'Alain Gravel, Marie-Maude Denis, Christian Latreille et leurs collègues de l'émission Enquête. Ce livre nous entraîne dans les coulisses de la grande émission d'affaires publiques de Radio-Canada, et raconte les dessous d'une série de reportages qui a ébranlé le Québec. Depuis les premiers éléments d'information qui ont mis les journalistes sur la piste de possibles malversations du côté de la couronne nord de Montréal jusqu'à l'éclatement du scandale au moment de la diffusion des émissions, découvrez les techniques employées par l'équipe pour faire la lumière sur les stratagèmes de collusion et de corruption liant entrepreneurs, fonctionnaires et partis politiques. Grâce à Enquête, des œillères sont tombées, et de troublantes vérités ont été mises au grand jour. Dans son avant-propos, le journaliste et animateur Alain Gravel rappelle qu'il a entrepris sa carrière il y a 30 ans avec l'espoir de changer le monde . De toute évidence, cette volonté l'habite toujours. " -- 4e de couv.Lord High Executioner: an unashamed look at hangmen, headsmen, and their kind
By Howard Engel. 1996
Mystery writer Howard Engel considers the agents of state-sanctioned death - executioners. Beginning with an examination of ancient forms of…
execution, Engel concentrates on English forms of execution, particularly hanging. He discusses individual hangmen and their contributions to make their craft more humane and efficient. Engel also includes chapters on the guillotine, hanging in Canada, and capital punishment in the United States. Descriptions of violence. c1996.Loss of faith: how the Air India bombers got away with murder
By Kim Bolan. 2005
When Ripduaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri walked out of a Vancouver courtroom as free men in March 2005,…
the nation gasped in disbelief. The prime suspects for the murder of 331 people in the 1985 Air India bombings had been acquitted. Kim Bolan shows that for all the testimony and evidence presented, the whole truth did not come out. 2005.