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Alain Lacoursière, le Columbo de l'art
By Sylvain Larocque. 2010
L'ex-sergent-détective partage avec le personnage qui lui a valu son surnom un flair redoutable et des méthodes inusitées. Sa lutte…
est avant tout celle de la défense des artistes, premières victimes de délits qui ne touchent pas que des musées et de riches collectionneurs. Du voleur au receleur, en passant par le faussaire et le spécialiste du blanchiment d'argent, la criminalité dans le milieu de l'art a de multiples visages. 2010.A thousand years of pirates
By William Gilkerson. 2009
Introduces the major characters and incidents that connect the scattered history of seagoing bandits, including England's "Sea Dog" Francis Drake,…
the "pirate queen of Ireland" Granuaile, and Scotland's Captain Kidd. Describes their high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.A violent act
By Alec Wilkinson. 1992
On the morning of September 22, 1986, Mike Wayne Jackson, forty, shot and killed Tom Gahl, his probation officer. Within…
eight hours, Jackson gunned down two more people and made the FBI's Most Wanted List. Wilkinson looks at those whose lives have been altered forever by acts of violence, especially those affected by Jackson's savage behaviour, including Nancy Gahl, the probation officer's wife, and her two children. Violence. 1992.A new kind of monster: the secret life and chilling crimes of Colonel Russell Williams
By Timothy Appleby. 2011
A decorated air force colonel, Russell Williams was living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile and,…
ultimately, murderer. While a model officer and elite pilot, he broke into 82 homes; stole lingerie; committed two bizarre sexual assaults; and eventually, two rape-murders. Crime reporter Appleby chronicles a true story that could have come from the pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating - and troubling - insights on human psychopathology. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2011.A hand in the water: the many lies of Albert Walker
By Bill Schiller. 1998
In 1990 Albert Walker disappeared without a trace along with millions of dollars of investors' money and his 15 year…
old daughter, Sheena. Six years later he was found living in England and using a murdered man's name as his own. Stiller traces Walker's life on the run from Canada to the Cayman Islands to Europe and attempts to unravel the mystery of how he came to be living under Ronald Platt's name.A Canadian tragedy: JoAnn and Colin Thatcher : a story of love and hate
By Douglas Gibson, Maggie Siggins. 1985
A Book of faith
By Elizabeth Goudge. 1976
The popular author offers an anthology of poems and prose from the world's great literature dealing with the concept of…
faith. A work of many moods, it includes excerpts from such writers as Shakespeare, Donne, C.S. Lewis, Tolstoy, Rilke, and the Bible. 1976.57 hours: a survivor's account of the Moscow hostage drama
By Vesselin Nedkov, Paul R Wilson. 2003
A witness account of being trapped inside a theatre by suicidal Chechen rebels, loaded with explosives, demanding an end to…
the bloody civil war in Chechnya. Outside, Russian special forces prepared to storm the theatre, refusing to negotiate with the rebels. Through fifty-seven hours of fear and fatigue, Nedkov discovered courage and ingenuity, while describing the maelstrom of the civil war that still plagues Russia. Some strong language. Descriptions of violence. 2003.A death in Belmont
By Sebastian Junger. 2006
Examines the 1963 arrest, trial, and conviction of African American Roy Smith for the murder of Boston-area resident Bessie Goldberg.…
Describes how Smith's case was later called into question by the dubious confession of the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2006.3,096 days
By Natascha Kampusch, Jill Kreuer. 2010
On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white…
van. Hours later she found herself in a dark cellar, wrapped in a blanket. When she emerged eight years later, her childhood had gone. In "3,096 Days" Natascha tells her story for the first time. Descriptions of violence. 2010.The Judas kiss: The Undercover Life Of Patrick Kelly
By Michael Harris. 1995
One week after his wife plunged to her death from a 17th-floor balcony, Patrick Kelly was vacationing in Hawaii with…
his lover. The author tells of how Kelly changed from an RCMP undercover drug agent to smuggler and suspected fraud artist. Kelly was eventually convicted of the murder of his wife. 1995.The prison book club
By Ann Walmsley. 2015
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the…
fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked her to participate in a bold new venture in a men's medium security prison, Ann had to weigh her curiosity and desire to be of service against her anxiety and fear. But she signed on, and for eighteen months went to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting a group of heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. There was no wine and cheese, no plush furnishings. But a book club on the inside of a prison proved to be a place to share ideas and regain a sense of humanity. 2015.The Penguin anthology of Canadian humour
By Will Ferguson. 2006
Seventy-one distinctly Canadian selections from fifty-four writers represent over a century's worth of accomplishments in humour. Includes pieces by Stephen…
Leacock, Douglas Coupland, Robertson Davies, Miriam Toews, Thomas King, W.P. Kinsella, and Stuart McLean. Some descriptions of sex, violence and strong language. 2006.My story
By Chris Stewart, Elizabeth Smart. 2013
On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in…
the middle of the night by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell and his wife. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, sexually abused, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. She tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convince them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Bestseller. 2013.Writers talking
By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.The Marriott cell: an epic journey from Cairo's Scorpion Prison to freedom
By Carol Shaben, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy. 2016
On the night of December 29, 2013, the Egyptian government's anti-terror forces led a dramatic raid on the Marriott Hotel,…
seizing Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief for the independent English Al Jazeera, and two fellow journalists in what quickly became an international cause célèbre condemned as a travesty of justice. Inside the maximum-security Scorpion Prison, Fahmy found himself with some of the most hardened Al Qaeda and ISIS extremists and Muslim Brotherhood leaders: he never stopped being a journalist, taking advantage of his unexpected proximity to "interview" them and gain insight into their goals, into the feuds between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE on the one hand, and Qatar and its allies, including Turkey, on the other, and surfacing shocking details of torture inside military camps. Thrown into the toxic mix was the complex geo-political power brokering of Western governments, which left three men, wrongly convicted of conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood and "fabricating news," struggling in a terrifying web. 2016.The new Oxford book of Canadian short stories in English
By Margaret Atwood, Robert Weaver. 1995
A collection of 47 short stories by Canadian authors. Contributors include established writers like Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Timothy Findley,…
and Mavis Gallant, as well as the new generation of writers like Rohinton Mistry and Caroline Adderson.L'ombre du mur: chroniques du mur de Berlin
By Norman Manea, Velibor Colic, Bessa Myftiu. 2009
Lettres à la jeunesse: dix poètes parlent de l'espoir (Librio. 571)
By Collectif. 2003
Dix poètes de dix pays différents (Liban, France, Italie, Israël, Portugal, etc.) adressent à la jeunesse une lettre et un…
poème sur le thème de l'espoir et sur le rôle de la poésie dans notre monde. Pour les lecteurs d'école secondaire. 2003.Writing home: a PEN Canada anthology
By Constance Rooke. 1997
A collection of stories about the highly personal subject of home by forty-four celebrated Canadian authors and personalities. Includes such…
authors as Carol Shields, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Atwood. Sequel to "Writing Away". 1997.