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I'll be gone in the dark: one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
By Gillian Flynn, Patton Oswalt, Michelle McNamara, Paul Haynes. 2018
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south,…
where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then in 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. This book that McNamara was writing at the time of her sudden death offers an atmospheric snapshot of a moment in American history and a chilling account of a criminal mastermind and the wreckage he left behind. Bestseller. 2018.Life in my hands
By Wally Thomas. 1960
Killing time: the senseless murder of Joseph Fritch
By Wade Hemsworth. 1994
In October 1989, Joseph Fritch of Burlington was brutally murdered by two teenagers who wanted his credit cards and car.…
Hemsworth investigates the case of James Ruston, who wanted to kill before he was 18 so that he would receive a lighter sentence than an adult, and Steven Olah, who killed a man 10 weeks after he was released from a hospital where he had demanded a straitjacket while threatening his parents with a knife and a broken bottle. Some violence and strong language. 1994.Appliquer à sa pratique les règles de l'éthique (Collection des habiletés)
By Édition: École du Barreau du Québec, Québec Ministère de l'Éducation.. 1992
L'affaire Madoff: les secrets de l'arnaque du siècle
By Amir Weitmann. 2009
L'affaire Madoff est sans aucun doute la plus grande affaire d'escroquerie financière de l'histoire, par son ampleur, environ 65 milliards…
de dollars, sa durée, au moins une quinzaine d'années et probablement beaucoup plus, et par son étendue géographique. Cette histoire a touché des clients aux quatre coins du globe, dans les milieux sociaux les plus divers. En comparaison, les autres grandes affaires d'escroquerie de l'histoire étaient non seulement moins importantes, mais elles étaient aussi bien plus locales. L'affaire Madoff apparaît comme l'emblème criminel de la globalisation, sa face noire. Voici à partir des témoignages de ses victimes, la première enquête approfondie qui répond à la question que tout le monde se pose : comment Madoff a-t-il réussi à tromper autant de monde et à éviter tous les contrôles pendant plus de vingt ans ? -- 4e de couvSpy wars: espionage in Canada from Gouzenko to glasnost
By David Stafford, J. L Granatstein. 1990
This history of espionage in Canada takes the reader from the days before World War II, when Canadian Intelligence mainly…
spied on leftists, to the modern-day plundering of this country's technology by the Soviets. 1990.Until we have no tomorrows: "Dottie"
By Patricia Brudenell. 1999
The good listener: Helen Bamber, a life against cruelty
By Neil Belton. 1998
This is the extraordinary story of Helen Bamber, the founder of the Medical Foundation of the Victims of Torture. Since…
going to the Belsen concentration camp in 1945 to work with survivors, Helen Bamber's life has been devoted to working with people who have suffered the most appalling damage at the hands of others.Diary of a doctor: surgeon's assistant in Newcastle Upon Tyne 1826-1829
By Thomas Giordani Wright. 1998
The life of a young man in Newcastle 170 years ago is vividly described in these extracts. As assistant to…
Mr. McIntyre, Thomas had to cope with dreadful accidents and diseases - without the anesthetics, antiseptics and antibiotics that we take for granted.On giants' shoulders: great scientists and their discoveries from Archimedes to DNA
By Melvyn Bragg, Ruth Gardiner. 1998
Author and BBC radio host Melvyn Bragg invited many of the great modern interpreters of science to discuss the lives…
and work of 12 greats from Archimedes to Watson and Crick, and published the cream in On Giants' Shoulders. These are no dry transcripts, though; Bragg has a genius for selecting the most intriguing quotes and selections from both his guests and his subjects and weaving them into his own engrossing narrative. 1998.James Herriot: the life of a country vet
By Graham Lord. 1997
A biography of the vet James Herriot. Born Alf Wright in Sunderland, his family moved to Scotland and he qualified…
as a vet in Glasgow. This work reveals much about his early days in Glasgow and describes in detail the 50 years he spent working as a country vet in Yorkshire.The world of the pirate
By Val Garwood. 1997
An exploration of the world of pirates, focussing on the "Golden Age of Piracy"(1650-1750). Included are fact and fiction segments…
giving nuggets of information, and a "Rogues Gallery", with mini biographies of famous pirates. Grades 3-6.C: because cowards get cancer too
By John Diamond. 1998
Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his…
neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was cancerous. This is the story of Diamond's life with, and without, a lump.Accueillir la folie
By Roger R Lemieux. 1995
Code de déontologie professionnelle: adopté par le Conseil, aout 1987
By Canadian Bar Association. 1988
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
By Brian Harvey. 2019
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his fatherAfter a 25-year break from boating,…
Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a sheriff with a summons. It was a malpractice suit, and it did not go well. Dr. Harvey never got over it. The box contained every nurse’s record, doctor’s report, trial transcript, and expert testimony related to the case. Only Brian’s father had read it all — until now.In this beautifully written memoir, Brian Harvey shares how after two months of voyaging with his father’s ghost, he finally finds out what happened in the O.R. that crucial night and why Dr. Harvey felt compelled to fight the excruciating accusations.Defying limits: lessons from the edge of the universe
By Dave Williams. 2018
Dr. Dave Williams shares the events that have defined his life, showing us that whether we're gravity-defying astronauts or earth-bound…
terrestrials, we can all live an infinite, fulfilled life by relishing the value and importance of each moment. The greatest fear that we all face is not the fear of dying, but the fear of never having lived. Each of us is greater than we believe. And, together, we can exceed our limits to soar farther and higher than we ever imagined.Had it coming: what's fair in the age of #MeToo? /
By Robyn Doolittle. 2019
For nearly two years, Globe and Mail reporter Robyn Doolittle investigated how Canadian police handle sexual assault cases. Her findings…
were shocking: across the country, in big cities and small towns, the system was dismissing a high number of allegations as "unfounded." A police officer would simply view the claim as baseless and no investigation would follow. Of the 26,500 reported cases of sexual assault in 2015, only 1,400 resulted in convictions. The response to Doolittle's groundbreaking Unfounded series was swift. Federal ministers immediately vowed to establish better oversight, training, and policies; Prime Minister Trudeau announced {dollar}100 million to combat gender-based violence; Statistics Canada began to collect and publish unfounded rates; and to date, about a third of the country's forces have pledged to review more than 10,000 sex-assault cases dating back to 2010. Had It Coming picks up where the Unfounded series left off. Doolittle brings a personal voice to what has been a turning point for most women: the #MeToo movement and its aftermath. The world is now increasingly aware of the pervasiveness of rape culture in which powerful men got away with sexual assault and harassment for years: from Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Bill O'Reilly, and Matt Lauer, to Charlie Rose and Jian Ghomeshi. But Doolittle looks beyond specific cases to the big picture. The issue of "consent" figures largely: not only is the public confused about what it means, but an astounding number of police officers and judges do not understand Canadian consent law. The brain's reaction to trauma and how it affects memory is also crucial to understanding victim statements. Surprisingly, Canada has the most progressive sexual assault laws in the developed world, yet the system is failing victims at every stage. 2019.Daughter of Family G: a memoir of cancer genes, love and fate /
By Ami McKay. 2019
The story of Ami McKay's connection to a genetic disorder called Lynch syndrome begins over seventy years before she was…
born and long before scientists discovered DNA. In 1895 her great-great aunt, Pauline Gross, a seamstress in Ann Arbor, Michigan, confided to a pathology professor at the local university that she expected to die young, like so many others in her family. Rather than dismiss her fears, the pathologist chose to enlist Pauline in the careful tracking of those in her family tree who had died of cancer. Pauline's premonition proved true--she died at 46--but because of her efforts, her family (who the pathologist dubbed 'Family G') would become the longest and most detailed cancer genealogy ever studied in the world. A century after Pauline's confession, researchers would identify the genetic mutation responsible for the family's woes. Now known as Lynch syndrome, the genetic condition predisposes its carriers to several types of cancer, including colorectal, endometrial, ovarian and pancreatic. In 2001, as a young mother with two sons and a keen interest in survival, Ami McKay was among the first to be tested for Lynch syndrome. She had a feeling she'd test positive: her mother's side of the family was riddled with early deaths and her own mother was being treated for the disease. When the test proved her fears true, she began living in "an unsettling state between wellness and cancer," and she's been there ever since. 2019.Falling for myself: a memoir /
By Dorothy Ellen Palmer. 2019
Born with congenital anomalies in both feet, then called birth defects, Dorothy Ellen Palmer was adopted as a toddler by…
a wounded 1950s family who had no idea how to handle the tangled complexities of adoption and disability. From repeated childhood surgeries to an activist awakening at university to decades as a feminist teacher, mom, improv coach and unionist, she tried to hide being different. But now, standing proud with her walker, she's sharing her journey. Navigating abandonment, abuse and ableism, she finds her birth parents and a new chosen family in the disability community. 2019.