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Shadow of the Ripper
By Patrick Lavelle. 2003
It was the biggest, most costly hoax of the 20th century, the results of which were wasted lives, money and…
police resources. In the midst of the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, police were thrown off the scent by an elaborate hoax. This book examines the massive police hunt for the man who became known as "Wearside Jack". It reveals the various theories about the identity of Wearside Jack, his probable motive for the hoax and the unusual series of events that took police away from the trail of arguably Britain's worst serial killer. 2003.Simon Wiesenthal: a life in search of justice
By Hella Pick. 1996
This account describes how Wiesenthal survived World War II concentration camps and then devoted his life to bringing Nazi war…
criminals to justice. Details his work on the Eichmann case and many others. Since 1945 Wiesenthal has lived in Austria and focussed on its denazification. 1996.Snowshoes & spotted dick: letters from a wilderness dweller
By Chris Czajkowski. 2003
The uplifting and often humourous story of one woman's life in the raw wilderness. The author describes her experiences as…
she builds a cabin in the wilderness and relates the complications of the "simple life" - how she breaks trails by snowshoe, encounters grizzly bears, builds a stone oven and learns to bake bread - and spotted dick. 2003.Speaking for myself: the autobiography
By Cherie Blair. 2008
Cherie Blair's autobiography takes the reader from a childhood in working-class Liverpool to the heart of the British legal system…
and then, as the wife of the Prime Minister, to 10 Downing Street. 2008.Spilsbury's coast: pioneer years in the wet West
By Howard White, Jim Spilsbury. 1987
Spilsbury's Coast is the inside passage between the Fraser River and the top of Vancouver Island. Jim Spilsbury spent 10…
of his early years in a tent on the beach. He went on to start Canada's largest domestic airline. c1987.Sold: a story of modern day slavery
By Andrew Crofts, Zana Muhsen. 1994
Fifteen year old Zana Muhsen and her younger sister Nadia, born and raised in Birmingham, travelled to visit relatives in…
North Yemen for a holiday, to discover their father had sold them into marriage. They were helpless prisoners, forced to adapt to a primitive way of life, rape and frequent beatings. After eight years of misery and humiliation Zana escaped. This book tells of her experience and her fight to bring her sister home. 1994.Sisters in the wilderness: the lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
By Charlotte Gray. 1999
Sisters Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill came to Canada with their husbands in the early 1800s. Both women recorded…
their experiences as pioneers in the new country in books that would later be held up as early examples of Canadian literature. Here, Gray sheds light on what their lives were like in relation to each other, in relation to their families, and in relation to the harsh environment that surrounded them every day. 1999.Salt of the earth: the story of homesteaders in Western Canada
By Heather Robertson. 1974
The homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian West from 1880 to 1914 tell their own story of harshness, isolation, and…
back-breaking toil. Conveys a strong, sympathetic sense of the land and the people who settled in the Prairies. 1974.Rizzuto, l'ascension et la chute d'un parrain: L'ascension Et La Chute D'un Parrain
By Lee Lamothe, Jean-Louis Morgan, Adrian Humphreys. 2008
L'histoire de l'établissement de famille Rizutto au Canada, de l'issue du conflit entre Calabrais et Siciliens à Montréal, et de…
l'émergence de Vito Rizzuto à la tête de l'empire monté par son père. Les corps policiers internationaux finirent par s'attaquer de tous les côtés au crime organisé, pour finalement traduire Vito Rizzuto en justice et obtenir sa condamnation pour sa participation dans l'élimination de trois gangsters. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier et descriptions explicites de violence. 2008. Titre uniforme: The sixth family.Running scared: for 22 years a fugitive - the corrupt cop busted by God
By Robert Leon Davis. 2010
He began with aspirations to be a great cop, but he was quickly exposed to a darker side of law…
enforcement. While partnered with a veteran, he witnessed an officer violating the very laws he had vowed to uphold and shared in his crime. One compromise led to another. Soon Davis faced arrest. From studying law at Loyola University and becoming and award-winning officer, he now became a fugitive and skilled survivalist, living off the land in remote forests in America and Canada, where he hid for over 20 years. Through a stranger's prayer the hostile atheist finally realized he was weary of running. He yielded his life to God and handed himself in. 2010.Runaway devil: how forbidden love drove a 12-year-old to murder her family
By Sherri Zickefoose, Robert Remington. 2009
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all - a lovely home in Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage,…
and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. But in April 2006, their bloodied dead bodies, along with Jacob's, were discovered. Investigators worried for JR's safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online, and a relationship with a twenty-three-year-old high school dropout. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence and explicit strong language. 2009.Rock-a-bye baby: a death behind bars
By Anne Kershaw, Mary Lasovich. 1991
In 1988, Marlene Moore, Canada's best-known female prisoner, committed suicide in the federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario. The…
authors describe her childhood of abuse and her tragic life behind bars. For many, Marlene is an example of how badly our social and penal system can fail. Violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 1991.Revenge of the land: a century of greed, tragedy, and murder on a Saskatchewan farm
By Maggie Siggins. 1991
Siggins chronicles the history of a single Saskatchewan farm from 1883 to the present. What she uncovers is a history…
fraught with corruption, greed, toil and deprivation, ending in a double murder. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 1991.Quai des Indes
By Irène Frain. 1993
Prisonnier à Bangkok: témoignage
By Alain Olivier. 2001
Cas Vécu. Un ex-héroïnomane accuse la GRC de l'avoir précipité dans un traquenard qui l'a amené à séjourner plus de…
8 ans dans les prisons de Bangkok. Propos crus, sans complaisance et qui ne cachent rien de la violence du monde de la drogue et des prisons asiatiques. 2001.Preaching to the chickens: the story of young John Lewis (Recorded Books new reader)
By Jabari Asim. 2017
John Lewis wants to be a preacher when he grows up - a leader whose words stir hearts to change,…
minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he preaches to his flock, and they listen, content under his watchful care, riveted by the rhythm of his voice. Grades K-3. 2017.Des deux côtés de la prison
By Geneviève Fortin, Martin Forgues. 2015
" À treize ans, Geneviève bascule dans un univers sordide auquel elle était loin d'être destinée. Elle vit dans la…
rue et s'injecte de l'héroïne. La descente aux enfers commence, les délits s'accumulent, les séjours en prison aussi : une routine qui dure presque quinze ans. Elle a finalement décidé de reprendre sa vie en main. Aujourd'hui de l'autre côté de la prison, elle vient en aide à des femmes en réinsertion par le biais de l'association qu'elle a cofondée : Art Entr'elles. Geneviève connaît les obstacles qu'elles auront à franchir en tant qu'anciennes détenues. Son engagement auprès de ces femmes représente pour elle une manière de payer sa dette à la société. Elle a également repris ses études en travail social à l'UQAM et va les poursuivre en Suisse, à Genève. " -- 4e de couv.Une petite vie tranquille... Un rendez-vous médical des plus banals... Un certain matin ensoleillé de juin 1989... Et... toute une…
vie bascule, en quelques minutes... Écrit en toute simplicité, ce livre veut démontrer l'ampleur des ravages d'une agression sur la vie de la victime. Au fil de votre lecture, vous découvrirez également la force incommensurable qui se cache au fond de tout être humain. Mme Grenon, qui souffre de rétinite pigmentaire et qui est considérée légalement aveugle, a partagé son aventure d'édition qui la menée à enfin tenir son livre entre ses mains. 2014.Policeman's patch (A Fontana original ; #6458)
By Harry Cole. 1982
Anything can happen to a policeman on his patch: he may find his neck entwined with the Rubenesque thighs of…
Rosie Rafferty; his search for a victim to become a Pied Piper tour of a whole tower block; the vandalizer of an old lady's flat may turn out to be the last person he'd imagined; he may even find himself on duty at a Royal Wedding. 1982.J'avais 12 ans, j'ai pris mon vélo et je suis partie à l'école
By Sabine Dardenne. 2005
29 mai 1996, Sabine Dardenne, 12 ans, est enlevée par Marc Dutroux sur le chemin de l'école. Ce monstre a…
déjà tué quatre enfants. Ce que va subir Sabine Dardenne est effroyable. Pourtant, après quatre-vingt jours d'horreur, elle va être sauvée de la mort dans des circonstances extraordinaires. Sabine Dardenne a attendu huit ans pour nous raconter ce qu'elle a subi. 2005.