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Thin bruised line: the imminent threat to police and public safety
By Doug Clark. 2010
Canadian police are scrambling to preserve public order from a new "perfect storm" looming over the horizon and under the…
political radar. Their vaunted thin blue line of front-line officers is greyed, frayed, and stretched to the breaking point. Plagued by failed leadership and too few recruits, our police are frantically digging in behind the scenes against the converging triple threats poised to engulf them: shifting demographics, increasingly complex laws, and unrealistic expectations. c2010.The unexpected war: Canada in Kandahar
By Janice Gross Stein, J. Eugene Lang. 2007
If you want to know how Canada wound up on the front lines in Afghanistan, follow the dots here. Stein's…
and Lang's book reads like a whodunit. From the players, the private conversations and the presumptuous bravado in the Canadian and American corridors of power, this is the inside story. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2007.The tunnel king: the true story of Wally Floody and the great escape
By Barbara Hehner. 2004
Wally Flood, a Canadian miner turned pilot during World War II, was shot down and put in a prisoner-of-war camp.…
Determined to escape, he eventually joined a group that began organizing the largest breakout ever, now called The Great Escape - over 600 men, tunnelling their way out. They took turns digging, inventing tools, forging documents, and hiding the tons of sand they dug from the tunnels, while facing the constant threat of discovery, with key help from Wally, known as the Tunnel King. Grades 5-8. 2004.The Templar treasure at Gisors
By Jean Markale. 1986
The mysterious Knights Templar originated in the Middle Ages, when pilgrims needed armed supporters to assure them safe passage to…
the Holy Land. Within 100 years the Templars had become a significant power by themselves, reporting directly to the pope and, it was rumoured, in control of vast wealth - until 1307, when the French king terminated the order, dispersed its knights, and claimed its property. 2003, c1986. Uniform title: Gisors et l'énigme des Templiers.The thunder and the sunshine (With many voices ; #2)
By Jeffry V Brock. 1983
Brock continues to tell of his fight against unification of the Canadian Armed Forces in the early 1960s. The fight…
cost him dearly: early forced retirement from the navy. 1983. (With many voices ; 2)The story of Jane Doe: a book about rape
By Jane Doe. 2003
When Jane Doe was the fifth woman to be raped by a serial sexual predator, she refused to become a…
victim, refused to accept the common wisdom of the police, and refused to accept the status quo that she should shut up and let the 'good men' rescue her from what the 'bad man' had done. She warned the women in her neighbourhood, leading to the rapist's arrest, fought to be allowed to watch his trial, and then took the Toronto police force to court for incompetence and lack of accountability. Jane Doe challenged the justice system, the police, and the stereotype about rape - and won. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.The sorrows of empire: militarism, secrecy, and the end of the Republic (American Empire Project Ser.)
By Chalmers Johnson. 2004
The author discusses the roots of American militarism, the rise and extent of the military-industrial complex, and the close ties…
between arms industry executives and high-level politicians. He also looks closely at how the military has extended the boundaries of what constitutes national security in order to centralize intelligence agencies under their control, and how statesmen have been replaced by career soldiers on the front lines of foreign policy - a shift that naturally increases the frequency with which we go to war. 2004The savage wars of peace: soldiers' voices 1945-1989
By Charles Allen. 1990
"The Savage Wars of Peace" is a fighting soldiers' view of military campaigns, as recounted in their own words to…
historian Charles Allen. Drawing on the spoken recollection of over 70 military figures of all ranks, these unique first hand accounts give a rare insight into the closed ranks of the British Army, its hierarchies and rituals and the bonds that unite fighting men. 1990.The recovering: intoxication and its aftermath
By Leslie Jamison. 2018
A deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage, Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the…
stories we tell about addiction and examines what we want these stories to do, and what happens when they fail us. 2018.The RCMP Musical Ride
By Maxwell Newhouse. 2004
The thundering hooves, the skilled riders, and the dazzling pageantry of the Musical Ride have thrilled audiences young and old…
since it was first performed in 1887. The author tells the history of the Ride and the story of the spectacular black horses, their arduous training and sparkling equipment, and their Mountie riders in bright scarlet. Grades 4-7. 2004.The police gazette
By Gene Smith, Jayne Barry Smith. 1972
First published in 1846, the Police Gazette was the forerunner of the tabloid. The editors offer an assortment of articles,…
stories, and provocative expose?s of a bygone era. 1972. Uniform title: National police gazette.The Navy at war 1939-1945 (Wordsworth Military Library)
By Stephen Wentworth Roskill. 1998
Roskill describes the major sea battles such as River Plate and Matapan as well as the characteristic convoy actions of…
the Battle of the Atlantic, Murmansk and Malta. He covers the contribution made by British technology, in the shape of Asdic (or Sonar) and Radar systems, and also shows the courage and skill of the officers and men who made the victory possible. 1998, c1960.The other Nuremberg: the untold story of the Tokyo war crimes trials
By Arnold C Brackman. 1987
Recounts a tale of mass inhumanity inflicted upon prisoners of war, civilians, Asian labourers and even the Japanese populations. Unlike…
the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo trial received little press at the time and has been almost forgotten since. c1987.The Meinertzhagen mystery: the life and legend of a colossal fraud
By Brian Garfield. 2007
Tall, handsome, charming Col. Richard Meinertzhagen was an acclaimed British war hero, a secret agent, and a dean of international…
ornithology. He was trusted by Winston Churchill, David Ben Gurion, T. E. Lawrence, and Elspeth Huxley, but he bamboozled them all - Meinertzhagen was a fraud. Many of the adventures recorded in his celebrated diaries were imaginary, he committed a half-century of major and costly scientific fraud, and - oddly - may have been innocent of many killings to which he confessed. Some descriptions of violence. c2007.The mad trapper (Amazing stories)
By Hélèna Katz. 2004
This is the incredible story of Canada's largest manhunt. Hundreds of men spent 7 weeks tracking the elusive Albert Johnson…
for 240 kilometres across the frozen North. He was eventually caught and killed, but the identity of Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, remains a mystery to this day. Descriptions of violence. 2004.Sir Sam Hughes - Minister of Militia and Defence from 1911 until his dismissal in 1916 - is remembered as…
abrasive and unstable, while Sir Arthur Currie, a part-time soldier who rose to command the Canadian Corps in France and Belgium, is remembered as one of the most effective generals of the war and a national hero. But initially, Hughes drove the nation toward a war footing and fought to keep Canadian troops from being parceled out to the British, while Currie embezzled regimental funds, never connected with his soldiers, and was accused of wantonly squandering the lives of 60,000 Canadians on the road to victory. c2010.The inheritance of shame: a memoir
By Peter Gajdics. 2017
Author Peter Gajdics spent six years in a bizarre form of conversion therapy that attempted to “cure” him of his…
homosexuality. Kept with other patients in a cult-like home in British Columbia, Canada, Gajdics was under the authority of a rogue psychiatrist who controlled his patients, in part, by creating and exploiting a false sense of family. Juxtaposed against his parents’ tormented past--his mother’s incarceration and escape from a communist concentration camp in post-World War II Yugoslavia, and his father’s upbringing as an orphan in war-torn Hungary--Gajdics explores the universal themes of childhood trauma, oppression, and intergenerational pain. 2017.Ike's mystery man: the secret lives of Robert Cutler
By Peter Shinkle. 2018
This Cold War narrative takes listeners from top secret Cabinet Room meetings to exclusive social clubs, and into the pages…
of a powerful man's intimate diary to bring new dimension to our understanding of the inner workings of the Eisenhower White House. 2018.In search of pure lust: a memoir
By Lise Weil. 2018
When Lise Weil came out in 1976, lesbian desire was the pulsing center of an entire way of life, a…
culture, a movement. The air throbbed with possibility. But after fifteen years of torrid but ultimately failed relationships, Weil had to admit that desire was also a conduit for childhood wounds--and it tended to trump love, over and over again. When a friend invited her to attend a Zen retreat in the mid-'80s, she was desperate enough to say yes. Her first day of sitting zazen was mostly hell--but, smitten with the (female) roshi, she stuck with it. Ultimately, the dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love. 2018.A simple program: a contemporary translation of the book Alcoholics Anonymous
By Bill W., J. 1996
This revision of Alcoholics Anonymous, first published in 1939, uses modern language without gender or relationship assumptions. Explains alcoholism and…
AA's twelve-step method of recovery. In AA tradition, the author remains anonymous. 1996. Uniform title: Alcoholics Anonymous