The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes—in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. If you...
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All hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world. Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and...
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After tragedy robs her of everyone she loves, Jeannette Mason retreats to the tiny Oregon seaside town of Hope Harbor to create a new life. Vowing to avoid emotional attachments, she focuses on running her lavender farm and tea-room—...
- Author: Dewes, J. S.Summary:
J. S. Dewes is back with her acclaimed and action-packed Divide series (The Last Watch, The Exiled Fleet) where The Expanse meets the Night's Watch. This program features multicast narration. The Sentinels have rallied under the...
- Author: Follett, KenSummary:
Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy...
- Author: Cotte, JérômeSummary:
Professeur de philosophie au niveau collégial, Jérôme Cotte s'intéresse à ce que les grands philosophes de toutes les époques ont dit ou écrit sur l'humour; il fait des liens avec ce que font ou disent les humoristes modernes du...
- Author: Clermont-Dion, LéaSummary:
« Elle me conseille vivement de ne pas porter plainte contre lui, car je pourrais nuire à ma carrière. D'ailleurs, il ne m'a pas violée et il vaut mieux ne pas en faire tout un plat. » Agressée sexuellement par son patron à l'âge...
- Author: Crow, CaleighSummary:
Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss's desk and lighting a magazine rack on fire, for instance—...
- Author: Daniel, DanielleSummary:
A touching, playful exploration of empathy and interdependency from an acclaimed author and illustrator. I'm afraid, said the leaf. / You're not alone, said the tree. But who will comfort a nervous bird, a lonely crab, a lost wolf? How...
- Author: Applegate, KatherineSummary:
Now a New York Times bestseller, an Indie bestseller, and an Amazon Best Children's Book! From beloved authors Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, with illustrations by Wallace West, Dogtown is at once an uplifting story and a...
- Author: Patterson, FrancineSummary:
The real life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a young kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died.
- Author: Dumas, NévéSummary:
Névé Dumas écrit une poésie ancrée dans une profonde éthique de la relation. Elle invente un langage qui traverse les identités, les transcende sans pour autant les nier. Elle utilise pour cela une langue (la langue, le plus long...
- Author: Rhindress, CharlieSummary:
Best-selling music biographer Charlie Rhindress presents the lives and music of Nova Scotia’s six most important and successful women singers: Portia White, Anne Murray, Carroll Baker, Rita MacNeil, Holly Cole and Sarah MacLachlan....
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There are more billionaires than ever in Canada--and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country's wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground. Understanding how and why this is happening has been the...
- Author: Marquis, GregSummary:
Stripping away the myth of the RCMP, historian Greg Marquis offers an account of 150 years of a state police force acting on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. From its start policing Indigenous people in western Canada, the RCMP has...
- Author: Guevara, CheSummary:
Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine by birth, became a central leader of the Cuban revolution and one of the outstanding communists of the 20th century. This book is his firsthand account of the military campaigns and political events that...
- Author: Hoover, Ryan ; Eyal, NirSummary:
Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern unlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by...
- Author: Patterson, FrancineSummary:
The author recounts her experiences with Koko, a gorilla, during the fourteen years she has been teaching her to communicate through sign language.
- Author: Noël Rousseau, Mélodie ; Labelle, GenevièveSummary:
Aux gens queers et bruyants. Aux lesbiennes romantiques et/ou radicales. Aux pansexuel·les extatiques, aux asexuel·les accompli·es. Aux abonné·es qui savent pas trop ce qu'ils sont venues voir, mais qui sont ben willing. Aux gais...
- Author: Boudreau, GenevièveSummary:
Avec 12 dessins de l'autrice. Quelle importance accordons-nous aux êtres que nous ne savons pas nommer? Et si la banlieue devenait le lieu de préservation d'une biodiversité près de la disparition ? Il suffit peut-être d'habiter...
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