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Parents in pain: a book of comfort and counsel
Par John White. 1979
Parenting with wit and wisdom in times of chaos and loss
Par Barbara Coloroso. 1999
Partial accounts: new and selected poems
Par William Meredith. 1987
Outrage: Canada's justice system on trial
Par Alex MacDonald. 1999
Macdonald, a former British Columbia attorney general, argues that natural justice is being thwarted in Canada's courts. Clogged courtrooms, procedural…
wrangling and ill-considered legislation, such as the Young Offender's Act, are causing criminals to go free as lawyers jockey for victory instead of justice. Macdonald offers his solutions to these problems in his sometimes humourously written, politically neutral book. 1999.Outrageous conduct: art, ego, and the Twilight zone case
Par Stephen Farber, Marc Green. 1988
An account of events surrounding the infamous 1982 accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two children on the movie…
set of "Twilight zone". Discusses the spectacular helicopter accident, the cover-up, the mishandling of the trial and the ethical considerations involved. Some strong language. c1988.Paper Fan: the hunt for triad gangster Steven Wong
Par Terry Gould. 2004
Gould, an investigative journalist, secretly recorded an interview with gang leader Wong; the tape provided law enforcement with information leading…
to his arrest and indictment for large-scale heroin trafficking. When Wong, on a 'family trip', was conveniently reported dead in an accident in the Philippines, Gould travelled to Macau, the Philippines, and elsewhere on a decade-long chase for proof that Wong was alive. Gould's story also helps illuminate the little-known world of the Triads, a byzantine, diasporic Asian mafia. Some strong language and violence and some descriptions of sex. 2004.Karla: a pact with the devil
Par Stephen Williams. 2003
Author Williams picks up Karla Homolka's story where his previous book about her, "Invisible darkness" (RC13671) left off. He examines…
the legal and political deal-making behind the plea bargains that will allow her to go free after a dozen years. Part memoir, part woman-in-prison story, part political exposé, Williams lets Karla, through her letters, as well as other characters, speak for themselves. Strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. 2003.Ossuaries
Par Dionne Brand. 2010
At the centre of this poem is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past…
actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. While living in solitude, she crosses borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises of the contemporary world. Descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.One man's justice: a life in the law
Par Thomas R Berger. 2002
Tom Berger is best known for championing aboriginal rights, including early advocacy work that led to the precedent-setting Nisga'a Accord,…
but he has also often represented those not well served by the legal and legislative status quo. In a career that spans four decades, Berger has taken on the challenge of many controversial cases in order to test or transform the application of justice within the law. c2002.One day closer: a mother's quest to bring her kidnapped daughter home
Par Lorinda Stewart. 2017
On August 23, 2008, Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped outside Mogadishu in Somalia. The kidnappers’ demand was simple: pay millions or…
Amanda would be killed. For the next 460 days, Amanda’s mother, Lorinda Stewart, did everything in her power to get her daughter back alive. What was supposed to be a short negotiation stretched on, and weeks became months. As negotiations broke down, Lorinda found herself increasingly on her own. But she never gave up hope, even when the phone calls became more traumatic. Faced with the terrible possibility of her daughter’s death, Lorinda decided to bring in a private security company and raise money from donors to support the cause of bringing Amanda home. But would it be enough? Bestseller. 2017.On not losing my father's ashes in the flood
Par Richard Harrison. 2016
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the…
poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's ashes had been lost in the flood water that ravaged Alberta--a crisis that would become the inciting event and central theme of this collection. Combining elements of memoir, elegy, lyrical essay and personal correspondence with appreciations of literary works ranging from haiku to comic books, Richard Harrison has written a book of great intellectual depth that is as generous as it is enchanting. Winner of the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 2016. Uniform title: Poems.Nowhere to run: the killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill
Par Mike McIntyre. 2003
Dennis Strongquill was an Aboriginal RCMP officer who had spent his life protecting society, but was helpless to fend off…
three ruthless killers who ambushed him on a dark Prairie highway. Robert and Danny Sand were two young brothers who had grown to hate authority, and Laurie Bell was a struggling junkie with a fatal attraction to Robert. Together, the trio embarked on a ruthless cross-country crime spree, leaving behind a trail of victims. Descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. 2003.Ocean
Par Sue Goyette. 2013
The ocean has never had a biographer quite like Sue Goyette. Living in the port city of Halifax, Goyette’s days…
are bounded by the substantial fact of the North Atlantic, both by its physical presence and by its metaphoric connotations. And like many of life’s overwhelming facts, our awareness of the ocean’s importance and impact waxes and wanes as the ocean sometimes lurks in the background, sometimes imposes itself upon us, yet always, steadily, is. This collection of poems is not your standard “Oh, Ocean!” versifying. Goyette plunges in and swims well outside the buoys to craft a sort of alternate, apocryphal account of our relationship with the ocean. 2013.Now you care
Par Diana Brandt. 2003
Now I know why tigers eat their young: how to survive your teenagers with humour
Par Peter Marshall. 1992
On the farm: Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women
Par Stevie Cameron. 2010
Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the…
disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. Covering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years, but also to information unknown to the police, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. Bestseller. c2010.On the run: fugitive life in the American City (Fieldwork encounters and discoveries)
Par Alice Goffman. 2014
The War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has created…
a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives - family, relationships, jobs - into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences. The author spent six years living in one such neighbourhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. 2014.Oh boy!: mothers tell the truth about raising teen sons
Par Maryann Bucknum Brinley. 2004
Thirty-one stories by mothers of teenage boys about the many trials of raising a boy through the years of bad…
grades, body odour, prank calls, sex, and drinking. Each story serves as a reminder that no mother is the only one to go through the difficult stages, and all have happy endings, eventually. Some strong language. 2004.On becoming baby wise: Book one
Par Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam. 2001
The classic reference guide utilized by over 1,000,000 parents worldwide. The Babywise Parent Directed Feeding concept has enough structure to…
bring security and order to your baby's world, yet enough flexibility to give mom freedom to respond to outside needs. It teaches parents how to lovingly guide their baby's day rather than be guided or enslaved to the infant's unknown needs. The average breast-fed PDF baby sleeps continuously through the night between weeks seven and nine, and healthy sleep in infants is analogous to healthy growth and development. 2001.On abducting the 'cello
Par Wayne Clifford. 2004