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Le boiteux
Par Robert Cessieux. 1979
L'auteur a recueilli les confidences de celui que la maffia a surnommé le boiteux. Il s'agit d'un ancien trafiquant devenu…
agent double et auquel nous devons le démantèlement de plusieurs filières et réseaux de drogue Nord-Américains. Descriptions régulières de violence. 1979.De l'autre côté de la matraque: les dessous du métier policier
Par Martin Prémont. 2013
"Ce livre dévoile le côté mystérieux et méconnu du monde policier. Trop souvent mal perçus par l'ensemble de la population,…
les policiers deviennent, malgré eux, la cible de critiques sévères et de commentaires désobligeants. Jamais, ils n'ont l'occasion d'expliquer leur vision et les réalités auxquelles ils sont confrontés. Prisonniers du silence, les policiers ne peuvent se permettre le luxe d'exprimer à tout vent leurs frustrations et leur mécontentement. Bien qu'ils soient munis de leur plus épaisse carapace, malgré leurs formations et les meilleures connaissances techniques, certains événement laissent des traces, des cicatrices profondes dans les terres obscures de l'âme de ces hommes et ces femmes. Nul n'est constitué en béton ou en bois, pas même les policiers. Ces derniers sont tous revêtus d'un manteau qu'on appelle humain... " -- 4e de couv.La cyberintimidation: des conséquences sans fin, les paroles s'envolent, mais les photos et les écrits restent!
Par Marthe Saint-Laurent. 2012
Les temps ont changé : la technologie aidant, on peut aujourd'hui intimider sous le couvert de l'anonymat. Alors qu'autrefois, les…
injures parvenaient à une trentaine de personnes, elles sont aujourd'hui vues par des millions d'individus. Les réseaux sociaux permettent de détruire la réputation et l'avenir de n'importe qui. Ce livre vous met au fait de ce qui se passe dans la vraie vie, pas la vie virtuelle. Par exemple : Savez-vous que vos parents peuvent être poursuivis si vous nuisez à la réputation de quiconque ? Savez-vous que la police peut vous retrouver malgré votre pseudo, aussi subtil soit-il ? Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et de la violence. 2012.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.One hit wonderland
Par Tony Hawks. 2002
Before he became a best-selling author, before he was a TV and radio presenter, Tony Hawks was a popstar. He…
tasted fame... and now he wants more. One Hit Wonderland is his wonderful account of an adventure that takes him around the world in search of that elusive follow-up hit. From the studios of Nashville to the coffee bars of Amsterdam, Hawks will do anything to have a hit. Changing musical styles with a bewildering lack of integrity, he hypes charts and gets remixes, but can he get a number one? Strong language. 2002.Nous, les Seznec
Par Denis Seznec. 2006
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.On a personal note
Par Anne Simpson, Rita MacNeil. 1998
Canadian folk singer Rita MacNeil shares the story of her life from her childhood on Cape Breton Island, to her…
unsuccessful first marriage and her eventual success as a singer. 1998.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.On power: my journey through the corridors of power and how you can get more power
Par Gene Simmons. 2017
Gene Simmons, Kiss front man, shares his philosophy on power--how to attain it, how to keep it, and how to…
harness it as a driving force in business and in life. 2017.Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
Par Janice Williamson. 2012
In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier, later ending…
up in Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Some Canadians see Khadr as a symbol of terrorism in action; the book’s contributors see him as the victim of a jihadist father and Canadian complicity in the unjust excesses of the US war on terror. They analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case. Includes violence. 2012.On a cold road: tales of adventure in Canadian rock
Par Dave Bidini. 1998
David Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, shares his experiences of being part of a band touring across Canada. In…
1996, when the Rheostatics opened for the Tragically Hip on their "Trouble at the Henhouse" tour, Bidini kept a diary of his life on the road. When the tour was over he interviewed some of the pioneers of Canadian rock and compared their experiences with his own. Some strong language. Canada Reads 2012. 1998.Off stage: My Non-show Business Life
Par Betty Comden. 1995
Comden and her collaborator, Adolph Green, composed the music for many Broadway and movie musicals. Here she reminisces about her…
personal life from her Brooklyn childhood in the 1920s through her long marriage, widowhood, and the death of her son. Interspersed are essays about such topics as aging and following fashion and tributes to her friends. c1995.Obstruction of justice: the search for truth on Canada's Highway of Tears
Par Ray Michalko. 2016
"The Highway of Tears" is a lonely seven hundred kilometer stretch of road that winds through the Coast Mountains wilderness…
of British Columbia. Over the last four decades nine young women have been murdered or gone missing from this remote highway. All but one were Aboriginal. To date not one case has been solved. Fueled by frustration with the police's inability to solve any of these crimes, inspired by the belief that someone somewhere knew something, ex-RCMP turned private eye Ray Michalko embarked on a life altering journey to unlock the secrets of these cases and, in the process, discovered as much about the crimes as he did the reasons they've gone unsolved. 2016.Félix Leclerc, le roi heureux: biographie (Compact Ser. #No. 4)
Par Jacques Bertin. 1987
Biographie de Félix Leclerc: sa vie, sa carrière. Pionnier chez nous, il fut avec Charles Trenet le premier auteur-compositeur-interprète en…
France. Premier écrivain québécois à vivre de sa plume, il fut le héraut de l'indépendance, le père de la nation pour un pays qui n'est pas né. 1987.Les grands dossiers criminels du Canada
Par Jean-Claude Castex. 1991
Des récits authentiques bien documentés à l'intention de ceux qui aiment frissonner d'effroi. L'amour, la haine, la jalousie, l'ambition, le…
racisme, la cupidité, le sadisme, la pédophilie, le nécrophilie et le cannibalisme sont au coeur même des grandes affaires criminelles qui ont défrayé la chronique: Coffin, le Klu Klux Klan et l'incendie du Collège de Saint-Boniface, l'affaire Earle Nelson, etc. c1990-c1991.Notes of a piano tuner
Par Denele Pitts Campbell. 1997
Tuning pianos provides the author opportunity to visit homes, churches, and music halls where she catches glimpses of the players'…
various lifestyles. Campbell describes her experiences and also comments on the countryside of the Arkansas Ozarks she traverses to do her work. 1997.Colette Boky, le chant d'une femme: essai biographique (Chanson/musique)
Par Colette Boky, Mireille Barrière. 2008
Colette Boky nous entretient de ses relations avec ses collègues, de sa conception des principaux rôles qu'elle a incarnés, de…
ses prestations devant maints personnages célèbres. Mais, plus encore, ces pages tracent le portrait d'une femme résolue, fonceuse, au franc parler, qui ne craint pas de mettre sa réputation au service de causes qui lui tiennent à coeur. Elle appuiera activement l'option du oui lors du référendum de 1980 et s'engagera dans la relance de l'opéra à Montréal et au Québec. Faisant fi des tabous, elle acceptera de tourner une scène de nu dans un filmopéra, au moment où le théâtre lyrique était encore très sage. Cet ouvrage fera aussi mieux connaître au public la femme derrière la diva, une mère affectueuse et une grand-maman gâteau, sans oublier le roman d'amour qu'elle vit avec le comédien et metteur en scène Jacques Létourneau depuis trente-cinq ans. 2008.