When Deni B'chard learned of the last living bonobos the matriarchal great apes who are, alongside chimpanzees, our closest relatives he began exploring ways to reverse their alarming decline.
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Author:B'chard, Deni
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Author:Steinmetz, Andrew
Summary:He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent.
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts, History and geographyAvailable Formats:
Author:Kingwell, Mark
Summary:Meet the 'fast zombie' citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style 'likes' replace complex notions of personhood.
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Political scienceAvailable Formats:
Author:Glenn, Joshua
Summary:Everybody knows a brown-noser when they see one. But how about a greeter? A workbrickle? A jack? Can they tell downsizing from grey bearding or bright sizing?
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, HumourAvailable Formats:
Author:Robertson, Ray
Summary:Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity.
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Author:O'Brien, John O.
Summary:John O'Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary's University professor debated, for an entire winter, the meri
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Author:Boutilier, Alex D.
Summary:It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government
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Author:Lash, Don
Summary:In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to fos
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Author:Hilborn, Neil
Summary:When you're dumb enough for long enough, you're gonna meet someone too smart to love you, and they're gonna love you anyway, and it's gonna go so poorly, Neil Hilborn writes in
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Author:Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Summary:Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca returns with another impassioned collection about social issues – including racial injustice, greed, and abuse of power by politicians and police.
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Author:Earley, Pete
Summary:Told through the lens of two murders that changed modern-day prison corrections in America, award-winning New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Pete Earley delivers an eye-o
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Author:Wiesel, Elie
Summary:A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel.
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Author:Ziegler, Walther
Summary:Nietzsche est considéré comme le plus provocateur et le plus controversé de tous les philosophes. L'appel qu'il lance à l'homme moderne est déconcertant.
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Author:Dobyns, Jay.
Summary:From the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells Angels Motorcycle Club comes the inside story of the 21-month operation that almost cost him his family, his sanity,
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Author:García Márquez, Gabriel
Summary:Available for the first time in eBook!
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