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"[...] Je n'ai jamais rien su de ses activités qui, officiellement, étaient d'ordre culturel. Je m'étonne aujourd'hui de ne pas lui avoir posé plus de questions.

From the oppressed shores of India to a racially charged Fiji, her mother's death at her birth, early adoption, marital abuse, military takeover, and move to Australia, Shirley had already ove

A compelling memoir of a psychotherapist’s clinical and personal education amid chaos and dysfunction that delivers an emotional impact to rival Susan Sheehan’s classic *Is There No Place on Earth

Simone de Beauvoir a marqué le XXe siècle, et singulièrement les femmes, par les livres qu'elle a écrits.

Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963.

This is Hal Holbrook's affecting memoir of growing up behind disguises, and his lifelong search for himself.

This is the story of the formative years of Canada’s most famous newspaper editor, John Wesley Dafoe.

A political insider takes a revealing look at the public and private life of BC's controversial premier.

Brook Benton was a magnificent singer who could handle handle anything from blues, jazz and soul to country, pop and standards.  His version of Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ - an i

"The story of Wolfe and Montcalm and the Plains of Abraham.

Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists.

These are twenty-two personal stories, told by women from practically all backgrounds and persuasions--devout and not-so devout, professionals and housewives, westernized and traditional, wearing j

Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 193

Covers the highlights of 26 years in the career of Judge Glen McDonald, who was the colorful and often controversial Vancouver Coroner from 1954 to 1980 and supervisory coroner for the province of

A Brush Full of Colour is the story of a boy whose passion for learning would save him from a life in the coalmines.