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From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliation Niigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada.

A Canadian cop is up against a local femme fatale in a thriller of "fierce suspense" that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town (Publishers Weekly). It's sunny days for Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, even as everyone else in Canada is shivering. The magnificent Cassandra Mitchell, who has a disconcerting habit of disappearing from both the town of Sechelt and Alberg's bed, has appeared once again.

Murder casts a dark shadow over Canada's Sunshine Coast in this Edgar Award-winning crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Gordon Murphy has a Midas touch for business, but he's all thumbs when it comes to love. So Sergeant Karl Alberg isn't too concerned when Murphy sets his sights on Karl's girlfriend Cassandra. These days the happy couple share both a bed and a bed and breakfast.

Summer along Canada's Sunshine Coast is murderously hot in this moody mystery thriller-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. RCMP Sergeant Karl Alberg is attempting to escape the heat with his girlfriend Cassandra when they discover a body on the beach, fresh from a fatal plunge into the icy, all-too-appealing waves. As Alberg knows from his days as a big-city cop, heat can make people do strange things-such as the recent act of vandalism at a local petting zoo. But was there something more to this untimely death?

A housewife's murder draws a Canadian detective into a twisted family drama in this mystery thriller - the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Maria Buscombe was a housewife living in Sechelt, British Colombia, until seven years ago when she suddenly abandoned her family. Now it seems she has returned-just in time to be murdered. What made her leave? What made her return? And who was sending her money and photographs of her daughter all that time? These are the questions nagging at Sergeant Karl Alberg as he searches for Maria's killer.

A murder on Canada's Sunshine Coast hits close to home for a former city cop in this crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Karl Alberg was a big-city cop, for Pete's sake. He solved crimes involving gangsters, druglords, real hardened criminals. He couldn't possibly be stumped by a murder in the sweet coastal town of Sechelt, British Colombia. Yet here he is, facing one of the most gruesome and baffling murders of his career.

This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series-and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town -set along Canada's Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver, looks like the perfect place to soothe a psyche that's been battered by big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intriguing, and unattached. Perhaps he has at last come in from the cold.

What does it mean in the era of Black Lives Matter to continue to ignore and deny the violence that is the foundation of the Canadian nation state? -- discloses the ongoing destruction of Black people as enacted not simply by state structures, but beneath them in the foundational modernist ideology that underlies thinking around migration and movement, as Black erasure and death are unveiled as horrifically acceptable throughout western culture.

A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal. Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on classical music and bohemian excess, he's ready for a life of anonymous condo towers and profitable boredom. But when he starts a new job as a journalist, he comes to realize that the world he is so anxious to leave behind is not quite finished with him yet, and that art and money might be more closely related than he thinks.

Ce recueil engagé de Rebecca Salazar nous transporte tantôt à Sudbury, ville où l'autrice a grandi, tantôt dans la région de Fredericton, son lieu d'accueil, tantôt encore chez ses aïeux en Colombie. Des réflexions percutantes surgissent au fil des poèmes : l'héritage lourd de violences que lèguent les réfugiés politiques à leur descendance, l'intégration difficile que peuvent vivre les personnes racisées, les diverses déclinaisons de l'identité sexuelle, les effets écologiques et les conséquences sur le corps de l'exploitation minière à Sudbury.