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Series:
You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me
The Lives of Dick Miller
Hardcover
Caelum Vatnsdal
9781927886144
$38.00
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2018
You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me is a biography of beloved American movie actor Dick Miller. Miller's fantastically storied life, the legendary people with whom he has worked and played, the times in which he's lived and the fascinating environments of both Broadway and Hollywood over the past seventy years are all thoroughly and engagingly explored in this first and only biography of the cult legend. The result of both extensive interviews and exhaustive research, You Don't Know Me, But You Love Me is at once story of how an unassuming guy s...
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Series:
Violence No More
The Rise of Indigenous Women
Paperback
Wanda Nanibush
9781894037853
$24.00
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2018
In Violence No More, Wanda Nanibush offers a personal, political and historical account of violence against Indigenous women, children and two-spirited people. Nanibush connects the struggle for a national inquiry to the larger context of colonial violence from the state, from non-Indigenous men and within Indigenous communities where the trauma has turned inward. An informal and lively history of Indigenous women's activism, Violence No More maps the colonial routes and roots of this tragedy while also showing the massive, consistent and persi...
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Series:
Radical Medicine
The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada
Paperback
Esyllt Jones
9781927886168
$28.00
MEDICAL
Apr 01, 2019
Winner! Canadian Historical Association Clio Prize Finalist! CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize Alexander Kennedy?Isbister?Award for Non-Fiction McNally Robinson Book of the Year The origins of medicare have long been told as a simple and satisfying story: a good idea, born in Saskatchewan, was championed by our Greatest Canadian, Tommy Douglas, embraced by Canadians, now stands as a cherished example of our nation?s unique values. Radical Medicine is a visionary and politicized new history of medicare. It traces medicare?s roo...
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4.
Series:
The Red Centre
Paperback
Paul Heather
9781927886199
$20.00
FICTION
Rapid-flowing and detailed, Heather Paul's debut novel follows Serena, a narrator who at the story's start, is back in the town she couldn't wait to leave. Dumped by her boyfriend and living in her parents' basement, she takes a job at her small town's main employer, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. When one of her residents dies in her arms, she flees the trauma, ultimately embarking on a journey that pushes and pulls her between constraint and freedom, despair and hope. Set in small-town Ontario, Australia, northern...
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