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  • Army of Lovers

    A Community History of Will Munro

    podle Sarah Liss ...
    Série série Exploded Views
    Will was pretty much the perfect role model.' - Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes when local artist, DJ, activist, impresario, promoter, party-thrower, café operator, community-builder and lover Will Munro died of brain cancer at the unfathomably young age of 35. Famed for his subversive, irreverent visual art, which co-opted ... Přečtěte si více

    176,79 Kč

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  • Not the Whole Story

    Challenging the Single Mother Narrative

    Upravil: Lea Caragata, Judit Alcalde ...
    Série série Life Writing
    Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way and about their own lives. Each story is unique, but the same issues appear again and again. Abuse, parenting as single mothers, challenges in the labour market, mental health and addictions issues, a scarcity of quality childcare, immigration and status vulnerability, struggles with custody, and ... Přečtěte si více

    219,99 Kč

  • Are You Ready to Be Lucky?

    podle Rosemary Nixon ...
    re You Ready to Be Lucky? If so, meet Roslyn, a spirited divorcée eager for new beginnings. Meet Duncan, a British conman with a penchant for collecting ex-wives. Meet Floyd, a hard-living contractor who can fix anyone's house but his own. Irritating, vulnerable, hopeful, they ricochet off one another, trailing a mess of family and friends, all of them trying to beat the odds and find happiness. ... Přečtěte si více

    152,69 Kč

  • Strange Way to Live

    A Story of Rock 'n' Roll Resurrection

    podle Carl Dixon ...
    Carl Dixon’s journey through the twists and turns of a music performer’s life began in Northern Ontario, where his boyhood dreams, shaped by the 1960s, collided with a new musical culture.Though Carl’s road was rocky, it was still paved with gold. It has led from his early days with hard rockers Coney Hatch to tours and lasting friendships with huge acts like Iron Maiden. The ups and downs were ... Přečtěte si více

    165,19 Kč

  • Nobody Rides for Free

    A Drifter in the Americas

    Nobody Rides For Free: A Drifter in the Americas chronicles former bike courier John Hughes' rambles through Latin America on a bicycle. In this gripping mosaic-travellogue, readers are introduced to banditos, artists, grifters, would-be wives, dope fiends and attacking monkeys: a cast of characters who conspire to reduce him to alcoholic destitution. His last remaining $400 is spent sailing the ... Přečtěte si více

    315,77 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Mother Superior

    podle Saleema Nawaz ...
    A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young, Sikh, and female, one growing larger while the other fades. A woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections, her pregnant roommate, ... Přečtěte si více

    150,29 Kč

  • Blackbirds

    podle Garry Ryan ...
    Série Kniha 1 - Blackbirds
    When young Sharon Lacey travels from Canada to England in the spring of 1940 in search of the father she never knew, she finds herself called upon to participate in a much larger and more dangerous mission. For at eighteen, she is a gifted flier in an England desperate for pilots to fend off the impending attack from Hitler’s Luftwaffe. In the months that follow, Sharon will be tested in ways that ... Přečtěte si více

    168,69 Kč

  • A Time Such as There Never Was Before

    Canada After the Great War

    podle Alan Bowker ...
    Ottawa Book Award 2015 — ShortlistedBetween 1918 and 1921 a great storm blew through Canada and raised the expectations of a new world in which all things would be possible.|The years after World War I were among the most tumultuous in Canadian history: a period of unremitting change, drama, and conflict. They were, in the words of Stephen Leacock, “a time such as there never was before.”The war ... Přečtěte si více

    177,49 Kč

  • So Much for Democracy

    podle Kari Jones ...
    Twelve-year-old Astrid has come to Ghana with her family in 1979 so that her father can help oversee Ghana’s first democratic election. Astrid and her brother, Gordo, were told it would be a great family adventure, but they soon find out that everything about Ghana is difficult—the heat, the food, the threat of disease, the soldiers on the roads, the schools. Gordo fits in more easily than Astrid, ... Přečtěte si více

    146,89 Kč

  • The Ashes of War

    The Fight for Upper Canada, August 1814—March 1815

    podle Richard Feltoe ...
    Série Kniha 6 - Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812
    The end of the War of 1812 brought with it great political, economic, and social upheaval.The sixth and final book of the Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812 series, The Ashes of War examines in detail the closing stages of the war on the Northern Frontier, including the two-month siege of Fort Erie, the engagement at Cook’s Mills, the American attempt to recapture Michilimackinac (Mackinac), the ... Přečtěte si více

    217,49 Kč

  • Little Black Lies

    Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil

    podle Jeff Gailus ...
    Série série RMB Manifesto
    Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxins polluted the environment, cancer reared its head ... Přečtěte si více

    146,89 Kč

  • Cabin Girl

    podle Kristin Butcher ...
    Série série Orca Currents
    Sixteen-year-old Bailey struggles with her job but stays because she loves the stories of the area—including the legend of a local ghost.Bailey is working at her first summer job, as a cabin girl at a fly-in fishing camp at Witch Lake. April, an older waitress with street smarts, takes Bailey under her wing and the two girls become friends. It’s all good until another waitress burns her arm and ... Přečtěte si více

    165,19 Kč