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Small Ceremonies
A Novel
2025
EN
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**A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba’s North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous cityWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD**Word on the street is that this is the Tigers hockey team's last season. For Tomahawk “Tommy” Shields, an Indigenous, image-obsessed high school student, the potentia...
10,27 €
Taming the Octopus
The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
2024
EN
The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.Recent controversies around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing and “woke capital” evoke an old idea: the Progressive Era vision of a socially responsible corporation. By midcentury, the notion that big business should benefit society was a consensus view. But as Kyle Edward Williams’s brilliant history, Taming the Octopus, shows, the tools forged...
19,18 €
LOVE Never Fails: Faith Works By Love
Faith Works
2024
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"This book unites Faith and Love as one""We can define the new Testament as opposed to the Old Testament""Jesus Christ and Christianity are Spiritual and the Law of Moses was Carnal""The Law of Moses spelled condemnation and Death, The Law of Christ is Life and Freedom from Sin, Justified to love"
4,23 €
2011
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Going Against the Grain is a memoir of childhood abuse and redemption – of the ways individuals and institutions can help us transform ourselves. In my case, I credit my grandmother’s teachings, friends at school who showed me how families could and should behave, and the United States Marine Corps, which gave me a means of escape. Going Against the Grain is also a memoir of learning from the past and overcoming it – of being an involved father to my sons, the kind of father I wish I’d had...
3,56 €
Embodied Idolatry
A Critique of Christian Nationalism
2020
EN
Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism is an examination of the effect of Christian nationalism on Christian practice in the United States. Kyle Edward Haden focuses on the mechanisms by which such beliefs become sedimented into the emotional, embodied structures of the church and the individual. Using a variety of disciplines, Haden thus identifies and highlights how such beliefs and practices are, in fact, idolatrous and inhabit an anti-Christian theological and ethical s...
34,33 €
Taming the Octopus
The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
- Narrated by
- Jon Vertullo
Unabridged
9 hours 2 min
2024
EN
The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.In this vivid and surprising history, we meet twentieth-century activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals suc...
17,83 €
Small Ceremonies
A Novel
Unabridged
14 hours 22 min
2025
EN
**A poignant and heart-wrenching coming-of-age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba’s North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous cityWINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD**Word on the street is that this is the Tigers hockey team's last season. For Tomahawk “Tommy” Shields, an Indigenous, image-obsessed high school student, the potentia...
21,41 €
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of All the Quiet Places, comes Brian Thomas Isaac's highly anticipated, haunting and tender return to the Okanagan Indian Reserve and a teenager's struggle to become a man in a world of racism and hardship.Summer, 1968. For the first time since his big brother, Eddie, disappeared two years earlier—either a runaway or dead by his own hand—sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mo...
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52 Ways to Reconcile
How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
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From bestselling author of the Misewa Saga series David A. Robertson, this is the essential guide for all Canadians to understand how small and attainable acts towards reconciliation can make an enormous difference in our collective efforts to build a reconciled country.52 Ways to Reconcile is an accessible, friendly guide for non-Indigenous people eager to learn, or Indigenous people eager to do more in our collective effort towards reconciliation, as peo...
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The Riveter
A Novel
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In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, this gripping WWII historical fiction is a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe.Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. The Second World War is in full swing, and Josiah, like so many Canadians, wants to prove his loyalty by serving his country. But as part of a difficult chapter in Chinese Canadian history, h...
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Punished
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Curiosities
A Novel
Unabridged
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EN
**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2024 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024“Pure delight.” —Ann-Marie MacDonald“Dazzling . . . A riot of cerebral invention.” —Toronto Star**This sparkling, genre-bending novel opens with amateur historian Anne, who has a passion for research into ...
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