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2011., House of Anansi Press Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Focusing on the year Kent and his family spent in Brigus, Newfoundland on the eve of the First World War, Winter offers up the private emotions of a man whose outer ambitions betray his inner feelings. Kent vows to be faithful to his wife, to live close to the sea, and document, through paintings and woodcuts, a picturesque land and society. But he also desires everything, including the young woman who cares for their children. His friend, the explorer Bob Bartlett, explains how the artist's beliefs and way of life run drastically against those of this small seafaring community.
![The big why [eBook]](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The big why [eBook]")
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[2013]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Boardwalk E3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Boardwalk empire Volume: 3Summary Note: Chronicles the life and times of Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, Atlantic City's undisputed czar at a time when Prohibition proved to be a major catalyst in the rise of organized crime in America. Season three begins on New Year's Eve 1922-23. The roaring '20s are about to start; though the economy is booming, alcohol has become scarce, competition is fierce, and gangster violence is heating up.
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c2010., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Canada Call No: Fic Win Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In her home on Empire Avenue, Donna Whalen was stabbed 31 times. Her friends, family, and neighbours believed it was her abusive boyfriend, Sheldon Troke. But the evidence is all circumstantial, providing a daunting challenge for police and prosecutors-and the course of justice takes many unpredictable twists and turns before the truth is finally revealed. In this mesmerizing work of documentary fiction, Michael Winter pieces together the transcripts and court testimonies of Sheldon's trial. He preserves the nuanced voice of each witness, and the result is a harsh account of the tragedy that befell Donna Whalen and the controversial aftermath that tore her town apart."--Publisher.
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2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: 940.4 W786i Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The young men who came from Newfoundland's outports, fields, villages and narrow city streets to join the storied regiment that led many of them to their deaths at Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. A century later the author walks in the footsteps of the dead men to discover what remains of their passage across land and through memory. Part unconventional history, part memoir-travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, Michael Winter captures the extraordinary lives and landscapes, both in Europe and at home, scarred by a war that is just now disappearing from living memory. As he wanders from battlefield to barracks to hospital to hotel, and finally to a bereft stretch of land battered by a blizzard back home, Winter startles us with the unexpected encounters and juxtapositions that arise from the act of walking through the places where the soldiers once marched, the author armed with artifacts and knowledge those earlier souls could not have, yet undone by the reality of their bodily presence beneath the earth. This unusual and poignant book gives us a new way of looking at a powerful piece of history that continues to haunt our own lives. Michael Winter lives in Toronto and Newfoundland"--Provided by publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada Call No: Fic Win Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: An emotionally resonant novel that confronts the deeply personal effects of war. Henry Hayward is a drowning man. With a soured long-term romance finally at an end, no family, and no refuge to be had in work, he progressively spends his days in the solace of alcohol and his nights with a series of interchangeable partners. In a quest to simultaneously recover from unrequited love and to find meaning in what is becoming an increasingly emotionally arid life, Henry travels to Afghanistan as an army-affiliated contractor. After a routine patrol turns fatal Henry is hounded by guilt. Upon returning home he resolves to take care of the people and places around him, but he hasn't factored in family history and social infidelity... Novel asks to whom are we beholden???.
