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By Haldane, Sen2013., Adult, Stone Flower Press Call No: MYS Fic Hal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Victoria, 1869, a mutilated body is discovered in the forest: Dr McCrory, an American alienist whose methods include phrenology, Mesmerism, and sexual-mystical magnetation. Chad Hobbes, newly arrived from England, is the policeman who must solve the crime. Could the murderer be a Tsimshian medicine man, Wiladzap, who is immediately arrested? But everyone who has known McCrory respectable or not has something to hide.
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[2013], Adult, Douglas & McIntyre Call No: 970 D938 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Over the years I have been approached by numerous Canadians who have demanded I provide them with an all-encompassing politically correct word to ensure that they do not offend me, my people or my ancestors. To paraphrase J.R.R. Tolkien, "One word to rule them all and in political corectness bind them.".
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2013., NeWest Press Call No: IND Fic Qua Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At the height of the Great Depression, two Prairie children struggle with poverty and uncertainty. Surrounded by religion, law, and her authoritarian father, Cora Wagoner daydreams about what it would be like to abandon society altogether and join one of the Indian tribes she's read so much about. Saddened by struggles with Indian Agent restrictions, Hunter George wonders why his father doesn't want him to go to the residential school. As he too faces drastic change, he keeps himself sane with his grandmother's stories of Wîsahkecâhk. As Cora and Hunter sojourn through a landscape of nuisance grounds and societal refuse, they come to realize that they exist in a land that is simultaneously moving beyond history and drowning in its excess.
