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      By Sakamoto, Mark, 1977-
       2014., Adult, HarperCollins Canada Call No: Bio S111s    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas. On the other side of the country, Mitsue Sakamoto and her family felt their pleasant life in Vancouver starting to fade away after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ralph found himself one of the many Canadians captured by the Japanese in December 1941. He would live out his war in a prison camp, enduring Pestilence, beatings, starvation, and a journey on a hell ship to Japan to perform slave labour, watching his friends and countrymen die all around him. Mitsue and her family were ordered out of their home and were packed off to a work farm in rural Alberta, leaving many of their possessions behind. By the end of the war, Ralph was broken but had survived. The Sakamotos lost everything when the community centre housing their possessions was burned to the ground, and the $25 compensation from the government meant they had no choice but to start again. Forgiveness intertwines the compelling stories of Ralph MacLean and the Sakamotos as the war rips their lives and their humanity out of their grasp. But somehow, despite facing such enormous transgressions against them, the two families learned to forgive. Without the depth of their forgiveness, this book's author, Mark Sakamoto, would never have existed"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Cragg, Carys
       2017., General, Arsenal Pulp Press Call No: Bio C885d    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In this gripping and emotional memoir, a woman confronts the man who murdered her father twenty years earlier. In 1992, when Carys Cragg was eleven, her father, a respected doctor, was brutally murdered in his own home by an intruder. Twenty years later, despite the reservations of her family and friends, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and the two correspond for a period of two years. She learns of his horrific childhood, and the reasons he lied about the murder; in turn, he learns about the man he killed. She mines his letters for clues about the past before agreeing to meet him in person, when she learns startling new information about the crime. Dead Reckoning follows one woman's determination to confront the man who murdered her father, revealing her need for understanding and the murderer's reluctance to tell - an uneasy negotiation between two people from different worlds both undone by tragedy. A memoir about how reconciling with the past doesn't necessarily provide comfort, but it can reveal the truth.
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      By Semchuk, Sandra
       2018., University of Alberta Press Call No: 940.31771 S471s    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were imprisoned as "enemy aliens," many with their families. Most were Ukrainians; almost all were civilians. The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives and society have been shaped by acts of legislated discrimination and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada's first internment operations.
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      By Nazanin, 1979-  McClelland, Susan
       2012., HarperCollins Canada Call No: 323.092 N334t   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The remarkable story of two women named Nazaninone a Canadian at the height of her career, the other a teenager on death row in Iranand how one email changed their lives forever.Nazanin Afshin-Jam was on top of the world. In 2006, she had just signed her first record deal and, after placing as first runner-up for Miss World, was a sought-after fashion model and an icon within the Iranian dissident community. But one afternoon, she received an email that would change the course of her life. The subject of that emaila Kurdish girl named Nazanin Fatehiwas facing execution in Iran, as punishment for stabbing a man who had tried to rape her. Afshin-Jam quickly came to Fatehiœs defence, striding into the world of international diplomacy and confronting the dark side of the country of her birth, with its honour killings, violence against women and state-sanctioned execution of children. While Fatehi languished in prison, experiencing conditions so deplorable she attempted to end her own life, Afshin-Jam worked desperately on the campaign to save her. The Tale of Two Nazanins weaves together the lives of two womenone leading a life of opportunity, the other living in abject povertyand a fight for justice that, if only for a moment, brought the Iranian regime to its knees. An inspiring story of the bonds of sisterhood, this extraordinary book speaks to the power of every individual to foster positive change in the world.
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      By Beaulieu, Étienne
       2016., Quattro Books Call No: QWF Fic Bea    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "This novella is a fictional account of one man's immigration to Quebec. It relates, in the first person, how Samuel Gaska, a failed composer of Polish origin, comes to give up music after doing time in prison in the Canadian West. Torn between the Old World and the New, he feels compelled to explore the origins of American immigration--Acadia, the Amerindians and the West. And delving into this mythology, he discovers that the birds were the first to come here and are the true guides for anyone wanting to settle in America."--