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-- Toronto series2012., ECW Press Series Title: Toronto seriesSummary Note: Includes the novels Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, and Swap. Road rage or a premeditated killing? Dirty Sweet is a fast-paced crime story that follows each character to a surprising end. In Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, detective Gord Bergeron has problems. Maybe it's his new partner, Ojibwa native Detective Armstrong. Or maybe it's the missing ten-year-old girl, or the unidentified torso dumped in an alley behind a motel, or what looks like corruption deep within the police force. In Swap, Toronto's shadow city sprawls outwards, a grasping and vicious economy of drugs, guns, sex, and gold bullion. And that shadow city feels just like home for Get a Detroit boy, project-raised, ex-army, Iraq and Afghanistan, only signed up for the business opportunities, plenty of them over there. Now he's back, and he's been sent up here by his family to sell guns to Toronto's fast-rising biker gangs.
![Toronto series bundle [eBook] : includes the novels Dirty sweet, Everybody knows this is nowhere, and Swap](/Library/images/~imageCT76867.JPG "Toronto series bundle [eBook] : includes the novels Dirty sweet, Everybody knows this is nowhere, and Swap")
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2013., Guernica Editions Call No: BLK 843.91 B557d Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Writers series (Toronto, Ont.) Volume: 39.Summary Note: This collection of essays looks at the body of work of controversial Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire lœamour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues such as identity, privilege, memory, exile and return are examined in relation to his writing.Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dany Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haiti before moving to Canada in 1976. He worked as a journalist in Canada, and hosted television programming for the TQS network. Laferrière published his first novel, Comment faire lœamour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (How To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting Tired) in 1985. In 2009, Laferrière won the prestigious Prix Médicis for his 11th novel, Lœénigme du retour. Laferrière lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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2013., Adult, Allen Lane Call No: 971.8 C124d Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: History of Canada (Toronto, Ont.)Summary Note: "The tragic transformation of Newfoundland's political culture between 1914 and 1934. For many people throughout Canada and the rest of the world, 1914 was important because it marked the beginning of the First World War. While the year became significant for the same reason in Newfoundland, it was not originally so. Newfoundland's economy depended on the sea, and the seal hunt was vital. During the spring of 1914, seventy-seven men of the S.S. Newfoundland died and many more were injured when they became lost on the ice fields, locally known as 'the front,' off the north<U+00AD>east coast. What became known as the Newfoundland sealing disaster galvanized popular discontent against mercantile profiteering and recklessness on the seal hunt, and influenced Newfoundland politics. The Great War muted this discontent and fostered a nationalist political culture founded on notions of honour, sacrifice, and patriotism -- particularly after the mass deaths in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont Hamel. This nationalism was easily shaken, however, in the post-war economic crisis that plagued Newfoundland, frustrating more progressive attempts to deal with economic and social problems, and led to the collapse of responsible government in 1934. Although sealers had died in 1914 and soldiers fell in the years of the Great War, it was liberal democracy in Newfoundland that was the final casualty in the bitter struggles over the meaning of these events"--Provided by publisher.
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By Halen, River2022., Book*hug Press Call No: NEW QWF 814.6 H166d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essais (Toronto, Ont.) Volume: 15Summary Note: Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, Dream Rooms is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life, hidden in plain view, hungry for address--what it means to take a stranger's pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating extinctions, to lose your clothes to a moth infestation then buy a duvet made of fossil fuels, to learn your bookshelf is full of work written by rapists and rape apologists, to consider a birth control device as a narrative about bodies and their possibilities, then pull the string. Written with precision, humour, and sweeping lyrical insight, this work moves effortlessly from microcosm to macrocosm and back again, demonstrating the inextricability of self and world and how a shift in language or understanding in one realm ripples out. Deeply queer and trans not only in its content but in its thinking, Dream Rooms invites readers to that place in consciousness where fear and desire, hidden information and common knowledge brush up against each other and are mutually transformed.
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c2003., University of Toronto Press Call No: Bio Z86z Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: University of Toronto romance series
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2005., Knopf Call No: Fic Atw Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Myths series (Toronto, Ont.)
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2013., Adult, Guernica Editions Call No: 810.8 G558u Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Essential anthologies series (Toronto, Ont.) Volume: 4.Summary Note: "Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought. This collection of searing and startling poetry and prose unties the stereotype and reveals women who were strong, wild, talented, wise, mad, creative, desperate, angry, courageous, bitter, tenacious, reckless and beautiful, sometimes all at once. The fifty-six contributors from across Canada and the world include multi-award-winning poets, novelists, and essayists, as well as compelling new literary voices. Authors include Judy Fong Bates, Denise Chong, Marjorie Doyle, Isabel Huggan, Jeanette Lynes, Alice Major, Daphne Marlatt, Diane Schoemperlen, Betsy Struthers, Sharon Thesen, Patricia Young, and more"--Back cover.
