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The PS Royal William of Quebec
Éditeur : Baraka Books,World trade was revolutionized in the 19th century when ships went from sail to steam. Crossing the Atlantic under steam was clearly an engineering and navigating feat to be celebrated. A controve...
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Still Crying for Help
Éditeur : Baraka Books,A 32-year-old man with mental illness ends his life. Could he have been saved? What care did he receive? Did antipsychotics help or are they a modern-day straitjacket? Ferid Ferkovic, the author’s...
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Stolen Motherhood
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., commissioning a woman to ...
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Free of 'Incurable' Cancer
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2009 with a maximum six-year life expectancy, the author chronicles her journey through traditional and alternative treatments to complete remission. Without reje...
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A Stab at Life
Éditeur : Baraka Books,A series of murders in Montreal park near the Gursky Memorial Hospital have Nurse Annie Linton and Detective Gilles Bellechasse hopping. Suspects include a vigilante group fighting drug dealers, a ...
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Things Worth Burying
Éditeur : Baraka Books,As a third-generation logger, a life in the bush is all Joe Adler has ever known. He works, he hunts; he provides. But when a man dies on his watch, and his wife abandons their young family for wri...
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Exile Blues
Éditeur : Baraka Books,When Preston Downs, Jr., aka Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that never would he return home to Washington D.C. or to his a...
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Charging Ahead
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Hydro-Québec manages one of the largest power grids on the continent. It is among the most profitable, the least expensive and the greenest. With a stunning renewable energy rate of 99.8 percent, Q...
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Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Éditeur : Baraka Books,The Civil War divides the United States. Millions, including the president, wish to maintain monuments to generals like Robert E. Lee. Referred to as “Knights” in Gone with the Wind,” some generals...
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Fog, A Novel
Éditeur : Baraka Books,A small plane was blown up in an act of sabotage several years ago over Eastern Quebec, Canada. All the passengers and crew were killed. The incident was quickly analyzed and termed a mechanical fa...
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Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East
Éditeur : Baraka Books,One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft carriers,” while the Je...
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The Daughters' Story
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Nadine is banished to a home for unwed mothers in 1950. She’s 15. Her baby daughter, whose father is shrouded in secrecy, is put up for adoption without her permission. Vowing to reunite one day wi...
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Through the Mill
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women to...
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A Distinct Alien Race
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed th...
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Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin challenges that restrictive ...
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Vic City Express
Éditeur : Baraka Books,It could be happening here… or there. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink. Two strangers meet in a train for Athens. One spews out his disgust at the...
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Let's Move On, Paul Okalik Speaks Out
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Paul Okalik was raised in Pangnirtung, a community that survived starvation, epidemics, eradication of its spiritual heritage, relocation, schooling in a foreign language, and confrontation with th...
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Patriots, Traitors and Empires
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Patriots, Traitors and Empires is an account of modern Korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free Korea from the domination of foreign empires. It traces the history...
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The Einstein File - New Updated Edition
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other agencies—feverishly collected “d...
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Behind the Eyes We Meet
Éditeur : Baraka Books,Behind The Eyes We Meet is a larger-than-life story that comes in three packages. A lighthearted opening flirts with chick lit before giving way to grim tales of a Russian P.O.W. camp on World War ...