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That Lonely Section of Hell

That Lonely Section of Hell

The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away
by Lorimer Shenher
edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover eBook
tagged : serial killers, law enforcement, prostitution & sex trade

Former police detective Lorimer Shenher's “inside account of the Pickton serial murders is both a horrifying and compelling read. "—Peter Vronsky, author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

In this searing personal account, ex-police detective Lori Shenher (who transitioned to in 2015, and is now known as Lorimer) describes his role in Vancouver's infamous Missing Women Investigation and unflinchingly reveals his years-long struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a r …

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The Valiant Nellie McClung

The Valiant Nellie McClung

Selected Writings by Canada's Most Famous Suffragist
by Barbara Smith & Nellie McClung, foreword by Dave Obee
edition:Paperback
tagged : women, post-confederation (1867-), social activists

Although her name today is synonymous with the women’s suffrage movement in Canada, Nellie McClung’s long and varied career covered several fields—from social activist to elected politician, from novelist to journalist. McClung was instrumental in Canadian women gaining the right to vote before their British and American counterparts—2016 marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. She was also one of the Famous F …

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The Valiant Nellie McClung

The Valiant Nellie McClung

Collected Columns by Canada's Most Famous Suffragist
by Barbara Smith & Nellie McClung
edition:eBook
tagged : women, social activists, post-confederation (1867-)

Although her name today is synonymous with the women’s suffrage movement in Canada, Nellie McClung’s long and varied career covered several fields—from social activist to elected politician, from novelist to journalist. McClung was instrumental in Canadian women gaining the right to vote before their British and American counterparts—2016 marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan—and in women being recognized as persons eligible …

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In a Blue Moon

In a Blue Moon

by Lucia Frangione
edition:Paperback
tagged : canadian

When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, giving her precocious and grieving daughter a new start. One problem presents itself, though: a squatter who won’t leave.

 

Will, professional photographer, long-estranged brother-in-law to Ava, and uncle to Frankie, lives rent-free on th …

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Reading Sveva

Reading Sveva

by Daphne Marlatt
edition:Paperback
tagged : canadian

Reading Sveva is award-winning author Daphne Marlatt’s response to the life and paintings of Sveva Caetani, an Italian émigré who grew up in Vernon, B.C.

Daughter of an Italian prince, leftist, and scholar of Islam, Sveva grew up with the multilingual and highly cultured European traditions of her parents who moved to Vernon in 1921, when Fascism was on the rise in Italy. At age eighteen, after her father’s death in 1939, Sveva was forced into home-seclusion for twenty-five years with her …

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The Corpse with the Ruby Lips

The Corpse with the Ruby Lips

by Cathy Ace
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : women sleuths

A new book from Bony Blithe award–winning mystery author Cathy Ace where her sleuth Cait Morgan investigates a chilling cold case from a university in Budapest.

A gig as guest lecturer at the university in Budapest should have been a dream job for a travelling criminologist and food lover. But wherever Cait Morgan goes, murder seems to follow. One of Cait’s new students pleads with her to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s brutal slaying. She agrees, but when she is repeatedly hassled b …

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Gold Rush Queen

Gold Rush Queen

The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman
by Thora Illing
edition:eBook
tagged : women, historical

A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century.

At a time when well-bred women wore tight corsets and entertained each other at tea, Nellie Cashman (1845–1925) was trekking for hundreds of miles through blizzard conditions to deliver food and supplies to trapped miners in Northern BC.

An Irish immigrant, Cashman travelled from Boston to San Francisco in …

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Gold Rush Queen

Gold Rush Queen

The Extraordinary Life of Nellie Cashman
by Thora Kerr Illing
edition:Paperback
tagged : women, historical

A biography of the extraordinary Nellie Cashman, a well-loved miner, entrepreneur and philanthropist who lived and worked in the roughest boomtowns of the West in the late-nineteenth century.

At a time when well-bred women wore tight corsets and entertained each other at tea, Nellie Cashman (1845–1925) was trekking for hundreds of miles through blizzard conditions to deliver food and supplies to trapped miners in Northern BC.

An Irish immigrant, Cashman travelled from Boston to San Francisco in …

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