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An inmate's fictional view of life inside a Federal maximum prison in Canada. Vern states that this is fiction, but as a retired Correctional Officer who, due to many incidents which included being a hostage a couple of times, once at the point of a gun, and being physically assaulted, which caused him to take time off work to recover and then taking early retirement, he can state that many of the incidents he describes actually did happen.
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The offender is not one of ours. It is unfortunate that we got this undesirable from his homeland. Auckland, October 1955. If young Paddy Black sings to himself he can almost see himself back home in Belfast. Yet, less than two years after sailing across the globe in search of a better life, here he stands in a prison cell awaiting trial for murder. He pulled a knife at the jukebox that night, but should his actions lead him to the gallows? As his...
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Les faiblesses, les passions et les imprudences de 5 avocats.
À son retour du congrès des Jeunes Avocats tenu à la Baule en mai 1980, le journaliste Jérémie Gélinas décide de mener une enquête de terrain auprès de ceux qui pratiquent cette profession dont le public ne connaît que les vedettes. Pour cela, il choisit Argençon, centre administratif et industriel du département de la Haute Seine o son correspondant, chroniqueur judiciaire...
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First published in 1928, public domain in the US and Canada. The protracted trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was the most controversial political event of the 1920s. Today, more than seventy years after their execution, the events surrounding the case of Sacco and Vanzetti are still the source of debate. Truly, it is the "case that would not die." Surprisingly, of all the books that have appeared over the years concerning the case, the most complete and...
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When her parents marry off Kansas-born Nellie Belle to the ranch foreman, she never questions that motherhood will follow. But at the dawn of the progressive era, dissatisfied Nellie seizes an opportunity to move west and start a new life. Desperate to find a sense of self-worth, Nellie leaves behind her husband and son and takes her two daughters to the Northwest. She charges forward to become the first woman court reporter to travel the circuit...
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Un fils est prêt à tout pour réussir, y compris à s'opposer à l'éducation inculquée sa mère. Une bonne affaire?
Nénette a bataillé dur toute sa vie de concierge pour élever seule son garçon François. Malgré de difficiles conditions de vie, à force de travail il décroche son diplme d'expert-comptable. Embauché comme simple employé dans une puissante compagnie d'assurances, il se fait vite remarquer pour son sérieux et sa compétence....
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À Paris, de 2005 à aujourd'hui, je portais ma mère au pinacle. C'était pour moi une belle, une grande muse. Je pensais que ce que je n'obtenais pas physiquement, je le gagnerai par les mots. Lui donner une vie ou un destin, faire d'elle une héroïne de roman me semblaient être un hommage approprié. Écrire sur ma mère constituait plus qu'un souhait, c'était un point de départ. Erreur. Illusion. Aujourd'hui, c'est un point de rupture. Une...
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Madhi, un demandeur d'asile afghan, occupe son attente interminable en venant en aide à ses semblables.
À Cherbourg, il y a les demandeurs d'asile dont Mahdi, un jeune afghan parlant français couramment, et puis les autres : les sans-papiers, les passe-murailles, ceux qui ne se montrent que la nuit pour tenter de forcer les grilles du port de commerce, âprement défendues par les CRS. Un ferry pour l'Angleterre n'est pas loin. La mort non plus...
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Il y a des injustices que l'on n'oublie pas et la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid
Après un silence volontaire de cinq années et plus, l'écrivain vaudois C.-F. Landry revient au roman. « Mais pas un simple roman », comme il le disait lui-même: un roman qui se passe dans nos pays, quelque part entre Genève, Neuchâtel, Berne et Martigny. Un roman qui touche à d'immenses choses: l'Injustice, la Fatalité, le Mystère du Bonheur, la...
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"In Crane Pond, Richard Francis reveals a side of the history that is not often recounted, as he skillfully constructs a portrait of Samuel Sewall, the only judge to later admit that a terrible mistake had been made. What begins as a touching story of a bumbling man tasked with making judgements in a society where reason is often ephemeral, quickly becomes the chilling narrative we know too well. And when public opinion wavers, Sewall learns that...
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
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