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In 1945 in Ottawa's Lowertown, Tommy, also known as The Shadow, and two of his friends, one French Canadian, one Irish, try to find out who attacked the father of their Jewish friend Sammy.

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Children's Books

Doyle, Brian

Geography & Cultures

Atheneum

You can pick me up at Peggy's Cove

ITP Nelson

Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health

Historical, sociological, and ecological analyses reveal that the health of a people is broadly determined by the strength, resilience, and vitality of their culture. The destructive effects of oppression and exploitation on health linger and are difficult to transcend when systemic attacks on the institutional stability of a people persist. Normative cultural destabilization produces added and abnormal challenges to the health status of African Americans. The pursuit of health becomes both a goal and a tool of liberation. Better health builds and releases mental, physical, and spiritual energy that can be directed toward achieving empowerment and development. The process of self-consciously pursuing better health attacks the fundamental mechanisms of cultural exploitation and oppression by serving to dismantle colonial-like relationships of dependency.

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Back Bay Books

The violent colonization of Africa by European nations toward the end of the 19th century―a colonization justified by theories about the African Mind promulgated in the Age of Reason―had a profound impact upon the mind of Black Africa. After World War II, the mind of Black Africa rebelled; this rebellion led to a struggle for the self. After Africans achieved political independence, the new African leaders betrayed their own people. Africans now have the responsibility of restoring and reaffirming their true inheritance―the mind of Black Africa.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Little. Brown and Company

From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.\nWhen Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon.\nAt a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays manage to find, again and again, exquisite beauty in the quotidian, whether it's the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, or a husband's whiskers that a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every morning. Through Doyle's eyes, nothing is dull.\nDavid James Duncan sums up Doyle's sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to quiet glories hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size, renown, or commercial value, and he brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings." A life's work, One Long River of Song invites readers to experience joy and wonder in ordinary moments that become, under Doyle's rapturous and exuberant gaze, extraordinary.

#1 SEATTLE TIMES BESTSELLERA playful and moving book of essays by a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times) who invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of the everyday When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays manage to find, again and again, exquisite beauty in the quotidian, whether it's the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, or a husband's whiskers that a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every morning. Through Doyle's eyes, nothing is dull. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to quiet glories hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size, renown, or commercial value, and he brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings." A life's work, One Long River of Song invites readers to experience joy and wonder in ordinary moments that become, under Doyle's rapturous and exuberant gaze, extraordinary.

English and Englishness (New Accents Series)

In this timely study, Brian Doyle traces the institutional elevation of English from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and shows that its contemporary status and function are founded on a long and contradictory history. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in English, cultural studies and education.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Routledge

In this study, Brian Doyle traces the institutional elevation of English from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and shows that its contemporary status and function are founded on a long and contradictory history. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in English, cultural studies and education.

Routledge& Kegan Paul

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

English and Englishness (New Accents)

Words with Teeth presents a dual argument, of which the first part is composed of establishing metaphor as the primary reading strategy for approaching Biblical Hebrew poetry, and the second part of applying the said strategy to a heterogeneous group of psalms known, in rather Victorian English, as the Psalms of Imprecation.This volume first introduces the reader to the phenomenon of metaphor and how it interfaces with the Hebrew poetic text.  It then offers an historical/exegetical review of the reception of the Psalms of Imprecation, ranging from their exclusion on theological grounds to their acceptance on psychological grounds and the various shades of curiosity and revulsion in between.  The main body of the book  represents a close individual reading of the Psalms of Imprecation, using metaphor as a reading strategy. It will conclude, in agreement with Adele Berlin, that metaphor in Biblical Hebrew poetry is the flip-side to parallelism, that parallelism frequently provides the structuring basis upon which non-structuring metaphor is grounded, and that metaphorical speech provided the psalmist(s) with a way of speaking the unspeakable about God and her relationship with human persons.

Words with Teeth: Metaphors and the Psalms of Imprecation (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)

Religion & Spirituality

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

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You can pick me up at Peggy's Cove

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

English and Englishness (New Accents Series)

English and Englishness (New Accents Series)

English and Englishness (New Accents)

Words with Teeth: Metaphors and the Psalms of Imprecation (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies)