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Food Will Win the War

By Ian Mosby
UBC Press | January 1, 2015 | 284 pages
During the Second World War, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, public health officials warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished Canadians to "Eat Right" because "Canada Needs You Strong" while cookbooks helped housewives become "housoldiers"... More Info
Canada
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The World's Wife

By Carol Ann Duffy
Pan Macmillan Adult | September 23, 2014 | 96 pages
That saying? Behind every famous man . . . ? From Mrs. Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, The World's Wife. Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at... More Info
Poetry
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Shivers!: The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything

By Annabeth Bondor-Stone,  Connor White
HarperCollins | February 24, 2015 | 192 pages
Meet Shivers, the scaredy-est pirate to ever sail the Seven Seas. Along with his best friend, Margo, and his loyal fishmate (yes, you read that correctly), Albee, Shivers battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from the clutches of evil.... More Info
Kids' Books
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After the New Atheist Debate

By Phil Ryan
University of Toronto Press | October 27, 2014 | 208 pages
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a number of best-selling books which not only challenged the existence of god, but claimed that religious faith was dangerous and immoral. The New Atheists, as writers such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett have... More Info
Philosophy
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Girl in a Band

By Kim Gordon
Dey Street Books | February 24, 2015 | 288 pages
Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, now tells her story—a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll, written with the lyricism and haunting beauty of... More Info
Pop Culture
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Interculturalism

By Gerard Bouchard
January 12, 2015 | 240 pages
Written by one of Quebec's leading public intellectuals and the co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation,Interculturalism is the first clear and comprehensive statement in English of the intercultural approach to managing diversity.  More Info
Canada
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The Enchanted

By Rene Denfeld
Harper Perennial | February 24, 2015 | 272 pages
For the narrator locked inside an ancient prison, waiting for death, life is full of magic, from the golden horses that stampede underground to the tiny men who hammer away inside the stone walls. That the enchanted place is a death row matters less to him than the people he watches from the bars... More Info
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Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her...
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Events

2015 05 Mar
7:00pm - 9:00pm

An Evening with Karyn Freedman, Author of ONE HOUR IN PARIS - A TRUE STORY OF RAPE AND RECOVERY

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2014
WINNER of the 2015 British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction!

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2015 17 Mar
6:30pm - 8:30pm

Workshop: Consent and Sexual Assault Law

Reports of sexual assault have appeared frequently in the news over the past few months. One of the most memorable cases can be attributed to former CBC Radio host Jian Ghomeshi’s sexual assault scandal.

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2015 19 Mar
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Orchestrating Austerity Impacts and Resistance with Donna Baines and Stephen McBride

The economic stimulus which followed the 2007-08 global financial crisis have been succeeded by what we now call “austerity” measures –characterized by a renewed assault on public spending and further restructuring of social and labour market policies.

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