Marie Wilson
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The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to record the previously hidden history of more than a century of forced residential schooling for Indigenous children. Marie Wilson helped lead that work as one of just three commissioners. With the skills of a journalist, the heart of a mother and grandmother,...
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Three strong, beautiful women dish on their romantic and sexual exploits in Toronto, New York and Paris.
Erotica for the thinking woman, this well-written and sexy novel is driven by three gorgeous women on the prowl. Rose, Con, and Wanda, all disciples of the legendary Dorothy Parker, meet regularly for drinks to dish on their romantic and sexual exploits. From Toronto to Vancouver to Paris, these three strong, beautiful women are out to explore...
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Feeling and looking better can be a struggle for people needing to balance the demands of a busy modern lifestyle. Harmonizing nutrition and exercise practices with the seasons provides you with a simple, flexible framework for improving your wellbeing and losing weight, without counting calories or following an unpleasant exercise regime. This book will help you to re-discover the rhythms of the year, which governed human life for centuries, and...
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In The Maltese falcon, Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind. In Satan met a lady, Sam Spade is now PI Ted Shane,...
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The story involves a henpecked man who gains courage from a drink called a "Mystery Gardenia" and thereafter has conversations with a talking dog named Fabulous Joe. The dog (which he had inherited) gets him into all kinds of trouble in this screwball comedy filmed in color. It's similar to the "Francis The Talking Mule" movies & "Mister Ed" TV series, except it is a dog who has the gift of gab.
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Some might remember My Friend Irma as the movie that served as the launching pad for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Others recall a television show of the same name. But My Friend Irma actually originated as a radio sitcom that aired on CBS from 1947 to 1954. The show chronicled the daily high jinks of an extremely dim-witted blonde stenographer named Irma Peterson and her screwball friends. One of Irma's best friends was her logical and very dependable...