Still Crying for Help

Sadia Messaili

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• A 32-year-old man diagnosed with mental illness puts an end to his life. Questions spring to mind. Could he have been saved? What health services did ... Lees meer

Bigotry on Broadway

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited 12 informed and accomplished writers and cultural commentators, both women a... Lees meer

The PS Royal William of Quebec

Eileen Reid Marcil

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• World trade was revolutionized in the 19th Century when ships went from sail to steam. When did the first steamship cross the Atlantic? Who built it? ... Lees meer

Cities Matter

Charles Albert Ramsay

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• People ask themselves why cities exist? Can't there be other ways of organizing life on earth? Given the climate crisis and environmental concerns, ho... Lees meer

Free of 'Incurable' Cancer

Susan Paton

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• Diagnosed with incurable cancer in 2009 with a maximum six-year life expectancy, the author chronicles her journey through traditional and alternative... Lees meer

Waswanipi

Jean-Yves Soucy

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• It's 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and looking for a summer job. He dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But to h... Lees meer

The Great Absquatulator

Frank Mackey

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• Alfred Thomas Wood was nothing and everything. One hundred years before the Hollywood film The Great Imposto r, Wood, the Great Absquatulator, roved t... Lees meer

Mussolini Also Did a Lot of Good

Francesco Filippi

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• Surgically, but with wit, Francesco Filippi demolishes each and every myth that has taken root about Mussolini and fascism in an uplifting handbook fo... Lees meer

After All Was Lost

Johan Swinnen, Alice Nsabimana

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• When the Chief of Staff of Rwanda's Army was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six chil... Lees meer

The Killer's Henchman

Stephen Gowans

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• Summer 2021, the WHO announced that pandemic would end "when the world chooses to end it." Though all necessary public health measures were available,... Lees meer

Montreal and the Bomb

Gilles Sabourin

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• With war raging in Europe, the Allies worried about advances being made by Germans scientists. The British wanted to get a jump ahead of Hitler and th... Lees meer

The Plains of Abraham

Hélène Quimper

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• The fate of North America was sealed on the Plains of Abraham. France and England, historical enemies, faced off in September 1759 Quebec. France cont... Lees meer

The Calf with Two Heads

Louisa Blair

• Paperback | Engels | Baraka Nonfiction
• These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from ... Lees meer