<p>The women of Afghanistan lived a five-year nightmare under the Taliban regime. In Veiled Threat, Sally Armstrong introduces several of these women - including the interim minister of women's affairs, Dr. Sima Samar - who describe the living hell they experienced as well as the quiet rebellion (clandestine schools for girls and health clinics for women) that took place in an effort to subvert the Taliban's hateful edicts. One of the first Western journalists to visit Afghanistan, Armstrong provides an insider's view of the plight of women there. She also reviews the ebb and flow of women's rights in Afghanistan, and accuses the Taliban and other fundamentalist leaders of distorting Islam for political opportunism.</p>

Veiled Threats : The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan

Politics & Social Sciences

Sally Armstrong

Politics & Government

Viking Canada (AHC)

Thirteen

Biographies & Memoirs

Honoré de, Balzac

Arts & Literature

Thrill Of Victory

Benedict, Michael

Tenor of Love

Mary Di Michele

"A magisterial volume―a cocktail of autobiography, political analysis of the state of the world, and policy prescriptions." ―Foreign AffairsFor fifty years, the Americans, British, and Europeans were close partners, yet today the Western alliance is strained to a moment of reckoning. In Cousins and Strangers, Chris Patten, one of Europe's most distinguished statesmen, scrutinizes what has happened in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, pinpointing the shifts in power and security that have reshaped our world. In penetrating and sparkling analysis, Patten argues that to face the urgent threats of the twenty-first century―terrorism, nuclear proliferation, failed and failing states, massive environmental change―the Western alliance must stop bickering and kowtowing and start asserting cooperative leadership. Bad habits and easy, self-absorbed slogans must give way to smart politics in order to ensure the world's, and our own, best interests. Drawing on his decades of experience in government and international diplomacy, Patten sharply assesses the leadership of the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and the stakes for all three if the West breaks apart.

Cousins And Strangers

Chris Patten

History

Fifteen-year-old Ian must complete community volunteer service to pass social studies. Choosing to work at “The Club” sounds like fun, until he arrives at what turns out to be a soup kitchen for the homeless. It is here that he meets Sarge, the pipe-wielding homeless man who saved Ian from a near-mugging. His real name is Jacques, and he was a soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces. His last tour of duty was as a peacekeeper stationed in Rwanda, an African nation Ian knows little about. What he learns will change Ian’s view of the world—and may just help Jacques, too.  With a Foreword by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Ret’d), force commander for the United Nations Mission to Rwanda, Shattered is an unforgettable story, one that asks what one person can do to make a difference.

Shattered

Walters, Eric

ARSENEAULT MICHEL

Children's Books

<p>In this delightful dockside reader, one of Canada''s great writers of the outdoors celebrates the Canadian cottage experience.Written in journal form, The Weekender takes us through a typical year -the pleasures, great and small, and the occasional pains-of cottage living. From that first, essential opening-day plunge into a still-frigid lake to the last leap in at the summer''s end, and everything in between, The Weekender reprises some of MacGregor''s classic writings from Cottage Life, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post, and includes some new material, too. It''s the perfect read for the cottage lover in all of us, a book to return to again and again, in summer and all year long.</p>

Weekender

Roy MacGregor

In Defense of Atheism

Michel Onfray

Religion & Spirituality

Sport of Nature

Sport Of Nature

GORDIMER, NADINE

Sports & Outdoors

The author recounts his young son's valiant yet unsuccessful struggle against bone cancer and relates the mystical events that led the author to find hope in loss and salvation in sorrow

Fireflies

MORRELL, DAVID

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