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Lee Selleck is an award-winning journalist known for his investigative work for CBC Television and Native Press/The Press Independent. He has written for Canadian Press and Reuters, and his work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's magazine, and many other publications. He is the co-author of Dying For Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders. In addition, Selleck edited two books by Indigenous authors: Trail of the Spirit by George Blondin, and My Heart Shook Like a Drum by Alice Blondin-Perrin. He is a recipient of the Queen's Jubilee Medal. ...more

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Lee Selleck "I realized I was standing on part of a body." The lone man alive in a holocaust, [Noel] O'Sullivan cried out, asking if anyone needed help, screaming…more"I realized I was standing on part of a body." The lone man alive in a holocaust, [Noel] O'Sullivan cried out, asking if anyone needed help, screaming against the howl of the broken pipes. - (Undergound in Giant Mine, from Dying For Gold)(less)
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Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
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Virginia Giuffre recounts her heartbreaking abuse as a girl and young woman by a series of narcissistic sexual predators, including the notorious Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their powerful friends. Her understated frankness is powerful; h ...more
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The Gravity of Feathers by Andrew Fleming
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Beautiful music is what first piqued my interest in the island of St. Kilda, the westernmost rocks of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, treeless in a cold and windy ocean. The album, The Lost Songs of St. Kilda by Trevor Morrison and James MacMillian, featu ...more
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Critchell Bullock's letters, written in his journal while out on the land, are an incredible historical find, brought to light by editor Carsten Iwers. Bullock's 1924-25 journey with barrenland vagabond John Hornby, from Great Slave Lake to Hudson's ...more
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Brian Jones  by Jeremy Reed
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A short but fascinating bio of Brian Jones, one of the original Rolling Stones. The Last Decadent got me listening to all their early albums with him, and the first couple after his death - a revealing voyage in itself. But Reed deals with more than ...more
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Critchell Bullock's letters, written in his journal while out on the land, are an incredible historical find, brought to light by editor Carsten Iwers. Bullock's 1924-25 journey with barrenland vagabond John Hornby, from Great Slave Lake to Hudson's ...more
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Cobalt by Charlie Angus
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Cobalt's story will ring bells for anyone who has lived in a small, north american mining town: boom, bust, oppression and exploitation of workers, theft of indigenous land, and destruction of land and waters in the quest for power and the almighty b ...more
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The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron
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Add rare metals to the list of resources nations either have or will likely fight over. Their growing role in geopolitical trade and political battles is probably not well known to most people - in that respect, The Rare Metals War is a good primer. ...more
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Dark Money by Jane Mayer
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For those who look at dark times in the USA and wonder, "how did it get so bad?" This book goes a long way to answering the question - perhaps as a companion to Democracy In Chains, another brilliant and scary book. Dark Money shows us how so much fu ...more
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If you’re a miner and enjoy mining history this one had me and I’m looking for more like it!
Enjoyed every page and every wormhole they led too!"
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Us Conductors is a great story based on the life of Russian scientist Lev Termen, inventor of the theremin, an ethereal, electronic musical instrument. Termen's fame soars in the USA before he is tragically brought to earth by the Soviet state he wor ...more
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