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Legal archives offer extraordinary opportunities for understanding intimacies across time and space. Family and Justice in the Archives presents a series of fascinating historical essays that unpack stories of familial, domestic, and sexual intimacy from the records left behind by legal processes, providing rich new insights about family, gender, race, sex, culture, identity, and daily life.Contributors examine the written traces left by publi...

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Selected by editor Lisa Moore, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Stories showcases the best Canadian fiction writing published in 2022.

The only certainty in life, according to these stories, comes from the accumulation of moments that refuse to be contained. The stories in Open cover these moments, familiar territory in the hands of most writers, in unfamiliar ways. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake, the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's wrenc...

Axos has been freed from the time loop, and is plotting to drain Earth's energy. Without the Doctor's help to stop the powerful space parasite, UNIT are forced to rely on a multipersonality renegade Time Lord... known as the Eleven. UNIT Chief Kate Stewart and her squad now have to confront her father's past foe...

A multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political, and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused.

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From the celebrated author of February, an exhilarating new novel that asks: What makes a family? How does it shape us? And can we ever really choose who we love?

How scientific advances in genetic modification will fundamentally change the natural world The process of manipulating the genetic material of one animal to include the DNA of another creates a new transgenic organism. Several animals, notably goats, mice, sheep, and cattle are now genetically modified in this way. In Our Transgenic Future, Lisa Jean Moore wonders what such scientific advances portend. Will the natural world become so modifie...

Als am Valentinstag 1982 ein gewaltiger Sturm die Bohrinsel »Ocean Ranger« umtost, vertäuen sich die 87 Männer der Besatzung mit Rettungsseilen selbst. Die Seile erstarren im Frost, die Männer versinken in den Fluten mitsamt der Bohrinsel. Ihre Familien erfahren davon aus den Medien. Die Ölgesellschaft ist überfordert, die Entschädigungen werden erst drei Jahre später gezahlt. Die hochschwangere Witwe Helen kann so lange nicht warten, sie muss...

Lisa Moores Erzählungen handeln nur auf den ersten Blick von Alltäglichkeiten: Da sind Eleanor und Philipp auf einer Gartenparty - die ihre ganze Ehe auf den Prüfstand stellt. Da ist Melody, die nach einer durchtanzten Nacht in die nächstgelegene Stadt trampt - für eine Abtreibung. Und da sind Lyle und seine Tochter Alex, die einen Tag an der Küste Neufundlands verbringen - der Beginn eines neuen Kapitels. Mit ihrem untrüglichen Gespür für die...

-> Buffalo Bill: Buffalo Bill Cody wird von der Kavallerie ausgesandt, den Häuptling Whitecloud und seinen Stamm zu stoppen, Güterzüge anzugreifen. Whitecloud fordert im Verhandlungsgespräch mit Cody dafür die Büffelherde, die seinem Stamm durch die Regierung versprochen wurde. Was beide nicht wissen ist, dass die Büffelherde von einer Bande Goldgräbern gestohlen wurde, um von den Indianern damit Land zu erpressen. Nun ist es an Buffalo Bill...

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hard ticket noun (Nfld) a lively character, a tough or headstrong person, someone not easily controlled. Hard Ticket showcases some of the most exciting writers in Newfoundland. Selected by critically acclaimed author Lisa Moore, these previously unpublished stories highlight the charged and magnetic work of Newfoundland's next generation of literary trailblazers. Contributors to the anthology include Bridget Canning, Matthew Hollett, Jim McEw...

Internationally celebrated as one of literature's most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third story collection that shows us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives.

In Racket, editor and acclaimed fiction writer Lisa Moore introduces us to ten of the most exciting new writers currently at work in Newfoundland. Featuring a diverse range of previously unpublished short stories, this unique anthology showcases a generation of voices soon to emerge as the next great wave of Newfoundland writers.

The only certainty in life, according to these stories, comes from the accumulation of moments that refuse to be contained. The stories in "Open" cover these moments, familiar territory in the hands of most writers, in unfamiliar ways. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake, the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's wre...

A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing friends and starting all over again, from internationally acclaimed author Moore ("Caught"). Now available in paperback for the first time with a new front cover.

In this exceptional collection of original essays, twenty-five celebrated writers share one of their most intimate and life-changing experiences: giving birth. Moving, uniquely honest, and transformative, Great Expectations takes the reader on an emotional and physical journey like no other.