Douglas Mcintyre imprint: 96 books
Come from the Shadows
The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners....
All-Day Breakfast
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
When widowed father and substitute teacher Peter Giller leads an eleventh-grade class on a field trip to a plastics factory, he thinks the worst that could happen is that the parent volunteers won’t show up (they don’t), the kids will be rude (they are) or the free lunch will be terrible (it is).
A...
In the Fabled East
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Bridging history from 1890s Aix-en-Provence to American involvement in 1950s Vietnam, In the Fabled East is a timeless love story and riveting adventure, charting the loss of innocence of both individuals and the world at large.
Adélie Tremier, a turn-of-the-century widower and socialite suffering...
by W.D. Valgardson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Urban paranoia and rural innocence are the themes of these stories, in which W.D. Valgardson moves effortlessly from examining West Coast city life to fishing the inland sea of Manitoba.
With a quietly understated and often disturbing realism, Valgardson explores domesticity, the trials and...
Let the Drums be Your Heart
New Native Voices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Let the Drums be Your Heart brings together the work of more than forty aboriginal writers from all over Canada. concerned with family and days gone by, romance and adventure, tragedy and danger, these poems, short stories, articles and life stories ring with native pride and determination.
As...
The Shadows We Mistake for Love
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Living in the shadow of the Selkirk Mountains in southeastern BC, the inhabitants of the Slocan Valley are tied together by magical and dramatic geography, but also by an intricate web of shared history, common needs and the deep and complex relationships that evolve in isolated locations, where everyone...
Light at the Edge of the World
A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world’s traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
There are a few questions that professional artists get asked regularly: Where do you get your ideas? How did you get started? And be honest—are you really in it for the money?
Following the highly successful Me Funny and Me Sexy anthologies, Me Artsy answers these eternal questions and more....
The Man Who Killed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award by the Crime Writers of Canada
Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award
Montreal, 1926. Mick is down on his luck until an old pal offers him a loaded revolver and a job: riding shotgun in a truck running booze across the border. Stateside Prohibition...
by John MacLachlan Gray
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Vancouver is in an uproar over the death by gunshot of a Scottish nanny, Janet Stewart. An almost deliberately ham-handed police investigation has Constable Hook suspecting a cover-up. The powerful United Council of Scottish Societies is demanding an inquiry. The killing has become a political issue...
Dream City
Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Vancouver, located at the edge of a continent and the edge of national consciousness, has become the model for post-industrial urbanism. Does it deserve the attention? This provocative new book explores the links between the city’s seductive natural setting, turbulent political history, planning...
Vij's at Home
Relax, Honey: The Warmth and Ease of Indian Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2010
As seen on the Today Show!
The team behind the world famous Vij’s and Rangoli restaurants in Vancouver have an approachable follow-up to their award-winning, bestselling cookbook Vij’s: Elegant and Inspired Indian Cuisine. The easily adaptable, versatile recipes in Vij's at Home are tailored...
Terrible Victory
First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Mark Zuehlke is an expert at narrating the history of life on the battlefield for the Canadian army during World War II. In Terrible Victory, he provides a soldiers-eye-view account of Canada's bloody liberation of western Holland. Readers are there as soldiers fight in the muddy quagmire, enduring...
Tragedy at Dieppe
Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
With its trademark "you are there" style, Mark Zuehlke's tenth Canadian Battle Series volume tells the story of the 1942 Dieppe raid. Nicknamed "The Poor Man's Monte Carlo," Dieppe had no strategic importance, but with the Soviet Union thrown on the ropes by German invasion and America having just...