Star Dispatches imprint: 82 books
Never Forget
More Stories from the Conflict Zones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A soldier's homecoming to a family that believed him dead. A POW who helped build the tunnel featured in The Great Escape. Ditching over the North Sea. Purple flowers in soldiers' wounds. These are among the memories of 24 Canadians who served or worked in conflict zones ranging from the Second World...
by Hamida Ghafour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When spring arrived on March 21, 1914, just 139 days before the first battle of World War I, no one knew that the turn of the seasons would bring catastrophe. The signposts to Armageddon have been debated by historians ever since. Europe was divided into two armed and hostile camps at the time, but most...
Divine Interventions
Where Faith and Politics Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Religion and politics has always been a risky, combustible mix. Faiths like Judaism, Christianity and Islam were all born in poltical crises: the Hebrew slaves' flight from Egypt, Jesus's crucifixion by Roman authorities, Muhammad's expulsion from Mecca. Religions have regularly made merciless war on...
Heart in Darkness
The Genetic Defect That Could Kill Me
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At 39, Russell Cobb may have a time bomb ticking away in his chest. For two generations, all the men in his family have developed heart disease in the prime of life -- his father and grandfather both died before the age of 50. In his Star Dispatches ebook, Heart in Darkness: The Genetic Defect that Could...
Marching In
John Paul II and the Nature of Sainthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII upon us, the Roman Catholic tradition of sainthood is in the news again. But in our increasingly secular, science-focused times, doesn't the very notion of someone being a saint, residing in heaven with God and capable of securing miracles,...
Me, You, Us
How Canada Is Falling Apart and What Can Be Done To Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We still love our country. But increasingly, ordinary citizens are feeling left out, excommunicated to the margins,; through lack of decent employment and a sense that their voice doesn't count, writes award-winning Canadian journalist Michael Valpy. In his new Star Dispatches ebook, Me, You, Us: How...
Moments in Time
The Stories Behind the Toronto Star's Great Photographs, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Picture-taking is part of daily life: anyone can tweet, Instagram or post to Facebook. But for Toronto Star photographers, photography is a powerful medium to capture life itself: grief, jubilation, dejection, wonderment. Moments in Time: The Stories Behind the Toronto Star's Great Photographs, 2013...
Hemingway to Atwood
An Anthology of Great Writers in the Toronto Star
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Some of the greatest Canadian journalists of today, on some of the greatest writers of yesterday. That's the conceit that binds Hemingway to Atwood: An Anthology of Great Writers in the Toronto Star. Fourteen current Star journalists, having each chosen a piece by a notable contributor from the past,...
Ace
How Tennis Star Milos Raonic Served His Way to the Top
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He's the finest male singles tennis player in Canadian history, with a serve some say is currently the best in the world. And when Milos Raonic of Thornhill played at the Davis Cup World Group quarter-finals in April, it was this country's first competition at that level. The 22-year-old's victory meant...
Star-Struck
My Adventures in Astrology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Detractors dismiss it as utter folly. Yet roughly one-quarter of Canadians adults, and many more millions around the world, believe the changing position of celestial bodies affects their lives. In Star-struck: My Adventures in Astrology, feature writer Leslie Scrivener explores the practice, meeting...
OMG! Justin!
My Time Among the Beliebers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
He is the biggest pop star on the planet right now, a sweet-faced Canadian teen heartthrob with multi-platinum albums and legions of hysterically screaming fans. What is it about Justin Bieber that attracts such devotion? Is he a flash in the pan or the real deal? Can he make the treacherous transition...
Shelagh
The Beauty of an Ordinary Life One Year Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Even ordinary lives can be extraordinary. That was the animating idea last year when the Star sent a fleet of journalists to cover an unknown woman's funeral. By dedicating the kind of resources we might devote to a massive breaking news event, we hoped to interview every single person who attended the...
ORNGE
The Star investigation that broke the story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a clandestine meeting at an airport hotel, investigative reporter Kevin Donovan is alerted that there might be problems at ORNGE. From mysterious sources to leaked reports and from intensive interviews to dogged analysis of financial reports, Donovan slowly pieces together the stunning story of a...
Marineland
Inside the Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, the red eyes of a harbour seal named Larry stared out from behind bars on the front page of the Toronto Star, in the first story of the series Inside Marineland. Larry immediately went viral as readers worried about his welfare and that of other animals at the tourist attraction....