Star Dispatches imprint: 82 books
I Remember
Stories from the Conflict Zone
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In honour of Remembrance Day, The Toronto Star interviewed twenty veterans of Canada’s wars, conflict zones and peacekeeping missions. In their own words, these men and women recall touchstone moments of their war experience. From relieving Bergen-Belsen to landing at Juno Beach and from stealing orchard...
Housebroken
A Brief, Bemused History of Canada's Senate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Almost from Canada's beginnings, the Senate and its shortcomings have been topics of national conversation. Yet against all odds, the House of Taskless Thanks abides, in much the same form as it was established. In his new ebook, Housebroken: A Brief, Bemused History of Canada's Senate, Toronto Star...
by Mitch Potter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On May 16, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, along with his glamorous wife, Jacqueline, arrived in Ottawa for a fateful meeting with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. With 50,000 people lining the streets to get a glimpse of the inspirational Kennedys, the acrimony to come was almost unimaginable....
Glory Hunters
Quarterbacks and their Grey Cup Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the pen of Star veteran sports writer Bob Mitchell comes a fresh treat for the Grey Cup fan looking to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canada's football classic. In The Glory Hunters, Mitchell tracks down seven of the Cup's greatest living quarterbacks and interviews them as they recall their...
Linda's Story
An Investigation into the Mysterious World of Amnesia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In early September a woman known only as 'Linda' walked into a Toronto homeless shelter. She was well-dressed, without identification and completely lost to herself. Within weeks, police launched a continent-wide search to find out who she was. Toronto Star reporter Sandro Contenta stumbled onto Linda's...
Great Teachers
Life-Changing Encounters in the Classroom and the Gym
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Often, all it takes is one special teacher or coach to set a teenager on the right course. Sometimes they'll slide a book over (Just read this) or say the right words at the right time or dole out some well-deserved tough love. With luck, they'll reveal to a student the enormous potential hidden beneath...
Vanishing Man
In Search of My Grandfather, the Dogsledding Fur Trader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As a boy growing up in southern Ontario,Oakland Ross had little knowledge of his paternal grandfather. Eventually, he learned that William Oliver Kennedy Ross was among the last of Canada’s independent fur traders, toughened adventurers who beat their way by dogsled through the wilds of Quebec and...
Seals
Why Canada’s most controversial mammal could be the next sustainable food
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Canada's remote and beautiful Magdalen Islands, everyday life is the typical 21st century mash-up of the global and the traditional. Part of the Madelinots tradition is the consumption of seal meat, an action misunderstood and maligned by mainlanders and the rest of the world despite the fact that...
What's Next?
Our Eternal Quest for Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the end of the riveting HBO series True Detective, cynical former cop Rust Cohle experiences a transformative glimpse of paradise while in a coma. The possibility of an afterlife has always been a human preoccupation, but heaven is popping up everywhere these days -- in TV, books, movies and public...
No Going Home
Why long-term care is failing our parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Canadians are living the longest, healthiest lives that we have ever known. But the downside of aging finds every family eventually. Increasingly, we are dealing with heart-wrenching decisions around the care of our parents and relatives: When is it time for a nursing home? How will we know they are...
Forest Kids
Why the Modern Classroom is Moving Outside
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Forest schools have long flourished in Scandinavia, Germany and Britain. They are places where children learn through free play, movement and hands-on experience in nature. Now, Canada is exploring the benefits of outdoor learning. Sangster Elementary in Colwood, B.C., launched its joyous Nature Kindergarten...
Justin Trudeau
Can He Bring the Liberal Party Back to Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To all appearances, Justin Trudeau is poised to be anointed the next leader of the federal Liberal party. Devastated in the last election and widely criticized for being out of touch and out of date, this is a party in desperate need of renewal. Can this Trudeau revive the fortunes of a flagging party...
I Have a Dream
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s Speech 50 Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. stood before 250,000 people and held them in the palm of his hand. Speaking at the March on Washington, the Baptist minister gave what has come to be known as his I have a dream speech. King began by saying America had failed to deliver on its promise of equality...
On Ealue Lake
Wade Davis and The Battle for Todagin Mountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The land around Ealue Lake in northwestern British Columbia is Canada's own Eden, where humans are scarce and jaw-dropping scenery is plentiful. Famed anthropologist Wade Davis long a defender of indigenous peoples and their remote lands makes his summer home here. But a nearby open pit gold mine...