Star Dispatches imprint: 82 books

Before Grade 12, Jacob Scheier took a lot of drugs: 200 hits of acid and more than 60 tablets of ecstasy. Then he decided to hit the books and get serious. But five years later, after starting to take medications for depression and anxiety, he became afflicted with disturbing flashbacks. In My Never-Ending...

Man seems a species hard-wired to explore, and the final frontier is, indeed, space. Our interest in it has skyrocketed largely due to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and his remarkable photographs and communications from the International Space Station. He is NASA's first social-media astronaut....

Mark Cullen's Secrets to Horticultural Domination: Growing the Best Lawn and Garden on the Block is a comprehensive eRead guide for both novices and seasoned gardeners who want to get the most out of the time and money they devote to the yard. A bestselling author with more than 500,000 books in print...

He was the perpetrator of the most ghastly murder in Toronto during the 1960s. At 16, Wayne Ford killed his mother with a baseball bat and then hid her body in Lake Couchiching. It remained there for more than three years while police tried to solve the mystery of Minnie Ford's disappearance and a teenaged...

You think The Sopranos are fiction? Meet the GTA and Montreal's Mafia personalities and their activities and you will change your mind. In Vito Rizzuto: Canada's Country Club Mobster, veteran crime reporter Peter Edwards guides readers through the complex inter-relationships of the crime families in...

Oscar Pistorius went from hero to villain overnight when he killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. As journalist Stephanie Findlay writes, the Pistorius case has put a spotlight on guns and on violence in South Africa, especially against women. The case goes to trial on March 3.

Plastic is ubiquitous in our modern lives - a 17.6 billion industry in Canada alone that makes everything from shipping bags to packaging to clothing. It's made our lives much more convenient and until recently we haven't thought much about the fact that we throw a lot of it away after just one use,...

When the fledgling United States declared war, former president Thomas Jefferson famously boasted that “the conquest of Canada” would be “a mere matter of marching.” It became instead a bitter, nasty affair pitting brother against brother, cousin against cousin, as British regulars joined with...

On April 10, 2004, 26-year-old Sharon Mentore (now Tirabassi) won half the Super 7 21-million jackpot. For the financially pinched single mother of three in Hamilton, it was time to party. In fact, she partied so hard, giving away hundreds of thousands to family and friends, that she ended up where she...

Toronto has been held hostage to the dysfunction of City Hall under Mayor Rob Ford's watch. Partisan dissension and legal challenges dominate the headlines and have divided the city's inhabitants. It's wild political theatre but it also means that the many vital issues the city needs to address languish....

For more than 220 years since the early days of York, in fact the city's leaders and citizens have dreamed, planned and argued about the waterfront. For a long time, the results weren't pretty: from industrial sprawl and the Gardiner Expressway to the more recent "condo curtain," each generation seemed...

When Dalton McGuinty shocked the province by announcing his decision to resign as Ontario premier and Liberal leader late last year, Kathleen Wynne, a popular and sure-footed cabinet minister, was instantly considered a leading contender to succeed him. Though not a shoo-in, Wynne trounced perceived...