Douglas And Mcintyre 2013 Ltd : 94 books
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...
You Will Wear a White Shirt
From the Northern Bush to the Halls of Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Growing up in a remote Northern community, Nick Sibbeston had little reason to believe he would one day fulfill his mother’s ambition of holding a career where he would wear a white shirt.” Torn away from his family and placed in residential school at the age of five, Sibbeston endured loneliness,...
Glass Boys
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
With vivid and unflinching prose, Nicole Lundrigan has created a riveting and deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the depths and limits of love.
When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis sees blood on the hands of the man responsible: the abusive...
Where the Pavement Ends
Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Over the past fifteen years, Canada’s Aboriginal healing community has emerged as a vital and visible force. Creative recovery programs have been established across the country, and international initiatives such as the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide” gatherings have originated here. The Canadian...
The Fog of War
Censorship of Canada's Media in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The Canadian government censored the news during World War II for two main reasons: to keep military and economic secrets out of enemy hands and to prevent civilian morale from breaking down. But in those tumultuous times - with Nazi spies landing on our shores by raft, U-boat attacks in the St. Lawrence,...
by Martine J. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Over his lifetime, Bill Reid created many historic pieces of art including the large bronze sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, nicknamed the Jade Canoe and displayed at the Vancouver International Airport, and The Raven and the First Men, a yellow cedar carving. Both are featured on the Canadian...
Radio Belly
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
In the surreal world of Buffy Cram's stories, someone or something slips beneath the skin of her already beleaguered characters. Stealing into their worlds, it rearranges the familiar into something strange and possibly threatening, making off with their emotional and even physical goods.
A...
East Meets West
Traditional and Contemporary Asian Dishes from Acclaimed Vancouver Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
While foodies may flock to Vancouver for dumplings and dim sum, they leave having discovered a wealth of world-class Asian dishes, from sushi to sambar, bánh mì to bubble tea. East Meets West celebrates the distinctive dishes from the best of the city's Asian restaurants.
Almost one in five...
by Matthew J. Trafford
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
A mob of teens descends upon Paris in the thrall of a self-help author; a grotesque yard-sale statuette frees a dying man from his silence; the hottest club in town is staffed by angels. This is the uncanny world of The Divinity Gene, Matthew J. Trafford's debut story collection, and it bristles with...
by Dany LaFerrière
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
On the sun-drenched island of Haiti in the 1970s, under the shadow of Baby Doc” Duvalier’s notorious regime, locals eke out an existence as servants, bartenders and panderers to the white elite. Fanfan, Charlie, and Legba, aware of the draw of their adolescent, black bodies, seduce rich, middle-aged...
by Ann Eriksson
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
High Clear Bell of Morning is the gripping tale of a father’s love and the extent to which he will go to protect his daughter.
Ruby’s life begins to unravel when she hears voices coming from her closet. It isn’t long before they are with her all the time. Diagnosed with schizophrenia,...
In Valhalla's Shadows
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
Ever since the accident, ex-cop Tom Parsons’s life has been crumbling around him: his marriage and career have fallen apart, his grown children barely speak to him, and he can’t escape the dark thoughts plaguing his mind. Leaving the urban misery of Winnipeg, he tries to remake himself in the...
Arthur Erickson
An Architect's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Arthur Erickson, Canada's pre-eminent philosopher architect, was renowned internationally for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition, and his epic vision of architecture for people. Among his most celebrated large-scale works are three that helped to define Vancouver's...