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by Scott Chantler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A beautifully illustrated and poignant graphic memoir that tells the story of World War II from an Everyman's perspective.
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In March of 1943, Scott Chantler's grandfather, Law Chantler, shipped out across the Atlantic for active service with the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, along with...
by Dele Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
In the only surviving part of the earth sits the post-apocalyptic West-African Kingdom of Nayja. In the only place where humans still exist lives four tribes, the Kingfishers, the Ammirians, the Rowans and the Arnazuris but one tribe is dominant and must remain so.
Seventeen-year-old Genesis...
Black Code
Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain.
In...
No Kids
40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
The shocking treatise that was a bestselling international media sensation upon its 2007 publication in France now makes its eagerly anticipated English-language debut.
A mother of two herself, Maier makes her deadly serious, if at times laugh-out-loud-funny, argument with all the unbridled...
The Final Call
Hockey Stories from a Legend in Stripes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
After almost two thousand games and thirty years of wearing the Stripes, legendary NHL official Fraser dropped his final puck at the end of the 2009/2010 season and relives his colourful career officiating hockey in his candid book.
After thirty years in the NHL, legendary referee Kerry Fraser...
Dropping the Gloves
Inside the Fiercely Combative World of Professional Hockey
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Dropping the Gloves candidly tracks Barry Melrose's career in hockey - a road that has not changed substantially for today's aspiring players. Not many have Melrose's credentials or his breadth of experience in professional hockey. He's played and coached in Junior Hockey, the American Hockey League,...
Into the Cage
The Rise of UFC Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In the late-1980s, a VHS tape circulated through the martial arts underground. The grainy video, Gracies in Action, showed a slim Brazilian fighter in a traditional gi fighting a boxer, a wrestler, and finally a karate master. Art Davie saw the tape, and with Rorion Gracie, devised War of the Worlds,...
Page Fright
Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer...
A Writer's Life
The Margaret Laurence Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
For anyone who loves great literature -- or aspires to write it -- this is an essential collection, full of insight, wisdom, humour, and candour from Canada's most important and beloved literary figures.
For the past twenty-five years, the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual lecture series, the...
by Terry Fallis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
WINNER OF CBC CANADA READS
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election--but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock--an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching...
by John Ibbitson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The authoritative biography of Stephen Harper, to be published on the eve of the next election.
As one of the important prime ministers in the life of our nation, Stephen Harper has reshaped Canada into a more conservative country, a transformation that his opponents tacitly...
Magna Cum Laude
How Frank Stronach Became Canada's Best-Paid Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The first biography of one of Canada’s most elusive and controversial billionaires.
This is a solid, thorough business book about Frank Stronach, Canada’s most famous rags-to-riches story. The outline is well known: a young Austrian immigrant arrives in Canada in 1955 with fifty dollars...
by Terry Fallis
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.
Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws...
Right Here, Right Now
Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
In this timely and insightful new book, Stephen J. Harper, Canada's 22nd Prime Minister, draws on a decade of experience as a G-7 leader to help leaders in business and government understand, adapt, and thrive in an age of unprecedented disruption.
The world is in flux. Disruptive technologies, ideas, and politicians are...