Stewart: 927 books
Underdog
Confessions of a Right-Wing Gay Jewish Muckraker
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Hold onto your hats: popular and controversial Toronto city journalist Sue-Ann Levy -- a self-described nice, chubby, Jewish, gay, conservative girl -- takes on the establishment and establishment thinking in this provocative, honest, and insightful memoir that will surprise her fans and foes alike.
Sue-Ann...
by Glenn Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Acclaimed Belfast novelist Glenn Patterson's classic novel of a day in the life in that city: a funny, brilliantly observed, bittersweet snapshot of a moment in 1967 just before everything changed.
"If I had known history was to be written that Sunday in the International Hotel I might...
Starring Brian Linehan
A Life Behind the Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A behind-the-curtain look at the life and times of Canadian celebrity interviewer Brian Linehan by one of his oldest friends and intimates.
Brian Linehan was one of seven children growing up in the shadow of the Dofasco steel plant where his father and brothers worked. At seven years old he...
Persona Non Grata
The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.
In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor...
Hockey Moms
Realities from the Rink: Introducing 20 Women You Already Know
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Julie Bertuzzi, the wife of NHL player Todd Bertuzzi and Hockey Mom extraordinaire, presents us with twenty hilarious portraits of the Hockey Moms we know and love. The perfect gift book for all seasons.
Straight-shooting, observant, and uproarious, Julie Bertuzzi's Hockey Moms is...
Finding the Words
Writers on Inspiration, Desire, War, Celebrity, Exile, and Breaking the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Celebrated writers reveal surprising truths about the joys, challenges, and importance of finding the words, in this special fundraising anthology for PEN Canada.
In Finding the Words, thirty-one well-known writers share deeply personal discoveries and stories that will surprise, delight, and stir...
The Idea of Canada
Letters to a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From our present Governor General, a series of 50 (of several thousand) carefully chosen letters he has written to people he has admired and befriended over his seventy-plus years, that sets out Mr. Johnston's frank, informed, and novel thoughts about Canada.
Touching on a wide range of topics...
by Stephen Leacock, David Staines
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This original NCL collection brings together Leacock’s comic masterpieces, the many varieties of his remarkable humour. In one story a young man is seized by fear as he attempts to open his first bank account. In another, Lord Ronald, the beloved of Gertrude the Governess, “flung himself upon...
Groundswell
The Case for Fracking
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
From the bestselling author of Ethical Oil comes a provocative exploration of the shale gas rush. Levant explains what fracking is and explores what its enemies do not want you to know and why it has the potential to change our future.
In Groundswell, Ezra Levant examines the fracking revolution....
Young Trudeau: 1919-1944
Son of Quebec, Father of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
This book shines a light of devastating clarity on French-Canadian society in the 1930s and 1940s, when young elites were raised to be pro-fascist, and democratic and liberal were terms of criticism. The model leaders to be admired were good Catholic dictators like Mussolini, Salazar in Portugal,...
by Lauren Kirshner
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
**Named NOW Magazine’s Best Emerging Local Author
Where We Have to Go** is a luminous and sassy first novel about the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams. At once wryly humorous and deeply affecting, this sparkling novel follows the irresistible Lucy Bloom as she...
Extreme Mean
Ending Cyberabuse at Work, School, and Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
From one of Canada's foremost investigative writers, a groundbreaking exposé on the motives and machinations behind cyberabuse - tormenting, trolling, harassment, cyberbullying, stalking, and sexual extortion - and the toll it is taking on children, youth, and adults around the world.
It seems...
Robertson Davies
A Portrait in Mosaic
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book
A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.
From his student days onward, Robertson Davies made a huge impression...
by Mordecai Richler, William Weintraub
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophistication and snobbery; the catastrophic day when...