Toronto Star Newspapers Limited: 82 books
The Butler Did It
Why Private Service is Back in Vogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For most of us, the domestic servant seems a relic of a bygone era, a concept confined to history, historical fiction and the imaginings of popular culture. But, in fact, the butler is back, and he or she is in ever-increasing demand as the ranks of the super-rich skyrocket. The job is much more fluid...
That Polio Season
Lt-Gov David Onley and the epidemic of 1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sixty years ago this summer, the most severe polio epidemic on record claimed more than 8,000 victims across the country. About a quarter of those stricken with so-called infantile paralysis were in Ontario. Three-year-old Davie Onley, who would grow up to be the province's lieutenant-governor, was one....
Shock
An Investigation into the Startling Comeback of Electroconvulsive Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Few medical treatments are as fraught with fear, misunderstanding and controversy as electroshock, or electroconvulsive therapy. Most of us consider it a treatment of the 1950s and 60s, an option medicine and society have left behind. Yet ECT is experiencing a startling resurgence and is seen as especially...
Justice on Trial
Inside Guantanamo's Divisive 9/11 Prosecution
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Some have called it the "trial of the century," saying it will rival Nuremberg for historical significance. Others decry the Guantanamo prosecution of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others as a "show trial," tainted by torture and secrecy. Toronto Star national security correspondent...
Superman
Everyone Wants a Piece of His Legend
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
It's difficult to overstate Superman's impact. First created in 1934 by Toronto-born Joe Shuster and Cleveland native Jerry Siegel, the original superhero burst into the public consciousness 75 years ago. He continues to awe and inspire with this year's Man of Steel. In Superman: Everyone Wants a Piece...
They're Back
Why the 2013 Blue Jays Might Win It All
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Will 2013 be the season that brings Toronto's Blue Jays back to glory and ignites the fevers of a sports-mad town that needs some heroes? Alex Anthopoulos and his team have brought some exciting new talent to town, adding to the strength already on the team. To coincide with the season opener, self-confessed...
Lost Boy
The Death of Darcy Allan Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The death of bicycle courier Darcy Allan Sheppard during an altercation on Bloor St. W. with Michael Bryant, the former attorney general, galvanized the city. Criminal charges against Bryant were ultimately dismissed, but even now, four years later, questions about what happened on the evening of Aug....
by Hamida Ghafour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
No one, it seems, was expecting a massive war that, by the end of the year, would kill or wound five million. In the winter of 1914, Britain was preoccupied with the possibility of civil war over home rule in Ireland. Kaiser Wilhem of Germany wanted to boost his naval power but wasn't keen on fighting....
The Quiet Evolution
How Dalton McGuinty Changed Ontario--and Why He Resigned
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Oct. 15, 2012, Ontario's 24th premier, Dalton James Patrick McGuinty Jr., stunned political friends and foes alike with the announcement he was resigning. Mired in accumulating scandal within the government and bogged down in labour strife with teachers, he abruptly decided it was time to return to...
What I Know
Lessons from my 30 years of Quadriplegia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At 11:15 p.m. on Friday, September 23, 1983, the life of 18-year-old Barbara Turnbull changed drastically. Three armed robbers burst into the Mississauga Becker's store where she was working the late shift, shooting her and severing her spinal cord. Turnbull almost lost her life, but survived a quadriplegic....
Best Job Ever
Ellie Tesher on Life as an Advice Columnist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ellie Tesher spent many childhood hours at her father's Harbord St. drugstore, listening as he advised patrons on personal as well as health issues. Decades later, after she had studied sociology, worked with foster children, married, divorced, raised a family, remarried and won accolades as a journalist,...
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...
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...