Toronto Star Newspapers Limited: 82 books
Never Forget
More Stories from the Conflict Zones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A soldier's homecoming to a family that believed him dead. A POW who helped build the tunnel featured in The Great Escape. Ditching over the North Sea. Purple flowers in soldiers' wounds. These are among the memories of 24 Canadians who served or worked in conflict zones ranging from the Second World...
by Mitch Potter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On May 16, 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, along with his glamorous wife, Jacqueline, arrived in Ottawa for a fateful meeting with Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. With 50,000 people lining the streets to get a glimpse of the inspirational Kennedys, the acrimony to come was almost unimaginable....
Glory Hunters
Quarterbacks and their Grey Cup Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From the pen of Star veteran sports writer Bob Mitchell comes a fresh treat for the Grey Cup fan looking to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Canada's football classic. In The Glory Hunters, Mitchell tracks down seven of the Cup's greatest living quarterbacks and interviews them as they recall their...
by Hamida Ghafour
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When spring arrived on March 21, 1914, just 139 days before the first battle of World War I, no one knew that the turn of the seasons would bring catastrophe. The signposts to Armageddon have been debated by historians ever since. Europe was divided into two armed and hostile camps at the time, but most...
Divine Interventions
Where Faith and Politics Intersect
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Religion and politics has always been a risky, combustible mix. Faiths like Judaism, Christianity and Islam were all born in poltical crises: the Hebrew slaves' flight from Egypt, Jesus's crucifixion by Roman authorities, Muhammad's expulsion from Mecca. Religions have regularly made merciless war on...
Heart in Darkness
The Genetic Defect That Could Kill Me
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At 39, Russell Cobb may have a time bomb ticking away in his chest. For two generations, all the men in his family have developed heart disease in the prime of life -- his father and grandfather both died before the age of 50. In his Star Dispatches ebook, Heart in Darkness: The Genetic Defect that Could...
Great Teachers
Life-Changing Encounters in the Classroom and the Gym
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Often, all it takes is one special teacher or coach to set a teenager on the right course. Sometimes they'll slide a book over (Just read this) or say the right words at the right time or dole out some well-deserved tough love. With luck, they'll reveal to a student the enormous potential hidden beneath...
Marching In
John Paul II and the Nature of Sainthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII upon us, the Roman Catholic tradition of sainthood is in the news again. But in our increasingly secular, science-focused times, doesn't the very notion of someone being a saint, residing in heaven with God and capable of securing miracles,...
Seals
Why Canada’s most controversial mammal could be the next sustainable food
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On Canada's remote and beautiful Magdalen Islands, everyday life is the typical 21st century mash-up of the global and the traditional. Part of the Madelinots tradition is the consumption of seal meat, an action misunderstood and maligned by mainlanders and the rest of the world despite the fact that...
What's Next?
Our Eternal Quest for Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the end of the riveting HBO series True Detective, cynical former cop Rust Cohle experiences a transformative glimpse of paradise while in a coma. The possibility of an afterlife has always been a human preoccupation, but heaven is popping up everywhere these days -- in TV, books, movies and public...
Me, You, Us
How Canada Is Falling Apart and What Can Be Done To Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
We still love our country. But increasingly, ordinary citizens are feeling left out, excommunicated to the margins,; through lack of decent employment and a sense that their voice doesn't count, writes award-winning Canadian journalist Michael Valpy. In his new Star Dispatches ebook, Me, You, Us: How...
No Going Home
Why long-term care is failing our parents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Canadians are living the longest, healthiest lives that we have ever known. But the downside of aging finds every family eventually. Increasingly, we are dealing with heart-wrenching decisions around the care of our parents and relatives: When is it time for a nursing home? How will we know they are...
Forest Kids
Why the Modern Classroom is Moving Outside
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Forest schools have long flourished in Scandinavia, Germany and Britain. They are places where children learn through free play, movement and hands-on experience in nature. Now, Canada is exploring the benefits of outdoor learning. Sangster Elementary in Colwood, B.C., launched its joyous Nature Kindergarten...
Justin Trudeau
Can He Bring the Liberal Party Back to Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To all appearances, Justin Trudeau is poised to be anointed the next leader of the federal Liberal party. Devastated in the last election and widely criticized for being out of touch and out of date, this is a party in desperate need of renewal. Can this Trudeau revive the fortunes of a flagging party...