Memoir & Biography

Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish

Josef Skvorecky’s literary history is tangled with the history of his native land – what used to be Czechoslovakia – in a way for which there is no obvious Canadian-born counterpart. Rudy Wiebe, Margaret Atwood, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Headed for the Blues: A Memoir with Ten Stories

By Josef Skvorecky, Kaca Polackova- Henley with Caleb Crain, Peter Kussi, Paul Wilson, trans.

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Boom Boom: The Life and Times of Bernard Geoffrion

By Bernard Geoffrion and Stan Fischler

Young people today slurp down coffee and gobble glazed donuts without knowing that Tim Horton was among the finest National Hockey League defencemen of his generation, so it’s encouraging to see the history of hockey ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Puck Starts Here: The Origin of Canada’s Great Winter Game Ice Hockey

By Garth Vaughan

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History

By Elizabeth Etue and Megan K. Williams

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cold War: The Great Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972

By Roy MacSkimming

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Morgentaler: A Biography of Henry Morgentaler

By Catherine Dunphy

Activists on both sides of the abortion debate – with their bombastic rhetoric and protest rally kitsch (coathangers on one side, teeny fetus feet buttons on the other) – are masters of agit prop theatrics. ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

100 Days in the Jungle

By Shawn Ohler and Vicki Hall

On Sept. 11 it will have been one year since seven Albertans and one American were kidnapped while working on an oil pipeline in Ecuador; they were held hostage for over three months. Edmonton journalists ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

By June Callwood

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough intervention ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

By Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley’s Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers is perilously similar to Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, for which she won a Governor General’s Award. The new book presents a conundrum: without having read Drumblair, readers ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish

Headed for the Blues: A Memoir with Ten Stories

Boom Boom: The Life and Times of Bernard Geoffrion

The Puck Starts Here: The Origin of Canada’s Great Winter Game Ice Hockey

On the Edge: Women Making Hockey History

Cold War: The Great Canada-Soviet Hockey Series of 1972

Morgentaler: A Biography of Henry Morgentaler

100 Days in the Jungle

The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

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