Politics & Current Affairs

A Mother’s Story: My Battle to Free David Milgaard

Joyce Milgaard fought for 28 years to secure the release of her son, David, from prison. During those years she held on to her unconditional love for (and belief in) her child. A Mother’s Story, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bulldog: Spirit of the New Entrepreneur

By Ellie Rubin

The fastest growing segment of the self-employed market in Canada today is composed of women. Female entrepreneurs are at the leading edge of our economy’s knowledge workers and are launching their own businesses in record ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal

By Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal, is a long-overdue satire of the “be thankful for the little things” type of inspirational book. Authors Helen Kafka and Laura Hellen (otherwise known as “The Helens”) are, respectively, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Common Man’s Guide to Loving Women

By Andrew Moodie

Four black men discuss their various problems with women in a luxury warehouse apartment, revealing in the process strains on their romantic and work relationships. Chris, a corporate lawyer, is in low spirits because he ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist

By Elizabeth Simpson

The title of this memoir might lead the reader to expect a dishy, bitchy, spaghetti-strapped session with a Helen Fielding or a Melissa Bank, the top-girls in the urban dating adventures genre. But the reader ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Rights Revolution

By Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff’s The Rights Revolution, the latest in CBC’s Massey Lectures series, probes the international growth of rights consciousness, with particular reference to Canada. The book was written during a sojourn in Banff and appears, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

By Jack Layton

Over the past five years, poll after poll has placed solving homelessness near the top of Canadians’ priorities. As if to reflect that concern, a growing number of books on poverty from high-profile publishers has ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Beatrice Chancy

By George Elliott Clarke

Beatrice Chancy defies categorization. On the surface, it’s an adaptation of a well-known murder story from 16th-century Rome. In 1598, a young woman named Beatrice Cenci killed her father after he raped her. Subsequently, her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Resurrection: The Kidnapping of Abby Drover

By John Griffiths

Reaching back across 23 years into a windowless concrete cell, John Griffiths’ Resurrection recreates the kidnapping, sexual abuse, starvation, and six-month confinement of 12-year-old Abby Drover in Port Moody, B.C.While the police and Drover’s family ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Death Dealers: A Witness to the Drug Wars That Are Bleeding America

By Yves Lavigne

When you’ve spent your life in the middle of a war, it must be easy to think the rest of the world is in it too. This certainly seems true for the narcotics agents and ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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A Mother’s Story: My Battle to Free David Milgaard

Bulldog: Spirit of the New Entrepreneur

Abundantly Simple: Everywoman’s Gratitude Journal

A Common Man’s Guide to Loving Women

One Man at a Time: Secrets of a Serial Monogamist

The Rights Revolution

Homelessness: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis

★ Beatrice Chancy

Resurrection: The Kidnapping of Abby Drover

Death Dealers: A Witness to the Drug Wars That Are Bleeding America

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