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★ Legends of Autumn: The Glory Years of Canadian Football

As a typical red-blooded Canadian male who first became aware of professional sports in the late 1970s, I have always been puzzled by the perennial debate over whether or not the Canadian Football League is ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Crimes and Mercies

By James Bacque

Most reasonable people consider the Second World War to be the last morally unambiguous conflict. Nazis were the bad guys, the Allies were the good guys. Good triumphed over evil, right?Toronto writer James Bacque would ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Somalia Cover-up: A Commissioner’s Journal

By Peter Desbarats

Peter Desbarats, a former journalism dean at the University of Western Ontario, was one of the commissioners on the ill-fated Somalia inquiry. Following the amputated commission’s final report, Desbarats produced his own account, Somalia Cover-up: ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

By Nicholas de Lange, ed.

The history of the Jewish people stretches from before recorded time to our century, when everything is recorded. Nobody documented the slaughters that must have taken place when a bunch of disaffected slaves from Egypt ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

And God Created the French

By Louis-Bernard Robitaille

This collection of very fine vignettes by Louis-Bernard Robitaille, Paris correspondent for the Montreal newspaper La Presse, captures much of what makes contemporary France so fascinating and so maddening. After 30 years of living in ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Bre-X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow

By Vivian Danielson and James Whyte

In retrospect, the collapse of the Bre-X Minerals hoax was obvious, say Vivian Danielson, editor of The Northern Miner, and James Whyte, a reporter with an academic background in geology and geochemistry on Danielson’s staff. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Reluctant Pornographer

By Bruce La Bruce

The Reluctant Pornographer is a star’s memoirs so there is not much time for self-analysis between descriptions of getting it on for the camera and facing a film festival question and answer session. Nonetheless, Toronto ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Madonna: Bawdy & Soul

By Karlene Faith

Karlene Faith has added her name to the list of authors willing to try to figure out why Madonna – the singer, not the religious icon – alternately pleases and pisses off so many people. ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada

By Brian Kendall

For those Beatlemaniacs like me who actually saw The Beatles in concert in Canada in 1964, ’65, or ’66, this book will bring back delightful memories. For those unfortunate others, Our Hearts Went Boom will ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Scorned & Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics

By Bill Richardson

The title of Bill Richardson’s new book is taken from a painting by Emily Carr, but it’s the subtitle, Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics, that’s particularly revealing. Thanatos and campy Eros are the ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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★ Legends of Autumn: The Glory Years of Canadian Football

Crimes and Mercies

Somalia Cover-up: A Commissioner’s Journal

The Illustrated History of the Jewish People

And God Created the French

Bre-X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow

The Reluctant Pornographer

Madonna: Bawdy & Soul

Our Hearts Went Boom: The Beatles’ Invasion of Canada

Scorned & Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics

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