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Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

History scholars Margaret Conrad and James Hiller bring a wide range of expertise to Atlantic Canada, the third volume in Oxford’s Illustrated History of Canada series. Atlantic Canada looks at Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

By Chris Gudgeon and Barbara Stewart

“Ka-ching!” went the strings of Owen Edmunds’ heart. The Richmond, B.C. cad then phoned his fiancée – collect – to announce that he had won half a million dollars on Lotto 6/49, and that the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story

By Jack Todd

The searing stories of the Americans who went to Vietnam to fight and bleed and die are written in the novels and short stories of Tim O’Brien and in memoirs like Michael Herr’s Dispatches and ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst

By Barry K. Wilson

Benedict Arnold = traitor. The equation is simple, well known, and largely unquestioned. A leading military commander for the American rebels in the 1776 revolution, Arnold later defected to the British and tarnished his name ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

By Patricia Anderson

Passion Lost, the latest book by Vancouver literary consultant and historian Patricia Anderson – and a successor to her previous title When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians – attempts to trace passion’s progress over ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By Robert Adams

Robert Adams’ A Love of Reading introduces 18 novels published, for the most part, over the last 10 years. Adams first delivered these reviews to packed theatres in Montreal and Toronto. Chapters on Maguib Mahfouz’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

Lives of Mothers and Daughters

By Sheila Munro

Sheila Munro, the eldest of three daughters, has struggled against low literary self-esteem, for it is not easy being the daughter of one of the world’s greatest living short story writers. Yet it was the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman’s Guide to Full Financial Security

By Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s latest foray into the crowded world of financial planning books is A Woman of Independent Means, a financial guide for the neophyte. According to Vaz-Oxlade, women have specific needs when it comes to ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Taking Your Kids Online: How and When to Introduce Your Children to the Internet

By Arlette Lefebvre and Brian Hillis

Internet hype sends out the message that any child who isn’t Yahooing is doomed to servitude or social assistance. Taking Your Kids Online doesn’t go that far, but it does argue that “what your daughter ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

By Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly, eds.

At first glance Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly’s new collection of essays, L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, may seem an odd idea. Montgomery’s most famous creation, Anne Shirley (of Anne of Green Gables fame) may ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst

Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

Lives of Mothers and Daughters

A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman’s Guide to Full Financial Security

Taking Your Kids Online: How and When to Introduce Your Children to the Internet

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

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