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The Black Book of English Canada

For Normand Lester, a francophone journalist with Radio-Canada, the officially promoted narratives of Canadian history are biased in favour of English Canada and whitewash its many injustices. Lester wants to set the record straight, and ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

By Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski is perhaps the closest we have in Canada to a Renaissance man. His works, which usually begin from a tightly focused locus point – the absence of the concept of comfort in architectural ... Read More »

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

Testaments of Honour: Personal Histories of Canada’s War Veterans

By Blake Heathcote

Canadians know very little about their history and even less about their military past. Part of the blame for the latter deficiency is that Canada’s veterans have, to an extraordinary degree, remained mute about their ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: History

One Man’s Justice: A Life in the Law

By Thomas Berger

In a culture saturated with Law & Order reruns and cops-as-idols reality shows, lawyer Thomas Berger’s memoir is a refreshing, compelling read about using the legal process to make the world a better place. Like ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka

By Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns

Their plan had been characterized by many (scientists and government officials included) as irresponsible, arrogant, and above all dangerous. Quite simply, Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns wanted to live with grizzly bears in the wild. ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

By Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith, eds

In the mid 1990s three motley, smart-ass Canadian guys – Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith – fell to earth from, respectively, a stint in narco rehab, a make-work welfare program, and a no-future ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Stay

By Aislinn Hunter

Poet and short story writer Aislinn Hunter’s first novel is about a young Canadian who makes the pilgrimage to Europe to find herself. The plot may sound old-fashioned, but Stay’s rigorous examination of the relationship ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Featherbed

By John L. Miller

“Objects hold meaning,” Rebecca tells her daughter Anna from her deathbed, “an object might reveal a person’s hopes and dreams.” That object, Anna soon discovers, is her mother’s diary dating back to 1909. The revelations ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Fine Passage

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

France Daigle’s latest novel, A Fine Passage, is an elegant puzzle about how lives intersect and the way small acts of kindness can have far-reaching effects. “Can you imagine boundless joy?” a garrulous old man ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hating Gladys

By Leona Gom

It is the summer of 1965, and Gladys Pratt, an embittered, middle-aged woman, is preparing for another swarm of whining tourists to descend upon her isolated Yukon lodge. When one of her sullen staffers tries ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Black Book of English Canada

The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio

Testaments of Honour: Personal Histories of Canada’s War Veterans

One Man’s Justice: A Life in the Law

Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka

The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll

Stay

The Featherbed

A Fine Passage

Hating Gladys

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