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Chronicle of a War Foretold: How Mideast Peace Became America’s Fight

This book is a compilation of published articles spanning almost a decade, from the early 1990s to the post-Sept. 11 world. The articles, by Norman Spector, ex-chief of staff to the prime minister and former ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: History

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

By Gabor Maté

When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

By Andrea Curtis

Living at the beginning of the 20th century in what was then considered to be Ontario’s up-and-coming community of Wiarton, James Crawford was a prominent community figure and captain of a local steamship, the J.H. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

By Pat Capponi

A key area has fallen through the cracks in the follow-up discussions to the Romanow Commission on Canada’s health care system: mental health. Thankfully, activist Pat Capponi has been paying close attention to the fate ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Designerguys: Finding Your Personal Style

By Chris Hyndman and Steven Sabados

Snobs would say that any artefact that features the phrase “personal style” probably hasn’t got any, but people who look at subtitles – or who actually read – are probably not the point here. With ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

By Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan, eds.

What a good idea: compile brief, true travel narratives from a selection of well-known and up-and-coming Canadian novelists, poets, editors, and journalists. With AWOL, editors Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan have outdone themselves. Their selections ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada

By John Stackhouse

The idea behind Timbit Nation was for John Stackhouse, former New Delhi correspondent for The Globe and Mail, to see his own country as a foreigner might see it. After almost eight years of reporting ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Black Bird

By Michel Basilières

Michel Basilières’ Black Bird is a bitter novel – bitterly funny and full of sour memories of a Montreal and a Quebec that no longer exist. As such it will undoubtedly be very popular with ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Country of Cold

By Kevin Patterson

Country of Cold is the first fiction offering from Kevin Patterson, author of the sailing memoir The Water in Between. The collection’s 13 stories follow the lives of a group of small-town Manitoba graduates as ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Chronicle of a War Foretold: How Mideast Peace Became America’s Fight

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress

Into the Blue: Family Secrets and the Search for a Great Lakes Shipwreck

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness

Designerguys: Finding Your Personal Style

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada

Black Bird

Country of Cold

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