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★ The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York

Business Week senior writer Anthony Bianco assumed a mammoth task in deciding to write a biography of the Reichmanns, once one of the world’s most powerful and secretive families. His subjects, the force behind Olympia ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ At the Border Called Hope: Where Refugees Are Neighbours

By Mary Jo Leddy

For more than five years, prominent social activist Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked at Romero House, a Toronto refugee shelter. The first part of At the Border Called Hope, a remarkable and important ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Only Wounded: Ulster Stories

By Patrick Taylor

Two young women are going on a pre-wedding shopping spree when their outing is cut short. A young boy wants to surprise his big brother with a newly polished gun, with unexpected consequences. Two professional ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Inappropriate Behaviour

By Irene Mock

The title of this short story collection – Inappropriate Behaviour – is brilliant. Few of Irene Mock’s characters can evade the charge – certainly not, for example, the woman writing a novel (about her husband’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

By George Elliott Clarke, ed.

How do you create literature in a way that is obviously “African-Canadian”? You simply can’t. African-Canadian writers such as Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand have produced some of the most poignant literature tackling themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Dust to Dust: Stories

By Timothy Findley

The Canadian Booksellers Association deemed Timothy Findley Author of the Year in 1996, a sensible choice. Findley does not insult the intelligence of Canadian readers, nor overestimate media-addled attention spans. He publishes often, and each ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

By Jennifer Bennett

The tomato is, by all accounts, Canadian gardeners’ favourite vegetable. In this readable and useful new addition to the Firefly Gardener’s Guide series, veteran garden writer Jennifer Bennett ably proves her point that it’s also ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Homebuying Made Easy: The Canadian Guide for First-time Home Buyers, 2nd Ed.

By Douglas Gray

The bank ads are all wrong with their images of beautiful couples happily entering their new homes seeming to have made their purchase with little strife. Buying a house is never an easy task. It’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Houseplant Encyclopedia

By Ingrid Jantra and Ursula Kruger, Maya Anyas and Joan Campbell, trans.

Until the past few years, foreign entries into North America’s buoyant garden book market were almost exclusively British. Germany, which has a long and storied history of horticulture and plant breeding, was not well represented ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Angel Falls

By Tim Wynveen

Tim Wynveen gives fair warning that his debut novel, Angel Falls, is not going to be a shiny, happy affair. In the prologue, the narrator Benoni informs us that his name, translated from Hebrew, means ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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★ The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York

★ At the Border Called Hope: Where Refugees Are Neighbours

Only Wounded: Ulster Stories

Inappropriate Behaviour

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

Dust to Dust: Stories

★ The Tomato Handbook: Tips and Tricks for Growing the Best Tomatoes

Homebuying Made Easy: The Canadian Guide for First-time Home Buyers, 2nd Ed.

The Houseplant Encyclopedia

Angel Falls

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