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The Man Who Lost Himself: The Terry Evanshen Story

Man, interrupted: in July of 1988, the life of 44-year-old ex-CFL star Terry Evanshen took such an extraordinary turn that it would come to resemble an ancient myth, a legend of the gods’ rough intervention ... Read More »

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

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

By Witold Rybczynski

It started last year with a call from a New York Times editor with his eye on the millennium. Would Witold Rybczynski care to pen an essay celebrating the Best Tool of the last 1,000 ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Kill or Cure? How Canadians Can Remake Their Health Care System

By Dr. Carolyn Bennett and Rick Archbold

In Kill or Cure?, Dr. Carolyn Bennett issues a call to arms for Canadians to come out and fight for their health care system. A practising family physician until 1995, now federal MP for a ... Read More »

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

Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers

By Rachel Manley

Rachel Manley’s Slipstream: A Daughter Remembers is perilously similar to Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood, for which she won a Governor General’s Award. The new book presents a conundrum: without having read Drumblair, readers ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

By Donald Harman Akenson

Queen’s University professor Donald Harman Akenson is known for his scholarship on Irish history and his probing questions about Christianity. In 1998, he produced the critically acclaimed Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Storyteller: Memory, Secrets, Magic and Lies: A Memoir of Hungary

By Anna Porter

Contemporary memoirs – the unforgettable ones – are narrative poker games that break out when a limber imagination takes on family history. Angela’s Ashes and Running in the Family – to name but a slim ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Can We Be Good Without God? Behaviour, Belonging and the Need to Believe

By Robert Buckman

Robert Buckman is an MD and card-carrying humanist who wants us to know that we don’t have to believe in order to behave. Belief in an external god who has set out prescribed rules of ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Blood Relations: Animals, Humans, and Politics

By Charlotte Montgomery

Though increasing the number of vegetarians was not likely her goal, Charlotte Montgomery’s powerful report from the front lines of the Canadian animal rights movement could provoke many a reader to swear off a whole ... Read More »

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

Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec

By Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe writes lively, information-packed travel articles, several of which have been folded into Sacré Blues, his lively, information-packed book on Quebec. (The B.C.-raised author settled there on returning to Canada from France four years ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Toes Are to Tickle

By Shen Roddie, Kady MacDonald Denton, illus.

Toes Are to Tickle is a sweet new picture book for babies and toddlers that follows the rhythm of the child’s day – from waking up and eating breakfast to saying goodnight. Shen Roddie’s text ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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