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Céline: The Authorized Biography of Céline Dion

By Georges-Herbert Germain,David Homel and Fred Reed, trans.

This biography – a huge, fact-crammed, flagrantly sentimental and sweet tale of triumph – does one thing very well: it knows its audience. Céline Dion fans are, as the book repeatedly stresses, average people who ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Light on the Water: Early Photography of Coastal British Columbia

By Keith McLaren

Keith McLaren is a captain for the B.C. Ferry Corporation and has spent most of his working life at sea on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Light on the Water is his visual tribute to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

Alberto Manguel has a way of making one stop and think. His internationally acclaimed anthology on reading (The History of Reading) made us reflect on how and what we read. Now, with By the Light ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus

By Charles Wilkins

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

★ Running Away to Sea: Around the World on a Tramp Freighter

By Douglas Fetherling

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong’s Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace

By Carellin Brooks, ed.

Bad Jobs is not another sojourn into the minds of disenfranchised Gen Xers. Quite the opposite. It is a collection of short stories gathered by Carellin Brooks, who sent out a call-for-submissions for stories by ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada

By Buzz Hargrove with Wayne Skene

In this book (part memoir, part polemic) Canadian Auto Workers president Basil “Buzz” Hargrove recounts where he came from and where he believes the labour movement is going. A self-made man, he appears to be ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

To Match a Dream: A Practical Guide to the History and Histrionics of Canada’s Constitution

By Deborah Coyne and Michael Valpy

Michael Valpy and Deborah Coyne tackle one of Canada’s most daunting subjects – the Constitution – in To Match a Dream. It’s an ambitious project, filled with plenty of potential narrative peril. On one side ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: History

Team Spirit: A Field Guide to Roots Culture

By Geoff Pevere

A couple of years ago, Greig Dymond and Geoff Pevere made a big, cross-Canada splash with a book called Mondo Canuck. This “Canadian pop-culture odyssey” was a delightfully snotty exercise in sacred-cow tipping: Rush got ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art

By Gerald McMaster, ed.

You won’t find Reservation X on a map, yet it is a place that aboriginal people must inhabit in the contemporary (colonial) world. It is that changing space between city and reserve, between contemporary and ... Read More »