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The World’s Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman

More than 60 years after her death, the celebratory anarchist spirit of Emma Goldman continues to hold more resonance with young people storming the barricades of globalization than many contemporary political icons. Goldman, known during ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

By Margaret Conrad and James Hiller

History scholars Margaret Conrad and James Hiller bring a wide range of expertise to Atlantic Canada, the third volume in Oxford’s Illustrated History of Canada series. Atlantic Canada looks at Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

By Chris Gudgeon and Barbara Stewart

“Ka-ching!” went the strings of Owen Edmunds’ heart. The Richmond, B.C. cad then phoned his fiancée – collect – to announce that he had won half a million dollars on Lotto 6/49, and that the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story

By Jack Todd

The searing stories of the Americans who went to Vietnam to fight and bleed and die are written in the novels and short stories of Tim O’Brien and in memoirs like Michael Herr’s Dispatches and ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst

By Barry K. Wilson

Benedict Arnold = traitor. The equation is simple, well known, and largely unquestioned. A leading military commander for the American rebels in the 1776 revolution, Arnold later defected to the British and tarnished his name ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

By Patricia Anderson

Passion Lost, the latest book by Vancouver literary consultant and historian Patricia Anderson – and a successor to her previous title When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians – attempts to trace passion’s progress over ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By Robert Adams

Robert Adams’ A Love of Reading introduces 18 novels published, for the most part, over the last 10 years. Adams first delivered these reviews to packed theatres in Montreal and Toronto. Chapters on Maguib Mahfouz’s ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

Lives of Mothers and Daughters

By Sheila Munro

Sheila Munro, the eldest of three daughters, has struggled against low literary self-esteem, for it is not easy being the daughter of one of the world’s greatest living short story writers. Yet it was the ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Piper

By Natale Ghent, Cindy Ghent, illus.

Who can resist puppies or dog stories? Guelph, Ontario, writer Natale Ghent’s first book, Piper, includes some high canine drama. Piper is an Australian Shepherd runt born on a farm near Picton, Ontario, where 11-year-old ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

A River Apart

By Robert Sutherland

Robert Sutherland (The Secret of Devil Lake) offers a gripping novel set during the War of 1812. Fifteen-year-old Canadian Jamie Shaw lives on a farm at Prescott, just across the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, ... Read More »

February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

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The World’s Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman

Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

The Taste of Metal: A Deserter’s Story

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor in Our Midst

Passion Lost: Public Sex, Private Desire in the Twentieth Century

A Love of Reading: Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

Lives of Mothers and Daughters

Piper

A River Apart

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