Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of...
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Author: Wilcox, Alana, McBride, JasonSummary:Genre: Essays, Social science, Canadian nonfiction
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Author: Ricker, Elizabeth R.Summary:
One of "12 Books to Start a Smart New Year" by The Wall Street Journal One of the "Top Book Bites of 2021" by New York Times bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain,...
Genre: Psychology, Self-help publications -
Author: Bahcall, SafiSummary:
Washington Post's "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019," Adam Grant's "19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019," Inc.com's "10 Business Books You Need...
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Author: Hynes, JamesSummary:
With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he...
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Author: Spencer, RobertSummary:
Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam, detailing Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by...
Genre: Religion and spirituality -
Author: More, ThomasSummary:
First published in 1516, during a period of astonishing political and technological change, Sir Thomas More's utopia depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination...
Genre: Classic fiction -
Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Moving through time from the rural South to the northern ghetto, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront...
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Author: Patterson, James, Sadler, AdamSummary:
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:
Charles Dickens is known for writing the greatest of all Christmas stories -- A Christmas Carol, but few know that he wrote a number of other short stories for that holiday season. Here in one...
Genre: Short stories, Classic fiction -
Author: Lackenbauer, P. Whitney, Lajeunesse, Adam, Lasserre, Frederic, Manicom, JamesSummary:
China’s Arctic Ambitions and What They Mean for Canada is an in-depth studies of China’s increasing interest in the Arctic. It offers a holistic approach to understanding Chinese motivations and...
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Author: Michener, James A.Summary:
When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry-from the brilliance and...
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This entertaining collection features thirteen short mystery stories from some of our finest writers, all based on some piece of music.
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Author: Chrisman, James J., Holbrook, J. Adam D., Chua, Jess H., University of Calgary PressSummary:
This collection of articles by Canadian scholars adds to a growing literature that examines the nature of the entrepreneurial process at the national and regional levels. Presenting emerging...