Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson...
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Author: Ferguson, Julie H., Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Larsen, Wayne, Stewart, Sharon, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:
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Author: Gibson, DouglasSummary:
Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Munro's...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts -
Author: Franklin, MilesSummary:
The author's autobiographical account of her first ten years spent in the Australian bush. She is best remembered for her book "My brilliant career".
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Author: Robertson, LisaSummary:
Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa...
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Author: Robertson, LisaSummary:
What if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating colour? Would the seams afford a new...
Genre: Poetry -
Author: Robertson, Ray.Summary:
Shortly after completing his sixth novel, Ray Robertson suffered a depression of suicidal intensity. Central to his recovery was the decision to try and answer two of the biggest questions we can...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Philosophy -
Author: Robertson, Ray.Summary:
Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's'Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)'offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of...
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Author: Robertson, WillieSummary:
From the Duck Dynasty star and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a rollicking popular history of fishing in America. American Fisherman traces the impact fishing has had in shaping...
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Author: Robertson, PaulSummary:
Robertson spins gripping suspense into a mysterious whodunit as a small mountain town wrangles over a road that could change its future forever.
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Author: Robertson, LisaSummary:
From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks...
Genre: Canadian poetry -
Author: Sullivan, JoanSummary:
On the morning of July 1, 1916, at Beaumont-Hamel, the men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment climbed out of their trenches and advanced into no man’s land. Eric Mackenzie Robertson went over the...
Genre: Self-help publications -
Author: Stimpson, MichelleSummary:
Former singer Camille Robertson reinvents herself as a gospel singer to restart her career, and she finds herself conflicted by her growing attraction to a handsome worship leader even as she uses...
Genre: Romance fiction, Religious fiction -
Author: Robertson, RobinSummary:
"Robertson cuts to the chase and puts together good food simply. If you were thinking of slapping together a sandwich, you may as well make one of hers, full of vibrant veggies and flavors,...
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Author: Robertson, CarmenSummary:
Mythologizing Norval Morrisseau examines the complex identities assigned to Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau. Was he an uneducated artist plagued by alcoholism and homelessness? Was Morrisseau...
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Author: Robertson, RobinSummary:
Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and some forms of cancer...