What starts as a simple fishing trip becomes a cathartic experience in the untamed wilderness of Ontario’s northwestern canoe country. A nine-day fishing trip turns into a profound life-altering event and marks the beginning of a...
Canadian nonfiction
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Author:Blazino, DarrylSummary: - Author:Ruurs, Margriet, Gibson, KatherineSummary:
A Brush Full of Colour is the story of a boy whose passion for learning would save him from a life in the coalmines. The books by the American writer Jack London and Canadian poet Robert Service fired his imagination with scenes of the...
- Author:Vester, Christina, Sealock, RickSummary:
Rick Sealock has been creating wild and wacky illustrations for clients as varied as Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, Natural Health Magazine, and GQ Magazine. His work has been used to skewer politicians, fitness...
- Author:Battery RadioSummary:
For more than 40 years, a retired British Army major-general made his home in St. John's, Newfoundland. For all that time, Major General Hugh Tudor shunned photographs and interviews, scrupulously avoided publicity and lived a...
- Author:Kozub, Mark, Kozub, JaniceSummary:
Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was...
- Author:Keehn, KelleySummary:
A Canadian's Guide to Money-Smart Living will help the reader to understand how to live money-smart, providing step-by-step instructions on how to take control of his or her financial future. Many of us feel that managing our money and...
- Author:Burrows, SteveSummary:
The threat from above casts a dark shadow. A man falls to his death from a cliff face in western Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man’s pocket, and leaves. When the...
- Author:Bureau, GinetteSummary:
« Nous nous sommes connues à New York, nous poussions nos carrosses ensemble en refaisant le monde. Nous avons commencé à écrire à cause du cancer. Mon amie était une riche poète féministe, ses poèmes émanaient de la violence et de la...
- Author:Goutor, DavidSummary:
In late 1936, as Franco's armies stormed toward Madrid, Stalin famously termed the defence of Spain "the common cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." As a German emigrant to Winnipeg, Hans Ibing recognized the...
- Author:Pelletier, MiaSummary:
With a simple layout and easy-to-follow format, this beautiful book introduces young readers to a dozen birds that call the Arctic home. From the Long-tailed Duck and the Red-throated Loon to the Snowy Owl and the Rock Ptarmigan, this...
- Author:Armstrong, Frederick H.Summary:
A City in the Making examines certain of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.
- Author:Norwell, DavidSummary:
A soul-searching personal account of a young man's 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavas, Alaska, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora, fauna, and landscapes. In 2014,...
- Author:Dej, ErinSummary:
A Complex Exile shows that the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces the social exclusion of people who are homeless. Over 235,000 people couch-surf, stay in emergency shelters, or live on the street in Canada every year. However...
- Author:Reid, StephenSummary:
Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of...
- Author:Graves, DianneSummary:
A Crown of Life tells the story of John McCrae, the soldier-doctor-poet who wrote "In Flanders Fields," the best know poem to emerge from the First World War, and which inspired the adoption of the poppy as the symbol of remembrance....
- Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary:
From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of...
- Author:Kahan, Fannie, Dyck, Erika, Hoffer, Abram, Blewett, Duncan, Osmond, Humphry, Weckowicz, TeodoroSummary:
In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, to participate in a peyote ceremony hosted by the Native...
- Author:Gordon, KatherineSummary:
The remarkable story of Princess Peggy Abkhazi, co-founder of the Abkhazi Gardens in Victoria, B.C. Adopted by a wealthy English taipan and his wife, she studied in Paris, lived in Shanghai in the racy 1930's, but also experienced the...
- Author:Grimaldi, JeremySummary:
From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark,...
- Author:Grimaldi, JeremySummary:
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — Winner A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets. From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect...
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