Whether it's a report from the real Cannes or a young couple discovering that reading Jacques Derrida aloud can lull their child to sleep, Jim Hanas finds the strange in the everyday and the everyday in the strange. Hanas writes a...
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Author: Jim HanasSummary:
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Author: Graeme Burk and Robert SmithSummary:
Who is the Doctor is a fun and insightful episode guide that explores all facets of Doctor Who's triumphant return to television. Covering the six seasons of the New Series, this is the essential companion for the most avid fan as...
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Author: Graeme Burk and Robert SmithSummary:
Travel through space and time with this guide to 50 years of Doctor Who Doctor Who has been a television phenomenon since it began 50 years ago on November 23, 1963. But of all the hundreds of televised stories, which are the ones you...
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Author: Jason SchneiderSummary:
Whispering Pines is the first comprehensive history of Canada's immense songwriting legacy, from Gordon Lightfoot to Joni Mitchell. Canadian songwriters have always struggled to create work that reflects the environment in which...
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Author: George MurraySummary:
White'out: n. a surface condition . . . in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects are discernible . . . Whiteout: when the heavy weather of daily life establishes the measure of the...
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Author: William DavisSummary:
One of the most iconic villains in the history of television, the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man fascinated legions of fans of the 1990s' hit TV series, The X-Files. Best known as 'Cancerman,' he was voted Television...
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Author: William DeverellSummary:
Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare...
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Author: Frank DaveySummary:
In the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. The name was purposefully an anagram of shit, in order to demonstrate their youthful and iconoclastic attitude. In many ways, Tish, and its editors, became...
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Author: Frank PeppiattSummary:
An anecdote-filled recollection of a bygone golden age He created Hee Haw, the number-one show on TV. He wrote and produced variety shows for Jackie Gleason, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Sonny and Cher, and Perry Como...
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Author: Jeff RybakSummary:
The university system has its problems. Students invest a lot of time and money in education but all too often don't get what they came for. In What's Wrong With University, Jeff Rybak addresses the most pressing concerns for...
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Author: Jennifer LoveGroveSummary:
Captivating and heart-wrenching from start to finish When Emily was a little girl, all she wanted to be when she grew up was a Full-Time Pioneer; in her Jehovah's Witness family, the only imaginable future is a life of knocking on...
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Author: Graig Abel and Lance Hornby, foreword by Darryl SittlerSummary:
Explore the unseen Maple Leaf Gardens Generations have come to marvel and celebrate spectacles of all kinds at Maple Leaf Gardens. With its soaring roof and massive walls, this iconic building tells a story with an unlikely beginning...
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Author: Eva EverythingSummary:
This book became a popular table game in the summer holidays with two teams competing with all your questions. It makes an excellent change from celebrity trivia.
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Author: Rick SalutinSummary:
A lifetime of engagement with religion, philosophy, and activism in a series of fascinating reflections. Brilliant, fractious, mordantly funny, playwright/novelist/essayist Rick Salutin has been Canadian journalism's agent...
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Author: Asher GhaffarSummary:
'In the age of increasing surveillance of borders, the border is where every thing significant occurs; map the border and you begin to understand the pulse of a nation,' Asher Ghaffar writes in the introduction to wasps in a...
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Author: Tom RandSummary:
An accessible discussion of ways to achieve a sustainable future Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, engineer, and philosopher Tom Rand explains why climate disruption might just be our very own pot of hot water. Are we the frog...
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Author: David WhellamsSummary:
In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.
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Author: Jonathan BennettSummary:
In these powerful stories the verandah people are Jonathan Bennett's own compatriots: Australians for whom the ever-present verandah is both stage and shelter, a retreat from hostile bushland or city street and a seductive barrier...
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Author: Ensley F. Guffey and K. Dale KoontzSummary:
An accessible and in-depth guide to all five seasons of Breaking Bad. 'I am not in danger . . . I am the danger.' With those words, Breaking Bad's Walter White solidified himself as TV's greatest antihero. Wanna Cook...
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Author: Jesse McLeanSummary:
Re-live the entire hit series with this insightful companion The record-breaking run of the CBS hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother has come to an end, but new fans of the epic romantic comedy are still appearing in droves, thanks to the...
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