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Author:Kierans, Kim S.Summary: - Author:Richler, MordecaiSummary:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
- Author:Neary, Peter, Baker, MelvinSummary:
No other figure, historical or political, features more prominently in recent Newfoundland history than Joey Smallwood. During his long career in Newfoundland politics, Smallwood used the literary, rhetorical, and theatrical skills...
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Author:Petrou, MichaelSummary:A leading journalist travels through the hot spots of the Middle East and Central Asia, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Egypt. Winner of the Ottawa Book Award for English Non-Fiction, 2013 Less than a year before 9/11,...
- Author:Al-Solaylee, KamalSummary:
Arab-Canadian writer and journalist Kamal Al-Solaylee, a gay man who grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Yemen, delivers a courageous, brutally honest, engaging and often funny memoir of family life over six decades. While he...
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Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:Kabul — 10 years after 9/11: When a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle’s passengers were acquaintances — three fellow ex-pats who had formed an...
- Author:Forget, AndréSummary:
A failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal. Alexander Otkazov is finished with Montreal. Having wasted his youth on classical music...
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Author:Dafoe, ChristopherSummary:This is the story of the formative years of Canada’s most famous newspaper editor, John Wesley Dafoe. Written by his grandson, it is an honest account of the man that his family and his friends knew, from his unpromising beginnings in...
- Author:Hilsum, LindseySummary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, written and read by Lindsey Hilsum. ** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is...
- Author:Mofina, RickSummary:
The kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl is linked to her mother's past--a painful secret the mother must reveal to her estranged brother, a reporter with a global newswire agency whose help she seeks to find her abducted child before time...
- Author:Kostyuchenko, ElenaSummary:
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." -Clarissa Ward, CNN chief...
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Author:Sutherland, CindySummary:Reporter Drew Edwards got too close to his story and now finds himself a hunted man. After being kidnapped and then released in Colorado Springs Forest, he has six hours’ headstart on a madman trying to teach his son a lesson. Chance...
- Author:Warren, Jean-PhilippeSummary:
Dans l'esprit de bien des gens, la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle confirme le repli conservateur d'une population canadienne-française engagée dans un combat ardu pour la survivance. Mais que faire d'un homme comme Honoré Beaugrand, qui...
- Author:MINIFIE, James M.Summary:
Based on his own boyhood experiences and the stories his father told, Minifie recounts the perils and pleasures of growing up on the Canadian prairies prior to and during the "dust bowl" period of the 1930's. He later...
- Author:Lundy, SusanSummary:
For Susan Lundy, motherhood began when she moved into her boyfriend's Salt Spring Island home at the age of twenty-one. Her new living arrangement came with furniture, a pair of kids, and a biting gerbil named Quasimodo. Susan was...
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Author:Castle, RichardSummary:An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband...
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Author:Newman, Peter CharlesSummary:Peter C. Newman's autobiography, from his youth as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; to the Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape...
- Author:Andrews, Mary Kay.Summary:
New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer . It's a new season... Conley Hawkins left her family's small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon ,...
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Author:Amos, RobertSummary:Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoter—he was a man of many parts and the ideal...
- Author:Ali, WajahatSummary:
A rollercoaster ride of a memoir, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, by the journalist, playwright, and political activist Wajahat Ali. "Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!" This is just one of the many warm,...
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