Featuring tributes from award-winning writers
In a city sometimes referred to as “The Big Smoke,” Toronto’s extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked,...
Ontario--Toronto
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Author:Burley, RobertSummary: -
Author:Fairburn, M. JaneSummary:Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New...
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Author:Gildiner, CatherineSummary:In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh...
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Author:Archambeau, Gerald A.Summary:Gerald Augustus Archambeau was born in Jamaica in 1933. Raised in Kingston by his three aunts, he was sent to Canada in 1947 to join his mother and stepfather in Montreal. He trained in the plumbing and steam-fitting trade, but at age...
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Author:Basilières, MichelSummary:An unusual and remarkable dystopian novel
A Free Man is a satirical tall tale presented as the drug and alcohol fuelled conversation of two old friends getting reacquainted over one night. It’s...
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Author:Ireland, AnnSummary:Winner of the 1985 Seal Books First Novel Award and of the Books in Canada First Novel Award To Mrs. Hopper, Yoshi Takahashi may be just another name from her daughters’ past, but for Jean and her sister, Colette, he stands for much...
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Author:Yeh, David KingstonSummary:Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is...
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Author:Fagan, CarySummary:Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. With all the wonder of a small-scale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this moving and unforgettable novel about childhood...
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Author:Winberg, Mona, Boyer, J. PatrickSummary:Solitary Courage is the story of a mother's tough-love determination, her severely disabled daughter's astonishing triumphs, and a documentary record of the political battles, organizational conflicts, and human struggles that citizens...
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Author:Jackson, MarniSummary:From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her 20-something over-adventurous son. Home Free is about the last secret lap of parenting: getting through your kids’ 20s and...
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Author:Batten, JackSummary:Cause a "poker face" ain't just a song by Lady Gaga. Crang is a criminal lawyer. He loves jazz, old movies, Polish vodka, his Volkswagen convertible and his girlfriend Annie, not necessarily in that order. A wise-cracking WASP with a...
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