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Series: The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year A Royal Souvenir Paperback Annie Bullen 9781459708358 $14.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 21, 2012

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as Canada’s monarch in 2012. This fully up-to-date souvenir captures the excitement, the majesty, and the pageantry of the spectacular events that have allowed her subjects to celebrate and share their admiration for their Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year. This special edition recalls the many key moments of Jubilee year, including The Queen and Prince Philip’s nationwide tour of the United Kingdom, the overseas tours by other members of the Royal Family, and the spectacular flotilla on the T... + Read More
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Series: Driven to Succeed How Frank Hasenfratz Grew Linamar from Guelph to Global Hardcover Rod McQueen 9781459707955 $32.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 20, 2012

Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War. When the 1956 revolution erupted, he and his army unit joined the insurgents. After the revolution was crushed, he fled to Guelph, Ontario, where he gambled everything on a one-man operation making oil pumps for Ford. The company he founded, Linamar, today has 15,000 employees and is the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. To create this global empire, Hasenfratz stayed ahead of competitors through hard work, visionary leade... + Read More
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Series: Eleven Out of Ten The Life and Work of David Pecaut Hardcover Helen Burstyn 9781459707924 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 20, 2012

City builder David Pecaut has been called a visionary and a pragmatist, passionate, compassionate, indefatigable, a catalyst, and a trailblazer. Most of these accolades flowed from his volunteer work. He helped Toronto restore its tourism industry post-SARS by chairing Toronto03, launched by a flamboyant Rolling Stones concert. He also co-founded the Luminato arts festival. Pecaut worked as easily with the homeless, minorities, and poverty activists as with billionaires, corporate CEOs, and labour leaders. His numerous endeavours included the ... + Read More
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Series: Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World Paperback Michael Petrou 9781459706460 $24.99 HISTORY Sep 29, 2012

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, Michael Petrou trekked through al Qaeda’s backyard in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. He was back in Central Asia within weeks of the attacks – this time as a reporter, slipping into Afghanistan as rockets and tracer bullets lit up the night sky, carrying notebooks, stolen blankets, and a satellite phone. In the decade... + Read More
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Series: Fighting Words Canada's Best War Reporting Paperback Mark Bourrie 9781459706668 $29.99 HISTORY Sep 15, 2012

A collection of the best journalism from Canada’s wars, from the time of the Vikings to the war in Afghanistan. Fighting Words is a collection of the very best war journalism created by or about Canadians at war. The collection spans 1,000 years of history, from the Vikings’ fight with North American Natives, through New France’s struggle for survival against the Iroquois and British, to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Rebellions of Lower and Upper Canada, the Fenian raids, the North-West Rebellion, the First World War, the Second... + Read More
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Series: Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King So Similar, So Different Hardcover Terry Reardon 9781459705890 $35.00 HISTORY Oct 06, 2012

The story of the complex relationship between two world leaders during one of the greatest crises in human history. Born just two weeks apart in 1874, Winston Churchill and William Lyon Mackenzie King had much in common. Both forged long parliamentary careers, and each led his country to victory in World War II. A BBC poll deemed Winston Churchill the greatest Briton of all time, and Mackenzie King has been judged by a group of historians as the greatest Canadian prime minister. Their parallel careers fostered a working relationship that laste... + Read More
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Series: Commemorative Medals of The Queen's Reign in Canada, 1952–2012 Paperback Christopher McCreery 9781459707566 $14.99 HISTORY May 19, 2012

A celebration in medals of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years as our monarch. On the occasion of the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne as Queen of Canada, Canada has followed a long tradition of recommending to Her Majesty the institution of a commemorative medal to mark this auspicious milestone. Commemorative Medals of The Queen’s Reign in Canada, 1952-2012 examines in detail this element of the Canadian honours system.This short and accessible work provides the reader with an interesting and informative study of the ... + Read More
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Series: Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight Paperback Roger Gunn 9781459706606 $26.99 HISTORY Jan 26, 2013

The first comprehensive biography of Canada’s third-highest- scoring ace in the First World War. Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in their small, light, and very manoeuvrable craft to face ... + Read More
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Series: Nothing More Comforting Canada's Heritage Food Paperback Dorothy Duncan 9781459706699 $19.99 COOKING Sep 29, 2012

Nothing More Comforting is a reflection of our society: an eclectic mix of many different cultures and traditions. Dorothy Duncan – with her extensive knowledge of heritage foods – has chosen her favourite "Country Fare" columns from the popular Century Home magazine for this wonderful book on Canada’s heritage cuisine. Each chapter focuses on one particular food or ingredient followed by historical facts and traditional recipes for you to try at home. Fast food restaurants and instant foods will never replace our seasonal and regional specialt... + Read More
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Series: Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst Everyday Life in Upper Canada, 1812–1814 Paperback Dorothy Duncan 9781459705920 $21.99 HISTORY May 26, 2012

An examination of Upper Canadian life at the dawn of a modern nation. Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst explores the web of human relationships that developed in Upper Canada following the American Revolution, in the years leading up to the War of 1812, and during the conflict that raged for two years between the young United States and Britain, its former master. The book focuses on the families, homes, gardens, farms, roads, villages, towns, shops, and fabric of everyday life in this frontier society.Upper Canada was a land in tran... + Read More
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Series: Genealogist's Reference Shelf York's Sacrifice Militia Casualties of the War of 1812 Paperback Janice Nickerson 9781459705951 $19.99 HISTORY May 26, 2012

Not only professional soldiers but also citizens serving as militiamen participated in the War of 1812. The militia’s contribution to the War of 1812 is not well understood. Even now, 200 years later, we don’t know how many Upper Canadian militia men died defending their home.York’s Sacrifice profiles 39 men who lost their lives during the war. They include 19 residents of the Town of York, five residents of York County, and 11 residents of Halton, Peel, and Wentworth Counties. Where possible, biographies include information about each man’s or... + Read More
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Series: Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812 The Pendulum of War The Fight for Upper Canada, January–June 1813 Paperback Richard Feltoe 9781459706996 $19.99 HISTORY Feb 02, 2013

The second book in a series that is the definitive retelling of the War of 1812. In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotes from original official documents and personal letters, bringing to life the crucial first six months of the 1813 American campaign to invade and conquer Upper Canada. The Pendulum of War documents the course of more than seven major battles and over a dozen m... + Read More
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Series: Smoke Signals The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry Paperback Jim Poling, Sr. 9781459706408 $24.99 HISTORY Nov 24, 2012

A compelling look at tobacco’s uses and abuses from its Native origins to today’s controversies. When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer.Smoke Signals follows tobacco from its origins in South America’s Andes through its checkered history as ... + Read More
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Series: End of the Line The 1857 Train Wreck at the Desjardins Canal Bridge Paperback Don McIver 9781459702226 $26.99 HISTORY Feb 16, 2013

Sixty people died in 1857, leaving behind their stories and the tales of those involved. In 1857, the Desjardins Canal bridge collapsed under a Toronto-to-Hamilton train, creating one of the worst railway wrecks in North American history. Sixty lives, including that of the main contractor, were lost. The story of how the Great Western Railway was conceived, where it was located, and how it was constructed is replete with high irony covering political intrigue, commercial skullduggery, and bold entrepreneurship. Woven into the tragic events of t... + Read More
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Series: Stephen Leacock's Mariposa One Hundred Years of Sunshine, a Walking Tour of Orillia Paperback Daphne Mainprize 9781459707597 $9.99 HISTORY Jun 23, 2012

Experience the magic of Leacock’s Mariposa via a walking tour of Orillia. In 1912 Stephen Leacock began the serialized publication of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Within the pages of the stories he immortalized Orillia, Ontario, and its citizens. One hundred years later Orillia, "The Sunshine City," still answers to the name Mariposa. The impact and legacy of Leacock’s work continues to inspire and define the Orillia of today.Visitors come to Orillia from far and wide, not only to see Leacock’s summer home, now a National Historic Site, ... + Read More
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Series: The City That Might Have Been Unbuilt Calgary Paperback Stephanie White 9781459703308 $28.99 HISTORY Nov 03, 2012

The essence of a vibrant, growing, and changing Calgary is captured over the life of its development. Calgary is a typical boom-and-bust town that was first based on ranching and farming, then oil and gas, and now energy. And energy is what its citizens have, whether for skiing, work, or construction. It is a city that leaps ahead eagerly to new futures and rarely looks back., but Calgary can also be an unsentimental city, discarding its ideas, plans, and buildings with ease. Unbuilt Calgary is a survey of 30 projects that were proposed but not... + Read More
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Series: Toronto Sketches 11 "The Way We Were" Paperback Mike Filey 9781459707634 $19.99 HISTORY Nov 10, 2012

Mike Filey brings Toronto’s history and the stories of its people and places to life. Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper’s most widely read features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another nine volumes have been published, each of which has at... + Read More
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Series: Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry A Home Child Experience Paperback Patricia Skidmore 9781459703391 $30.00 HISTORY Jan 05, 2013

When Marjorie’s daughter began exploring archival records involving Britain’s child-migration program, a home-child saga emerged. Marjorie Arnison was one of the thousands of children removed from their families, communities, and country and placed in a British colony or commonwealth to provide "white stock" and cheap labour. In Marjorie’s case, she was sent to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School, just north of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1937. As a child, Patricia was angered that her mother wouldn’t talk about the past. It took many yea... + Read More
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Series: Opening Windows Confessions of a Canadian Vocal Coach Hardcover Stuart Hamilton 9781459705128 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2012

A vocal coach who has been in the vanguard of classical music in Canada for more than six decades. Stuart Hamilton is a well-known Canadian musician who has been in the forefront of music in Canada for more than 60 years. Here, in this memoir, he recounts his sometimes hectic assault on the Canadian music world. Along the way, Hamilton encountered, as a vocal coach and accompanist, most of the great Canadian singers of the last half of the 20th century, and some international ones as well. For 27 years Hamilton was an erudite and funny persona... + Read More
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Series: True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera Paperback Lotfi Mansouri 9781459705159 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 06, 2012

An insider’s view of the opera world from one of its greatest figures. Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, Mansouri has directed nearly 500 productions at major opera houses around the globe. Mansouri has gathered a collection of discrete vignettes that recount unfo... + Read More
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Series: The Secret of the Blue Trunk Paperback Lise Dion 9781459704510 $21.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2013

2014 Forest of Reading, White Pine Award — Winner, Nonfiction The true story of how a young Québécois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets. In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order’s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion. Growing up, Lise is f... + Read More
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Series: My Double Life Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn Hardcover Don Harron 9781459705500 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2012

The colourful story of Don Harron’s 77-year career in the entertainment business. After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson) plus one book by his drag-queen character, Charlie’s rich city cousin Valerie Rosedale, Don Harron now presents the story of his 77-year stint in the entertainment business. The actor’s colourful career includes such highlights as making money in 1935 as a 10-year-old cartoonist doing mother-and-son banquets; winning an ACTRA Award as best radio host for Morningside; six stage shows on Broa... + Read More
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Series: A Doctor's Quest The Struggle for Mother and Child Health Around the Globe Paperback Gretchen Roedde 9781459706439 $26.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 08, 2012

A doctor grapples with the challenges of mother and child health in the developing world. Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS.A Doctor’s Quest tells the stories of the hopes of village women struggling to give birth s... + Read More
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Series: Dazed but Not Confused Tales of a Wilderness Wanderer Paperback Kevin Callan 9781459707474 $24.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Jan 26, 2013

A collection of adventures (and misadventures) spent travelling in the wilderness. Kevin Callan presents his best adventures – and misadventures – in the wilderness. Entertaining, yet enlightening, the stories are full of enthusiasm and are designed to get people to explore the wilderness on their own, and it’s hoped, be inspired to protect what’s still left. These captured moments of a life spent traveling in secluded areas and promoting their importance to all of us aren’t just for outdoorsy types. The stories relate to a much broader audien... + Read More
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Series: More Than Birds Adventurous Lives of North American Naturalists Paperback Val Shushkewich 9781459705586 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 17, 2012

Once people encounter the natural world and become aware of its intricacy, fragility, beauty, and significance, they will recognize the need for conservation. The fascinating development of natural history studies in North America is portrayed through the life stories of 22 naturalists. The 19th century saw early North American naturalists such as Alexander Wilson, the "Father of American Ornithology," John James Audubon, and Thomas Nuttall describing and illustrating the spectacular flora and fauna they found in the New World.Scientists of the... + Read More
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Series: Empty Cradle Paperback Diana Walsh 9781459706576 $24.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 22, 2012

2013 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award — Winner, Non-Fiction The miracle of a new baby turned into a nightmare … There is something about the loss of a child that everyone takes to heart. A lot of suffering happens in this world, but when it involves a child, it touches everyone all the more and it is tolerated all the less. Empty Cradle is the writer’s personal recollection of the time leading up to and surrounding the abduction of her newborn infant, just days before Christmas. This story is based on a true crime - dates, times, and de... + Read More
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Series: Death's Shadow True Tales of Homicide Paperback Jon Wells 9781459707443 $19.99 TRUE CRIME Jan 12, 2013

Victims and survivors, angels and demons, intersect along winding roads to imperfect justice. “Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic …” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow. Wells take readers up close into multiple homicide investigations, the agony of victims and their loved ones, and the chilling dance of death between cold-blooded killers and the... + Read More
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Series: Rampage Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing Paperback Lee Mellor 9781459707214 $21.99 TRUE CRIME Mar 09, 2013

A definitive compendium of Canada’s mass murderers and spree killers. Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique to become Canada’s most notorious mass murderer. The following year spree killer Peter John Peters roamed from London, Ontario, to Thunder Bay, leaving a trail of bloodied bodies, broken dreams, and stolen vehicles. Both men experienced the same devastating destiny – they embarked on ho... + Read More
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Series: What Happened to Mickey? The Life and Death of Donald "Mickey" McDonald, Public Enemy No. 1 Paperback Peter McSherry 9781459707382 $24.99 TRUE CRIME Mar 02, 2013

From the mean streets of 1930s Depression-era Toronto comes the gripping tale of a man who became one of the nation’s most notorious criminals. Until the age of 31, Donald McDonald was only "dirty little Mickey from The Corner," the notorious intersection of Toronto’s Jarvis and Dundas Streets in a neighbourhood known in the 1930s as "Gangland." After Mickey was charged with the January 1939 murder of bookmaker Jimmy Windsor, he became a national crime figure. What followed were two murder trials, a liquor-truck hijacking, a sensational three-m... + Read More
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Series: Haunted Ontario Haunted Ontario Ghostly Inns, Hotels, and Other Eerie Places 2nd edition Paperback Terry Boyle 9781459707412 $22.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Feb 02, 2013

Ghostly inns, hotels, and other eerie places – Ontario has them all! Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the lights, ghost hunter Terry Boyle returns with a revised version of his bestselling Haunted Ontario. Join Terry as he conjures up a treasury of spectral delights that include apparitions at the former Swastika Hotel in Muskoka, the woman in the window at Inn at the Falls in Bracebridge, and poltergeists galore in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. Venture – if you dare – on a ghost hunt to inns, hotels, and museums. Travel with y... + Read More
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Series: Mysteries and Secrets Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology Paperback Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe 9781459705371 $19.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Mar 09, 2013

Do the secrets of life lie hidden in numbers? Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology investigates the ancient and widespread belief that numbers have unexplained powers to influence our lives, everything we do, and everything around us, so that, as the brilliant scientist and philosopher Sir James Hopwood Jeans wrote, "The Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician." Numerology extends throughout the history of the world – from Pythagoras to the mysteries of ancient Babylonia and India, from Norse runes to Egypti... + Read More
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Series: Haunted Too Incredible True Stories of Ghostly Encounters Paperback Dorah L. Williams 9781459706088 $19.99 BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Aug 25, 2012

After sharing her own story in Haunted, Dorah L. Williams compiles first-hand accounts of the spiritual encounters of others. Upon writing Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House, Dorah thought her situation was unique. What she didn’t realize was how many others would relate to how it feels to be haunted, too. After being flooded by emails from people with similar experiences, Dorah began to realize this wasn’t uncommon at all. It seemed these paranormal happenings were universal — in all ... + Read More
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Series: Lemon-Aid New Cars and Trucks 2013 Paperback Phil Edmonston 9781459705739 $29.99 TRANSPORTATION Dec 01, 2012

Canada’s automotive "Dr. Phil" says there’s never been a better time to buy a new car or truck. For deals on wheels, 2013 will be a "perfect storm." There’s never been a better time to buy a new car or truck, thanks to a stronger Canadian dollar, a worldwide recession driving prices downward, and a more competitive Japanese auto industry that’s still reeling from a series of natural disasters.In addition to lower prices and more choices, 2013 car buyers will see more generous cash rebates, low financing rates, bargain leases, and free auto main... + Read More
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Series: The Millennial Leader Timeless Communication Skills for a New Generation of Achievers Paperback Jim Gray 9781459704046 $19.99 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

A time-tested model for communication leadership, ready for today’s world and the millennials on top of it. Millennials, numbering eighty-five million in North America alone, are no longer the leaders of tomorrow — they’re stepping up to leadership roles everywhere, today. As they assume positions of ever greater responsibility, members of this vast generation — so adept in the ways of unremitting social media — face the same challenges as their predecessors in effectively engaging, influencing, and inspiring others. They’d do well to take th... + Read More
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Series: Sheridan Nurseries One Hundred Years of People, Plans, and Plants Hardcover Edward Butts 9781459705647 $50.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 27, 2012

A charming tale of history, creativity, natural inspiration, and a love of gardening. In 1913, Howard Dunington-Grubb and his wife, Lorrie, bought a small plot of land near Sheridan, Ontario, for the cultivation of ornamental plants. Local farmers thought they were crazy. But Howard and Lorrie, landscape architects recently arrived from England, were visionaries who dreamed of creating magnificent gardens in the colonial wasteland. Realizing that Canada had no nurseries that produced the plants they needed, they started one of their own. To man... + Read More
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Series: Titans of '72 Team Canada's Summit Series Heroes Paperback Mike Leonetti 9781459707665 $14.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 08, 2012

In September 1972 Team Canada’s heroes triumphed over the Soviet Union in the greatest hockey battle of all time. Phil and Tony Esposito, Paul Henderson, Ken Dryden, Frank and Peter Mahovlich, Ron Ellis, Yvan Cournoyer, Rod Gilbert, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lapointe, Stan Mikita, Brad Park - these are some of the Team Canada heroes who struggled mightily to defeat the Soviet Union’s formidable superstars. For most of September 1972, Canadians were riveted to their television screens in what became one of the most-watched events in Canadian history.At ... + Read More
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Series: Sudden Death The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos Paperback Leesa Culp 9781459705449 $25.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Nov 10, 2012

A true story of hockey heartbreak, tragedy, and triumph. Sudden Death brings to life the incredible ongoing saga of the Swift Current Broncos hockey team. After a tragic game-day bus accident on December 30, 1986, left four of its star players dead, the first-year Western Hockey League team was faced with nearly insurmountable odds against not only its future success but its very survival. The heartbreaking story made headlines across North America, and the club garnered acclaim when it triumphantly rebounded and won the Canadian Hockey League’... + Read More
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Series: Hope and Heartbreak in Toronto Life as a Maple Leafs Fan Paperback Peter Robinson 9781459706835 $19.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 22, 2012

For many, being a Toronto Maple Leafs fan has become a curse from cradle to grave. False hope, hollow promises, and a mind-numbing lack of success - these words describe the Toronto Maple Leafs and the hockey club’s inexplicable mediocrity over much of the past decade. Author Peter Robinson has attended some 100 games over the past six seasons and has little to show for it except an unquenched thirst that keeps him coming back. Why does a team that hasn’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, long before many of its followers were even born, have such... + Read More
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Series: Grey Cup Century Paperback Michael Januska 9781459704480 $14.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 22, 2012

The biggest single sports and television event in Canada marks its 100th championship in 2012. The Terrible Tripper of 1957, the 1962 Fog Bowl, Vic Washington’s Fabulous Fumble in 1968, Tony Gabriel’s Classic Catch in 1976, Henry "Gizmo" Williams’s Wild Run in 1987, and Dave Ridgway’s Magnificent Kick in 1989 are some of the legendary moments leading up to the 100th Grey Cup game in November 2012 in Toronto. You’ll find all of them in Grey Cup Century and much more.Canadian football has had a long and storied history dating back to the 1860s. I... + Read More
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Series: The Last Season Paperback Roy MacGregor 9781459706866 $21.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2012

Now that his hockey career is ending, what will become of his life? Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty. He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey "enforcer" for the Philadelphia Flyers. But fame is fleeting.Now in his thirties and at the end of his playing career, Felix tries to make a go of it as a player-coach for a Finnish club. As the lone Canadian on the team, he is an outsider with a reputation that takes on a life of its own. When a controversial play brings h... + Read More
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Series: Exit Papers from Paradise Paperback Liam Card 9781459706118 $19.99 FICTION Oct 06, 2012

A dark comedy about a young man’s aspirations to be something better than he currently is. Frustrated 35-year-old plumber Isaac Sullivan believes he has both the intellect and skill to be a surgeon. Forced to take over his father’s plumbing business straight out of high school, Isaac’s had dreams of attending the University of Michigan that fell by the wayside. However, the unfortunate setback didn’t stop him entirely. For the past decade, he has absorbed every medical textbook and journal available to him. For practical experience, Isaac perfo... + Read More
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Series: The Blue Guitar Paperback Ann Ireland 9781459705869 $19.99 FICTION Jan 26, 2013

Nerves crunch at the international classical guitar competition in Montreal. There is more than pretty music being performed on this stage. At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top-flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap - a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail - can ruin years of preparation.More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only no... + Read More
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Series: A Moretti and Falla Mystery A Grave Waiting A Moretti and Falla Mystery Paperback Jill Downie 9781459706361 $11.99 FICTION Nov 24, 2012

There’s nowhere to hide from international intrigue and murder most foul even on an island as small as Guernsey. Second in the Moretti and Falla Mystery series. In St. Peter Port Harbour on the Channel Island of Guernsey, Detective Inspector Ed Moretti and his partner, Detective Sergeant Liz Falla, are called in to investigate the shooting death of arms dealer Bernard Masterson on the Just Desserts, his luxury yacht. Why are Masterson, his glamorous partner in crime, Adèle Letourneau, and his thuggish bodyguard here on the island? And how are a... + Read More
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Series: A Hollis Grant Mystery Cut to the Bone A Hollis Grant Mystery Paperback Joan Boswell 9781459702073 $17.99 FICTION Nov 03, 2012

Murders and disappearances in one building … but are they connected? Hollis Grant has fashioned a new life for herself with a foster child and a job as resident super of an eight-storey apartment building with a split personality. Hollis finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when a tenant, a woman working for an escort agency, is murdered. The detective in charge is Rhona Simpson, with whom Hollis has crossed swords in the past. Rhona, deeply shaken by a report on racial and sexual violence against Native girls and women, is wre... + Read More
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Series: The Fallen One A Mystery Paperback Rick Blechta 9781459701960 $17.99 FICTION Sep 22, 2012

When renowned opera singer Marta Hendriks sees her dead husband in a Paris street, she fears she’s losing her mind — or did she actually see him? Marta Hendriks is onstage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York when she learns of her beloved husband’s death in a house fire. Overcome, she collapses and has to be carried off the stage. Fast-forward two years and countless therapy sessions, and Marta is ready to resume her career. In a stroke of luck, she’s hired at the last moment to sing Violetta for the Paris Opera. She manages to keep her emot... + Read More
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Series: Out of the Blue A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness Paperback Jan Wong 9780987868503 $21.99 USD BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2012

Out of the Blue is the surreal, wrenching, sometimes hilarious, and ultimately triumphant story of one woman’s struggle to come to terms with depression. At the height of her career in journalism, Jan Wong’s world came crashing down. A story she wrote on a school shooting sparked a violent backlash, including death threats. Her newspaper failed to stand by her, and for the first time in her life she spiraled into clinical depression. She found herself unable to write, but the paper’s management thought she was feigning illness, and fired her. H... + Read More