Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

A Day in the Life of the National Hockey League

By Frank Brown et al, ed.

On the ice in Montreal that wretched September night, Americans were overthrowing us at our game; up in the stands, borne on posterboard above a fan’s head, waved an executive summary of where we stand, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

What Are We Going to Do Now? Helping Your Parents in Their Senior Years

By William Molloy

Canada is getting old. By the end of the decade, the proportion of the population over 65 will be 12%, and that number will continue to rise well into the next century. For the growing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

By David Remnick

There’s nothing like a good sports biography to get a fan’s blood pumping. A well-written account of the sporting life can prompt fond reminiscences of one’s own athletic past, call up daydreams where you’re the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Falling Hard: A Rookie’s Year in Boxing

By Chris Jones

One thing about the Sweet Science upon which all initiates are in agreement is that it used to be better.” When the great A.J. Liebling wrote that in1955 it was as a rebuke to all ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Take Care: A Practical Guide for Helping Elders

By Ann Rhodes

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

By David Halberstam

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ All Heart: My Story

By Michael Clemons

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change

By Irshad Manji

In The Trouble with Islam, broadcaster and commentator Irshad Manji calls for a revival of ijtihad, the Koran’s tradition of independent thinking. Manji, a Muslim of Indian origin who immigrated to Canada from Uganda in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Fishing for Brookies, Browns and Bows: The Old Guy’s Complete Guide to Catching Trout

By Gord Deval and Paul Quarrington

At casting demonstrations Gord Deval has been known to slice up a peeled banana at 40 feet with a well-aimed hook. This fact – and the prodigious amount of information in Fishing for Brookies, Browns ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

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Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

A Day in the Life of the National Hockey League

What Are We Going to Do Now? Helping Your Parents in Their Senior Years

★ King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

Falling Hard: A Rookie’s Year in Boxing

Take Care: A Practical Guide for Helping Elders

★ Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made

★ All Heart: My Story

The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change

Fishing for Brookies, Browns and Bows: The Old Guy’s Complete Guide to Catching Trout

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