Scotty Bowman: A Life in Hockey

As the NHL’s reigning game tactician, Scotty Bowman has a legendary reputation. He is the leader in coaching victories and has navigated eight teams (in three different cities) to Stanley Cup wins – which ties ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

On a Personal Note

By Rita MacNeil with Anne Simpson

On grade 2 talent day, I stood before the class in kilt and Anne Shirley puffed sleeves to sing “My Favourite Things,” which I’d memorized off a scratchy Sound of Music album. I remembered all ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In My Own Key: My Life in Love and Music

By Liona Boyd

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Art and Life of Betty Goodwin

By Matthew Teitelbaum, Jessica Bradley, eds.

The catalogue for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s retrospective of Betty Goodwin is a solid document of 50 years of work. There are colour plates galore of the Montreal artist’s striking images, like her Swimmer ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Archive for Our Times: The Previously Uncollected and Unpublished Poems of Dorothy Livesay

By Dean J. Irvine, ed.

This volume of poems – previously uncollected and unpublished – by modernist writer Dorothy Livesay is an invaluable addition to the poet’s oeuvre. Editor Dean Irvine has produced a work that will satisfy scholar and ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Free the Children

By Craig Kielburger with Kevin Major

One has to read autobiography with a skeptical eye. Most memoirists, being human, tend to present themselves in the best possible light and to employ selective amnesia, especially when a ghostwriter is holding the pen. ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Closely Guarded: A Life in Canadian Security and Intelligence

By John Starnes

John Starnes has had a long career in External Affairs and as director-general of the RCMP Security Service. He is also the author of five spy novels. Closely Guarded is a personal narrative of Starnes’ ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Don’t Think Twice

By Alison Lohans

This is a coming-of-age book with a twist; it’s Mom’s coming of age, twice. We meet Jan Crowther in mid-life, an emotional and physical wreck, desperate to find her runaway daughter, Lisa. To soothe her ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Garden

By Carol Matas

In this novel, Carol Matas takes up the story of her character Ruth Mendenberg from November 1947 to April 1948, the uncertain period leading up to the establishment of a Jewish state. It’s the sequel ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

By Wendy E. Barry, Margaret Anne Doody, Mary E. Doody Jones, eds.

On May 2, 1907, L.M. Montgomery wrote, in a letter to a prairie homesteader she had been corresponding with, of the good news that her book manuscript had been accepted by a publisher. In this ... Read More »

March 1, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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