Frank: The Life and Politics of Frank Mckenna

Frank McKenna’s political importance cannot be denied. His first mandate as premier of New Brunswick was unanimous – his Liberals utterly defeated Richard Hatfield’s Tories in 1987 and sat unopposed in the legislature. While in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Grounded in Eire: The Amazing Story of Two Pows in Ireland During World War Ii

By Ralph Keefer

Judging from what I saw in a recent visit, the Irish seem to have erased their country’s neutral stance in the Second World War from their memories. Everyone from President de Valera down to the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil

By Andrew Nikiforuk

Strong personalities evoke strong reactions. Alberta farmer Wiebo Ludwig has been portrayed as a tireless campaigner against the depredations of big oil and a homicidal terrorist, as a religious patriarch who only wants to protect ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Organized Crime and American Power: A History

By Michael Woodiwiss

The process of deconstructing popular myths is a thankless task often met with wide public resistance. Luckily Michael Woodiwiss has risen to the task with an accessible analysis of the ways in which concepts like ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent

By Derek Hayes

Derek Hayes is a geographer with a profound love of maps, as demonstrated in his last book, the gorgeously illustrated Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. In First Crossing, a history of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women

By Marion Botsford Fraser

Toronto freelance writer and broadcaster Marion Botsford Fraser spent three years criss-crossing the country exploring the often misrepresented lives of today’s single women. The result is Solitaire, a book that offers some of the most ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Rachel Captures the Moon

By Richard Ungar

A moon to follow, a moon to capture; red moon, golden moon; a moon making its shining path across the water into the imagination of a child. These two engaging picture books look in very ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ride the Wave: Take Control in the Acceleration Age

By Sherry Cooper

In the past decade or so, the formula for publishing business books has been refined to this: take one well-known personality, offer a route to financial health, and market aggressively. All too often, though, books ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

By Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane, eds.

Many famous writers have been addicted to alcohol or drugs; the names of Malcolm Lowry, William S. Burroughs, Margaret Laurence, and Gwendolyn MacEwen come immediately to mind. But those who wrote about their addictions often ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Rom Field Guide to Birds of Ontario

By Janice Hughes

Ornithologist and author Janice Hughes understands the anxieties of the bird watcher. With little to distinguish closely related species other than slight variations of plumage and song, even experienced birders can be stricken with a ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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