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Prescription Games: Money, Ego, and Power Inside the Global Pharmaceutical Industry

When it comes to health care, the public has high expectations. Patients demand strict ethical standards and believe that a certain degree of altruism should motivate not only health professionals, but pharmaceutical companies as well. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

ttuM: A Charlotte Novel

By Teddy Jam, Harvey Chan, illus.

Not many secrets in Canada’s small literary community are as well kept as the identity of Teddy Jam. Rumour suggests that the person behind the pseudonym is a prominent Canadian writer known only by Groundwood’s ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Quebec: A Tale of Love

By Laurier LaPierre

Quebec: A Tale of Love is Laurier LaPierre’s attempt at explaining the current state of Quebec and how it got that way. A historian and broadcaster, LaPierre has written several books about his native province. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: History

Fraud

By David Rakoff

David Rakoff spends his life at a considerable remove. A neurotic, homosexual Canadian Jew who has spent almost half his life in New York City working as a journalist – but not a reporter, he ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The La Fenice Cookbook: Luigi’s Passion

By Luigi Orgera,Sally Doulis, and Colleen Mathieu

Much like David Rocco’s recent excellent cookbook, Avventura, for which Rocco toured Italy gathering recipes from local chefs, the strength of The La Fenice Cookbook, by Luigi Orgera, is its authenticity. Orgera, who died last ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Summer King

By O.R. Melling

O.R. Melling’s accomplished fantasy The Summer King, a follow-up to The Hunter’s Moon, economically creates several vivid worlds – modern Ireland, Faerie, and the Renaissance high seas.Laurel, a sporty, pragmatic teenager, spends the summer in ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Loyal No More: Ontario’s Struggle for a Separate Identity

By John Ibbitson

John Ibbitson, a columnist with the Globe and Mail, is a brave writer. While he could have limited the scope of Loyal No More to the current impasse between Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, Ibbitson ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

In My Enemy’s House

By Carol Matas

Within a historical novel, the Holocaust exerts the gravitational force of a black hole. As a reader, you’re instantly caught in its grip, all your emotions – incredulity, rage, despair, and hope – intensely evoked. ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Load ’em Up Trucks

By Debora Pearson, Chum McLeod, illus.

Young children’s – more accurately, young boys’ – fascination with big machinery, cars, trucks, and “things that go” is well known in children’s book publishing, and Annick has launched a new series to cater to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books