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Series: An Ava Lee NovelThe Scottish Banker of SurabayaAn Ava Lee Novel: Book 5Paperback
Ian Hamilton9781770892347
$19.95FICTION
Feb 16, 2013
"[A] globe-hopping crime thriller." — National PostAva begins an investigation into what she thinks is a Ponzi scheme. The trail leads her to a bank in Indonesia that is run by a Scot, but in actuality is a front for an elaborate money-laundering operation for Italian mobsters. The relationship between Ava and the Scotsman turns nasty and personal. Meanwhile, Uncle’s health problems become apparent...
Poems that journey through a tapestry of myths, archetypes and fables; of histories invented and revisited. Kate Cayley's is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question "what if?" What if Nick Drake and Emily Dickinson met in the afterlife? What if a respected physician suddenly shrank to the size of a pea? What if the blind twins in a Victorian photograph could speak to us? What if we found another Earth orbiting another sun? Cayley draws on her experience as a playwright to create vividly engaging voices and characters ra... + Read More
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Series: Paikin and the PremiersPersonal Reflections on a Half Century of Ontario LeadersPaperback
Steve Paikin9781459709584
$26.99POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2013
A unique perspective on Ontario’s most powerful political leaders. Ontario’s fortunes and fates increasingly rest in the hands of the province’s premier. Critics say the role of premier concentrates too much power in one person, but at least that points to the one person Ontarians, and others beyond the province’s borders, ought to know all about. Few people know the modern-era premiers of Canada’s most populous province the way Steve Paikin does. He has covered Queen’s Park politics, discussed provincial issues from all perspectives with his T... + Read More
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Series: GambatteGenerations of Perseverance and Politics, A MemoirHardcover
David Tsubouchi9781770411319
$32.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2013
”Gambatte” means do your best and never give up, and that spirit is at the heart of David Tsubouchi’s life story. This memoir of the former Ontario cabinet minister begins as his family strives for acceptance amid the imprisonment of Canadians of Japanese descent and the confiscation of their property, possessions, and businesses by the Mackenzie King Liberal government in 1941. Despite growing up on the outside looking in, Tsubouchi never felt disadvantaged because he had a good family and was taught to persevere. Gambatte outlines his unu... + Read More
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Series: A Bird's EyeHardcover
Cary Fagan9781770893108
$19.95FICTION
Aug 31, 2013
Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book. With all the wonder of a small-scale The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay comes this moving and unforgettable novel about childhood, love, and magic. Growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood in the 1930s, young Benjamin Kleeman falls in love, first with Corrine Foster and then with magic. Hiding his new passions from his parents — the long-suffering Bella, an Italian immigrant, and Jacob, a talented but failed inventor of elaborate mechanical dev... + Read More
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Series: The CBC Massey LecturesBloodThe Stuff of LifePaperback
Lawrence Hill9781770893221
$19.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2013
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. With the 2013 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today. Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but its cultural and social representations have divided us perennially. Blood pulses through religion, literat... + Read More
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Series: A Thaddeus Lewis Mystery47 SorrowsA Thaddeus Lewis MysteryPaperback
Janet Kellough9781459709287
$11.99FICTION
Jul 27, 2013
In this third novel in the series, Thaddeus Lewis and his son journey into the heart of disaster.When the bloated corpse of a man dressed in women’s clothing washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario near Thaddeus Lewis’s home, nothing is found on the body except a small scrap of green ribbon.The year is 1847 — "Black ’47" — and 100,000 Irish emigrants are fleeing to Canada to escape starvation. The emigrants bring with them the dreaded "ship’s fever," and soon Canadian ports are overflowing with the sick and dying and entire families are being to... + Read More
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Series: AfloatPaperback
John Reibetanz9781926829821
$20.00POETRY
Mar 01, 2013
Afloat, John Reibetanz's eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a sequence on the Three Gorges Dam and its cultural and environmental implications, brings ancient Chinese sources (Meng Chiao and the painter Dong Yuan) together with modern ones (Edward Burtynsky's photographs and violent video games) to create an elegy that is moving and meditative. Although water is everywhere present as a subject, it is song that provides the motivating power, the vehicle of longing that animates the book. "We th... + Read More
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Series: Along the ShoreRediscovering Toronto’s Waterfront HeritagePaperback
Jane Fairburn9781770410992
$32.95HISTORY
Jul 01, 2013
Along the Shore examines the Toronto waterfront, past and present, through the lens of four lakefront communities and districts — the Scarborough shore (including the Bluffs), the Beach, the Island, and the Lakeshore (New Toronto, Mimico, Humber Bay, and Long Branch). Each retains a direct and immediate connection with Lake Ontario and the natural world. Exploring the history, landscape, geography, and people of each of these waterfront areas reveals a rich heritage that has gone largely unrecognized and is for the most part forgotten. Th... + Read More
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Series: Autonomous StateThe Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free TradePaperback
Dimitry Anastakis9781442612976
$54.00BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Feb 19, 2013
Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country’s most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry’s evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada–US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms.Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines a fascinating arr... + Read More
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Series: Barrett Fuller's SecretPaperback
Scott Carter9781459706934
$19.99FICTION
Sep 14, 2013
Barrett Fuller’s privileged life is about to change radically … or else. Barrett Fuller is a world-famous and very wealthy children’s author who writes under a pseudonym because he’s a self-absorbed womanizer and drug-user. His life changes when he receives an extortion letter, challenging him to live up to the morals he currently espouses in his books. He is presented with a series of tasks to complete or face having his identity revealed to the public, resulting in the ruin of his financial empire.Richard Fuller, Barrett’s nephew, has a secre... + Read More
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Series: Blue FutureHardcover
Maude Barlow9781770894068
$24.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 28, 2013
Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013. The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it. The global water crisis has dramatically deepened. The stage is being set for drought on an unprecedented scale, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees leaving parched lands in search of water. The story does not need to end in tragedy. In Blue Future, international bestselling author Maude Barlow offers solutions to th... + Read More
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Series: Ceremonies for the DeadPaperback
Gwen Benaway9780986874055
$16.00POETRY
Mar 31, 2013
Ceremonies for the Dead is an award-winning collection of poems that examine the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse, and inherited grief. Four generations of the dead take turns narrating these themes, navigating from the Great Lakes through the Appalachian Mountains, and examining the fur trade, an exile from Minnesota, the experiences of West Virginia coal miners, and the legacy of mission schools. Black humour and satire fill the collection, illuminating a fierce determination to survive and resist colonization and ... + Read More
A body is found on the side of a highway. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people. These eleven people Â? from the police officers who retrieve the body to the teenager who carries it away to the young waitrress planning to strike out for Toronto and Sudbury's local drug dealer Â? are all damaged in some way,... + Read More
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Series: The Family China1st editionElectronic book text, EPUB
Ann Shin9781926829807
$20.00POETRY
Mar 18, 2015
In The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book accrues associations, building and transforming images from poem to poem, creating a layered and cohesive collection that asks daring questions about how we define ourselves. These poems grapple rawly and musically with the profound messiness of human relations; their candour con... + Read More
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Series: Flee, Fly, FlownPaperback
Janet Hepburn9781927583036
$19.95FICTION
Mar 18, 2013
Lillian and Audrey hatch a plot to escape from Tranquil Meadows Nursing Home, “borrow” a car, and spend their hastily planned vacation time driving to destinations west. They set out on their journey having forgotten that their memory problems might make driving and following directions difficult. Then they meet up with the unsuspecting Rayne, a young man also heading west in hope of reconciling with his family. Without minimizing the realities of old age, dementia, and frailty, Lillian and Audrey's story is rich with laughter, adventure, and hope.
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian lumbermen and American entrepreneurs, the rise of global mining giants, unionism, pollution and re-greening, and the creation of a unique constellation cit... + Read More
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Series: Hostile SeasA Mission in Pirate WatersPaperback
JL Savidge9781459719378
$22.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 05, 2013
Set during a period of dramatically escalating piracy, Hostile Seas is a personal account of a mission on board a naval warship in the waters off Somalia. In late 2008, piracy around the Horn of Africa escalated dramatically, threatening the passage of international merchant ships through a critical waterway. Not only were ships carrying goods to North America and Europe affected, but also vessels entrusted with food aid for a Somali population suffering the effects of prolonged drought and civil war.In response, the Canadian government redirec... + Read More
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Series: Invisible DogsPaperback
Barry Dempster9781926829845
$20.00POETRY
Sep 01, 2013
Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age. Invisible Dogs, Dempster's fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to the difficult business of staying alive. This is a book for when it hurts so bad you hope you'll die and are afraid you won't — not because it offers consolation or the promise of a new dawn, but because it so compellingly documents the plain, hard, ungraceful, stumbling grief of the matter, and meets it with rare self-knowledge, ... + Read More
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Series: IpperwashThe Tragic Failure of Canada's Aboriginal PolicyPaperback
Edward J. Hedican9781442610132
$47.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 24, 2013
On September 6, 1995, Dudley George was shot by Ontario Provincial Police officer Kenneth Deane. He died shortly after midnight the next day. George had been participating in a protest over land claims in Ipperwash Provincial Park, which had been expropriated from the native Ojibwe after the Second World War. A confrontation erupted between members of the Stoney Point and Kettle Point Bands and officers of the OPP’s Emergency Response Team, which had been instructed to use necessary force to disband the protest by Premier Mike Harris’s governme... + Read More
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Series: Jack Chambers' Red and GreenDecrypted by Tom SmartFirstPaperback
Tom Smart9780889843608
$22.95ART
Jul 01, 2013
What is the purpose of life? The purpose of art? What is the purpose of the artist? Jack Chambers probes these fundamental questions in his final piece of work – an unpublishable manuscript – ?Red and Green?, now decrypted by author and curator Tom Smart.
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Series: Lawyers, Families, and BusinessesThe Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963Hardcover
C. Ian Kyer9781552213100
$65.00HISTORY
Mar 01, 2013
In Lawyers, Families, and Businesses: The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863–1963, noted lawyer and historian, Ian Kyer, provides a superbly researched and fascinating study of the origins and development of the law firm now known as Fasken Martineau DuMoulin. Beginning in colonial Toronto in 1863 where two young lawyers, William Henry Beatty and Edward Marion Chadwick, established their partnership in “one room, half furnished,” Kyer follows the first 100 years of mergers, redirections, challenges, and advances that t... + Read More
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Series: Love and ForgettingA husband and wife's journey through dementiaPaperback
Julie Macfie Sobol9781927583180
$19.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Sep 23, 2013
Freedom 55? The so-called “Golden Years”? What if you are slowly losing your memories and your motor skills? Or what if you are the devastated witness as your partner struggles with dementia? Lewy Body Disease is a form of dementia second only to Alzheimer’s in numbers, yet many doctors and almost no lay people have ever heard its name. This is the story of two courageous people, Julie and Ken Sobol, life partners as well as writing partners. Caught up in the frightening and fatal fog of Lewy Body Disease, they started writing this book togethe... + Read More
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Series: Love, and all that jazzFirstPaperback
Laurie Lewis9780889843615
$22.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 01, 2013
In Love, and all that jazz, Laurie Lewis again shines the clear light of memory on a time of glorious beginnings and hard consequences.
For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine York explores the ways in which the careers of famous writers are managed and maintained and the extent to which literary celebrity creates a constant t... + Read More
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Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal HistoryMemoirs and ReflectionsHardcover
Roy McMurtry9781442648302
$59.00BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 23, 2013
From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring contribution to Canadian law, politics, and life.These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on va... + Read More
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Series: Metal on IceTales from Canada's Hard Rock and Heavy Metal HeroesPaperback
Sean Kelly9781459707092
$28.95MUSIC
Sep 14, 2013
A musical genre as tough and hard as the Canadian Shield. Canada has produced many successful proponents of the genre known as heavy metal, which grew out of the hard rock of the 1970s, exploded commercially in the 1980s, and then petered out in the 1990s as grunge took over, only to rise to prominence once again in the new millennium. The road to Canadian musical glory is not lined with the palm trees and top-down convertibles of the Sunset Strip. It is a road slick with black ice, obscured by blizzards, and littered with moose and deer that ... + Read More
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Series: No AngelFirst editionPaperback
Annie McLurg9781897141557
$20.00FICTION
May 15, 2013
A old woman buys a broken-down heritage house in Prince Edward County, Ontario without possessing any knowledge about old house care and repair. Her neighbour Elmer watches anxiously as she fails slowly, repeatedly, at her new labours, until at last he steps across the divide to lend her a hand. Thus begins recalcitrant History.
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Series: Old Enough to FightCanada's Boy Soldiers in the First World WarHardcover
Dan Black9781459405417
$34.95HISTORY
Sep 18, 2013
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured or suffered psychological wounds. Many died. This is the first book to tell their story. Some boys joined up to escape unhappy homes and workplaces. Others went with their parents' blessing, carrying letters from fathers and mothers asking the recruit... + Read More
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Series: Quiet No MoreNew Political Activism in Canada and Around the GlobePaperback
Joel D. Harden9781459405073
$22.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 18, 2013
Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people. Based on first-hand accounts from many of the participants and organizers, Harden describes key events and turning-points -- in Canada and beyond -- from the viewpoint of a committed insider. Harden believes that these new bottom-up movements are ... + Read More
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Series: The April PoemsFirstPaperback
Leon Rooke9780889843592
$16.95POETRY
Mar 15, 2013
Leon Rooke's latest collection of poems concerns itself with an irrepressible heroine, adopting a variety of distinctive perspectives on her life, her loves and her losses.
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Series: A Peter Cammon MysteryThe Drowned ManA Peter Cammon MysteryPaperback
David Whellams9781770410435
$14.95FICTION
May 01, 2013
“Tightly plotted and featuring a lead character who keeps us glued to the page, the book should definitely suit readers looking for an intriguing lead character and a solid mystery.” — Booklist A retired Scotland Yard detective is lured back to work in “a series to follow, particularly for Louise Penny fans and the Masterpiece Mystery set.” (Library Journal) Chief Inspector Peter Cammon is supposed to be retired, but he’s reluctantly agreed to travel to Canada to retrieve the body of a murdered colleague. And once he’s involved, he can’... + Read More
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Series: The Emblems of James ReaneyMagnetically Drawn1st editionPaperback
Thomas Gerry9780889843585
$22.95LITERARY CRITICISM
Mar 11, 2013
Thomas Gerry investigates the unique artistic vision of poet, painter and playwright James Reaney, revealing the ?magnetic arrangement? that links Reaney's emblems with some of his best-known fiction, poetry, drama and artwork.
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Series: Graphic NovelsThe Life and Times of Conrad BlackA Wordless BiographyFirstPaperback
George A. Walker9780889843653
$22.95ART
Sep 01, 2013
Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and as a convicted felon.
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Series: Life WritingThe Memory of WaterHardcover
Allen Smutylo9781554588428
$29.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 25, 2013
Adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories in The Memory of Water—all of them accompanied by the author’s own stunning artwork—describe his adventures in the Arctic, South Pacific, Great Lakes region, and India. In the Arctic he is attacked by a polar bear, stalked by a rogue walrus, and nearly drowns in ferocious waters. But his Arctic stories also celebrate human creativity as they recount the life of the pre-Inuit people, ... + Read More
This is the story of two unlikely dreamers: Sam, a man who wakes up one day to find himself growing wings, and Lilah, a woman who has lost her brother to the streets of Vancouver. Sam finds himself falling away from the world as he grows feathers from his back, while Lilah makes her own subtle and terrifying transformation as she seeks sexual penance under the harsh hand of her boss. Sam and Lilah fall deeper into their separate spiritual paths, and the two hurtle closer and closer to a dark, unknown destiny, one that changes all that they know... + Read More
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Series: The Oak Ridges Moraine BattlesDevelopment, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto RegionPaperback
L. Anders Sandberg9781442613027
$43.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 22, 2013
The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion.The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles captures the hidden aspects of a story that received a great deal of attention in the local and national news, and that ultimately led to provinc... + Read More
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Series: The Origin of FecesWhat Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable SocietyPaperback
David Waltner-Toews9781770411166
$16.95SCIENCE
May 01, 2013
The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives — evolutionary, ecological, and cultural — The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food produ... + Read More
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Series: The Truth About LuckWhat I Learned on My Road Trip with GrandmaPaperback
Iain Reid9781770892415
$19.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 23, 2013
"Reid’s writing is . . . engaging and humorous." — Winnipeg Free PressIn The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird’s Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation ? which turns out to be a "staycation" at his basement apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she be... + Read More
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Series: The World of Niagara WinePaperback
Michael Ripmeester9781554583607
$28.99COOKING
Aug 22, 2013
The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry that celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions. In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic significance. The second section focuses on the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketin... + Read More
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Series: Two WomenPaperback
Christene A. Browne9781927583203
$19.95FICTION
Sep 13, 2013
Bernice Archer lives in a low-income downtown neighborhood where she has raised her blind twin daughters, Eva and Ava, in relative isolation. Every night she tells them regurgitated bedtime stories, sometimes magical and often cautionary, about the dangers of the world outside their small apartment. Eva and Ava, now middle-aged, still wait for their mother’s stories with both excitement and suspicion, knowing that there is much they haven’t been told. When Bernice notices two new neighbors in their building, she is inspired to tell a new story.... + Read More
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Series: Unlikely RadicalsThe Story of the Adams Mine Dump WarPaperback
Charlie Angus9781771130400
$24.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 14, 2013
For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario. Unlikely Radicals traces the compelling history of the First Nations people and farmers, environmentalists and miners, retirees and volunteers, Anglophones and Francophones who stood side by side to defend their community with... + Read More
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Lawyers, Families, and Businesses The Shaping of a Bay Street Law Firm, Faskens 1863-1963 Hardcover 9781552213100 $65.00 HISTORY Mar 01, 2013