My parents / this does not belong to you

An intimate portrait of immigration, family, and the heartbreaking (and sometimes hilarious) things that happen along the way from the...

Willa cather the emerging voice

Traces the life of the American novelist, examines the development of her writing, and discusses the influence of her personal...

The truth about stories a native narrative

"Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous." In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores...

Zhou enlai the last perfect revolutionary

Zhou Enlai, the premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, is the last...

Antoine lavoisier science

Sir oliver mowat

Margaret Evans's biography of Mowat is in some ways the story of a golden age in the Ontario's history and...

The making of a chef mastering heat at the culinary institute of america

"Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."―The New York...

A royal duty updated with new material

A former butler for Princess Diana who became her trusted confidant recalls his ten years of service to the princess,...

Therafields the rise and fall of lea hindley smith’s psychoanalytic commune

 At one point in the 1970s, 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic community in Toronto. Living together, and...

Oops! i forgot to save money

"When reading Monica Parker's Oops! I Forgot to Save Money, I laughed out loud then it gave me pause; HAD...

Oops! i forgot to save money

"When reading Monica Parker's Oops! I Forgot to Save Money, I laughed out loud then it gave me pause; HAD...

Bon echo the denison years

Bon Echo: The Denison Years documents the era when famous artists, intellectuals and theatrical personalities visited the strikingly beautiful Lake...

The ugly canadian stephen harper's foreign policy

Stephen Harper’s foreign policy documents the sordid story of the Canadian government’s sabotage of international environmental efforts, a government totally...

The life journey of the fourth president of republic of somaliland

This book is translated from "Ahmed Silanyo's" biography written in Somali by Abdirahman Yusuf Artan. It is the life journey...

Games prisoners play the tragicomic worlds of polish prison

On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to...

Fragments

Marilyn Monroe’s image is so universal that we can’t help but believe that we know all there is to know...

Sir william osler

pp. 114, b/w illustrations.

Canadian writers and their works poetry dennis lee

Closely guarded a life in canadian security and intelligence

Closely Guarded is written by a man who was privy to some of the most closely guarded state secrets in...

Canada's voice the public life of john wendell holmes

It is hard to imagine a person who embodied the ideals of postwar Canadian foreign policy more than John Wendell...

The bad mother

Born in Germany, Marguerite was just into her twenties when she moved to Tunisia with her French lover. She thought...

Heat an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker,...

Dear hanna a biography of pacifist martin j. zimmer based on his letters from the eastern front during world war ii

Dear Hanna—A biography of pacifist Martin J. Zimmer based on letters from the Eastern Front during WW II by Rudolf...

Caps and capers

It’s 1965. Hilarity and camaraderie ensues when the alphabetical order of assignments finds two young women, MARY LOU BIGGS (Biggsie),...