Fraser: 812 books

This is the 1987 international, award-winning bestseller that broke the silence on incest. Sylvia Fraser was a bubbly child, a popular teenager, and an award-winning journalist. Yet, from age 7 she unknowingly shared her body with a ‘twin’ who lived a separate life from her. This Other...

"I fly to faraway places in the hopes of finding the distinguishing thing. The frequent flier miles are a bonus." With a title borrowed from Samuel Johnson, insatiable globe-trotter Russell Fraser fondly recalls his travels in China, Peru, Italy, France, Russia, Scotland, the Persian Gulf,...

What risks would you take to gain insights into yourself and into other forms of reality that might transform your life? That was what Sylvia Fraser asked herself after reading reports of pioneering scientists who testified that drinking ayahuasca, a psychoactive Amazonian “plant medicine,” allowed...

Mary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly heights. An internationally renowned artist, Fraser has had works grace galleries, museums, and public buildings throughout the United States—creating wonder, awe, and an awareness of the environment around us as few artists have had the...

A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser. In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally...

When Sylvia Fraser set off on her 7,500-mile journey of self-discovery, she was at a critical point when she wanted some larger, deeper purpose. As a solo traveler, free of the props and distractions of ordinary life, Fraser decided to treat India as a fabulous dream, in which everything that happened...

After almost two thousand games and thirty years of wearing the Stripes, legendary NHL official Fraser dropped his final puck at the end of the 2009/2010 season and relives his colourful career officiating hockey in his candid book. After thirty years in the NHL, legendary referee Kerry Fraser...

Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the...

As a society we’ve become all too familiar with horrific tales of child abuse. Yet, in 2001 a legal case in a rural community near Toronto proved so bizarre that it gained international attention. It concerned two teenage boys kept locked in cages and forced to wear diapers. Unbelievably, their...

Hardly a day goes by without a news story about the prosecution of yet another high-profile person accused of sexually abusing children, whether football coach or priest or teacher or politician. Yet, history has shown that the prosecution of child-molesters has typically been followed by...

In 1987 Sylvia Fraser published “My Father’s House: a Memoir of Incest and of Healing” - one of the first books to expose the sexual abuse rampant in our culture. The New York Times described it as:  “Extraordinary. . . .As telling a chronicle of the times as The Catcher in the Rye or...

Pandora is the story of a feisty little girl growing up in a working-class home, played against the distant yet pervasive drama of World War II. At home, on the street and at school, Pandora is a full participant in the struggle for love, success, recognition, status, survival in a kids’ society...

Saltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012 Fans of Outlander must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year – a great non-fiction adventure about Scotland’s most notorious clan chief. Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and...

Divisiveness is the hallmark of American politics today. Red state versus blue; liberal versus conservative; secular versus religious; the list goes on. Sometimes it seems we are no longer one nation, but in fact we are. Division and argument have always been a part of the American scene, no more...