Doubleday Canada imprint: 89 books
by Don Cherry
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Don Cherry has become a broadcasting legend, garnering millions of fans around the world with his "Coach's Corner" segment on Hockey Night in Canada. For over a decade, Cherry also hosted the TV show Grapevine, which brought viewers up close and personal with the biggest names in sports.
Don...
Coal Black Heart
The Story of Coal and Lives it Ruled
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
A major new work of history, told through the stories of a teeming cast of characters.
The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply...
The Candidate
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A comical and revealing account of what it's like to run for office with no political experience, little money and only a faint hope of winning, told first-hand by celebrated writer Noah Richler.
During the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200 political campaigns were held across Canada....
Hockey Night Fever
Mullets, Mayhem and the Game's Coming of Age in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A wildly evocative chronicle of the decade that changed hockey forever.
"Lady Byng died in Boston" read a sign in the Garden arena in 1970, a cheery dismissal of the NHL trophy awarded the game's most gentlemanly player. A new age of hockey was dawning. For 30 years, hockey...
Alone At Sea
The Adventures of Joshua Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
The true story of Canada's greatest sailor, the first to sail around the world single-handedly.
When Joshua Slocum sailed into port in Massachusetts on June 27, 1898, he was the first man ever to have completed a voyage around the world without technology, money or companion. It took him three...
Into the Blizzard
Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
“In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and through and under.”
So begins Michael Winter’s extraordinary narrative that follows...
Helpless
Caledonia's Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy, and How the Law Failed All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
It officially began on February 28, 2006, when a handful of protesters from the nearby Six Nations reserve walked onto Douglas Creek Estates, then a residential subdivision under construction, and blocked workers from entering. Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal...
Life on the Ground Floor
Letters from the Edge of Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
***Canada Reads 2019 Longlist
*Winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Do no harm is our most important rule, but we break it all the time trying to do good.**
In this deeply personal book, winner of the 2017 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction,...
by Eric Walters
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
In his sequel to Alexandria of Africa, Eric Walters brings exciting new characters to life, with the urban jungle of Los Angeles as their backdrop.
It's the ultimate clash of cultures when Nebala, a Maasai warrior, leaves behind Kenya and, with two fellow Maasai, and crosses the world to compete...
God Is.
My Search for Faith in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
In this invaluable contribution to the continuing debate about religious belief, David Adams Richards offers an exhilaratingly fresh perspective and a voice more impassioned, heartfelt, and sometimes furious, than anything written about God by an atheist.
David Adams Richards, one of Canada’s...
by Red Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
One of Canada's greatest inventors appraises his peers, with mixed results.
The author of How to Do Everything and Red Green's Beginner's Guide to Women has never been afraid to take on jobs doomed to failure. This latest project is perhaps the nearest he has come to a triumph. In The Woulda Coulda...
Bartlett
The Great Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This is the story of the greatest Canadian ice captain who ever lived--the greatest, by general consent, of any nationality in this century. Robert Bartlett took ships to the north coast of Ellesmere Island, sledged to within 150 miles of the North Pole, made twenty-two voyages into the Canadian Arctic,...
Pushing the Limits
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a...
Good Medicine
The Art of Ethical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Award-winning physician Philip C. Hébert creates a brave and intimate portrait of the complex ethical imperatives at the heart of good medicine: doctors do not have all the answers; patients must be heard; and their needs, desires, fears, and experiences must be reflected in how practitioners look...