Harpercollins Publishers imprint: 300 books
by Robert Semrau
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Captain Robert Semraus military trial made international headlines—a Canadian soldier serving in Afghanistan arrested for allegedly killing a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in the field. The trial and its outcome are a matter of public record. What you are about to read about the tour of duty...
Dam Busters
Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
National Bestseller
Foreword by Peter Mansbridge
“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail
It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took...
The Red Shoes
Margaret Atwood Starting Out
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
International award-winning and best-selling author, Canadian cultural icon, feminist role model, "man-hater," wife, mother, private citizen and household name -- who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting...
by Rosemary Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
It’s a book that women talk to their girlfriends about, and a book they’d like their lovers to read. It’s an “intellectually sexy experience” that lyrically, wittily and provocatively explores women’s history of romantic obsession through the telling and deconstruction of a passionate love affair.
Season In Hell
My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
For decades, Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs. In one heart-stopping minute, all of that changed. On December 14, 2008, Fowler, acting as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Niger, was kidnapped by Al Qaeda, becoming the highest ranked UN official ever held...
March Forth
The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian Soldier’s Journey of Love, Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
At the age of forty-one, Trevor Greene, a journalist and a reservist in the Canadian Forces, was deployed to Afghanistan, leaving behind his fiancée, Debbie, and his young daughter, Grace. On March 4, 2006, while meeting with village elders in a remote village in Kandahar Province, Trevor removed...
Brave Battalion
The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark...
Leadership
50 Points of Wisdom For Today's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
General Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his three decades as a soldier. Early in his career he watched as many of his superiors made bad decisions. Later he learned at the school of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in Canada and international task forces in...
The Whisky King
The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean...
Amen
What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. Others cannot imagine being so dependent upon a concept they can neither justify nor comprehend.
In Amen, Gretta Vosper,...
With Or Without God
Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Envisioning a future in which the Christian church plays a viable and transformative role in shaping society, Gretta Vosper argues that if the church is to survive at all, the heart of faith must undergo a radical change. Vosper, founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and a minister...
The Devil And Bobby Hull
How Hockey's Original Million-Dollar Man Became the Game's Lost Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An award-winning writer sets the record straight on hockey's forgotten golden boy--Bobby Hull
In his prime, few could dispute Bobby Hull's athletic brilliance--the first to have five 50-goal seasons, the highest scorer on the 1976 Canada Cup team, the first to use the slapshot as a scoring...
Between The Lines
Not-So-Tall Tales From Ray "Scampy" Scapinello's Four Decades in the NHL
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
To hockey fans, Ray Scapinello's name and face are as recognizable as any star player or coach in the NHL. Scampy, as he is affectionately known, has had a long and storied career as a linesman in the NHL. His 5-foot-7 frame and 163 pounds belie his ability and endurance on the ice. When Ray retired...
The Power Of Generosity
How to Transform Yourself and Your World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
DAVE TOYCEN, President and CEO of World Vision Canada, believes that generosity can save your life. He knows it can build community and help bring social justice and peace to our troubled world. He has seen it in the most unlikely places, witnessing the freedom individuals have gained simply through...