Lorimer imprint: 307 books
The Underground Railroad
The long journey to freedom in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Slavery existed throughout the western Hemisphere, but after its abolition in the British empire it persisted for decades in much of the U.S. Even in states where slavery was illegal, slaves were subject to capture and return to their owners. The only sure escape was to cross the border into Canada.
The...
The Mass Media in Canada
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Canada has one of the most advanced mass-media systems in the world, which allows Canadians more access to American culture via television, the movies, and the Internet than ever before. At the same time, governments support the production and distribution of Canadian content to Canadians.
In...
Love, Hope, Optimism
An informal portrait of Jack Layton by those who knew him
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
An Ottawa Citizen Notable Book for 2012
When Jack Layton died unexpectedly in the summer of 2011, millions of people mourned the loss of a man who had emerged as a much-loved political leader. They saw him as someone who combined values they shared with a personal style they admired.
In...
How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders...
Arms Canada
The Deadly Business of Military Exports
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This 1987 book begins with a scene from the American invasion of Grenada: as politicians in Ottawa argued whether Canada had been misled or merely ignored over the invasion, the fighter aircraft, helicopters, and ships used in the operation employed key Canadian components.
Grenada was only...
by Sylvia Gunnery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Jay Hirtle's back in Rockets territory and he's determined to help his former teammates win the basketball championship. But some of his teammates aren't very welcoming, including Colin, Jay's former best friend and last season's MVP. When Jay wins out in a close vote for team captain, Colin's behaviour...
by Sylvia Gunnery
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Jay Hirtle plays on the basketball team at Richmond Academy in a small rural Nova Scotian town. The team to beat is Centreville, where star player Mike Murphy is seen as Richmond's number one opponent. After the Hirtle house is destroyed by fire, Jay's family moves in with his grandfather and the...
Champion for Health
How Clara Hughes fought depression to win Olympic gold
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Clara Hughes has won multiple medals in both summer and winter Olympic Games. As a cyclist and speed skater, Clara pushed through pain to get to the finish line, trying to have her best race every day. Few knew that the same determination and focus were also needed to fight her own personal battles....
by Michael Coldwell
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Jeff is not impressed when his family moves from Toronto to small-town Nova Scotia. He doesn't know anyone and there isn't much to do--until he joins his new school's basketball team.
Jeff is fast on the court and has a sharp jump shot, and soon he's hanging out with with his new teammates....
by Aya Tsintziras
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses at a school dance. Although she's whisked away to treatment, Raine isn't ready to accept...
Rogue in Power
Why Stephen Harper is Remaking Canada by Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Canada has always been known as a good place to live: a tolderant, prosperous, stable country that treats its citizens fairly and protects the weakest in society. Yet during the past seven years, it has started to change into a harder, more mean-spirited place. What is going on?
According to...
Harperism
How Stephen Harper and his think tank colleagues have transformed Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Margaret Thatcher transformed British political life forever. So did Ronald Reagan in the United States. Now Canada has experienced a similar, dramatic shift to a new kind of politics, which author Donald Gustein terms Harperism. Among its key tenets:
A weakened labour movement--and preferably...
Canada after Harper
His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.
This book brings...
Sweethearts
The Builders, the Mob and the Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments.
With the rapidly growing population, there was huge demand for new housing. Toronto needed apartments,...