Goose Lane Editions: 150 books
by Keith Oatley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
On a summer visit to Germany, George, a young medical student at Cambridge, meets Anna von Kleist, whose intellectual force, beauty, and self-assurance smite him full in the heart. It is 1936. Hitler is already in power, and a shift has occurred in Germany that Anna, George, and their friend Werner...
Captured Hearts
New Brunswick's War Brides
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Imagine you’re a young woman caught up in the ugly reality of war. You meet and fall in love with a young soldier from a foreign country. You marry and your world is upended: when the war ends, you leave all you’ve ever known behind — your family, friends, and way of life — to begin a new...
by Bruce McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
On May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth time the teams had ever played each other in the Stanley Cup finals. Toronto led the series 3-2. But this wasn't simply a game. From the moment Foster Hewitt announced "Hello Canada...
D-Day to Carpiquet
The North Shore Regiment and the Liberation of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The brutal battlefields of Europe during World War II were the testing ground for the young men of the 1st Battalion of the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment. On June 6, 1944, the soldiers landed on the coast of France as part of the first wave of the D-Day invasion. After securing the eastern...
Steel Cavalry: The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign
The 8th (New Brunswick) Hussars and the Italian Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
The story of the transformation from of a horse cavalry unit to one of Canada's most famous armoured regiments. Twentieth century warfare is epitomized by the image of Allied tanks growling across the countryside, engaging their Nazi counterparts. One of the most storied of such regiments is the 8th...
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary, executive producer Bernie Lucht has selected the most striking interviews and lectures...
Battle for the Bay: The Naval War of 1812
The Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between privateers and small government vessels boiled in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of Maine. Three small...
Riding into War
The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched...
by Gary Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A little-known episode in North America’s history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War but left the border of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) and British North America unsettled,...
Bamboo Cage
The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in tenuous balance. There were strict orders against POWs keeping...
A Neighbourly War: New Brunswick and the War of 1812
New Brunswick and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
When most people think of the War of 1812, they think of the Niagara frontier, the British burning of the White House, the harrowing tale of Laura Secord, and the much-ballyhooed Battle of New Orleans. But there was more of British North America involved in the war than Upper and Lower Canada. With...
Adèle Hugo
La Misérable
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman whose potential shrank with every year she spent under her tyrannical...
by Mary Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association Prize for Non-Fiction
Mary Pratt is famous throughout Canada for her luminous paintings and prints. Her 1995 exhibition, The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light, drew record-breaking crowds on its tour of Canada. It also resulted...
The M Word
Conversations about Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year
A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Carrie Snyder, and Alison Pick — The M Word asks...