Penguin Canada: 177 books

Cover of Every Spring A Parade Down Bay Street
by G B Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

Red York has seen it all: the Maple Leafs’ forty-five consecutive Stanley Cups, Toronto’s designation as a United Nations World Heritage Site, the emergence of the Toronto Telegram as the nation’s greatest newspaper. Now, in response to at least two readers’ requests, and with the aid of a...
Cover of The Beggar's Opera
by Peggy Blair
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

The first volume in the atmospheric and suspenseful Inspector Ramirez series In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet know that it’s dead in the water—much like the little Cuban boy last seen...
Cover of Born With A Tooth
by Joseph Boyden
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013

Before internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden penned his bestselling novel Three Day Road and his Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, Through Black Spruce, he published a powerful collection of thirteen stories about modern Aboriginal life that made readers and reviewers take notice....
Cover of Extraordinary Canadians:Stephen Leacock
by Margaret MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009

Stephen Leacock's satiric masterpiece Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town captures "the Empire forever" mentality that marked Anglo-Canadian life in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historian Margaret Macmillan—whose books Women of the Raj and Paris 1919 cast fresh light on the...
Cover of The House of Wives
by Simon Choa-Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

Two women compete for the affections of their opium merchant husband in a tale of friendship, fortune and rivalry in colonial Hong Kong In 1862, a young Jew from Calcutta named Emanuel Belilios leaves his dutiful wife Semah and sets sail for Hong Kong to make his fortune in the opium trade....
Cover of I'm Afraid of Men
by Vivek Shraya
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018

"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind." --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun...
Cover of Daughters Who Walk This Path
by Yejide Kilanko
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

Daughters Who Walk This Path depicts the dramatic coming of age of Morayo, a spirited and intelligent girl growing up in 1980s Ibadan who is thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her. It's a legacy of silence many women in Morayo's family share. Only Aunty Morenike-once...
Cover of Extraordinary Canadians Pierre Elliott Trudeau
by Nino Ricci
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009

Love him or hate him, Pierre Trudeau has marked us all. The man whose motto was "reason over passion" managed to arouse in Canadians the fiercest of passions of every hue, ones that even today cloud our view of him and of his place in history. Acclaimed novelist Nino Ricci takes as his starting...
Cover of Fast Flavours

Fast Flavours

110 Simple Speedy Recipes

by Michael Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012

Fast Flavours is all about making great meals in minimal time. Full of flavour, these fast and simple recipes will get you cooking every day of the week without spending too much time in the kitchen. Packed with 110 mouth-watering recipes, Fast Flavours gets you through a busy week with simple, speedy...
Cover of The Black Ace

The Black Ace

A Brad Shade Thriller

by G B Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Hatred, blackmail, and murder—a Brad Shade hat trick. The Black Ace reunites us with our favourite, savvy fourth-liner, with plot twists, wisecracks, and an ending that could only come from G.B. Joyce. Thanks to Shade’s work at the NHL draft last season, he gets to hold on to his job as...
Cover of The Third Man In
by G B Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Corruption runs deep in the third installment of the Brad Shade thrillers, the series that inspired the hit Global TV show Private Eyes. When Brad Shade arrives in Russia, he knows exactly what to expect. As a former journeyman turned Scouting Director for Los Angeles, Shade is accustomed to...
Cover of The New Retirement

The New Retirement

How It Will Change Our Future

by Sherry Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008

In The New Retirement, global economic strategist Sherry Cooper explains that the boomer generation will be reaching traditional retirement age very soon and the enormous wave of boomer retirees will crest in 2025. This phenomenon will profoundly affect the labour markets, the economy, and financial...
Cover of Occupy This
by Judy Rebick
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012

Feminist and social activist Judy Rebick brings decades of experience to her account of the Occupy movement in cities across North America. Linking Occupy to social movements of the past and exploring the courage and creativity of a new generation, Rebick argues that the Occupy movement and its counterparts...
Cover of Sprout Right
by Lianne Phillipson-webb
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010

We want all the babies and children to grow up in a world with as much health, wealth, and happiness as possible. The way the world is heading at the moment, the experts are saying that our wishes for our children may not be possible. So if you are not already an environmentalist, then jump on the...
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