Lorimer imprint: 307 books
by Robert Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Fast-paced sports action novels that get kids reading.
Shay and his pal Toby are among the players on the school soccer team who fall foul of the "fair play contract" introduced by the new school administration. After being banned from playing on behalf of the school for the rest...
Big League Dreams
Baseball Hall of Fame's first African-Canadian, Fergie Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This is a history of black major league baseball players and the crumbling of the colour barrier in sport, and the story of how Fergie Jenkins rose to the top to become Canada's first inductee into the American Baseball Hall of Fame.
Fergie Jenkins grew up in the era when Jackie Robinson became...
Fighting for Gold
The Story of Canada's Sledge Hockey Paralympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Canada is internationally recognized as a leader in men's and women's hockey - but in 2006 Canada had yet to conquer the world of sledge hockey, the Paralympic version of ice hockey played by athletes with a physical disability in the lower part of the body. The Canadian Men's Sledge Hockey team came...
by Steven Barwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Gregg Stokes can tell you exactly when his life took a turn for the worse. It was the day his new stepsister, Amy, joined the starting line-up of his hockey team, and everyone immediately felt the deep chill between them. Can they thaw their icy relationship for the sake of the team
and their new family? [Fry Reading Level - 3.4
Old Enough to Fight
Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major battles: Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and the rest. Many were injured...
Negotiating So Everyone Wins
Secrets you can use from Canada's top business, sports, labour and political negotiators
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Every day, people make deals that matter. But very few of us benefit from the public scrutiny and analysis that have helped Canada's leading negotiation experts hone their craft. Hockey team executives, cabinet ministers, bank presidents and labour leaders are constantly under the microscope, and...
Campus Confidential
100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this...
by Beverly Scudamore
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Gina is the kind of girl who works hard to keep up her appearance -- not just her hair and makeup, but going so far as breast-enhancement surgery and regular diet pills. When tall, athletic, good-looking Colter wants to be her boyfriend, Gina jumps at the chance. She thinks they'll be the perfect...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada
A Citizen's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, with its twelve participating countries on three continents, is the largest regional trade and investment agreement that Canada has ever negotiated. It is also one of the most controversial— for good reason. Negotiations ended exactly a year ago, in October 2015, and...
Pension Confidential
50 Things You Don't Know About Your Pension and Investments
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
The media says you should be worried about your pension, the banks and financial advisors say Canadians aren't saving enough for their retirement, and Ottawa says drastic cuts to the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security lie ahead. Is the future sounding a little ominous? In the face of all this...
Canada and the Global Economy
Alternatives to the Corporate Strategy for Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Economic integration is one of the key issues of the 1990s. In this book, Bob Chodos, Rae Murphy, and Eric Hamovitch consider the implications of globalization for Canada. While they believe the move to integration is inevitable, they argue for building alliances that are alternatives to the models...
Police in Canada
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. The dramatic death of Robert Dziekanski at the hands of the RCMP at Vancouver's airport, accusations of racial profiling, and the resistance...
Quiet No More
New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people....
Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, cultural, artistic and political issues, he had no grand plan. But Canadian Dimension was welcomed by intellectuals,...