Viking imprint: 640 books
by Murray Howe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
**A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER
As a child, Murray Howe wanted to be like his father. He was an adult before he realized that didn't necessarily mean playing hockey.**
Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists...
Georges Laraque
The Story Of The NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Think you know NHL tough guy Georges Laraque? Think again.
Sure, Laraque knows all about the rough side of hockey. The Hockey News named him “best fighter.” Sports Illustrated called him the league’s “#1 enforcer.” Fans called him “BGL”—for Big Georges Laraque. Ottawa Senators’...
The Curiosity of School
Education And The Dark Side Of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
It's one thing we all have in common. We've all been to school. But as Zander Sherman shows in this fascinating, often shocking account of institutionalized education, sending your kids off to school was not always normal. In fact, school is a very recent invention. Taking the reader back to 19th-century...
The Power of Onlyness
Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
**An 800-CEO-READ Staff Pick
Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award
A Financial Times Business Book of the Month
“For any would-be activists who hear the voice: ‘not me’ or ‘not now,’ Merchant makes the strong case for ‘yes you’ and ‘yes now’—and even shows...
The Reason You Walk
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic aboriginal star
When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised him. *The...
Ten Days a Madwoman
The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Work for a New York newspaper
Fall in love
Marry a millionaire
Change the world
Young Nellie Bly had ambitious goals, especially for a woman at the end of the nineteenth century, when the few female journalists were relegated to writing columns about cleaning or fashion. But fresh off a train from...
28 Seconds
A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A night that began with a dinner to celebrate his eleventh wedding anniversary ended in a jail cell for Michael Bryant. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing the death of cyclist Darcy Sheppard. Ironically, he had helped write the legal test for the same...
W. E. B. Du Bois
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, perhaps best known for his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk and as the founding editor of the NAACP?s groundbreaking magazine The Crisis, was ever a soul in motion for justice. Whether he was protesting Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in the Deep South, advocating...
by Simon Callow
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**• A *New York Times Book Review *Editors’ Choice •
The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil**
In One-Man Band, the...
Seeking Light
Portraits of Humanitarian Action in War
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
A profoundly moving collection of unforgettable photographs from conflict zones around the world
Paul Grabhorn’s stunning four-color photographs tell an amazing, essential story—one of hope in the face of violence and deplorable conditions, of dignity in the midst of degradation, of light...
Throwing Rocks at Houses
My Life in and out of Curling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Curling legend Colleen Jones opens up about her extraordinary career and life
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Curling is possibly the most beloved sport across Canada, and Colleen Jones has been one of its brightest stars. She was only nineteen years old when she won her first provincial championship, and she became...
True South
Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
“[TRUE SOUTH] does several things at once. On one level, it’s a biography . . . On another, it’s a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement . . . A warm and intelligent book.”—The New York Times
“No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps...
The Battle of Arnhem
The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account.
On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines....
Dark Ambition
The Shocking Crime of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, Nonfiction Category
Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors
Tim Bosma was a happy young father with a promising future when he listed his pickup truck for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and...