Dundurn: 2215 books
Stardust and Shadows
Canadians in Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian.
Stardust and Shadows...
Acts of Kindness
Inspirational Stories for Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Small things can often mean a great deal. For the past five years readers of the Toronto Star's website have been telling each other that, as they shared their stories in a feature called "Acts of Kindness." The common thread is that a stranger helped when it was needed most, without thought...
Kickstart
How Successful Canadians Got Started
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
In 2005, recent graduates Alex Herman, Paul Matthews, and Andrew Feindel realized they werent entirely sure where they were going in life. Then they had an idea. Over the next two years, they interviewed 70 well-known Canadians and asked them how they got started. The answers they found were not always...
Invisible North
The Search for Answers on a Troubled Reserve
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
A vivid first-person account of life on a troubled reserve that illuminates a difficult and oft-ignored history.
Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016 • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016 • 2017 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted • 2017 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction — Shortlisted...
A Daughter's Deadly Deception
The Jennifer Pan Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — Winner
A sinister plot by a young woman left her mother dead and her father riddled with bullets.
From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw,...
Requiem for a Giant
A.V. Roe Canada and the Avro Arrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
No Canadian company has fuelled as much speculation about its demise as A.V. Roe Canada Limited. When its name was erased off the corporate map in 1962, A.V. Roe's most ambitious undertakings - the Jetliner, the Iroquois Engine, and the Arrow - were reduced to scrap.
In Requiem for a Giant:...
A Thousand Shall Fall
The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft...
by Adam Bunch
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.
If these streets could talk…
With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful....
by Tom Mulcair
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Globe & Mail Non-Fiction Bestseller
Toronto Star Non-Fiction Bestseller
The inside story of Tom Mulcair’s rise from modest, middle-class beginnings to the threshold of power.
He has been called the strongest Opposition leader in the television era; he was also known in Québec...
I Know That Name!
The People Behind Canada's Best Known Brand Names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Every day Canadians buy groceries at Sobey's, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Horton's without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people who lie behind them? I Know That...
Well-Heeled
The Smart Girl's Guide to Getting Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Financial analyst Lesley-Anne Scorgie lays out the roadmap for young women to be financially independent and debt-free.
Whether you’re financially maxed out or rolling in hundred-dollar bills, if you want to be rich, Well-Heeled is for you!
As a financially independent young woman,...
Blue Nose Master
The Memoirs of Captain Ernest K. Hartling
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1989
Captain Ernest Hartling, born in Spanish Ship Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1906, takes us on a voyage through a life crammed with adventure, colour, and excitement.
by Mary Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
There were 17 Canadians present when Lieutenant-Colonel George Armstrong Custer made his last stand in the battle at Little Bighorn River in 1876. Some had served in the Civil War, some were close friends or admirers of Custer, and some were mercenaries who just wanted a job with adventure.
William...
Brace for Impact
Air Crashes and Aviation Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2016
Why do planes disappear or fall out of the sky? Brace for Impact traces the evolution of accident investigation and explains why flying is the safest form of travel.
The history of air accidents is a harrowing one. Yet today flying is the safest mode of transportation, thanks in no small part...