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At Home and Away
Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.
Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage...
by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Going to university used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of paper. Choose the wrong program and graduation is more...
Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle
Brace for Impact / Air Canada / and 5 more
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
The Aviation Pioneers of Canada 7-Book Bundle presents the high-flying insight of Peter Pigott, in a special collection chronicling the aviators, aircraft, and drama of over a century of Canadian flight. From the Avro Arrow and the Silver Dart to the adventurers and visionaries who pushed Canadian...
Flim Flam
Canada's Greatest Frauds, Scams, and Con Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Flim Flam explores the world of Canadian white-collar crime, a place inhabited by hustlers, wild gamblers, and crazy dreamers. It takes the reader to the Vancouver Stock Exchange, where dream salesmen have peddled wild stories of easy money, through the "moose pasture" scams of northern...
Toronto Sketches 6
The Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Stories of Old Toronto never lose favour with the city’s nostalgia buffs, and as long as Mike Filey continues to provide us with his "The Way We Were" columns, no one’s appetite will have to go unsatisfied.
When Mike’s Toronto Sunday Sun columns were first brought together in...
by Randy Richmond, Tom Villemaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Sure, Canada was built on dreams and hard work, but it was also built on failure - mix-ups, mistakes, screw-ups, and boondoggles. Failing at things, and laughing about them, has long been a characteristic of our citizens.
Where else but in Canada would governments send farmers to land that...
by Randy Ray, Mark Kearney
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Canada has given the world the real Winnie the Pooh, the phrase "Beatlemania," and the man who invented the Academy Awards. If it weren’t for Canada, we might not have the pie-in-the-face gag, basketball, time zones, or the dotted white line on the middle of highways.
And anyone...
Toronto Sketches 7
The Way We Were
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Mike Filey is back again with another installment in the popular Toronto Sketches series. Mike’s nostalgic look at the city’s past combines legend, personal anecdotes, and photographs to chronicle the life of an ever-changing city.
Among the stories in this volume, Mike looks back to the...
Generally Speaking
The Memoirs of Major-General Richard Rohmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Lieutenant-General Richard Rohmer is arguably Canada's most decorated citizen. A commander of the Order of Military Merit and an Officer of the Order of Canada, his career began in World War II where he earned the reputation as one of Canada's top Mustang reconnaissance pilots. For his service, which...
Cracked
How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner
2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated
The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights.
In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s...
The Happy Warrior
Political Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
Originally published in 1988, this revised and expanded edition of Donald C. MacDonald's acclaimed memoirs provides an inside look at provincial politics in Ontario through the eyes of a party leader. Dubbed "the Happy Warrior" by Tommy Douglas, MacDonald led the Ontario CCF/NDP for seventeen...
Now You Know Absolutely Everything
Absolutely every Now You Know book in a single ebook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This bundle presents Doug Lennox’s popular trivia book series in its entirety. These books will provide years and years of fun, with countless questions to be asked and tons of knowledge to be learned. The books cover general trivia but also such topics as sports (baseball, hockey, football, golf,...
René Lévesque
Charismatic Leader
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
René Lévesque entered provincial politics in 1960 when Jean Lesage persuaded him to join his Liberal dream team. In 1968 he founded the Parti Québécois (PQ). Under the PQ banner, Lévesque served as premier from 1976 to 1985.
Not Bad for a Sergeant
The Memoirs of Barney Danson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Barney Danson began as a twenty-one-year-old sergeant in the Canadian army and rose to the lofty heights of parliamentary secretary to Pierre Trudeau and, eventually, Minister of National Defence. In these positions, he gained insights into previously unknown facts about this remarkable prime minister,...