Goose Lane Editions: 150 books
Down Inside
Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.
In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada’s most dangerous and notorious...
The Diplomat
Lester Pearson and the Suez Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Shortlisted, John W. Dafoe Book Prize
Saturday, November 3, 1956
The United Nations, New York City about 10 p.m.
Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. He is about to speak, reading from a proposal...
Home
Chronicle of a North Country Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Home is like a leaf on a tree: other people, other homes, are the other leaves. They live beneath the same sky, share the same memories, survive the same storms. But one leaf is a solitude. After twenty-five years on a New Brunswick farm, award-winning Canadian author Beth Powning came to understand...
by Douglas Glover, Lawrence Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor Generals Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true...
The Right Fight
Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalist’s account of how Bernard Lord rose to the top in provincial politics and why his path could lead to Ottawa. The clean sweep of Frank McKenna’s Liberals in 1987 shook the foundations...
by Michel Cormier
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
With the loosening of restrictions on the Chinese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of the middle class, many observers thought that Western-style democracy would soon follow. Instead, China has adopted its own version, with a market-driven economy where actions that might call into question...
by George Burden, Dorothy Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The twenty true tales in Amazing Medical Stories give a rich and entertaining picture of the ways in which medical workers (both real and fake) have used the keys to the mysterious kingdom of life: health, disease, and physical anomaly, birth, death, and post-mortem diagnosis. The stories run the...
Hurricanes
What You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it's a vivid memory half a century later. In 2003 Hurricane Juan so devastated the Halifax, Nova Scotia, area that complete recovery will take decades. In the fall of 2005, Hurricane Katrina, immediately followed by Rita and...
Breaking the Word Barrier
Stories of Adults Learning to Read
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In this compelling collection of first-person stories, adults who have made outstanding achievements in adult literacy were paired with writers to tell of their transition to reading. These are people who have had the courage to overcome the barrier of words to break into a broader sense of themselves,...
Sanctuary
The Story of Naturalist Mary Majka
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Mary Majka is one of Canada's great pioneering environmentalists. She is best known as a television host, a conservationist, and driving force behind the internationally acclaimed Marys Point Western Hemispheric Shorebird Reserve on the Bay of Fundy.
Sanctuary gives full expression to the intensely...
Abode of Love
Growing Up in a Messianic Cult
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
When Kate Barlow was a little girl, she moved with her mother and her older sisters to a ramshackle English mansion. They were not alone on the once-grand estate, surrounded as they were by twenty eccentric, elderly women, one of whom was her grandmother . . . or was she? This remarkable memoir is...
Of Earthly and River Things: An Angler's Memoir
An Angler's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
“One could do worse than to grow up on a river.” In his new collection of essays, Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, throwing a pastoral net over the backwaters of his childhood to ensnare the sepia-tinged moments of love, loss, and life lessons he gleaned through his...
Back in 6 Years
A Journey Around the Planet Without Leaving the Surface
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Inspired by travel writer Ted Simon, Tony Robinson-Smith quit his job in Japan, returned home to England, and then set out once more with only a a knapsack, a map, and a dream to travel the world with both feel on the ground. Nearly six years later, he returned home having fulfilled his dream and...
by Elaine McCluskey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world — peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard prints, and tie-die — touches gloves with the colourful world of sports reporting. Both groups need something hot with speedy delivery. Enter a cast of...