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One Soldier
A Canadian Soldier's Fight Against the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The instant national bestseller. Dillon Hillier, a corporal with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, returned home from a tour in Afghanistan and started up a normal life. But when ISIS insurgents began attacking local populations in Iraq and elsewhere, Hillier, a long-time soldier,...
The Patrol
Seven Days in the Life of a Canadian Soldier in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In 2008, Ryan Flavelle, a reservist in the Canadian Army and a student at the University of Calgary, volunteered to serve in Afghanistan. For seven months, twenty-four-year-old Flavelle, a signaller attached to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, endured the extreme heat, the long hours...
Gangland
The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A frightening look at Mexico's new power elitethe Mexican drug cartels
The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor...
by Robert Semrau
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Captain Robert Semraus military trial made international headlines—a Canadian soldier serving in Afghanistan arrested for allegedly killing a grievously wounded Taliban soldier in the field. The trial and its outcome are a matter of public record. What you are about to read about the tour of duty...
Dam Busters
Canadian Airmen and the Secret Raid Against Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
National Bestseller
Foreword by Peter Mansbridge
“Barris tells the jaw-dropping story of a night that changed the war.” —The Globe and Mail
It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took...
The Red Shoes
Margaret Atwood Starting Out
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
International award-winning and best-selling author, Canadian cultural icon, feminist role model, "man-hater," wife, mother, private citizen and household name -- who is Margaret Atwood? Rosemary Sullivan, award-winning literary biographer, has penned The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting...
by Rosemary Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
It’s a book that women talk to their girlfriends about, and a book they’d like their lovers to read. It’s an “intellectually sexy experience” that lyrically, wittily and provocatively explores women’s history of romantic obsession through the telling and deconstruction of a passionate love affair.
Season In Hell
My 130 Days in the Sahara with Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
For decades, Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs. In one heart-stopping minute, all of that changed. On December 14, 2008, Fowler, acting as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Niger, was kidnapped by Al Qaeda, becoming the highest ranked UN official ever held...
March Forth
The Inspiring True Story of a Canadian Soldier’s Journey of Love, Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
At the age of forty-one, Trevor Greene, a journalist and a reservist in the Canadian Forces, was deployed to Afghanistan, leaving behind his fiancée, Debbie, and his young daughter, Grace. On March 4, 2006, while meeting with village elders in a remote village in Kandahar Province, Trevor removed...
Brave Battalion
The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark...
Leadership
50 Points of Wisdom For Today's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
General Rick Hillier’s views on leadership evolved over his three decades as a soldier. Early in his career he watched as many of his superiors made bad decisions. Later he learned at the school of hard knocks as the head of emergency rescue operations in Canada and international task forces in...
The Whisky King
The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean...
Amen
What Prayer Can Mean in a World Beyond Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
For many people, prayer is an essential part of daily life, connecting them with God, a force or the universe, bringing them, among other things, assistance and protection. Others cannot imagine being so dependent upon a concept they can neither justify nor comprehend.
In Amen, Gretta Vosper,...
With Or Without God
Why the Way We Live is More Important Than What We Believe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Envisioning a future in which the Christian church plays a viable and transformative role in shaping society, Gretta Vosper argues that if the church is to survive at all, the heart of faith must undergo a radical change. Vosper, founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and a minister...