Mcclelland Stewart: 456 books
Into the Fire
The Fight to Save Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The dramatic story of one of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history, the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016, told by three of the firefighters who fought to save the city.
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire burning to the southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, led to the declaration of a local...
by Matt Rader
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
A luminous new collection of poems about entering middle age, living a life of books, and trying to know what it means to be or not be from or of a place.
If pattern is information, and verse the mind's conversation with Time, Matt Rader's Desecrations animates a theatre of silence we recognize...
A Killing Spring
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back – with her most daring mystery to date.
In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed Gallagher, the head of the School of Journalism...
The Canadian Writer's Market, 19th Edition
The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
The essential guide for freelance writers, now completely updated and revised.
The Canadian Writer's Market is the authority on who publishes what and how best to bring your work to their attention. It offers practical advice on everything from manuscript preparation to copyright law, from information...
An Innocent in Ireland
Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
When writer David McFadden sets out on a tour of Ireland, he is determined to so do in a relatively innocent state. Using as a guide only In Search of Ireland, a 1930 title by travel writer H. V. Morton, he plans to follow the same route, to try to determine how things have changed and how they have...
We Generation
Raising Socially Responsible Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Engaging and timely, this book is an invaluable resource for parents who want their children to become socially responsible and globally aware adults
As youth culture seems to grow more self-centred and obsessed with "Me,"Michael Ungar shows us that, in fact, children today are as...
Playing at Being Bad
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike...
The Last Taboo
A Survival Guide to Mental Health Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
At any given time, three million Canadians are living with some kind of mental illness. But despite its prevalence, the public and even some health practitioners are badly misinformed about its causes and treatment.
This book is an essential road map to hope and recovery. It tells the reader...
Ghost Empire
How the French Almost Conquered North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle.
This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in...
by J. Douglas Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Tumbling Mirth is an anecdotal look at the Royal Canadian Air Force from its origins in 1924 to the time of its unification in 1967. During those years the Air Force was the RCAF, and members were proud to serve their country. The author, Douglas Harvey, served for twenty-two years and Tumbling Mirth...
Losing Confidence
Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
A ringing manifesto for change from Canada’s Green Party leader and Activist.
We Canadians are waking up from our long political slumber to realize that there will not be change unless we insist upon it. We have a presidential-style prime minister without the checks and balances of either...
Too Safe for Their Own Good
How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Canadian children are safer now than at any other time in history. So why are we so fearful for them? When they’re young, we drive them to playdates, fill up their time with organized activity, and cocoon them from every imaginable peril. We think we are doing what’s best for them. But as they...
The Quirks & Quarks Question Book
101 Answers to Listeners' Questions
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Is there really such a thing as a blue moon?
• What time is it at the North Pole?
• Why don’t woodpeckers get concussed?
• Why don’t snorers wake themselves with the racket they make?
• Do insects sleep?
These are just a few of the intriguing questions asked and answered in...
by Christopher Dewdney
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Christopher Dewdney’s love for the landscape and the flora and fauna of southwestern Ontario has provoked some of the most gorgeously erotic prose ever to appear in this country. From that love, augmented by ardent research in the field, emerges a marvellously compelling, futuristic vision of time...