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The Vicar Vortex

Ditrich, Vince R.
The Vicar Vortex
After the recent turmoil, life in Tyee Lagoon has calmed down, as much as it ever does, and Tony Vicar faces his toughest challenge yet: the unglamorous, unwelcome state called "normality" as a business owner and parent. But when a dangerous femme fatale returns, Vicar must confront what he truly wants from life.

CHF 27.50

This Thing of Darkness

Fradkin, Barbara
This Thing of Darkness
A controversial psychiatrist is found beaten to death on a street corner in Ottawa's Byward Market. Initially, the killing appears to be merely a mugging gone wrong, but Inspector Green's complex investigation leaves him grappling with the ultimate meaning of justice.

CHF 27.50

Eris

Gaudet, Larry
Eris
The creator of an immersive eco-game discovers his teen son has joined a terrorist group on a mission to destroy all digital culture and entertainment. And both the creator and his son are on the digital hit list of an elusive assassin.

CHF 28.50

The Starving Artist Myth

Jones, Mark J
The Starving Artist Myth
Creative sector jobs are driving our economy and offer a viable career path for today's youth.Careers in the creative sector offer flexibility and security. Why then are more young people not seeking them out? Because they believe the myth of the starving artist, which conjures up images of penniless writers and artistic bohemians. The myth leads families and some educators to discourage young people from choosing a path they would love in fav...

CHF 31.50

What They Said about Luisa

Rummel, Erika
What They Said about Luisa
A portrait of Luisa Abrego, a freed slave who became the first woman of mixed race to marry a white man in 16th century Spain. She is tried by the Inquisition for bigamy. Luisa has been voiceless in history, so her story is told through the memories of Europeans who encountered her.

CHF 25.50

Changing Our Tunes

Pate, David
Changing Our Tunes
The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious -- so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them?This fascinating popular history of national anthems begins in a London theatre in 1745 when the modern idea of anthems was born. They started out as triumphant expressions of national superiority by glorifying violence, claiming the support of God, and mostly ignoring women.David Pate has experienced...

CHF 33.90

101 Fascinating Canadian Film and TV Facts

Ernst, Thom
101 Fascinating Canadian Film and TV Facts
101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Did you know who performed the first on screen nude scene in a Canadian feature? What David Cronenberg film was raided for obscenity? What famous American television host credits SCTV as his sole inspiration for comedy? Why Oliver Reed was arrested while shooting The Brood? What iconic Canadian television series was syndicated in over fifty different countries? Which Cana...

CHF 24.90

Punching Above Its Weight

Borys, David A
Punching Above Its Weight
A riveting history of the Canadian forces, following both the major accomplishments and the significant challenges. Punching Above Its Weight covers 150 years of Canadian military service, tracing the evolution of the country's armed forces from a small, underfunded, poorly trained militia into the modern, effective military it is today. From the Red River Resistance and the Boer War to modern peacekeeping and the long war in Afghanistan, Davi...

CHF 43.90

Celestina's House

Gonzalez, Clarissa Trinidad
Celestina's House
The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes's family. For years after, Celestina longs for an escape from her unhappy home. Then an unexpected gift from her wealthy Lolo offers that chance: a long-forsaken property in Manila's bohemian district, close to where ladies of the evening ply their trade. It is no place for a proper young woman, but this...

CHF 28.50

Habs 365

Commito, Mike
Habs 365
Now you can cheer for the Habs every day of the year!The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most storied franchises in hockey history. No club has won more Stanley Cups than the Canadiens, but the Habs are about so much more than championships. For many French Canadians and fans around the world, the Canadiens are a source of pride and an inherent part of their identity. From the role the "Richard Riot" played in helping to spark a revolution i...

CHF 34.90

Dream Chasers

Fradkin, Barbara
Dream Chasers
A teenager sets out to meet her lover by an Ottawa waterfall. Days later her body washes up in the shallows. The public fears a sexual predator is on the loose, while Inspector Green suspects a personal connection. His search for answers draws him into the world of elite young hockey players, drugs, and teen sexuality.

CHF 27.50

Atrocity on the Atlantic

Hendley, Nate
Atrocity on the Atlantic
On June 27, 1918, a Canadian military hospital ship was torpedoed by U-Boat 86, a German submarine. The sub commander tried to kill all the survivors -- but failed. The attack was adjudicated at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials resulting in a historic legal precedent that guided subsequent war crime prosecutions.

CHF 30.50

After the Flames

Rose, Jonathan R.
After the Flames
Fourteen-year-old Joey Philion's incredible survival from a fire that burned 95 percent of his body made him the second most famous Canadian of 1988. Yet Joey's survival took an enormous toll on him, his mother Linda, stepfather Mike, and younger brother Danny in the years that followed.

CHF 31.90

Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas

Blizzard, Gloria
Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas
With her essay collection Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, Blizzard explores the spaces where art, music, spirit, ecology, race and culture collide. With prose and the tools of poetry, she negotiates the complexities of culture, geography and language in an international diasporic quest.

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Traitor By Default

Brode, Patrick
Traitor By Default
The story of Kanao Inouye, a Japanese Canadian born in Kamloops, B.C. in 1916, the "Kamloops Kid" moved to Japan where he became a translator assigned to a prisoner of war camp in Hong Kong where he took his revenge on scores of soldiers.

CHF 31.50

We Were the Bullfighters

Miller, Marianne K.
We Were the Bullfighters
Ernest Hemingway is struggling. Will impending fatherhood and leaving Paris mean the loss of his fledgling writing career? But as a Toronto Daily Star reporter, he's sent to cover a daring prison break and becomes fascinated with the escaped convicts, asking: What is freedom? Duty? What stops a man from pursuing his dreams?

CHF 31.50

Heaping Coals

Coren, Michael
Heaping Coals
Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve." -- STEPHEN FRY From England's working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren charts his encounters with people of faith, fame, and fortune.Michael Coren writes of his life leading up to entering the seminary and being ordained. Growing up in a working-class mixed-religion family, then entering a career in media, Coren...

CHF 28.50

We Used to Dream of Freedom

Chaiton, Sam
We Used to Dream of Freedom
A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents' untold secrets and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But what their parents wouldn't share about their history -- including the fact they had also been in Auschwitz -- ended up shaping their children's lives. We Used to Dream of Freedom touches on the b...

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Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenou...

Spear, Wayne K / Erasmus, Georges
Enough! Georges Erasmus's Fifty-Year Battle for Indigenous Rights
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus -- a radical Native rights crusader, who is widely regarded to be one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years.For decades, Georges Henry Erasmus led the fight for Indigenous rights. From the Berger Inquiry to the Canadian constitutional talks to the Oka Crisis, Georges was a significant figure in Canada's political landscape. In the 1990s, he led the Royal Commission on...

CHF 34.90

The Social Safety Net

Loreto, Nora
The Social Safety Net
Canada's social safety net is fraying. Why does it feel like everything is collapsing?Canada is at a crossroad. Neoliberalism has hollowed out and sold off the social services Canadians rely on now more than ever, and has brought into stark relief the dissonance among colonial, Indigenous, and some of Canada's most at-risk groups.The Social Safety Net tracks the forty-year attack on Canada's social safety net. As neoliberalism has matured in C...

CHF 31.90