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Bryan Prince


Bryan Prince is a descendent of slaves who came to Canada prior to the American Civil War. He is a farmer with a profound interest in the history of the Underground Railroad – particularly in the Canadian involvement. He is actively involved with the Buxton National Historic Site & Museum, as well as with several other organizations in Ontario and the United States that focus on that period of history. He has spent thousands of hours researching, writing, and lecturing on this topic over a period of nearly 25 years. In 2002, he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for...

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A Shadow on the Household
Written by Bryan Prince

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - United States - 19th Century; History - Social History; Biography & Autobiography - Historical
978-0-7710-7125-6 (0-7710-7125-6)

January 6, 2009 | $34.99

(Available January 6, 2009)





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The Blue Mountains of China
Written by Rudy Wiebe
Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9471-2 (0-7710-9471-X)

November 4, 2008 | $22.95

(Available November 4, 2008)




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The Solitude of Emperors
Written by David Davidar

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-2591-4 (0-7710-2591-2)

November 4, 2008 | $19.99

(Available November 4, 2008)


Suffocating in the small-town world of his parents, Vijay is desperate to escape to the raw energy of Bombay in the early 1990s. His big chance arrives unexpectedly when the family servant, Raju, is recruited by a right-wing organization. As a result of an article he writes about the increasing power...

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The Unfinished Canadian
Written by Andrew Cohen

Trade Paperback | 280 pages | Emblem Editions | Social Science; Political Science; Political Science - Civics
978-0-7710-2286-9 (0-7710-2286-7)

November 4, 2008 | $19.99

(Available November 4, 2008)


The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians.

What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why...

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Alice Munro's Best
Written by Alice Munro
Introduction by Margaret Atwood

Hardcover | 500 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-6520-0 (0-7710-6520-5)

October 28, 2008 | $34.99

(Available October 28, 2008)


In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says “Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed tones.”

This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls...


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Around the World in 57 ½ Gigs
Written by Dave Bidini

Trade Paperback | 328 pages | Emblem Editions | Travel; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians
978-0-7710-1367-6 (0-7710-1367-1)

October 28, 2008 | $19.99

(Available October 28, 2008)





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Hell or High Water
Written by Paul Martin

Hardcover | 416 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Biography & Autobiography - Political; History - Canada; Political Science
978-0-7710-5692-5 (0-7710-5692-3)

October 28, 2008 | $37.99

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Paul Martin was the Prime Minister we never really knew — in this memoir he emerges as a fascinating flesh and blood man, still working hard to make a better world.

“The next thing you know, I was in a jail cell.” (Chapter 2)

“From the moment I flipped his truck on...


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The Journey Prize Stories 20
Written by Various
Edited by Lynn Coady, Heather O'Neill and Neil Smith

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4343-7 (0-7710-4343-0)

October 28, 2008 | $17.99

(Available October 28, 2008)





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Katherine Swynford
Written by Alison Weir

Hardcover | 388 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - Great Britain
978-0-7710-8857-5 (0-7710-8857-4)

October 28, 2008 | $34.99

(Available October 28, 2008)





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Lost and Found
Written by Monia Mazigh

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-5758-8 (0-7710-5758-X)

October 28, 2008 | $34.99

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The inspiring story of Monia Mazigh’s courageous fight to free her husband, Maher Arar, from a Syrian jail.

On September 26, 2002, Maher Arar boarded an American Airlines plane bound for New York, returning early from vacation with his family because a work project needed his attention. He was a Canadian citizen...


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Measuring Mother Earth
Written by Heather Robertson

Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology
978-0-7710-7540-7 (0-7710-7540-5)

October 28, 2008 | $21.00

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A vivid, entertaining portrait of the great Canadian explorer Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the man who single-handedly invented the notion of the “Romance of the North”.

In the nineteenth century, exploring the Earth was as exciting and awe-inspiring an activity as space exploration was in the twentieth century. And even as late...

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Otherwise
Written by Farley Mowat

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6489-0 (0-7710-6489-6)

October 28, 2008 | $32.99

(Available October 28, 2008)


A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist.

Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now, creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generations, selling literally millions of copies in the process. In looking back over...


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The Riverbones
Written by Andrew Westoll

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Emblem Editions | Travel - South America; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; Science - Environmental Science
978-0-7710-8875-9 (0-7710-8875-2)

October 28, 2008 | $24.99

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The Summer That Never Was
Written by Peter Robinson

Paperback | 496 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-7601-5 (0-7710-7601-0)

October 28, 2008 | $11.99

(Available October 28, 2008)


While recuperating from the events of Aftermath on a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from the road where he disappeared more than thirty-five years earlier.

Intrigued by the discovery, and still consumed...

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Tales from Outer Suburbia
Written by Shaun Tan

Hardcover | 96 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Juvenile Fiction - Humorous Stories
978-0-7710-8402-7 (0-7710-8402-1)

October 28, 2008 | $24.99

(Available October 28, 2008)


Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban existence filtered through a wickedly Monty Pythonesque lens...


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