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The Volunteer
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Israel; Religion
978-0-7710-7777-7 (0-7710-7777-7)
April 29, 2008 | $22.99
The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel’s legendary Mossad.
In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. Through happenstance, he winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the land and its...
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Israel; Religion
978-0-7710-7777-7 (0-7710-7777-7)
April 29, 2008 | $22.99
The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel’s legendary Mossad.
In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. Through happenstance, he winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the land and its...
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Shakespeare's Wife
Hardcover | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History
978-0-7710-3582-1 (0-7710-3582-9)
April 8, 2008 | $36.99
A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history.
Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she...
Hardcover | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Women; History
978-0-7710-3582-1 (0-7710-3582-9)
April 8, 2008 | $36.99
A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history.
Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she...
The Occupied Garden
Hardcover | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Europe - Western
978-0-7710-2622-5 (0-7710-2622-6)
March 18, 2008 | $29.99
A moving, revealing memoir about a man and his young family during the Nazi occupation of Holland, as told by his granddaughters, one a beloved novelist.
At once a memoir and a social history of a time, The Occupied Garden is the story of a good but poor man, a market gardener...
Hardcover | 328 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Europe - Western
978-0-7710-2622-5 (0-7710-2622-6)
March 18, 2008 | $29.99
A moving, revealing memoir about a man and his young family during the Nazi occupation of Holland, as told by his granddaughters, one a beloved novelist.
At once a memoir and a social history of a time, The Occupied Garden is the story of a good but poor man, a market gardener...
Raisin Wine
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; History - Native American
978-0-7710-1264-8 (0-7710-1264-0)
February 26, 2008 | $19.99
A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author.
This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village...
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Presidents; History - Native American
978-0-7710-1264-8 (0-7710-1264-0)
February 26, 2008 | $19.99
A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author.
This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village...
Also available as a
hardcover.
