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Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman 1944-1965 by Max Nemni and Monique Nemni
This groundbreaking biography continues the story begun in Young Trudeau, taking Canada's legendary Prime Minister from his pro-fascist youth all the way to his entry into federal politics as a crusading Liberal democrat.
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The High Road by Terry Fallis
Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped into Parliament, throws icy cold water over his plans. Angus has just brought down the government with a deciding vote. Now the crusty Scot wants Daniel to manage his next campaign.
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The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis
A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election — but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock — an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers — to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose, and so on.
Then a great scandal blows away his opponent, and to their horror, Angus is elected.
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A Very Bold Leap by Yves Beauchemin, translated
by Wayne Grady
The third novel in the highly acclaimed quartet, The Charles the Bold Series, about a young man growing up in Montreal from the 1960s to 2000.
Yves Beauchemin's brilliant account of the joys and perils of a young novelist's life. And, as always, the sheer skill of Yves Beauchemin's traditional storytelling sweeps us along, reminding us of the great novelists of the past.
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The Truth About Canada: Some Important, Some Astonishing, and Some Truly Appalling Things All Canadians Should Know About Our Country by Mel Hurtig
This book is about how Canada has changed, very much for the worse, in the last twenty years. As a result of these profound (often hidden) changes, we are no longer the people we think we are.
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A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Andrew O'Hagan
This book has already become a classic, bringing Robert Burns (1759-1796) to ordinary readers. Because Burns was on the right side of history, against privilege and rank and for everyone getting a fair chance, he is beloved around the world — in Andrew O'Hagan's words, he is "the world's greatest and most loveable poet."
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Robertson Davies: A Portrait in Mosaic by Val Ross
A fascinating, larger-than-life character, Davies left a treasure trove of stories about him when he died in 1995 — expertly arranged here into a revealing portrait.
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Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers by Harry Bruce
A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway.
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions.
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Hell or High Water: My Life in and out of Politics by Paul Martin
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.
Great events and world figures stud this book, which is firm but polite as it sets the record straight, and is full of wry humour and self-deprecating stories.
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Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
An international literary event: Ten new stories from a beloved and award-winning author.
This stunning collection of new stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story.
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Going Ashore by Mavis Gallant
One of the world's great short-story writers emerges with a selection of stories from her past, a trove of hidden treasures.
Arranged in the order in which they appeared, they shed light on people living through most of the second half of the 20th century.
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Memoirs: 1939–1993 by Brian Mulroney
Described as “possibly the best memoirs ever written by a Canadian Prime Minister” (Ottawa Citizen) the book sets new standards for frankness, and for success in taking the reader behind the Prime Minister's desk as domestic and foreign problems fly across it. Memoirs is full of surprises, as we fall under the spell of a great storyteller who is “engaging and enlightening”. (Globe and Mail)
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My Mother’s Daughter by Rona Maynard
“A wonderfully honest and enthralling book” (Alice Munro). Through the magic of her writing, Rona Maynard gives a clear-eyed and affectionate account of her relationship with a powerful, demanding, loving mother. Every mother and daughter will recognize some parts of this story, in a “searingly honest accounting that makes for a most compelling read.” (Toronto Star)
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Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge
by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nic Rivers
Here’s a clear, direct, convincing – and hopeful – book for Canadians concerned about our environment, by an authoritative journalist, a respected academic, and a fine researcher, a great team for a vitally important issue. “Hot Air provides indispensable information about what went wrong with Canadian climate policy, and how that can be fixed.” (Literary Review of Canada)
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Raisin Wine: A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka
by James Bartleman
Ontario’s popular Lieutenant-Governor recalls growing up as a “half-breed kid” in this warm, affectionate memoir that is full of funny stories but still has a kick to it.
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King John of Canada by Scott Gardiner
Set in the near future, this savagely funny political satire foresees a Canada that is falling apart – until the winner of the "Be A Monarch Lottery" takes charge, and transforms the country.
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The Years of Fire by Yves Beauchemin, translated by Wayne Grady
Young Charles Thibodeau – “Charles the Bold” – continues his career in east-end Montreal, through the high-school years when he encounters girls and fights the threat of arson. Charles the Bold is “one of the great works of Canadian literature.” – Madeleine Thien
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Charles
the Bold by Yves Beauchemin, translated
by Wayne Grady
An unforgettable
coming-of-age
story set in
1960s and 1970s
east-end Montreal,
from French Canada’s
most popular
novelist. “Truly
astonishing .
. . one of the
great works of
Canadian literature.” – Madeleine
Thien
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The
Way
It
Works:
Inside Ottawa by
Eddie Goldenberg
Chrétien’s
senior policy adviser
from 1993 to 2003,
Eddie Goldenberg
takes us behind the
scenes to show how
vital decisions are
made at the top.
The book reveals
secrets from the
ultimate insider. |
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Sailing
Away from Winter:
A Cruise from
Nova Scotia to
Florida and Beyond
by Silver Donald
Cameron
The author, his wife, and their dog, Leo, sailed from Nova Scotia down the East
Coast, all the way to the palm trees of the Bahamas. This is the perfect armchair
sailing adventure, with enough detail to set a person dreaming . . .
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Right
Side Up:
The Fall of Paul
Martin and the
Rise of Stephen
Harper's New Conservatism
by Paul Wells
Canadian
politics were turned
upside-down when
the Conservative
Stephen Harper
beat out the Liberal
Paul Martin in
the 2006 election.
The shrewd and
irreverent Paul
Wells tells the
story of their
duel for power
from 2001 on.
Canadian politics
has never been
so much fun. |
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Magna
Cum Laude: How
Frank Stronach
Became Canada’s
Best-Paid Man by
Wayne Lilley
A solid, thorough
business book about
Frank Stronach, one
of Canada’s
most controversial
billionaires and
the man behind the
country’s most
famous rags to riches
story.
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Young
Trudeau: 1919-1944
Son of Quebec,
Father of Canada by Max
Nemni and Monique
Nemni
Translated
by William
Johnson
A disturbing
intellectual
biography of
Pierre Trudeau
that exposes
his pro-fascist
views until 1944,
completely reshaping
our understanding
of him. “I
was extremely
shocked.”
–Lysiane
Gagnon, Globe
and Mail
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at the Cottage:
Or the Cabin, the
Shack, the Lake,
the Beach, or Camp
by Charles
Gordon
The follow-up
to the classic At
the Cottage,
this is an affectionate
and hilarious look
at cottage living. “Funny,
reflective and always
insightful, this
is Charles Gordon
at the top of his
game."
–Will
Ferguson
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Sorry,
I Don’t
Speak French:
Confronting the
Canadian Crisis
That Won't Go
Away
by Graham
Fraser
The national bestseller
that looks at how
well official bilingualism
is working in Canada. “It’s
hard to think of
any writer better
qualified to write
about language than
Mr. Fraser. . . .
He is informed, balanced,
judicious and experienced,
and a very clear
writer.”
–Jeffrey
Simpson, Globe
and Mail
Finalist for the Ottawa Book Award 2007
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