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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Young hunting Young hunting Martin Hunter Following the author through Toronto in the 1940s and 1950s, this engrossing memoir depicts the evolution from a middle class childhood into an unconventional adulthood. Escaping his origins to fulfi… OL12551605W
Reading Writers Reading Reading Writers Reading Danielle Schaub In candid text, accompanied by intimate photographs, 164 Canadian, Québécois and Franco-Canadian writers personally reflect on the transformative experiences of reading. With unguarded images, Daniel… OL15306938W
The dialectical dancer The dialectical dancer Larry Zolf In his memoir, Larry Zolf the most personal of journalists, the most astute of astute observers writes like he talks: an amazing combination of amiable anecdotes, one-liners, sharp-eyed historical re… OL16180165W
Proust's overcoat Proust's overcoat Lorenza Foschini "Jacques GuErin was a prominent businessman at the head of his family's successful perfume company, but his real passion was for rare books and literary manuscripts. From the time he was a young man,… OL16676086W
Bad animals Bad animals Joel Yanofsky A veteran book reviewer, Yanofsky has spent a lifetime immersed in literature (not to mention old movies and old jokes), which he calls shtick. This account of a year in the life of a family describe… OL17725005W
Almost a great escape Almost a great escape Tyler Trafford Novelist Tyler Trafford reconstructs the story of his mother's life--from her youth as a Montreal debutante to her final days as a casualty of an unhappy marriage--as he uncovers the mystery of her r… OL17902807W
Dirty River Dirty River Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the… OL19854040W
The Unfinished Dollhouse The Unfinished Dollhouse Michelle Alfano 276 pages ; 20 cm OL20156639W
Footprints Footprints Margaret Fishback Powers Margaret Fishback was a young woman searching for direction when she was inspired to write the poem "Footprints". The creation of the poem, its subsequent loss, and astonishing rediscovery are intert… OL20309655W
Sisters in the wilderness Sisters in the wilderness Charlotte Gray Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill were writers and artists who left England for Canada during the great wave of emigration that saw over twelve million Britons abandon their homeland for the C… OL2065350W
In translation In translation Gabrielle Roy,Joyce Marshall "Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and lo… OL2093146W
Edith and Winnifred Eaton Edith and Winnifred Eaton Dominika Ferens "Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin F… OL6208654W
The alpine path The alpine path Lucy Maud Montgomery The story of L. M. Montgomery is such an inspiring one for me. Indeed, there is no short cut to success. In page 62, I can see that with the great passion to writing, Ms. Montgomery got up early … OL77768W
Farley Farley King, James Exuberant, mercurial, melancholic, gregarious and generous -- Farley Mowat, one of our most beloved writers, is brought to life in this remarkable biography. Bestselling author James King has created… OL920739W