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Young hunting
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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… |
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As nature made him
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John Colapinto |
The true story of a family who spends 14 years trying to raise their son as a girl after his botched circumcision. |
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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold War
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Farley, John |
"This is the story of a man and an institution. Brock Chisholm was one of the most influential Canadians of the twentieth century. A world-renowned psychiatrist, he was the first director-general of … |
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Baking as biography
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Diane Tye |
"Hidden among the simple lists of ingredients and directions for everyday foods are surprising stories. In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye considers her mother's recipe collection, reading between the… |
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Dreams and due diligence
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Joe Sornberger |
"In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, t… |
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Carly's voice
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Arthur Fleischmann |
The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her c… |
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Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women & Money
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Kevin O'Leary |
From bestselling author and television superstar Kevin O'Leary comes a new financial guide that takes you through money mistakes at every stage of life and teaches you how to avoid them. Don't spend … |
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Rumours of Glory
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Bruce Cockburn |
Legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir—a chronicle of faith, fear, and activism that is also a lively cultural and musical tour through the late twen… |
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Northern light
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Roy MacGregor |
"The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the loc… |
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Michael Buble
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Olivia King |
"Michael Buble is the most successful male artist in the world at the moment. Born in British Columbia to a family of Italian fishermen, music is in the family blood. Michael's grandfather first intr… |
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Annaleise Carr
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Annaleise Carr |
Annaleise Carr describes her swim across Lake Ontario in 2012 which she undertook in order to raise money for Camp Trillium, a camp for kids with cancer. |
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Love's civil war
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Elizabeth Bowen |
The love affair between writer Elizabeth Bowen & Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed after their first meeting in 1941 & continued over the next 30 years until Bowen's death in 1973. When Rit… |
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Oscar Peterson
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Jack Batten |
This book is the story of a black kid from a Montreal ghetto who reached accliam in the great music halls of the world. |
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A Country Year, Living the Questions (Unabridged audiobook on four tapes)
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Sue Hubbell,Verrill Darhansoff |
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself … |
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Kid Dynamite
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Ron Smith |
"Gerry James, aka Kid Dynamite, was not only the youngest player ever to play in the CFL at 17, but he was one of the toughest athletes of his time. While playing with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 19… |
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Open Heart, Open Mind
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Clara Hughes |
From one of Canada's most decorated Olympians comes a raw but life-affirming story of one woman's struggle with depression. In a world where winning meant everything, her biggest competitor was herse… |
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Resilience
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Lisa Lisson |
"Lisa Lisson's life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ult… |
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Heart berries
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Terese Marie Mailhot |
"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to… |
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Up Ghost River
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Edmund Metatawabin |
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious fo… |
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Director's cut
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Ted Kotcheff |
"With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life. Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned st… |
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