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On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life

Rupinder Gill is the daughter of immigrant Punjabi parents who were masters at saying no. No sleepovers. No tennis lessons. No fun. Instead, she and her four siblings had two options for after-school activities: clean ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Reference

Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America

By Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds

In December 2006, husband and wife Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds decided to take the long way home from Vancouver to Ontario. Anxious to avoid winter driving, and eager to experience America – a nation ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America

By Peter Firstbrook

Would North America be the same without the lives of two boys, both born in the same walled city in 1451? Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to ... Read More »

August 20, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Road Tripping: On the Move with the Buffalo Gals

By Conni Massing

Every summer for the past 10 years, Conni Massing and a gaggle of her theatre friends have embarked on raucous road trips throughout their home province of Alberta. Road Tripping: On the Move with the ... Read More »

April 26, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

By Andrew Potter

In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter, Maclean’s columnist and co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed, rehashes all of the same resistance-is-futile thinking from that earlier book in ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

The Secret Lives of Litterbugs and Other (True) Stories

By M.A.C. Farrant

In her eighth book, the prolific humourist M.A.C. Farrant takes us back to the days when cleaning out the car meant throwing everything out the window, drinking and driving was simply the way things were ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Reference

The Riverbones: Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname

By Andrew Westoll

First as a primatologist, and then as a practitioner of literary non-fiction, Andrew Westoll has spent considerable time in Suriname, on the Atlantic coast of South America. He calls it one of “those economically poor, ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

The White Guy: A Field Guide

By Stephen Hunt

Let’s assume, for the moment, that you are an extraterrestrial, and that one morning you wake up transformed into a being from Earth. Unfortunately, you have not turned into something richly awesome, such as a ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

Bigfoot: I Not Dead

By Graham Roumieu

Like so many celebrities entering mid-career, Bigfoot is facing the agonizing prospect that his best years may already be behind him. At least that’s the conceit of Graham Roumieu’s Bigfoot: I Not Dead, the Toronto-based ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

★ Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

By Mark Richardson

With all due respect to the automotive section of the Toronto Star, who could have foreseen that its editor, Mark Richardson, would write a book so fine and strangely moving as Zen and Now? Like ... Read More »

September 8, 2008 | Filed under: Reference

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