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Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper
by Bob Plamondon
Conservative Party insider Bob Plamondon’s new book, Blue Thunder, promises to tell “the truth” about all the leaders throughout the Tories’ various incarnations. The truth,...
Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia
by Jasmin Hristov
During a controversial July 2007 trip to Colombia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper bluntly stated that human rights concerns could not get in the way of...
The Sheikh’s Batmobile: In Pursuit of American Pop Culture in the Muslim World
by Richard Poplak
Contemporary cultural criticism and immersive journalism often take the form of a road trip, albeit to places a little off the tourist track. In The...
February
by Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore’s second novel, following 2005’s Giller-shortlisted Alligator, employs similar time and perspective shifts to paint a portrait of Helen, a woman shattered by the...
Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music … From Hank Snow to The Band
by Jason Schneider
In Whispering Pines, Jason Schneider, one of Canada’s authorities on the subject of roots music, turns his expertise to the little-known Canadian origin of some...
Who’s Your Daddy? And Other Writings on Queer Parenting
by Rachel Epstein, ed.
If you believe the queer baby boom is proof that LGBT folks really are just like everyone else, think again. Who’s Your Daddy?, a provocative...
Step Closer
by Tessa McWatt
Tessa McWatt’s fourth novel for adults is a powerful and suspenseful examination of relationships and the secrets that can both create and destroy them. McWatt...
After the Red Night
by Christiane Frenette; Sheila Fischman,trans.
After the Red Night, the latest novel by Quebec author Christiane Frenette, opens with brief “gesture drawings” of its five characters three nights after Rimouski’s...
God of Missed Connections
by Elizabeth Bachinsky
In the press material that accompanies Elizabeth Bachinsky’s third poetry collection, Bachinsky expresses her desire to “capture the sense of what it feels like to...
Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far)
by Richard LaBonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds.
The introduction of Second Person Queer, the companion to the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer, informs readers that the new volume is meant to be...
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health
by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, with Sarah Dopp
Science is full of stories about daring researchers who will go to almost any length to prove a point. When it is unethical, expensive, or...
What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar
by Lt.-Col. John Conrad
What the Thunder Said, Lt.-Col. John Conrad’s account of his six-month tour in Kandahar, introduces us to new perspectives on the Canadian experience in Afghanistan,...
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
by Jeff Rubin
For more than 20 years, Jeff Rubin has been known as one of Canada’s top economists, and a major voice for the energy sector. In...
French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating
by Laura Calder
One-Pot French: More than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes
by Jean-Pierre Challet
Like her Food Network cooking show, French Food at Home, Laura Calder’s second cookbook, French Taste, is, in essence, a primer on basic Gallic cooking...
The Collected Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist
by Doug Wright; Seth, ed.
This shiny, retro-modern-style coffee table book on the work of the once-celebrated cartoonist Doug Wright, edited by well-known comic book artist Seth, is a beautiful...
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