Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be...
Authors, Canadian
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Author:Pawagi, ManjushaSummary: -
Author:LeBlanc, MarcelleSummary:Ce livre est un recueil de contes, de discours, de pensées, d’adresses, d’hommages, d’éloges et de remerciements. Il s’agit d’une macédoine de thèmes de la vie de tous les jours. Il s’adresse à chacun de vous afin d’y trouver de l’...
- Author:Melfi, Mary, Béland, ClaudeSummary:
Entre Montréal-Nord et Casacalenda, petite ville médiévale du sud de l’Italie, entre le début du XXe siècle et l’aube du XXIe, Mary Melfi multiplie les allers-retours dans le temps et dans l’espace et, par toutes petites touches, tisse...
- Author:Johnston, WayneSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland...
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Author:Whyte, JackSummary:Best known for his original series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles (called The Camulod Chronicles in the US), and his Knights Templar trilogy, Jack Whyte has authored 10 international bestsellers in the past 15 years. Jack's...
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the...
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Author:Wayman, TomSummary:The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social...
- Author:Toner, PatrickSummary:
At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canada and in the US as well. If I Could Turn and Meet Myself tells his life story, from his...
- Author:Hailey, SheilaSummary:
A memoir by the wife of the top selling author Arthur Hailey.
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Author:Fawcett, BrianSummary:So begins Brian Fawcett's compelling new book about happiness and a new way of looking at family. A public intellectual who will shame the devil in the interests of truth, Brian Fawcett has staunchly refused to buy into the prevailing...
- Author:Brennan, BrianSummary:
- Author:Rosenberg, LizSummary:
An affecting biography of the author of Anne of Green Gables is the first for young readers to include revelations about her last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life. Once upon a time, there...
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Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers carrying on a grand tradition. A high-powered RCMP inspector obsessed with their capture. A day-dreaming police scientist caught in a dilemma between the call of duty and his infatuation with a...
- Author:Bruce, HarrySummary:
In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada's top non-fiction writers, lost his mind-according to his peers-when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax. Harry was already...
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Author:Vanasse, AndréSummary:In 1945, Gabrielle Roy skyrocketed to fame and fortune when her first novel, The Tin Flute, was an instant hit. Over 700,000 copies sold in the United States, and the book was awarded the prestigious Prix Fna in France. In Canada, The...
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Author:Smith, EdSummary:Ed Smith is a writer of humour. From the Ashes of My Dreams is the story of his struggle to come to grips with quadriplegia after a motor vehicle accident, and describes his adventures and misadventures of seventeen months in...
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Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:With For Joshua, award-winning Ojibway author Richard Wagamese shares the traditional stories and teachings of his people, entwining them with an account of his own lifelong struggle for self-knowledge and self-respect
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
Traces the life of the Canadian author, describing his atypical childhood, difficult Army life, two marriages, volatile relationship with his father, leftist political views, and efforts as a naturalist and activist.
- Author:Gibson, GraemeSummary:
Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more. With...
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:Novelist Lesley Choyce weaves together his real-life adventures living by the sea at Lawrencetown Beach on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. He writes of his love for the rugged coast and tells tales of the ordinary and the extraordinary....
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