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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley Doubleday Canada, Flavia de Luce #1, February 10, 2009

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley Doubleday Canada, Flavia de Luce #1, February 10, 2009

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley Doubleday Canada, Flavia de Luce #1, February 10, 2009

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

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All We Want Michael Harris Doubleday Canada, 2021

Our lives are defined by a story of endless growth and consumption. Now a climate crisis demands that we change. Can we write new stories? In All We Want, award-winning author Michael Harris dismantles our untenable consumer culture and delivers surprising, heartwarming alternatives. Drawing on the wisdom of philosophers, scientists, and artists, Harris uncovers three realms where humans have always found deeper meaning: the worlds of Craft, the Sublime, and Care.Past attempts to blunt our impact on the environment have simply redirected our consumption—we bought fuel-efficient cars and canvas tote bags. We cannot, however, buy our way out of this crisis. We need, instead, compelling new stories about life's purpose.Part meditation and part manifesto, All We Want is a blazing inquest into the destructive and unfulfilling promise of our consumer society, and a roadmap toward a more humane future.

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Island Madness Binding, Tim Doubleday Canada, 1999

SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only British territory to have been occupied by German troops, such a reversal is unimaginable. Here, in idyllic surroundings, the reality of war seems a lifetime away. While resentment runs high, life goes on, parties are held, love affairs blossom and the Guernsey Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Players can still stage productions of Private Lives, Babes in the Wood and Peter Pan--albeit with suspiciously jackbooted pirates. But when a young local woman is found murdered, both the islanders and the occupiers are forced to acknowledge that this most civilized of wars conceals a struggle that is darker and more bitter than anyone cares to recognize.

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Dragonfly in Amber Diana Gabaldon [Gabaldon, Diana] Doubleday Canada, Outlander #2, 1992

From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...

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Angelology Trussoni, Danielle Doubleday Canada, 2010

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Set in the secluded world of cloistered abbeys, long-lost secrets and angelic humans, *Angelology* has all the makings of a blockbuster hit, combining elements of *The Da Vinci Code* and Kate Mosse's *Labyrinth***Sister Evangeline was just a young girl when her father left her at St. Rose Convent under the care of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Now a young woman, she has unexpectedly discovered a collection of letters dating back sixty years - letters that bring her deep into a closely guarded secret, to an ancient conflict between the millennium-old Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. Rich and mesmerizing, **Angelology** blends biblical lore, mythology and the fall of the Rebel Angels, creating a luminous, riveting tale of one young woman caught in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.

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Waiting for a Star to Fall Kerry Clare Doubleday Canada, 2020

"A love story at its core, though one without an ending written in the stars. . . . Timely and insightful." —Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author ofRecipe for a Perfect WifeFor fans of Joanne Ramos, Josie Silver, and Emily Giffin, a gripping and powerful story that asks: Just how much are you willing to forgive in the name of love?Brooke has long been caught in the orbit of Derek, a rising political superstar. First he was her boss, then they were friends and she became his confidant, the one person he shared everything with. And even though she had feelings for him—it was hard to resist; he's charming and handsome, respected and beloved—she never dreamed he'd feel the same way. Derek is so much older and could have anyone he wanted. But it turns out that who Derek wants is Brooke, and suddenly none of the reasons they shouldn't be together matter. They fall in love. And even though Brooke has to keep the...

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The Good Father Grady, Wayne Doubleday Canada, 2021

From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comesThe Good Father, his first contemporary novel, which comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception and the price we pay for second chances.Every story has two sides, two perspectives. And when it comes to a relationship between a daughter and her father, separated first by divorce and then by both generational gaps and physical and emotional distance, those perspectives can colossally diverge. Such is the case with Harry Bowes and his only daughter, Daphne. Harry is a mild mannered journalist turned teacher turned wine merchant who is content to putter around his home in Toronto eating things straight out of the fridge that both his doctor and his second wife, Elinor, would disapprove of, and procrastinate calling his daughter even though he senses something is amiss. Meanwhile, in Vancouver,...

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The Good Father Grady, Wayne Doubleday Canada, 2021

From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Grady comesThe Good Father, his first contemporary novel, which comically and tragically reckons with a father and daughter's estrangement, the failures brought on by hubris, the limits of perception and the price we pay for second chances.Every story has two sides, two perspectives. And when it comes to a relationship between a daughter and her father, separated first by divorce and then by both generational gaps and physical and emotional distance, those perspectives can colossally diverge. Such is the case with Harry Bowes and his only daughter, Daphne. Harry is a mild mannered journalist turned teacher turned wine merchant who is content to putter around his home in Toronto eating things straight out of the fridge that both his doctor and his second wife, Elinor, would disapprove of, and procrastinate calling his daughter even though he senses something is amiss. Meanwhile, in Vancouver,...

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We All Fall Down Walters, Eric Doubleday Canada, We All Fall Down #1, 2006

A novel from one of the country’s most prolific and popular YA authors, this book, set in New York City on September 11th, shows us how the experiences of that day profoundly changed one teen’s life and relationships.Today is September 10, 2001, and Will, a grade nine student, is spending the day at his father’s workplace tomorrow. As part of a school assignment, all the students in his class will be going to their parents tomorrow, but Will isn’t excited about it–he’d rather sleep in and do nothing with his friends. His father doesn’t even have an exciting job like his best friend James’s father who is a fireman. Will’s dad works for an international trading company and has to wake up early every morning to commute to his office on the eighty-fifth floor in the south building of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. Will doesn’t see his father very often because of the hours he puts in at the office. He doubts that his dad will bother making time for him tomorrow even when they are supposed to be spending the day together.In this fast-paced and dramatic new novel by bestselling author Eric Walters, Will discovers a new side of his father during an event that continues to affect the world. As Will’s new teacher says, tomorrow “might be an experience that changes your entire life.”From the Trade Paperback edition.**

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The Vault (Inspector Wexford, #23) Rendell, Ruth Doubleday Canada, Inspector Wexford #23, 2011

Wessex is retired -- or would be, if murder and danger would only leave him alone.The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of a more relaxed way of life, Wexford misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a Detective Superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case.The bodies of two women and a man have been discovered in the old coal hole of an attractive house in St John's Wood. None carries identification. But the man's jacket pockets contain a string of pearls, a diamond and a sapphire necklace as well as other jewellery valued in the region of £40,000. Wexford is intrigued and excited by the challenge -- until this new investigative role brings him into serious physical danger.From the Hardcover edition.

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The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19) Rendell, Ruth Doubleday Canada, Inspector Wexford #19, 2002

After weeks of rain, Chief Inspector Wexford has just finished moving his books and furniture upstairs to protect them from the rising waters when the telephone rings. Two local teenagers and their babysitter have gone missing. Wexford isn't particularly worried, since these things usually sort themselves out. But as hours stretch into days, he begins to suspect he has a kidnapping on his hands. The stakes get even higher when a member of the missing trio turns up dead in the woods nearby.In the course of his investigation, Wexford must deal with a neighbor whose alibi is questionable, a religious cult and its sylvan rituals, someone close to the children's family who nurses a terrible secret, and the babysitter's ex-husband, who reveals the woman's hidden penchant for violence.In The Babes in the Wood, Ruth Rendell draws the reader into a riveting story that alternates between Chief Inspector Wexford's domestic life - his worries about the security of his home and his daughter's odd new boyfriend - and his determination to see through a kaleidoscope of lies and bring a murderer to justice.

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Rick Mercer report : the paperback book Mercer, Rick Doubleday Canada;Anchor Canada, 2007;2009

Rick's celebrated rants are some of the sharpest political commentary to be found anywhere in the country's media, and certainly the funniest. They are featured here, along with other moments from the show -- including encounters with Conrad Black, Jean Chretien, and Anne Murray -- and many additional pieces, some of which first appeared on his website. Because when he's not jumping into a lake with David Suzuki or Bob Rae, or helping the leader of the Green Party kill a tree, Rick Mercer likes to relax by blogging. From Kabul ...

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Bream gives me hiccups : and other stories Jesse Eisenberg Doubleday Canada;Bond Street Books, United States, 2015

From Academy Award-nominated Jesse Eisenberg comes a collection of hilarious stories that tackle the modern world from multiple yet equally absurd and poignant points of view. The series of stories that gives the book its unusual title are written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy whose mother brings him to expensive Los Angeles restaurants so that she can bill her ex-husband for the meals. One story in the "Bream Gives Me Hiccups" series begins: "Last night, Mom and I went to Thanksgiving dinner at a Vegan family's house, which is kind of like going to Temple for Christmas. Mom said that Vegans are 'people that don't eat any meat or cheese or shave.'" Another series of stories are letters written by a university student to her high school counselor as she grows gradually more unhinged. Other stories imagine discussions in ancient Pompeii just before the volcanic eruption, explore the vagaries of post-gender-normative dating in New York City, and conjure up Alexander Graham Bell's first five phone calls: "Have you heard anything from Mabel? I've been calling her all day, she doesn't pick up! Yes, of course I dialed the right number—2!" Plus there is an email exchange between a boy and his girlfriend taken over by his sister who is obsessed with the Bosnian genocide, an ex-husband reviewing his wife's book online, and Marxist-Socialist jokes, including: "What do you get when you cross a Marxist with a Socialist? Two people who generally feel that the value of a commodity is equal to its socially necessary labor time." In different ways, the stories explore what it means to navigate the modern world, and are all illuminated by Eisenberg's ironic wit and fantastically funny and original voice.

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Willful Blindness\_ Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril Margaret Heffernan Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2011

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril was published in 2011. In her latest book, Heffernan argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don’t see – not because they’re secret or invisible, but because we’re willfully blind. She examines the phenomenon and traces its imprint in our private and working lives, and within governments and organizations, and asks: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change? Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations. The book explores how willful blindness develops and then goes on to outline some of the mechanisms, structures and strategies that institutions and individuals can use to combat it. In its wide use of psychological research and examples from history, the book has been compared to work by Malcolm Gladwell and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (From Wikipedia)

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Wicked and weird : the true tale of Buck 65 Terfry, Rich Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House LLC, Toronto, 2015

Star radio-host Rich Terfry presents the amazing tales of his alter ego, musician Buck 65, in this rollicking account of growing up poor, talented, baseball-obsessed, music-mad and girl-smitten. With wit, style and a born writer's knack for telling detail, Rich Terfry gives us the wildly entertaining story of his unusual life through the eyes of his shy but brilliant and preternaturally observant alter-ego, Buck. Born in a small town in Nova Scotia to a mother who begins yelling at him the moment he is born and a father who keeps his own counsel, Buck imbibes fear and insecurity like other kids guzzle milk. Hobbled by his fears and demons, Buck almost disappears into the “evil in the woods” that lurks just beyond the town's border . . . until he is saved by three gifts: baseball, romantic love and music. His epic journey—full of diversions, coincidences, and larger-than-life characters—out of the darkness of his suicide-plagued childhood and into the bright wide world begins with a killer pitching arm (Buck almost makes it to the pros) and continues with his transformation into hip hop artist Buck 65. Along the way, Buck develops into a hopeless romantic and an obsessively creative, shape-shifting man who both fears life and dives into it with abandon. Wicked and Weird is a lively, sometimes shocking portrait of a life lived on the edge, by turns funny and heartbreaking.

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Bits of me are falling apart : dark thoughts from the middle years Leith, William Doubleday Canada; Bond Street Books, Toronto, 2009

A hilarious, horrendous, and ultimately helpful memoir about hitting middle age and trying to hit back.William Leith, well-known for his jaw-droppingly candid columns about his dysfunctional and dissolute life, is no longer young. Given what he used to put his body through, before he gave up bingeing on drugs and drink and bad food, he is in fairly good shape. There is no getting past it, though: he's getting past it. And bits of him are falling apart.What is happening to him? And what can be done about it? In his extraordinary chronicle The Hungry Years, Leith turned his merciless eye and magpie mind on his addictions and the chemistry, psychology, and philosophy behind them. Bits of Me Are Falling Apart is an even more ambitious and mordantly funny book, in which an unflinching memoir of his own, unique voyage into later life becomes an examination of the aging process in all humans - what science tells us about it and might be able to do to...

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lgli/Reginald Hill - Good Morning, Midnight (2004, Doubleday Canada).epub

Good Morning, Midnight Reginald Hill Doubleday Canada, 2004

Reginald Hill Brings Us A Brilliant New Dalziel And Pascoe Novel, Featuring A Chilling Mid-yorkshire Mystery. Like Father Like Son… But Heredity Seems To Have Gone A Gene Too Far When Pal Maciver's Suicide In A Locked Room Exactly Mirrors That Of His Father Ten Years Earlier. In Each Case Accusing Fingers Point Towards Pal's Stepmother, The Beautiful Enigmatic Kay Kafka. But She Turns Out To Have A Formidable Champion, Mid-yorkshire's Own Super-heavyweight, Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel. Dci Peter Pascoe, Nominally In Charge Of The Investigation, Finds He Is Constantly Body-checked By His Superior As He Tries To Disentangle The Complex Relationships Of The Maciver Family. At First These Inquiries Seem Local And Domestic. What Really Happened Between Pal And His Stepmother? And How Has Key Witness And Exotic Hooker Dolores, Our Lady Of Pain, Contrived To Disappear From The Face Of Mid-yorkshire? Gradually, However, It Becomes Clear That The Fall-out From Pal's Suicide Spreads Far Beyond Yorkshire. To London, To America. Even To Iraq. But The Emotional Epicentre Is Firmly Placed In Mid-yorkshire Where Pascoe Comes To Learn That For Some People The Heart Too Is A Locked Room, And In There It Is Always Midnight.

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Don Cherry's Hockey Stories, Part 2 National Hockey League;Cherry, Don;Strachan, Al Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House LLC, [Toronto], 2010

You thought you'd read them all, did you' Well, you haven't. Simultaneously loved and loathed, Don Cherry is one of the most talkative and talked-about personalities in hockey today. His more than twenty-five years as a player and coach have informed his popular Hockey Night in Canada commentary segment, "Coach's Corner." And now he's got more stories to share. In Don Cherry's Hockey Stories, Part 2, Grapes tells us about the 2010 Stanley Cup, relays the lessons he's learned both on and off the ice, and takes us inside hockey's mythical players' "code." You'll encounter familiar names from the game and find out who this idol looks up to. You'll travel back in time to Cherry's days playing in the minor leagues. You'll share his experiences of being named Coach of the Year in the NHL and in the AHL. And you'll hear from his kids about what it was like growing up with a dad like Don. Don Cherry tells it like it is, for better or for worse. You won't be disappointed. P.S. Don wants you to know it's a book the whole family can enjoy. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bits of me are falling apart : dark thoughts from the middle years William Leith [Leith, William] Doubleday Canada; Bond Street Books, Toronto, 2009

A hilarious, horrendous, and ultimately helpful memoir about hitting middle age and trying to hit back.William Leith, well-known for his jaw-droppingly candid columns about his dysfunctional and dissolute life, is no longer young. Given what he used to put his body through, before he gave up bingeing on drugs and drink and bad food, he is in fairly good shape. There is no getting past it, though: he's getting past it. And bits of him are falling apart.What is happening to him? And what can be done about it? In his extraordinary chronicle The Hungry Years, Leith turned his merciless eye and magpie mind on his addictions and the chemistry, psychology, and philosophy behind them. Bits of Me Are Falling Apart is an even more ambitious and mordantly funny book, in which an unflinching memoir of his own, unique voyage into later life becomes an examination of the aging process in all humans - what science tells us about it and might be able to do to...

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Bits of me are falling apart : dark thoughts from the middle years Leith, William Doubleday Canada; Bond Street Books, Toronto, 2009

A hilarious, horrendous, and ultimately helpful memoir about hitting middle age and trying to hit back.William Leith, well-known for his jaw-droppingly candid columns about his dysfunctional and dissolute life, is no longer young. Given what he used to put his body through, before he gave up bingeing on drugs and drink and bad food, he is in fairly good shape. There is no getting past it, though: he's getting past it. And bits of him are falling apart.What is happening to him? And what can be done about it? In his extraordinary chronicle **The Hungry Years** , Leith turned his merciless eye and magpie mind on his addictions and the chemistry, psychology, and philosophy behind them. **Bits of Me Are Falling Apart** is an even more ambitious and mordantly funny book, in which an unflinching memoir of his own, unique voyage into later life becomes an examination of the aging process in all humans - what science tells us about it and might be able to do to...

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Shadow Creek : a novel Joy Fielding Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House LLC, [N.p.], 2012

From NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLING author Joy Fielding--a chilling psychological thriller that explores the depths of psychopathic behaviour and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her daughter. When an innocent group of campers ventures to the Adirondacks for a trip, they are followed by a murderous pair... A group of unlikely travelling companions--a woman, her two oddball friends, her teenage daughter, and her soon-to-be ex-husband's new fiancee--find themselves on a camping trip in the Adirondacks at the same time that a pair of teenage killers is terrorizing the area.

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Good Families Don't Robert N Munsch; Alan Daniel Random House, Random House Children's Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Doubleday, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 1990

Good Families Don't is Munsch's funniest book yet, about a risqué subject that is guaranteed to have children--and adults--rolling in the aisles. When Carmen tries to tell her parents that there is a big fart lying on her bed, they don't believe her. "Good families like ours," they tell her, "do not have farts." But when they go upstairs to see, the fart attacks them--as it does the similarly disbelieving police when they arrive. Carmen is left to deal with the situation on her own, which she does with the help of a rose.

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The gift of the game : a father, a son, and the wisdom of hockey Allen, Tom Doubleday Canada, 2005

Full of the gentle humour and storytelling that he brings to "Music and Company" every morning, The Gift of the Game is Tom Allen's exploration of the ways in which hockey can shape the relationship between fathers and sons. In the winter of 2001 Tom Allen stepped onto a frozen lake with his eight-year-old son. They laced up their skates, set out chunks of firewood as goal posts, and played one-on-one hockey under an enormous blue sky. This would mark a new turn in Allen's relationship with Wesley, even as other relationships began to fall apart. When Allen and his wife go their separate ways, it is hockey that forms the enduring bond between father and son. As Wesley grows in confidence and purpose, Allen grows into the mythic role of hockey dad and assistant coach, and spends his empty afternoons working on his own game on outdoor rinks, if only to avoid the silence of his apartment. But what is this game to which he has entrusted his fragile sense of well-being and his son's emerging sense of self' With keen intelligence and self-deprecating emotional honesty, Allen sets about answering the questions that shape his new life: How does hockey mould us' To what degree are we defined by our love of the game and our wish to be admired for our skill on the ice' What are the implications for our culture of a game that so privileges violence' In making of hockey the arena of his pride and love and self-respect, Allen is forced to figure out what the game itself means. From the Hardcover edition

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My Korean deli : risking it all for a convenience store Ben Ryder Howe Doubleday Canada, 2009

It all starts when Ben Ryder Howe’s wife, whose parents emigrated from Korea, decides to repay her debt to them by buying them a deli to run. Howe, an editor at The Paris Review, reluctantly agrees to help in the venture. By day, Howe commutes to The Paris Review offices in George Plimpton’s apartment overlooking the East River, and at night heads to Brooklyn to slice cold cuts, peddle lottery tickets and Colt 45, and sell coffee in 8-ounce blue and gold cups bearing the logo “We are happy to serve you!”The book follows the store’s lifespan, starting a few months before the purchase and ending with the family’s agonized decision to get out. Along the way, Howe allows digressions into the past, painting a cacophonous group portrait of two families — from the Brooklyn ghetto to Seoul to Brahmin New England. The deli is where these cultures meet as Howe juxtaposes the two groups, outsiders versus insiders, new talent versus old money, the deli with The Paris Review. Owning the deli becomes a transformative experience for everyone involved as they struggle to keep the deli — and themselves — from bankruptcy while sorting out issues of class, intermarriage values, work and personal identity.

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The palace papers : inside the House of Windsor : the truth and the turmoil Brown, Tina Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2022

The riveting inside story of the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, from the Queen’s tightening grip to the defection of Harry and Meghan — by the bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles"Never again," became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana" — a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen's stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details, and searing insight, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.

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No Safe House Linwood Barclay Doubleday Canada, New York, 2014

#1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers a sequel to No Time for Goodbye —an electrifying novel of suspense in which a family's troubled past is about to return in more ways than one. And this time, they may not be able to escape. . . Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that night are still haunting them. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to permanently ruin her relationship with them. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep his family together. And the entire town is reeling from the senseless murder of a local retired couple. But when Grace follows her delinquent boyfriend into a strange house, the Archers must do more than stay together. They must stay alive. Because now they have all been unwillingly drawn into the shadowy depths of their idyllic hometown. There, they will be reconnected with the man who saved their lives seven years ago, but who remains a ruthless, unrepentant criminal. The Archers will learn that there are some things people value much more than money, and some people who will do anything to get it. Caught in a labyrinth between family loyalty and ultimate betrayal, Terry must find a way to extricate his family from a lethal situation. All he knows is that survival might mean doing the unthinkable. . .

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Globish : how the English language became the world's language Robert McCrum Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2010

A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In Robert McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the 21st century English + Microsoft = Globish. Globish takes us on a riveting and enlightening journey of the spread of a global English, from the icy swamps of pre-Roman Saxony to the shopping malls of Seoul, from the study of 'Crazy English' TM in China to crowds of juvenile wizards mobbing bookshop tills across the world. Along the way it gives new meaning to a faded old brown parchment (the Magna Carta), a 272 word presidential speech (the Gettysburg address) and a scratchy black and white film of a couple of men in space suits.

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Not Yet : A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying Wayson Choy Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House LLC, [N.p.], 2009

Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living. In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of the machines that were keeping him alive, Choy heard the voices of his ancestors warning him that without a wife, he would one day die alone. And yet through his ordeal Choy was never alone; men and women, young and old, from all cultures and ethnicities, stayed by Choy’s side until he was well. When his heart failed him a second time, four years later, it was the strength of his bonds with these people, forged through countless acts of kindness, that pulled Choy back to his life. Not Yet is a passionate, sensitive, and beautiful exploration of the importance of family, which in Choy’s case is constituted not through blood but through love. It is also a quiet manifesto for embracing life, not blind to our mortality, but knowing how lucky we are for each day that comes.From the Hardcover edition.Review"A story of heroic transcendence of uncertainty." *— The Globe and Mail"A harrowing, enthralling and incandescent memoir . . . a work that blends tension and sadness with joy and contemplation. And it is a reminder, as if we needed one, of why Wayson Choy is beloved, as a writer and as a man." — Edmonton Journal*From the Hardcover edition.About the AuthorWayson Choy’s first novel, The Jade Peony, spent six months on The Globe and Mail’s national bestseller list, shared the Trillium Book Award for best book in 1995, and won the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. All That Matters, a companion novel to The Jade Peony, won the Trillium Book Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the 2005 Giller Prize. In 1999, Choy's first memoir, Paper Shadows, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. He won the Edna Staebler Award for Non-fiction in 2000.From the Hardcover edition.

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lgli/Anne Tyler - The Beginner's Goodbye (2012, Doubleday Canada).epub

The beginner's goodbye : a novel Tyler, Anne Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2012

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler, The Beginner's Goodbye - a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances"Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing." - Rachel JoyceWhen Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron that some people simply didn't notice.The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after casserole, Aaron ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. At first, she only comes for a short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually she stays for longer, and as they talk, they also bicker and the cracks that were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to reappear..."This is what Tyler does better than almost any contemporary writer. She peers at the forgotten areas of the everyday, the bits that are hard to pinpoint... She looks at people - at life - from the inside out." - Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times"This meticulous, gently humorous novel is concerned with the effects of grief, the stop-start nature of moving on and the role of friendships, however imperfect, in facing catastrophe. [Tyler] remains as gimlet-eyed as ever in portraying ordinary lives that have become unmoored." - Metro

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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade Gabaldon, Diana Doubleday Canada, 2007

From the exquisitely talented and award-winning author of the Outlander Saga come two additions to the oeuvre, both featuring Lord John Grey. This dashing character first appeared in Gabaldon’s blockbuster, Voyager , and readers cheered him on in the New York Times bestselling Lord John and the Private Matter . Diana Gabaldon takes readers back to eighteenth-century Britain as Lord John Grey pursues a deadly family secret as well as a clandestine love affair, set against the background of the Seven Years War. Seventeen years earlier, Grey’s father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself, days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobite traitor. By raising a regiment to fight at Culloden, Grey’s elder brother has succeeded in redeeming the family name, aided by Grey, now a major in that regiment. But now, on the eve of the regiment’s move to Germany, comes a mysterious threat that throws the matter of the Duke’s death into stark new question, and brings the Grey brothers into fresh conflict with the past and each other. From barracks and parade grounds to the battlefields of Prussia and the stony fells of the Lake District, Lord John’s struggle to find the truth leads him through danger and passion, ever deeper, toward the answer to the question at the centre of his soul–what is it that is most important to a man? Love, loyalty, family name? Self-respect, or honesty? Surviving both the battle of Krefeld and a searing personal betrayal, he returns to the Lake District to find the man who may hold the key to his quest: a Jacobite prisoner named Jamie Fraser. Here, Grey finds his truth and faces a final choice: between honour and life itself.

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Globish : how the English language became the world's language Robert McCrum Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2010

A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In Robert McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the 21st century English + Microsoft = Globish. Globish takes us on a riveting and enlightening journey of the spread of a global English, from the icy swamps of pre-Roman Saxony to the shopping malls of Seoul, from the study of 'Crazy English' TM in China to crowds of juvenile wizards mobbing bookshop tills across the world. Along the way it gives new meaning to a faded old brown parchment (the Magna Carta), a 272 word presidential speech (the Gettysburg address) and a scratchy black and white film of a couple of men in space suits.

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A Tap on the Window Barclay, Linwood Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2013

It's Been Two Months Since Private Investigator Cal Weaver's Teenage Son, Scott, Died In A Tragic Drug-related Accident. Ever Since, He And His Wife Have Drifted Apart, Fracturing A Once-normal Life. Cal Is Mired In Grief He Can't Move Past. And Maybe That Has Clouded His Judgment. Because He Made A Grave Mistake Driving Home On A Very Rainy Night. A Drenched Young Girl Tapped On His Window As He Sat At A Stoplight And Asked For A Ride. And Even Though He Knew A Forty-something Man Picking Up A Teenage Hitchhiker Is A Fool, He Let Her In The Car--she Was The Same Age As Scott And Maybe She Could Help Him Find The Dealer Who Sold His Son The Drugs That Killed Him. However, After A Brief Stop At A Roadside Diner, Cal Senses That Something's Not Right With The Girl Or The Situation. But It's Too Late. He's Already Involved. Soon Cal Finds Himself Mired In A Nightmare Of Pain And Suspicion. Something Is Horribly Wrong In The Small Town Of Griffon In Upstate New York. There Are Too Many Secrets, Too Many Lies. And Cal Decides To Expose Those Secrets One By One.

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When She Was Queen M.G. Vassanji Doubleday Canada, 2005

"My father lost my mother one evening in a final round of gambling at the poker table," writes the narrator of "When She Was Queen," the title story of a new collection by bestselling novelist and two-time winner of the Giller Prize, M.G. Vassanji. That fateful evening in Kenya becomes "the obsessive and dark centre" of the young man's existence and leads him, years later in Toronto, to unearth an even darker family secret. In "The Girl With The Bicycle," a man witnesses a woman from his hometown of Dar es Salaam spit at a corpse as it lies in state at a Toronto mosque. As he struggles to fathom her strange behaviour, he finds himself prey to memories and images from the past-and to perilous yearnings that could jeopardize his comfortable, middle-aged life. Still reeling from the impact of his wife's betrayal, a man decides to stop in on an old college friend in "Elvis, Raja." But he soon realizes that it's not always wise to visit the past as he finds himself trapped in a most curious household, where Elvis Presley has replaced the traditional Hindu gods. The other stories in the collection also feature exceptional lives transplanted. A young man returns to his roots in India, hoping to find his uncle and, perhaps, a bride. Instead, he becomes a reluctant guru to the residents of his ancestral village. A mukhi must choose between granting the final sacrilegious wish of a dying man and abiding by religious custom in a community that considers him a representative of God. A woman is torn between the voice of her dead husband-a cold and grim-natured atheist-and her new, kind and loving husband whose faith nevertheless places constraints on her as a woman. On Halloween night, a scientist lays bare his horrifying plan to seek vengeance on the man who thwarted his career. Set variously in Kenya, Canada, India, Pakistan, and the American Midwest, these poignant and evocative stories portray migrants negotiating the in-between worlds of east and west, past and present, secular and religious. Richly detailed and full of vivid characters, the stories are worlds unto themselves, just as a dusty African street full of bustling shops is a world, and so is the small matrix of lives enclosed by an intimate Toronto neighbourhood. It is the smells and sentiments and small gestures that constitute life, and of these Vassanji is a master. Vassanji's seventh book and his second collection of short stories, When She Was Queen was shortlisted for the 2006 Toronto Book Award. The jury said: "Vassanji's Naipaulian language is like a sharp short knife that cuts through the superficial and gets to the heart and soul of the narrative." From the Hardcover edition

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lgli/Camilla Gibb - The Beauty of Humanity Movement (2010, Doubleday Canada).epub

The Beauty of Humanity Movement : A Novel Camilla Gibb Doubleday Canada, New York, 2010

Set in contemporary Vietnam, this is the story of a country undergoing momentous change and the story of how family is defined -- not always by bloodlines but by the heart.Tu' is a young tour guide working in Hanoi for a company called New Dawn. While he leads tourists through the city, including American vets on "war tours," he starts to wonder what it is they are seeing of Vietnam --and what they miss entirely. Maggie, who is Vietnamese by birth but has lived most her life in the U.S., has returned to her country of origin in search of clues to her dissident father's disappearance during the war. Holding the story together is Old Man Hung, who has lived through decades of political upheaval and has still found a way to feed hope to his community of pondside dwellers.This is a keenly observed and skillfully wrought novel about the reverberation of conflict through generations, the enduring legacy of art, and the redemption and renewal of long-lost...

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Eleven pipers piping : a Father Christmas mystery Benison, C. C. Doubleday Canada, Father Christmas Mystery, 2012

The annual Burns dinner at Thornford Regis is an occasion for bagpipes, haggis and scotch. It ends up an occasion for tragedy when Will Moir, one of the pipers, is found alone, in a tower, dead of an apparent heart attack. Father Tom Christmas, the vicar of the town, is privy to all of the secrets of its inhabitants, and is one of the first to find out that Will Moir was poisoned. The town's suspicions go in many directions, and Christmas soon learns secrets that have been kept for generations--illicit trysts, even murders--the ramifications of which may have fallen onto poor Will Moir. Brimming with wit, laced with genuine surprise and featuring one of the most memorable (and unlikely) detectives in the cozy genre today, Eleven Pipers Piping mines the rich history of a small town to solve its most stunning crime.

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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, TORONTO, 2011

The Guru To The Gurus At Last Shares His Knowledge With The Rest Of Us. Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman's Seminal Studies In Behavioral Psychology, Behavioral Economics, And Happiness Studies Have Influenced Numerous Other Authors, Including Steven Pinker And Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast And Slow, Kahneman At Last Offers His Own, First Book For The General Public. It Is A Lucid And Enlightening Summary Of His Life's Work. It Will Change The Way You Think About Thinking. Two Systems Drive The Way We Think And Make Choices, Kahneman Explains: System One Is Fast, Intuitive, And Emotional; System Two Is Slower, More Deliberative, And More Logical. Examining How Both Systems Function Within The Mind, Kahneman Exposes The Extraordinary Capabilities As Well As The Biases Of Fast Thinking And The Pervasive Influence Of Intuitive Impressions On Our Thoughts And Our Choices. Engaging The Reader In A Lively Conversation About How We Think, He Shows Where We Can Trust Our Intuitions And How We Can Tap Into The Benefits Of Slow Thinking, Contrasting The Two-system View Of The Mind With The Standard Model Of The Rational Economic Agent. Kahneman's Singularly Influential Work Has Transformed Cognitive Psychology And Launched The New Fields Of Behavioral Economics And Happiness Studies. In This Path-breaking Book, Kahneman Shows How The Mind Works, And Offers Practical And Enlightening Insights Into How Choices Are Made In Both Our Business And Personal Lives--and How We Can Guard Against The Mental Glitches That Often Get Us Into Trouble. From The Hardcover Edition.

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lgli/Diana Evans - Ordinary People (2018, Doubleday Canada).mobi

Ordinary People Diana Evans Bond Street Books : Doubleday Canada, Trade paperback edition, Toronto, 2018

"Diana Evans, author of the prize-winning 26a, returns with an intimate portrait of London, an exploration of modern relationships and black identity, and that mid-life moment when a gap emerges between who we think we are and who we are becoming. Melissa and Michael, a couple of thirteen years, have taken up residence in a crooked house in the south of the city, a new baby making them a family of four. Feeling defined solely by motherhood, Melissa's need to reclaim her identity is spilling into resentment at her partner and a growing fear that something unnatural is living in their home. Her solace in her Nigerian mother's stews and spells only infuriates Michael, who desperately misses the excitement of their lives before children. Further south, in the suburbs, Damian and Stephanie enter a year of marital disquiet. Damian's Trinidadian political activist father has died, and he finds himself adrift and hungering for the city--just as his admiration for Stephanie's wholesome aspirations and white middle class upbringing begin to feel more like a trap than an escape. With the election of Barack Obama posing a distant perfection to which modern couples might aspire, these two ordinary partnerships collide and conjoin in a building chaos born from their extraordinary desires. Ordinary People is an intimate, immersive study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and aging, and the fragile architecture of love. With its distinctive prose and addictive soundtrack, it is the story of our lives, and those moments that threaten to unravel us."-- Provided by publisher

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Ordinary People Evans, Diana Bond Street Books : Doubleday Canada, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlist, 2018

Set against the backdrop of Barack Obama’s historic election victory, Ordinary People is an intimate, immersive study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and aging, and the fragile architecture of love. "Diana is so amazing when it comes to writing about humans and relationships... I don't know anyone who's as skilled as her." - Candice Carty-WilliamsTwo couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has lost his father and intends not to let it get to him. Michael is still in love with Melissa but can't quite get close enough to her to stay faithful. Stephanie just wants to live a normal, happy life on the commuter belt with Damian and their three children, but his bereavement is getting in the way. "I just finished Ordinary People by Diana Evans and it is utterly exquisite. What a writer she is - the depth of her insight, the grace of her sentences." - Elizabeth Day, TwitterSet in London to an exhilarating soundtrack, Ordinary People is an intimate study of identity and parenthood, sex and grief, friendship and ageing, and the fragile architecture of love. "I am shouting from the rooftops to anyone who will listen about this book. It's so so good - realistic and funny and so truthful it almost winded me." - Dolly Alderton

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The explorers : a story of fearless outcasts, blundering geniuses, and impossible success Dugard, Martin Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 2014

The story of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke--their friendship, bitter rivalry, and the two thousand year search for the source of the Nile--is almost too good to be true. Imagine a story in which two daring adventurers set off to solve the greatest and oldest of geographical mysteries: the source of the Nile. Their journey begins with great fanfare. The young friends travel deep into a forbidding and uncharted wilderness. Their path is fraught with peril: poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, man-eating beasts, and cannibals. Their bodies are wracked by disease. But there is also pleasure, for the explorers are to the liking of the jungle women. In the end, the mystery is solved. But there's a catch. Each man has come up with a different answer. They fight. Their friendship shatters. They split up in the heart of Africa and race back to civilization, each man striving to be the first to announce his findings to an adoring public. The man who wins the race is lionized as a national hero, only to have his claims publicly repudiated when the second explorer straggles home. The feud becomes an international sensation. A master showman arrives on the scene, one who decrees that the answer will be decided with a single public debate. It will be a massive spectacle, in the manner of a heavyweight prize fight. The answer will literally change the course of history. The world is watching and waiting, eager to know the outcome. The loser will be disgraced. The winner is guaranteed fame and riches. But the result is far more dramatic than anyone has a right to expect. This, written with thrilling, page-turning, novelistic verve, is that story

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How to play hockey: a guide for players and their coaches Illustrated by Bob Berger. Foreword by Dave Keon Doubleday Canada Ltd.; Doubleday, Toronto, Garden City, N.Y, Ontario, 1971

176 p. : 22 cm DON195/1999

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Globish : how the English language became the world's language Robert McCrum Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2010

A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the 19th century. As its power spreads, its language follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the 20th century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom across time and space at previously unimaginable speeds. In Robert McCrum's analysis, the cultural revolution of our times is the emergence of English, a global phenomenon as never before, to become the world's language. In the 21st century English + Microsoft = Globish. Globish takes us on a riveting and enlightening journey of the spread of a global English, from the icy swamps of pre-Roman Saxony to the shopping malls of Seoul, from the study of 'Crazy English' TM in China to crowds of juvenile wizards mobbing bookshop tills across the world. Along the way it gives new meaning to a faded old brown parchment (the Magna Carta), a 272 word presidential speech (the Gettysburg address) and a scratchy black and white film of a couple of men in space suits.

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Lord John and the Hand of Devils Diana Gabaldon Doubleday Canada, 2008;2011

A Keepsake Collection Of Lord John Grey’s Shorter Adventures And A Spectacular Addition To Any Gabaldon Fan’s Library, Lord John And The Hand Of Devils Brings Three Unique Novellas Together For The First Time. Lord John And The Hellfire Club Marks The First Appearance Of Lord John Outside The Outlander Novels. A Young Diplomat Who Had Begged For Lord John’s Help Is Killed Before He Can Explain His Need. Witnessing The Murder, Grey Vows To Avenge The Young Man, As The Trail Leads To The Notorious Hellfire Club And The Dark Caves Beneath Medmenham Abbey. In Lord John And The Succubus, Grey’s Assignment As Liaison To A Hanoverian Regiment In Germany Finds Him Caught Between Two Threats: The Advancing French And Austrian Army, And The Menace Of A Mysterious “night-hag,” Who Spreads Fear And Death Among The Troops. Finally, In Lord John And The Haunted Soldier, Lord John Is Called To The Arsenal At Woolwich To Answer A Royal Commission Of Enquiry’s Questions Regarding A Cannon That Exploded During The Battle Of Krefeld. Accusations Ensue, And Lord John Finds Himself Knee-deep In A Morass Of Gunpowder, Treason, And Plot–haunted By A Dead Lieutenant, And Followed By A Man With No Face. From The Hardcover Edition.

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lgli/Michael Crummey [Crummey, Michael] - The Innocents (2019, Doubleday Canada).epub

The Innocents Crummey, Michael Doubleday Canada, 2019

Richly imagined and compulsively readable,The Innocentsis a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between siblings.SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S PRIZE, AND THE ROGER'S WRITER'S TRUST FICTION AWARD In centuries past, a brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean and a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but their family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to help them survive.Muddling through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.-------------'A gripping and credible page-turner about children surviving in the wilderness, but more than that: this Adam and Eve struggle to make sense of a world that's somewhere between Eden and Hell. Michael Crummey writes like an avenging angel, never putting a word wrong'- Emma Donoghue, author ofRoom'An extraordinary novel, emotionally precise, vivid in its portrayal of nature, and subtle in its exploration of the relationship between life and story' -Wall Street Journal'InThe Innocents, Mr Crummey, a Newfoundland native, captures in hypnotic prose the force of the driving sea and the ways of a beautiful, barren place where Evered and Ada are cast adrift' -The Economist'ImagineInto the Wildwith prepubescents, told in the voice of a William Blake acolyte as verbally inventive as Tolkien...The Innocentsis a survivor narrative and a psychological thriller, a chilling study in isolation'-Vulture

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lgli/John Twelve Hawks [Hawks, John Twelve] - The Traveler (2005, Doubleday Canada).epub

The traveler : a novel John Twelve Hawks [Hawks, John Twelve] Doubleday Canada, Fourth Realm #1, 2005

Gabriel And Michael Corrigan Are Two Young Men Living Just Beneath The Glittering Surface Of Life In Los Angeles. Since Childhood, The Brothers Have Been Shaped By Stories That Their Father Was A Traveler — One Of An Elite Group Of Prophets Able To Attain Pure Enlightenment. The Corrigans, Who May Have Inherited Their Father’s Gifts, Have Always Lived “off The Grid” — That Is, Invisible To The Intricate Surveillance Networks That Monitor People In Our Modern World. Thousands Of Miles Away, Maya Is Attempting To Lead A Normal Life In London. The Attractive Twenty-six-year-old Designer Wants To Ignore The Fact That She Comes From A Long Lineage Of Harlequins — A Band Of Warriors Pledged To Protect The Travelers At All Costs. When Maya Is Summoned To Prague By Her Ailing Father, She Learns That Gabriel And Michael Have Just Been Located In California. The Brothers May Represent The Last Surviving Travelers, And Are In Desperate Need Of Protection. Maya Is Reluctant To Be Drawn Into The Solitary, Destructive Life Of Her Ancestors, But She Has Been Trained To Fight Since She Was A Young Girl. Also Searching For The Brothers Is Nathan Boone, A Disciplined Mercenary Working For The Tabulas — Ruthless Men Who Are Determined To Inflict Order On The World By Invisibly Controlling Its Population. Boone And The Tabulas Fear The Power Of The Travelers, And For Generations Tabulas Have Hunted Them Down. When Maya Flies To California In Search Of Gabriel And Michael Corrigan, A Colossal Battle Looms That Will Reveal A Secret History Of Our Time. In This Stunningly Suspenseful First Novel, Reminiscent Of George Orwell And Philip Pullman, John Twelve Hawks Has Created A Vividly Imagined World That Runs Parallel To Our Own. Moving At Lightning Speed From The Back Alleys Of Prague To The Underworld Of Los Angeles To A Guarded Research Facility In New York, The Traveler Goes Beneath The Surface To Give Us New Insights On History And Our Own Lives. From The Hardcover Edition.

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lgli/Kevin O'Leary - The Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women and Money (2012, Doubleday Canada).mobi

The Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women and Money Kevin O'Leary Doubleday Canada, Penguin Random House LLC, [N.p.], 2012

Getting a handle on finances can be challenging at any age. Whether you're a parent struggling to explain savings to your children, a newly engaged couple considering joint bank accounts, or a baby boomer entering retirement, Kevin O'Leary has advice to help you make and keep more money. As a lead Dragon of CBC's Dragons' Den and ABC's Shark Tank , Kevin's success with money management and in business is legendary. But he's made mistakes along the way, too, and he's writing this book so others—like his son and daughter—can benefit from his experiences. Each chapter is geared to a specific age or stage in life. You'll find real-life examples of common money mistakes (and strategies for avoiding them), "Cold Hard Truth" quizzes and charts aimed at boosting your Wallet Wisdom, and tips and tricks for making more money and growing it faster to achieve financial freedom.

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And Home Was Kariakoo Vassanji M Doubleday Canada, 2014

From M.G. Vassanji, two-time Giller Prize winner and a GG winner for nonfiction, comes a poignant love letter to his birthplace and homeland, East Africa--a powerful and surprising portrait that only an insider could write. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, here is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; from an encounter with a witchdoctor in an old coastal village to memories of his own childhood in the streets of Dar es Salaam and the suburbs of Nairobi, Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observation, and a lifetime of revisiting and reassessing the continent that molded him--and, as we discover when we follow the journeys that became this book, shapes him still.

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The Last Watch Sergei Lukyanenko Doubleday Canada, 2006

While on holiday in Scotland, visiting a macabre tourist attraction, "The Dungeons of Edinburgh," a young Russian tourist is murdered. As the police grapple with the fact that the cause of the young man's death was a massive loss of blood, the Watches are immediately aware that there is a renegade vampire on the loose. Anton—the hero of The Night Watch,The Day Watch, and The Twilight Watch—is detailed to this seemingly mundane investigation, but on arriving in Scotland begins to realize that there is much more to the story than a wildcat vampire and a single murder. Aided by Thomas, the head of Edinburgh's Night Watch, Anton investigates and ruminates, and becomes aware that a team of unlicensed Others are hunting for a fabled magical treasure, hidden in the sixth level of the Twilight by Merlin himself.

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Continent Crace Jim Doubleday Canada, 1985

On its first publication over twenty years ago, this captivating novel marked the arrival of one of the most imaginative minds at work: a writer capable of transporting his readers to a strange and wonderful landscape while revealing the humanity within the mirage.

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