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Donald Andrus: The Shape of Desire
Published by: Goose Lane Editions Pages: 140 Price: $45 ISBN: 9781773104102 Donald Andrus: The Shape of Desire is the inaugural compilation dedicated to Canada's prolific abstractionist, Donald Andrus. For over 35 years, Andrus has defied artistic categorization, exhibiting extensively across Canadian galleries. This seminal collection features significant essays appraising his
David Eisenstadt’s Second Book Explores 36 Canadian Musicians
Title: Musicians Under the Radar: 36 Notable Canadian Jewish Performers Author: David Eisenstadt Published by: Adhemar Press ISBN: 9798389145696 Price: $20 After David Eisenstadt’s successful first book, Under the Radar: 30 Notable Canadian Jewish Musicians, he has now returned with his second book, Musicians Under the Radar: 36 Notable Canadian
Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River
BY: Lee, Philip (2020), PUBLISHER: Goose Lane Editions PAGES: 272 ISBN: 9781773100883 Reviewed by David B. Brooks Philip Lee has given us a fine book about the life of an important, ancient, and northerly flowing and still partially “wild river” in New Brunswick. However, it does not deserve all the loving kudos that one finds
The Fight for History
Title: The Fight for History: 75 Years of forgetting, remembering, and remaking Canada’s second world war By: Tim Cook Publisher: Allen Lane ISBN: 9780735238336 A masterful telling of the way the Second World War has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canadians over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada.
Ottawa author Conor McCarthy releases a book of short stories
Title: Wanderings Author: Conor McCarthy ISBN: 978-1-7772754-0-2 If you are in the mood for captivating, elegantly written short stories that can be read in under 30 minutes, Wanderings may be just the book for you. The stories are comedic, heartening, and sometimes melancholy but never disengaging. Most of the stories pertain
Author Diana Beresford-Kroeger speaks for the trees
Diana Beresford-Kroeger invites readers into the world of trees and the ancient Celts in her new book To Speak for the Trees: My life’s journey from ancient Celtic wisdom to a healing vision of the forest. The book is unique in that it is part autobiography, part reference book. Diana
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Capital Recollections: A Baby Boomer Growing up in Ottawa By: Bruce Macgregor, Published by: Burnstown Publishing House 99 pages — ISBN: 978-1-77257-240-7 Local author Bruce Macgregor transports readers back to what it was like for a baby boomer growing up in Ottawa. With humour and affection, he revisits the birth
Book Review: Christmas on Union Street
by Kathleen Cranidge 292 pages • ISBN 978-1633634086 It’s a week before Christmas in Burlington, Vermont during an epic snowstorm. Ali, criminology student and amateur sleuth, running from a romance, wants to avoid the holidays. Due to low vacancy, she rents the attic bedroom at Gina’s, where she’s plunged into
ScatterBrain – How the Mind’s Mistakes Make Humans Creative, Innovative, and Successful
By: Henning Beck 352 pages ISBN 9781771644013 In this mind-bending book, an esteemed neuroscientist explains why perfectionism is pointless—and argues that mistakes, missteps, and flaws are the keys to success. Remember that time you screwed up simple math or forgot the name of your favorite song? What if someone told
Matters of Life and Death: Public Health Issues in Canada
By: Andre Picard 256 pages ISBN 978-1771621540 Health issues have long occupied top headlines in Canadian media, and no journalist has written on public health with more authority or for as many years as André Picard. Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range
Kickstarting your Academic Career — Skills to Succeed in the Social Sciences
By: Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. & Stacy B. Fisher 144 pages ISBN 978-1-4426-3561-6 Kickstarting Your Academic Career is a primer on the common scholastic demands that social science students face upon entering college or university. Based on the challenges that instructors most often find students need help with, the authors offer
Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson By: Mark Bourrie 314 pages ISBN 978-1771962377 Known to some as the first European to explore the upper Mississippi, and widely as the namesake of ships and hotel chains, Pierre-Esprit Radisson is perhaps best described, writes Mark Bourrie, as “an eager hustler with
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
By: P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking 400 pages ISBN 978-1-328695741 Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and
Micro Miracle: A True Story
By: Amy Boyes 184 pages ISBN 978-1773240-37-4 Micro Miracle is the moving account of a first-time mother whose expectations of childbirth and parenting are dramatically altered when she gives birth sixteen weeks prematurely. When Amy and Josh Boyes discover they are expecting their first child, they worry about money, nursery furniture
The Great Divide: a novel
The Great Divide: a novel By: Conor McCarthy 331 pages The Great Divide is Conor McCarthy’s debut novel. Born and raised in the Alta Vista neighbourhood of Ottawa, Conor attended McMaster Catholic School, and Immaculata High School, where he excelled in the Drama Focus Program. He graduated with a Bachelor of
Make it Happen – The Creative Entrepreneur’s Guide to Transforming your Dreams into Reality
Make it Happen • The Creative Entrepreneur’s Guide to Transforming your Dreams into Reality By: Jenna Herbut 200 pages • ISBN 9780995266537 From the brains behind Make It, one of North America's largest and most successful craft shows, comes this book to help handmade entrepreneurs turn their great ideas into
The Whole-Body Microbiome: How to Harness Microbes-Inside and Out-for Lifelong Health
The Whole-Body Microbiome - How to Harness Microbes-Inside and Out-for Lifelong Health By: B. Brett Finlay & Jessica M. Finlay 320 pages • ISBN 978-1771622202 Microbiologist Dr. B. Brett Finlay and gerontologist Dr. Jessica Finlay offer a revolutionary new approach to the quest for the fountain of youth: microbes. Microbes,
Lament for Spilt Porter – Longing for family and home
Lament for Spilt Porter • Longing for family and home By: Larry J. McCloskey 256 pages • ISBN 978-1-988928-05-0 During the past thirty years, Larry McCloskey has become an accomplished writer while his day job/vocation has been working with students with disabilities. McCloskey wrote Lament for Spilt Porter with a sense
Always With Me: Parents Talk About the Death of a Child
Always With Me: Parents Talk About the Death of a Child By Donna McCart Sharkey 198 pages • ISBN 978-1-77258-169-0 Consciously or unconsciously, when you have a child, you make up the idea that it’s he or she who will accompany you in the last days of your life. We consider,
The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster
The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster • Public Betrayal, Justice Denied By: Bruce Campbell 216 pages - ISBN 978-1459413412 The July 6, 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster is a tragedy unparalleled in Canadian history. It resulted in major loss of life, massive environmental destruction and the evisceration of a small Quebec town. Blame
Basic Income for Canadians
Basic Income for Canadians By: Evelyn L. Forget 216 pages * ISBN - 10:1459413504 Canadian social programs were designed for a world in which most people graduated from high school, then found a permanent job with benefits that, barring unforeseen accidents, they would hold until they retired with a pension
Residential School and Reconciliation: Canada Confront its History
Residential School and Reconciliation • Canada Confront its History By: J.R. Miller 348 pages • ISBN 978-1-4875-0218-8 Since the 1980s, successive Canadian institutions, including the federal government and Christian churches, have attempted to grapple with the malignant legacy of residential schooling, including official apologies, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples,
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body 1900-1970s
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s By: Jane Nicholas 320 pages • ISBN 978-1487502652 In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in
The Trial That Never Ends: Hannah Arendt’s ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’ in Retrospect
The Trial That Never Ends • Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' in Retrospect By: Richard J. Golsan & Sarah M. Misemer 255 pages • ISBN 978-1487501464 Although the fiftieth anniversary of the Adolf Eichmann trial was in 2012, there has recently been a renewed focus on the trial, Eichmann himself, and
The Hidden Life of Trees
The Hidden Life of Trees • The Illustrated Edition By: Peter Wohlleben Translated by: Jane Billinghurst 176 pages • ISBN 978-1-77164-348-1 “A veritable tree whisperer, Mr. Wohlleben projects an irresistible enthusiasm for his subject, and afer a few hours in his company you will never look in the same way at
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