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The Truth About Stories

By (author) Thomas King
Categories: Ethnic studies
Series: The CBC Massey Lectures

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award

"Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous. "

Beginning with a ...

Memoirs of a Media Maverick

By (author) Boyce Richardson
Categories: Biography: general

Memoirs of a Media Maverick is an insider’s critical account of the modern media. Richardson tells the intriguing story of his travels as a journalist and filmmaker in New Zealand, Australia, India, ...

HA!

By (author) Gordon Sheppard
Categories: Biography: writers

On 15 March 1977, with his wife’s consent, celebrated writer and former terrorist Hubert Aquin blew his brains out on the grounds of a Montreal convent school. Shocked by this self-murder, a filmmaker ...

The Scent of Eucalyptus

The fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because ...

Strike the Wok

Edited by Lien Chao & Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Anthologies: general

A young man contemplates piano lessons and hockey; two misfits in Chinatown discover love; a Vancouver woman fondly recalls her parent’s old house in Newfoundland; a girl goes to Canada to escape her ...

Colonel Richardson’s Airedales

By (author) Bryan D. Cummins
Categories: Dogs as pets

This is the story of one man’s struggle to develop the British War Dog School. Richardson began experimenting with military and police dogs in 1898, and in 1910 began petitioning for a British military ...