Books For Adults
We specialise in Canadian fiction, native issues, books for and about families including grief, self-help, and kid issues. If we don't have it, we'll get it for you promptly. Our knowledgable and helpful staff will assist you in finding exactly the right book for yourself or for gifts.
Abstract Painting in Canada
By Roald Nasgaard, Douglas &
Mcintyre/ArtGallery of Nova Scotia
432pp, $85.00
Abstract Painting in Canada is a superb art book. It offers a comprehensive look at the rise and development of abstract art in Canada with beautiful colour pictures of Canadian abstract art. From the pioneering days of the 1920s, the golden age of abstraction in the 1950s, to the present day; author Rald Nasgaard presents a well-researched art book with a lot of great information about artists’ working in the field of abstract art. From Lawren Harris, J.W.G. MacDonald and Edna Tacon: to modern artists such as Ron Martin, Betty Goodwin and Marie Lannoo. Every major Canadian abstract artist is represented, as is virtually every region of the country. The result is one of the best art books to be published in Canada in quite a while. If you are a novice of an expert this book is certain to dazzle your senses and stimulate your imagination.
The Spirituality of Grandparenting
By Ralph Milton
The Spirituality of Grandparenting is the latest in the beautiful series from Northstone Publishing. “For all grandparents who are never too old to love, and never too old to be loved back.” This book is a celebration of one of the most pleasurable gifts of aging, the opportunity to share the discovery of the world through the eyes of a brand-new generation of wonderful children.
My Generations Challenge: A WW2 Bomber Pilot's Memoir
By Clifford T. Alger D.F.C
In this biography, author Cliff Alger takes the reader on a young pilots journey into World War Two. Through personal experiences, both frightening and joyous, Cliff shares his tales of fighting at war, meeting characters along the way, and emotional trials and tribulations occurring during that time. This biography is complete with lessons of true courage, strength, hope and humour. Clifford includes many photographs to help in illustrating much of his story.
Born in North Bay Ontario in 1922, Mr.Alger still lives in his hometown.
Lullabies for Little Criminals
By Heather O'Neill
Canada Reads Book Choice
Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the streets-and the strength, wits, and luck necessary for survival.
At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives with her father, Jules, who takes better care of his heroin habit than he does of his daughter. Baby's gift is a genius for spinning stories and for cherishing the small crumbs of happiness that fall into her lap. But her blossoming beauty has captured the attention of a charismatic and dangerous local pimps who runs an army of sad, slavishly devoted girls- a volatile situation even the normally oblivious Jules cannot ignore. And when an escape disguised as betrayal threatens to crush Baby's spirit, she will ultimately realize that the power of salvation rests in her hands alone.
Alias Grace
By Margaret Atwood
Canada Reads Book Choice
A tour de force novel, which takes the reader back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. In 1843, at the age of sixteen, servant girl Grace Marks was convicted for her part in the vicious murders of her employer and his mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Grace herself claims to have no memory of the murders. As Dr. Simon Jordon-an expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness- tries to unlock her memory, what will he find? Was Grace a femme fatale- or a weak and unwilling victim of circumstances? Taut and compelling, penetrating and wise, Alias Grace is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination, which vividly evokes time and place. The novel and its characters will continue to haunt the reader after the final page.
Too Close For Comfort
By Maude Barlow
Featured Author
Not since 1984, when Brian Mulroney went to New York and told a blue-chip business audience that Canada was " open for business," has there been such a push toward continental integration and a common market for North America. The big-business community is eager to use the fear of terrorism to erase the border between our two countries as much as possible. The only conceivable way to do this is to convince the United States that the border is safe by harmonizing Canada's foreign, trade, military, security, social, and resources policies with those of our southern neighbour.
What would this mean for Canada's sovereignty? In Too Close for Comfort, Maude Barlow walks us through the implications and consequences of such an integration. She shows us that many of the values we hold dear and that tie us together as a nation would be undone. Chillingly, she also shows us how much we have already lost through such policies as the proportional energy-sharing agreement of NAFTA, and she reveals how deep integration could be used to pry open key Canadian policies such as our public health system.
In Too Close for Comfort, Barlow fist offers us a clear-eyed view of the issues we're facing and then suggests a range of possible solutions for maintaining the kind of country and society we want. It is essential reading for every Canadian.
The Fight of My Life
By Maude Barlow
Featured Author
Maude Barlow never backs down from powerful opponents, whether it's Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien or Peter Lougheed over free trade, or Lloyd Axworthy, Paul Martin and Ralph Klein over cuts to social programs. In the mid-life autobiography, she talks with wit, intelligence and spirit about what motivates her: her love of country, her strong sense of the rights of ordinary people, her belief that governments must be held accountable. The Fight of My Life is vintage Barlow-feisty, opinionated, compassionate, caring. Rich in the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people, it will enrage, delight and entertain.
