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A Passion for Food: Conversations with Great Canadian Chefs *
ISBN:1551280701
Author:Gerry Shikatani
Publisher:Mercury Press
Openly sharing their ideas and feelings about food with intimacy, insight and humour, 12 of Canada's leading chefs make A Passion for Food an uncommonly textured look at life's culinary pleasures.
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Amazon dot ca (en français) *
Les canadiens peuvent acheter des livres -- dans les dollars Canadiens -- en français... (shopping -- in Canadian dollars -- in French)
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Backstage Vancouver: A Century of Entertainment Legends (Keyes review) ****
You don't have to be a Vancouverite to get a kick out of Backstage Vancouver, although certainly most of the book's buyers will be from the Lower Mainland, or else they'll be homesick ex-pat Vancouverites desperate to savour a slice of local history.
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Barry Broadfoot, 77 *
Noted Canadian oral historian and journalist Barry Samuel Broadfoot has died at the age of 77.
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Can't Judge a Book by its Cover: Authors' fest gets a new jacket *
The International Festival of Authors will be launched tonight in Toronto with a lavish party at Harbourfront Centre's Premiere Dance Theatre, proof positive that it has survived the summer cataclysm of founder Greg Gatenby's ouster. His successor, long-time festival manager Geoffrey Taylor, has cobbled together a 2003 festival that, like some literary fable, contains elements programmed by Gatenby and others by Taylor, with nobody able to tell which is which.
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Canadian authors' fame spreads worldwide *
'There's a way that children's books are . . . telling people about Canada,' author Tim Wynne-Jones tells LUMA MUHTADIE
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Canadian books on 'best-loved' list *
Canadian author Carol Shields's latest novel Unless made it on to the top 10 of the United Kingdom's 50 best-loved books written by women in a list compiled by the Orange cellular telephone company.
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Canadian Wine for Dummies **** 1/2
ISBN:1894413180
Author:Tony Aspler & Barbara Leslie
Publisher:CDG Books Canada, $27.99 (CAD); $19.99 (USD); Paperback - 384 pages (December 8, 2000)
This is probably the only comprehensive guide to Canadian wine released in last spring's book season. They have not only written a good book, but they have done a real service to Canadian wine...
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Canadian Wine for Dummies
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Empire Lite: Living with the big guy *
The U.S. is morphing from republic into empire -- at some cost to its own democracy. But it will only crush Canada if we let it, says political scientist JAMES LAXER
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Fueling the Future: It's oil over now *
More than one wag has smartly suggested that the best solution to our energy mess lies in burning studies on the subject. Such tomes are, after all, as thick as logs and as cheap as paper.
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Indigo Books & Music *
Indigo was created in 1996 by and for booklovers, and merged with Chapters Inc. in August 2001 to become Canada’s largest books retail chain. Indigo Books & Music Inc. is committed to being your most complete and trusted resource for books, music, gifts and much more.
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Jacob Two-Two meets his cartoon debut *
Richler's celebrated book comes to animated small-screen life in a new YTV series to air tomorrow morning
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Jeani Read, 60 *
Jeani started her career at The Province in 1973, and her socially conscious column immediately became a must-read. In 1985, her columns were collected into a book called Endless Summers and Other Shared Hallucinations.
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Literary Reading with Anna Morgan *
Thursday, March 30 at 9:30 a.m., Vancouver, BC
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Literary Reading with Lesley Simpson *
The JCC announces an evening reading: Thursday, March 9 at 9:30 am, Vancouver, BC
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Murder, Torture, Loss...Book Profiles Canadians Who Survived it All *
Based on Paula Todd’s widely viewed television show Person 2 Person, an intimate biography program about human behaviour, A Quiet Courage shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us.
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My Coming Events.com: Events Managers' self-service promo sign-up *
Hosting or promoting a regional event? Here's a money-wise way to reach your target audience -- where-ever in the world they might live.
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Nothing More Comforting (Garber review) ****
Dorothy Duncan's ode to Canada's Heritage Food wins kudos . . .and four stars from Anne Garber.
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Paper Fan (Keyes review) *****
I approached Paper Fan with genuine interest, considerable respect and some degree of misgiving. The book turns out to be an absolute page-turner...
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Sanity Savers: The Canadian Working Woman's Guide to Almost Having it All ****
ISBN:0075605392
Author:Ann Douglas
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., $21.99 (CAD)
This comforting and humorous book is full of innovative solutions to help balance busy days. Offers advice from more than 200 diverse professionals plus tips and anecdotes from real life working women. Ready to hit the panic button? This book's for you!
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Separatist sagas *
Neither the FLQ nor the October Crisis figures largely in Canadian arts and letters. Now, writes SANDRA MARTIN, three novels are tackling one of the most disturbing chapters in our history
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Steven Galloway: Excelling at Young Writer 101 *
A self-described 'stupid punk' from Kamloops, BC, finds himself with two acclaimed novels and a university job teaching writing.
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The full Lucy (Maud Montgomery) *
She was trapped in a loveless marriage. Her son was a philanderer and crook. A female stalker tormented her. Now, with a new bio on the way, new names named from her early journals, and her final diaries losing full copyright protection, Lucy Maud Montgomery may finally become an open book, JAMES ADAMS writes.
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The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson (Garber review) *****
Art historian Silcox, a wonderfully lucid stylist, describes The Group of Seven as "socially responsible, serious, fervent, egalitarian, and sensitive to the concerns of ordinary people," even though they failed to accept women artists as their equals, and expertly chronicles their mission to create an "all-Canadian art."
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake (review): 'The boldness of this low man' *
Author Samuel Bawlf demonstrates that Francis Drake, best remembered as an Elizabethan privateer, explored the northern Pacific coast of North America in 1579 -- two centuries before James Cook and George Vancouver, who are usually regarded as the first to accomplish that task.
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Amazon dot ca (Amazon.ca) *
Amazon.ca offers fast shipping (often within two business days), and no border hassles for Canadians -- shop in Canadian dollars, too.
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Amazon to join retailing fracas with cuts in prices *
Amazon.ca will launch an aggressive push next year on cutting its prices even further to offer the best deals in Canada, yet another challenge for domestic retailers already overwhelmed by steep competition.
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D-Day: The Greatest Invasion – A People's History (Keyes review) ****
Of course the American troops were the sine qua non of the Allied victory, and the book doesn't suggest otherwise. But author Dan van der Vat has always been acutely aware of Canada's contribution to the war effort.
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Foster Walker review *
What a great find: The good news is that you can shop there, too!
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