Doubleday Canada: 111 books
Good Medicine
The Art of Ethical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Award-winning physician Philip C. Hébert creates a brave and intimate portrait of the complex ethical imperatives at the heart of good medicine: doctors do not have all the answers; patients must be heard; and their needs, desires, fears, and experiences must be reflected in how practitioners look...
A Place Within
Rediscovering India
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
A Globe and Mail Best Book
It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolved; and yet I recall an anxiety as I...
Life Sentence
Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting -- or, How I Fell Out of Love with the Canadian Justice System (Especially Judges)
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A beloved crime reporter revisits some of her biggest assignments and passes judgement on our judicial system—and especially its judges—in this national bestseller.
When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover...
Coach
The Pat Burns Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Pat Burns was one of the great NHL coaches. He worked with the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils, and seemed always to enjoy instant success. He capped his extraordinary career by coaching the New Jersey Devils to a Stanley Cup victory in 2003. Cancer--his...
by Marianne Boucher
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2020
For fans of Wild Wild Country, Scientology and the Aftermath and Uncover: Escaping NXIVM, a stunning graphic memoir about a teenage girl who was lured into a cult and later fought to escape and reclaim her identity.
Welcome to a place where you are valued. Where everyone is kind. Where you...
Death On The Ice
The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster Of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out 'to the ice' to hunt seals in the hope of a few penniew in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnessed the worst in the long line of tragedies that were part of their harsh way of life.
For...
How To Do Everything
(From the Man Who Should Know: Red Green)
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
It may not be great literature — but at least it's handy.
From the mastermind of the hugely successful The Red Green Show comes a book that is going to change your life, or at least make you laugh — a lot — whenever you pick it up. And people are going to be picking it up for many...
Braking Bad
Chasing Lance Armstrong and the Cancer of Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The story of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong isn’t just about the greatest doping conspiracy in sports history—it's about the nature of corruption, whether in athletics, business, politics or society at large.
Blending memoir that recounts his own family’s struggles with cancer and reportage...
by Alan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea comes a lyrical and captivating musical memoir about growing up in the tiny fishing village of Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, and then taking to the world stage.
Singer-songwriter and front man of the great Canadian band Great Big Sea, Alan Doyle...
by Michael Redhill
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
***Winner of the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize*
A darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity—and then her life—when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.**
Jean Mason has a doppelganger. She's never seen her, but others swear they...
by Lee Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
**She fell in love with him, they married and then she found out who he was: a conman who was determined to destroy her. **
The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation...
by Linwood Barclay
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
From New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes a new, standalone blockbuster thriller that spins off from the events of the explosive Promise Falls trilogy.
If you made a mistake that took someone's life, you'd remember it . . . wouldn't you?
After...
The Last Best Place
Lost In The Heart Of Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A writer returns to Nova Scotia, and finding it almost unrecognizable, sets out to capture the essence of his ancestral province--a place as strange and wild as anywhere on the continent.
John DeMont visits places as diverse as a Buddhist abbey; the first free black settlement outside Africa;...
Straight Up and Personal
The World According to Grapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
There's no holding him back.
Known for his opinions--and unabashed expression of them--Don Cherry has been causing debate for decades. Topics on "Coach's Corner" sometimes veer away from sports and on to other matters that are near and dear to Cherry's heart: the war in Afghanistan...