Doubleday Canada: 111 books
The NHL
100 Years of On-Ice Action and Boardroom Battles
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The National Hockey League -- born in a Montreal hotel room on November 26, 1917 -- has much to celebrate as it approaches its centenary. Millions of fans from Montreal to Miami and Edmonton to Anaheim attend NHL games leach year, millions more watch on TV and the league pays its best players multi-million...
The Green Red Green
Made Almost Entirely from Recycled Material
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Red Green was recycling material long before the green revolution got underway. Look at the autmobiles he's driven over the years. Many of those were assembled using the same basic method employed for The Green Red Green: by welding together the surviving bits of some old wrecks. In this case, we're...
The Great Depression
1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different...
Beautiful Scars
Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
"I'm scared and scarred but I’ve survived"
Tom Wilson was raised in the rough-and-tumble world of Hamilton—Steeltown— in the company of World War II vets, factory workers, fall-guy wrestlers and the deeply guarded secrets kept by his parents, Bunny and George. For decades Tom...
by Wayne Grady
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him?
With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack...
The Man Who Went to War
A Reporter's Memoir from Libya and the Arab Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Almost a decade since deciding to give up war reporting full-time, and at the unexpected prodding of his wife, award-winning journalist Patrick Graham travels to the heart of the Libyan Revolution and the Arab Spring. He delivers a story by turns harrowing and comic, rich in both dramatic, on-the-ground...
Free Days With George
Learning Life's Little Lessons from One Very Big Dog
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
A heartwarming, true story about George, a rescue dog who helps his owner rediscover love and happiness. Marley & Me meets Tuesdays with Morrie and The Art of Racing in the Rain--get your tissues ready, animal lovers!
After Colin Campbell went on a short business trip abroad, he returned...
by Jane Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Diana Gabaldon meets Ken Follett in this epic story of love, war and redemption.
In the Syrian city of Akka, Nathanael, a young Jewish doctor, and a Muslim girl called Zohra are about to fall in love, unaware that Jerusalem has just been taken by Saladin's army and that their...
by Wayne Grady
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
For readers of Colson Whitehead, James McBride, Yaa Gyasi and Lawrence Hill, Up From Freedom is a powerful and emotional novel about the dangers that arise when we stay silent in the face of prejudice or are complicit in its development.
As a young man, Virgil Moody vowed he would never be...
A New Leaf
Growing with My Garden
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
A graceful and sharply observed book of inspiration that uses the garden as its central muse
A New Leaf traces a year of growing seasons at The Leaf, Merilyn Simonds' acreage in eastern Ontario. A lifelong gardener, Simonds works the soil and the soul for wide-ranging revelations about everything...
by Eva Stachniak
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The lush, sweeping story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with fact, The Chosen Maiden plunges readers into an artistic world upended by modernity, immersing them in the experiences of the...
The Germ Files
The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life (and How to Protect Yourself from the Bad Ones)
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn’t let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent.
The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very lives...
Teaching
It's Harder Than It Looks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Gerry Dee is a rising comic star whose humour has been compared to Bill Cosby's. He spent ten years working as a teacher and survived (barely) to tell his tales. Told from the honest point-of-view of a not-so-good, often-very-bad public school teacher--the kind who teaches hungover (and lies about...
Wicked and Weird
The Amazing Tales of Buck 65
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Star radio-host Rich Terfry presents the amazing tales of his alter ego, musician Buck 65, in this rollicking account of growing up poor, talented, baseball-obsessed, music-mad and girl-smitten.
With wit, style and a born writer's knack for telling detail, Rich Terfry gives us the wildly entertaining...