Dundurn: 2215 books
The Sadness of Geography
My Life as a Tamil Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2019
The harrowing journey of a teenage refugee who never gave up on his dream of seeing his family again.
Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil War.
In January 1985, at the age of...
Canadian Scholars Bundle
Lucille Teasdale / Robertson Davies / George Grant / Marshall McLuhan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential figures. Profiled are: prescient media guru Marshall...
Justin Trudeau
The Natural Heir
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2016
A National Bestseller • The Hill Times: Best Books of 2016
This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power.
Having grown up in the shadow of his famous father, a political giant who dominated...
by J.D.M. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
Canadians have never been more interested in their prime ministers’ personal lives, or their sometimes secretive true selves
Presents surprising inside stories about the lives of past prime ministers, like the time Brian Mulroney shot a boar with Boris Yeltsin and found himself in hot water, or how...
Shark Assault
An Amazing Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
The story of a brutal shark attack that cost a woman her arm and much of her leg, and her death-defying recovery.
One of the most dreadful experiences humans fear is a shark attack. This horrifying agony is exactly what happened to Nicole Moore, a nurse from Orangeville, Ontario. It was an...
Combat Doctor
Life and Death Stories from Kandahar’s Military Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Combat Doctor presents the stories of the victims of the War in Afghanistan, as told by the last Canadian Officer Commanding at the Kandahar Role 3 Multinational Hospital.
In 2009, Marc Dauphin, an experienced emergency-room physician, served a full tour at the combat hospital in Kandahar....
Robertson Davies
Magician of Words
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent...
Property
The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
In the early 1970s an innocent teenager who had led a sheltered life was forced to leave her family and enter into a polygamous, abusive, and deviant relationship with a man called the Prophet. In 2008, nearly 40 years later, she fled his religious sect.
Property is not a misnomer. It accurately...
Am I Sane Yet?
An Insider's Look at Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
International award-winning journalist John Scully has been committed to mental institutions seven times. He has been locked up. He has attempted suicide. He has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. During this time, he has held down leading jobs with...
Royal Tours 1786-2010
Home to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Royal Tours 1786–2010 is a penetrating look at the tours of 11 royals who were or would be monarchs, viceroys, and commanders-in-chief of Canada. Leaving California in 1983 to tour British Columbia, Queen Elizabeth II said she was “going home to Canada.” Since its pioneer days, the Royal Family...
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900-2002
An Illustrated Biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother 1900 - 2002 presents the life of a remarkable woman. A Canadian perspective on a sovereign who created and cultivated a special relationship with Canada, it is the portrait of a queen who always evoked passionate reactions. Whether it was the anonymous soldier who...
Raising Royalty
1000 Years of Royal Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2017
How royal parents dealt with raising their children over the past thousand years, from keeping Vikings at bay to fending off paparazzi.
William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are setting trends for millions of parents around the world. The upbringing of their children, Prince...
by Mary Beacock Fryer, Arthur Bousfield, Garry Toffoli
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1996
Beautifully illustrated, this book looks at the nine women who have been Princesses of Wales. From Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent," through the tragic Katharine of Aragon, Henry's VIII's first wife, and the tempestuous Caroline of Brunswick, the mistreated wife of George IV, to the present fairy-tale, headline-catching Princess, their stories are told with insight and compassion.
by Doug Lennox
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
We're all familiar with the trials and tribulations of the current British Royal Family, but there are more than 25 royal families that still wield power in the world today from Japan and Thailand to Saudi Arabia and Scandinavia. The crown prince of Q&A, Doug Lennox, is at it again, this time...