Random House Of Canada: 136 books
Our Turn to Parent
Shared Experiences and Practical Advice on Caring for Aging Parents in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
No one can anticipate what it will be like for you the day you discover you must become a caregiver for one or both of your parents. As you begin to care for them, you will be filled with questions and looking for advice. Our Turn to Parentshows you how to work with your parent to become their caregiver...
What Disturbs Our Blood
A Son's Quest to Redeem the Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A rich, unmined piece of Canadian history, an intense psychological drama, a mystery to be solved… and a hardwon escape from a family curse.
Like his friends Banting and Best, Dr. John Fitzgerald was a Canadian hero. He founded Connaught Labs, saved untold lives with his vaccines and transformed...
Up, Up, and Away
The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri.
2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington,...
Mountain City Girls
The McGarrigle Family Album
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The first book and definitive family memoir from Anna and Jane McGarrigle, sisters to Kate McGarrigle and aunts of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. This book is truly a classic in the making.
The McGarrigles are known around the world for their touching, insightful songs about love, loss and...
How We Did It
The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The ultimate hockey dad, Karl Subban is a former school principal and father of five, including three sons--P.K., Malcolm and Jordan--who have been drafted to the NHL. Karl's inspirational and moving story follows the hockey journey from house league to the big leagues and shows how to grow the unlimited...
Conspiracy of Brothers
A True Story of Bikers, Murder and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
To coincide with Random House Canada's publication of the groundbreaking book Unrepentant by Peter Edwards and biker Lorne Campbell, Vintage Canada updates and reissues the award-winning true crime classic that tells the complete and scandalous story in the most gut-wrenching chapter of Campbell's...
by Kim Thúy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE: The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.
The daughter of an enterprising...
The Name Therapist
How Growing Up with My Odd Name Taught Me Everything You Need to Know about Yours
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What’s a “stripper” name? For that matter, what’s a high-class name? How do you tell the difference? Why does everyone call them “baby” names when they follow us through our whole lives? And can your name determine your destiny?
From a television screenwriter and contributor on the...
Mexican Hooker #1
Art, Love and Forgiveness After Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling and Canada Reads-winning first book, Something Fierce. Mexican Hooker #1 is a powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood...
Steve Nash
The Unlikely Ascent of a Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
From the authors of the national bestseller Leafs AbomiNation, the story behind the success of one of Canada's greatest athletes, NBA all-star Steve Nash.
A small man in a big man's game, a white man in a game dominated by black men, a rare Canadian in a US-based industry, the unlikely rise...
Rowdy
The Roddy Piper Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The biggest pro wrestling bio since Bret Hart's Hitman: legendary Rowdy Roddy Piper's unfinished autobiography, re-conceived and completed by his children, actress/musician Ariel Teal Toombs and wrestler Colt Baird Toombs.
In early 2015, Roderick Toombs, aka Rowdy Roddy Piper, began researching...
Hard Road
Bernie Guindon and the Reign of the Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The spiritual godfather of Canadian bikers tells the story of his fascinating life.
You could call Bernie Guindon the Sonny Barger of Canadian bikers (but not to his face). The founder of Satan's Choice, Guindon led what was in the 1960s the second-largest biker club in the world (after the...
Full Count
Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
From one of Canada's top baseball writers and radio hosts: a retrospective of the Toronto Blue Jays on the 20th anniversary of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run--and a look ahead to what promises to be their most successful season since. A must-have for all Blue Jays fans, and a great read...
by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A novel of exceptional heart and imagination about the ties that bind us to each other, broken and whole, from one of the most exciting voices in Canadian fiction.
September, 1983. Fourteen-year-old Bo, a boat person from Vietnam, lives in a small house in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto...