Random House Of Canada: 136 books
Is Blood Thicker Than Water?
Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
From Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson comes a brilliant and passionate examination of nationalism in today's world, and its effects on the stability of the world's countries, big and small.
Since the end of the Cold War, nationalism has re-emerged as one of the most powerful forces...
Something Fierce
Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet's violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives...
Paper Fan
The Hunt for Triad Gangster Steven Wong
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
For 14K Triad official Steven Wong, faking his own death to escape trial was easy. But evading investigative reporter Terry Gould -- impossible.
For 11 years terry Gould has tracked the man known as the “paper fan” through the organized crime circles of six countries. This riveting, horrifying,...
The Voodoo Killings
A Kincaid Strange Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Vintage Canada is thrilled to announce the debut of a new urban fantasy series. Kristi Charish's The Voodoo Killings introduces Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner...
For starters, she's only twenty-seven. Then there's the fact that she lives in rain-soaked Seattle, which...
by Billie Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In Greedy Little Eyes, award-winning writer Billie Livingston explores the universal craving for connection, both emotional and physical. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.
A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of...
by Sally Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history. In 1775, at the young age of twenty, she fled her English country house and boarded a ship to Jamaica with her lover, the family’s black butler. Soon after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant...
by Scott Gardiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The world's only rat-free zone is about to be invaded by a contrary man with a mission. Wyley McFadden, ex-fertility doctor-turned-urban trapper, has launched an outlandish scheme to redress geo-zoological discrimination in Canada. In what looks like an ordinary camper van, McFadden is transporting...
by Matt Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada: Cohen was at the centre...
Down to This
Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
For some young men, climbing Everest or sailing solo into polar seas isn’t the biggest risk in the world. Instead it is venturing alone into the deepest urban jungle, where human nature is the dangerous, incomprehensible and sometimes wildly uplifting force that tests not only your ability to survive...
by Carol Shields
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
With a Foreword by the Author
“Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other,...
Trudeau's Shadow
The Life and Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
No other politician has ever had the impact on this country and its people that Pierre Elliott Trudeau did. This iconoclastic anti-politician emerged from nowhere in the mid-1960s, and from 1968-1984 governed Canada, sometimes well, sometimes poorly. Even after Trudeau left office, he remained a player,...
Bill Reid
The Making of an Indian
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
Part biography, part art history -- a thoroughly engaging look at one man’s life and his phenomenal influence on the world of contemporary art.
Bill Reid was at the forefront of the modern-day renaissance of Northwest Coast Native art; but his art, and his life, was not without controversy....
Child's Play
Rediscovering the Joy of Play in Our Families and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
From one of Canada’s most inspiring and gifted sports heroes, an urgently needed guide to getting our kids active and healthy.
Like many of us, Silken Laumann’s fondest childhood memories are of play: staying outside until that final call for dinner, neighbourhood-wide games of Capture-the-Flag...
The Geography of Hope
A Tour of the World We Need
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
After the fierce warnings and grim predictions of The Weather Makers and An Inconvenient Truth, acclaimed journalist and national bestselling author Chris Turner finds hope in the search for a sustainable future.
Point of no return: The chilling phrase has become the ubiquitous mantra of ecological...