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Stupid White Men: And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Michael Moore
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Feb 7 2002
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Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers ...
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
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Random House
Oct 29 2002
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Amazon.ca Canadian Essential
University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when ...
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Dropped Threads 2
Carol Shields
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April 8 2003
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It's impossible to overstate the impact of the stories collected in the ...
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How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One)
Will Ferguson
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Sep 1 2001
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How to be a Canadian. Don't worry: here, the phrase is not punctuated by the usual soul-searching question mark. Instead, the Ferguson brothers boldly assert that, since they have both been Canadian their whole lives, they are uniquely qualified to dissect...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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Doubleday Canada
May 6 2003
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There must be a special place in author's heaven for writers like Bill Bryson (...
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Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Simon & Schuster
Jun 9 2003
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As with most books written by politicians while in office (or at least aiming for one), ...
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Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Queen Noor
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Mar 18 2003
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Anyone who loved The King and I will readily warm to the love story of Queen Noor and the late King Hussein of Jordan. Born in America in 1951 as Lisa Halaby, Noor came from a wealthy, well-connected family and was part of Princeton's first co-ed class. He...
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Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester
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Mar 31 2003
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In Krakatoa, the author of The Map That Changed the World and The Professor and the Madman focuses his considerable research powers on one of the most cataclysmic events of modern history: the volcanic eruption, in 1883, of the Southeast Asian island of Krakatoa, which resulted in the deaths ...
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Dude, Where's My Country
Michael Moore
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Warner Books
Oct 7 2003
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The people of the United States, according to author and filmmaker Michael Moore (...
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Dropped Threads
Carol Shields
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Jan 23 2001
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The hidden emotional territory of women's lives--from the joys of belly dancing to the agony of caring for a dying child--is revealed in the pages of ...
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9-11
Noam Chomsky
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Seven Stories
Oct 31 1997
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It is always instructive to read American's premier dissident thinker if only simply to get an alternative take on what constitutes our present day "common sense"--an urgent project he undertakes in ...
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Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values
Michael Adams
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Penguin Canada (AHC)
May 13 2003
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Long before 9-11, Americans were changing. Their values were becoming more socially conservative, their waistlines were getting rounder, and they were more deferential to authority figures. Meanwhile, an opposite trend took root north of the border. Canadi...
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Leadership
Rudolph Giuliani
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Oct 12 2002
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This highly anticipated book from New York's once controversial, now beloved former mayor opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, a...
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Romeo Dallaire
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Random House Canada
Oct 21 2003
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It was one of the fastest, most efficient, most evident genocides of modern history. And it could have been avoided. But the United States and France were content to sit back and watch as Hutu extremists slaughtered 800,000 Rwandans in ethnic pogroms in 19...
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Kate Remembered
A Berg
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Jul 11 2003
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Published a mere 13 days after the death of Katharine Hepburn, ...
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The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change
Irshad Manji
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Random House Canada
Sep 16 2003
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It's exceedingly difficult to know how best to approach Canadian journalist Irshad Manji's ...
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Moneyball
Michael Lewis
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May 12 2003
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's ...
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté M.D.
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Knopf Canada
Mar 11 2003
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The potential for wholeness and health resides in all of us, affirms Dr. Gabor Mat...
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Kurt Cobain Journals
Kurt Cobain
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Riverhead (HC)
Oct 25 2002
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These journal entries by Nirvana front man Cobain record his thoughts from the late 1980s until his suicide in 1994. There are no real answers to his death to be found in this collection of scrawled notes, first drafts of letters, shopping lists, and ballp...
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Bush at War
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Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism ...
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Karla: A Pact with the Devil
Stephen Williams
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
Mar 1 2003
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Karla Homolka is an enigma. After a decade of investigation, a previous book about the case (...
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While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
Andrew Cohen
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McClelland & Stewart
May 6 2003
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Canada emerged from World War II with the world's fourth-largest military and the infrastructure to build nuclear weapons if it wanted. Today, its military is a shadow of its once-glorious self, and Canada's diplomatic influence in the world is in decline,...
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The Voyage of the Northern Magic: A Family Odyssey
Diane Stuemer
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McClelland & Stewart
Oct 15 2002
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The tone for The Voyage of the Northern Magic is set early on, when the author attempts to pilot a dinghy. "Within seconds I was in trouble," writes Diane Stuemer. "The combination of wind on the nose, the unruly waves, and my unique style of dyslexic ...
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Empire
Niall Ferguson
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Basic Books
April 2 2003
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Niall Ferguson's compelling tour de force, Empire, was published to coincide with a British TV series. Ferguson, author of The Pity of War and The Cash Nexus, does not so much provide a synoptic survey of the British empire since the 17th century, as an arresting ...
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
Eric Schlosser
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Houghton Mifflin
April 10 2003
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As much as 10% of the American economy, and perhaps more, is comprised of illegal "underground" enterprises, according to author and Atlantic Monthly correspondent Eric Schlosser. And while this segment is never discussed in the newspaper business pages, S...
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