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2 reviews
L. R. Wright

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1994

A splendif book
A Touch of Panic is one of the best mysteries I've ever read. L.R. Wright shows her skill to create a tense crime - as well as a tense private world.

Lines on the Water : A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi

6 reviews
David Adams Richards

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed
My neighbor lent this book to me when I was having trouble getting my 2 year old to go to bed and go to sleep with it being light out at bedtime during the summer. She loved the book and would ask for me to read it again every night. It is one of her favorite books. The action words really invite her to get involved in the story. Words like "vrrruuum-chugga-chug", roaring tigers, parading ...

Jungle Drums

9 reviews
Graeme Base

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2004

Jungle Drums-must have for kids!
Children's books have long been used to shape ideas and values for kids-remember the impact that Cinderella finding Prince Charming has had on millions of women all over the world? Jungle Drums is another classic book that teaches kids that different is just different, not better or worse. Beautifully illustrated, the book draws readers into the Jungle where unbelievable things happen to the ...

The Secret World of Og

20 reviews
Pierre Berton

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2002

One of the best children's books ever
This book was read as a class project when I was 10 years old by one of my favorate teachers. Three years later, my sister had the same teacher and the same project. This became our favorate book, but we never saw a copy outside the classroom. We talked about it on occasion over the years and (we were now in our forties) my sister ran across it on Amazon and ordered copies for each of us. I ...

If Only

84 reviews
Geri Halliwell

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 1999

Awesome Book, Awesome Girl!
I bought this book after seeing a spice girls documentary. Even though I wasn't a big fan of the Spice Girls I always found Geri likable and decided to read her book. The book is awesome. She takes you from her childhood up until she left the band. She and her friends reminded me of my friends and I. The book is very frank, down to earth and fun. I highly recommend reading this one and then ...

Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer

2 reviews
Steve; Niedzviecki, Hal Mann

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

Technology against Big Brother
Steven Mann describes himself as a Luddite. Come again? Luddites went around smashing the machines of the industrial revolution. How could Mann, an arch-geek, a professor of electrical engineering who lives, invents, builds, and wears the very latest technology, call himself a Luddite? Mann's "cyborg philosophy" lies just here: in the thought that in an increasingly Orwellian world, the ...

For Joshua : An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son

2 reviews
Richard Wagamese

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2003

Book a must read
This beautifully written book is a treat to read. Richard Wagamese writes an autobiography that is sincere and forthright. It contrasts the lessons he learns from elder's traditional teachings with his struggle with alcoholism. I bought several copies to give friends and highly recommend it for any First Nations person who loves someone who is alcoholic, or for any alcoholic who is also ...

The Bay of Love and Sorrows

2 reviews
David Adams Richards

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2002

Sublime writing...
If you've not read any of David Adams Richards' books, you're missing a wonderful experience. Richards is master of the sublime, even when covering gritty topics and plotlines. Such as it is in this title; the characters are imperfect, flawed, some of them disturbed, outcast. This story is a tangled web woven, entrapping the souls it skirts, unravelling their lives as the situation(s) gain ...

In for a Penny, in for a Pound: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Wireless Operator in Bomber Command

3 reviews
Howard Hewer

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2004

Excellent writing
"In For A Penny, In For A Pound" by Howard Hewer, sub-titled: "The Adventures And Misadventures Of A Wireless Operator In bomber Command". Stoddard Publishing, Toronto, Canada, 2000. This book recounts the experiences of T. W. H. Hewer as a young man and a wireless operator in the Royal Canadian Air Force. As a young teenager, Howard Hewer had dreams of flying Spitfires, so he enlisted in the ...

The Joy of Writing : A Guide for Writers Disguised As a Literary Memoir

2 reviews
Pierre Berton

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2003

Good writing advice from the frozen North
Pierre Berton, Canada's most accomplished popular historian, has written a practical and lively guidebook for those who aspire to be published and those who are already authors but could use a bit of advice from one who's long-accomplished in the writer's craft. The opening chapter consists of letters that Berton has received over the years from would-be authors who expound at length on their ...

A Breath of Snow and Ashes

300 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2005

Fablous Series!!!!!!
This is book 5 in a series of 6 Diana Gabaldon books. It is a wonderful Love story, with historical value taking place in the middle to late 18th century. I would highly recommend all 6 books. It starts with Voyager.

In a Sunburned Country

401 reviews
Bill Bryson

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

Great intro to Australia and Australians
I read this book on the way to Sydney a couple of years ago at the beginning of a project assignment which called for me to spend about six weeks there. I enjoyed the author's writing style much more than a typical travel book. However, despite the light tone and the many humorous anecdotes, I found that Mr. Bryson really did effectively capture a "feel" for the culture. Time and again, as I ...

The Border

1 review
James Laxer

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2003

A must read about Canada-US relations
This book is recommended to anyone interested in Canada-US relations, especially those who are interested in immigration policy and the human dimension of security. The book is written in a travel-diary form, which makes it an easy read, at the same time as Laxner manages to make it an interesting read for more 'serious' scholars. The Border is filled with interesting tid-bits of (to the ...

A Short History Of Nearly Everything

629 reviews
Bill Bryson

Doubleday Canada Limited, 2003

Review: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson narrates a brief yet epic journey of everything from the nothingness of which the universe sprang, to the development of technologies that only a handful of people on our planet understand in one of his best-selling books, A Short History of Nearly Everything. From the top of the world's tallest mountains to the bottom of the deepest petrie dish, Bryson tells the tale of nearly every ...

Voyager

177 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

My favorite book of the series!!!
While working at a bookstore, I decided that I needed to read one sci-fi and one romance novel just to get a feel for the genre. I selected Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" for the romance novel, and was absolutely captivated by her story and style. I devoured the first three books in less than six weeks--an amazing feat for me as a slow reader with sight impairments--and have started at least 200 ...

THE BOOK OF CANDLES

1 review
Miranda INNES

Doubleday Canada Limited., 1991

Overall this book was really wonderful.
This book was easy to read with wonderful pictures that really helped you understand what the finished candle would look like. The author used simple easy to follow language and gave you a list of all the tools needed for each project. She also gave you wonderful ideas to follow or use as a jumping off point for your own creations. The tools she suggests are things every one has or can find ...

Outlander

1352 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

A Keeper!
I bought this book when it first came out in hardcover in 1991. I still have that first edition, autographed by the author. I also have two lending copies in paperback, and am about to buy the Kindle version, just so I can have it with me all the time. I also have the UK version, titled CROSS-STITCH. If you haven't read this book, I envy you being able to read it for the first time! Jamie ...

The Outlandish Companion

154 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 1999

Great Series---read the others!
I have enjoyed this series and particularly like this one as it gives alot of details about Scotland...

Dragonfly in Amber

253 reviews
Diana Gabaldon

Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2001

This series is one of the best of all time
I keep having to replace various books in this series as people borrow and I never get them back. I reread this series about every 3 years. I always learn something new and it's always interesting. Excellent author.

Shooting Stars : Photographs from the Portnoy Collection at the Hockey Hall of Fame

1 review
Andrew Podnieks

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1998

If hockey is your game this is your book!
Great format great presentation, terrific photographs, each page a new adventure. Andrew Podnieks is very knowledgeable and a wonderful word weaver.

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