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  • You Can Have a Dog When I'm Dead Essays on Life at an Angle
    Author:

    Benedetti, Paul

    Summary:

    Hamilton Spectator columnist Paul Benedetti’s essays paint a wonderfully funny portrait of family life today.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Humour

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  • The Sound of One Team Sucking Mindful Meditations for Recovering Leafs Fans
    Author:

    Gudgeon, Christopher

    ,

    Gudgeon, Tavish

    ,

    Mauro, Joey

    ,

    Saadi, Yusuf

    Summary:

    A hilarious self-help book for recovering Leafs fans everywhere. We’ve all heard it. The sound of one team sucking. Our team. The Leafs.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Humour, Sports and recreation

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  • Is Canada Even Real? How a Nation Built on Hobos, Beavers, Weirdos, and Hip Hop Convinced the World to Beliebe
    Author:

    Villamere, J.C.

    Summary:

    This quirky ode to a quirky land is a humorous nostalgia trip and a fun Canadian history lesson couched in a hipster quiz book.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Humour

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  • The Reluctant Twitcher A Quite Truthful Account of My Big Birding Year
    Author:

    Pope, Richard

    Summary:

    The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities.

    Genre: Humour

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  • Palace of the End
    Author:

    Thompson, Judith

    Summary:

    Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justificatio

    Genre: Canadian drama, War fiction

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  • Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia
    Author:

    Thompson, Judith

    ,

    Ashperger, Cynthia

    Summary:

    In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society.

    Genre: Canadian drama, Domestic fiction, War fiction

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  • The Mystery of Maddy Heisler
    Author:

    Lillford, Daniel

    Summary:

    As a young man in the midst of World War II, Jacob fell in love with an older woman and began a rapturous affair, until she seemingly vanished.

    Genre: Canadian drama, Historical fiction, War fiction

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  • Three to a Loaf A Novel of the Great War
    Author:

    Goodspeed, Michael J.

    Summary:

    Three to a Loaf is the First World War story of Rory Ferrall, a young Canadian officer of Anglo-German descent who, after being wounded and disfigured at Ypres, comes to the attention of British mi

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Thrillers (Fiction), War fiction

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  • Our Only Shield A Novel of the Second World War
    Author:

    Goodspeed, Michael J.

    Summary:

    Set in the desperate days at the outset of the Second World War, Our Only Shield brings back Rory Ferrall, the resourceful Canadian spy from Michael J. Goodspeed’s debut novel, Three to a Loaf.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, War fiction

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  • I'll Never Forget My First Car Stories from Behind the Wheel
    Author:

    Sherk, Bill

    Summary:

    In this hilarious collection of stories, Old Autos columnist Bill Sherk describes in vivid detail the trials and tribulations of those brave souls who, throwing caution to the wind and money down t

    Genre: Humour, Short stories

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  • Still Complaining
    Author:

    Foster, Jim

    Summary:

    Once again we are blessed with yet another collection of Jim Foster’s ravings.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Humour

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  • Bad Girls and Other Perils
    Author:

    Strobel, Mike

    Summary:

    Come and walk the offbeat world of Mike Strobel’s popular column in the Toronto Sun.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Humour

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  • All Else Is Folly A Tale of War and Passion
    Author:

    Acland, Peregrine

    ,

    Busby, Brian

    ,

    Calhoun, James R.

    ,

    Ford, Ford Madox

    Summary:

    One of Canada’s most painful and breathtaking pictures of a soldier’s life during the First World War.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, War fiction

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  • The Canadian Book of Snobs
    Author:

    Branden, Victoria

    Summary:

    Are you a snob? Then why not learn to do it right? Study this revolutionary work and become a Canadian Snob of Distinction!

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Humour

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  • I Hate to Complain, But
    Author:

    Foster, Jim

    Summary:

    It is rare that one can pick up a book and find all the answers to the problems of Life. Yet in this one book, we find these answers, and learn a few more things that will keep us up at night.

    Genre: Humour

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