Thursday December 04, 2008
Latest Columns 
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Published: Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:00 AM Page D21
THE UNFINISHED CANADIANThe People We AreBy Andrew Cohen, Emblem, 270 pages, $19.99Cohen's ''unscientific, selective and subjective'' point of view is turned loose on the flaws in the Canadian character and remedies for them in the future.
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Published: Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:00 AM Page D25
JOHN A.The Man Who Made UsBy Richard Gwyn, Vintage Canada, 542 pages, $23Veteran journalist Gwyn focuses on the politics of John A. Macdonald's era, but also follows the first PM's personal life from his birth in Scotland to Canada's birth in 1867.
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Published: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:00 AM Page D13
BORN WITH A TOOTHBy Joseph Boyden, Cormorant, 243 pages, $20Boyden, winner of this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize,ranges widely - children, professional wrestling, wolves, a native punk band - in this collection of 13 stories.
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Published: Saturday, November 8, 2008 12:00 AM Page D11
THE HEROIN DIARIESA Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock StarBy Nikki Sixx, Pocket Books, 413 pages, $23.50Sixx, co-founder, bassist and primary songwriter for the 1980s heavy metal band Motley Crue, tells all about his life as a junkie rock star.
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Published: Saturday, November 1, 2008 12:00 AM Page D13
THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WASBy Peter Robinson, McClelland and Stewart, 445 pages, $11.99Chief Inspector Alan Banks is recalled from recuperation in Greece when the bones of a childhood friend are dug up 35 years after the summer of his disappearance, and must deal with a long-held guilty secret.
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Published: Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page D17
UNDIPLOMATIC DIARIES1937-1971By Charles Ritchie, Emblem, 591 pages, $24.99Ritchie's diaries, previously released in three parts, are gathered into one volume, coinciding with the publication of his passionate correspondence with British writer Elizabeth Bowen.
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Published: Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:00 AM Page D12
THE TOP 100 CANADIAN ALBUMSBy Bob Mersereau, Goose Lane, 214 pages, $24.95This selection includes anecdotes and background about the 100 albums picked, and full-colour reproductions of the album art.
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Published: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:00 AM Page D18
THE FROZEN THAMESBy Helen Humphreys, Emblem, 181 pages, $17.99This gorgeous little book features 40 stories, each set in one of the times in history that the Thames River has frozen solid, all splendidly illustrated.
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Published: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:00 AM Page D30
BEAVERBROOKA Shattered LegacyBy Jacques Poitras, Goose Lane, 317 pages, $19.95As the legal battle over the disposition of Lord Beaverbrook's art collection continues between his descendants and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Poitras's award-winning book examines the history of the family and the dispute.
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Published: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:00 AM Page D14
BENEATH MY FEETThe Memoirs of GeorgeMercer DawsonWith Phil Jenkins, Emblem,308 pages, $21Jenkins's fictionalized memoirs of the noted 19th-century Canadian explorer, photographer, painter and geologist add up to a rousing tale.
