Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
10 best books like Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada (Will Ferguson): Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast, The Magician's Wife, Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment, The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin, Village Of The Small Houses: A Memoir Of Sorts, Rick Mercer Report: The Book, Watching the Tree, The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape, King Leary
Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
| Author | Bill Richardson |
| ISBN | 0312171838 |
A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Hector and Virgil think of their B&B as a refuge, a retreat,...
| Author | Brian Moore |
| ISBN | 0452279593 |
Summoned to the grand country estate of Napoleon III, the famed illusionist Henri Lambert and his wife Emmeline are drawn into an elaborate plan to further French influence in North Africa and subdue the rebellious Arab tribes. An ambitious, intelligent man, Lambert will go to desperate lengths to...
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 0452276799 |
I struggled initially with this book as I was expecting more of a prescriptive 'how to' approach, when what the author does is position it as more a discussion based on her own experiences and insights from other people.
However, I got into it and came to understand the style she adopted - because...
| Author | Steve Irwin |
| ISBN | 0525946357 |
This book is a very good book to show how Steve Irwin lived his life and became known as the crocodile hunter. The book talks about his very early years when he was trying to impress his dad by catching all sorts of animals and usually it didn't work out. He was in a couple deadly situations just trying to make...
| Author | Ian Ferguson |
| ISBN | 1553650212 |
Ian Ferguson won the 2004 Leacock Medal for Humor for this outrageously funny book about growing up destitute in the far north. Beginning with the dramatic events surrounding his birth, the richly recalled events of Ferguson's life and a vivid cast of loveable misfits make for a taut and appealingly...
Rick Mercer Report: The Book
| Author | Rick Mercer |
| ISBN | 0385665180 |
Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, prepare yourself for the next big thing in publishing – Rick Mercer Report: The Book.
After a decade-long absence from our book stores, Canada’s preeminent satirist returns with a new collection of rants, writings, and comic encounters with the...
| Author | Adeline Yen Mah |
| ISBN | 0006531547 |
Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography ‘Falling Leaves’ is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers.
Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and...
| Author | Timothy Caulfield |
| ISBN | 0807022055 |
A bold look at how commercial agendas distort the real science behind health and fitness studies and misinform the public about how to live a healthy life
Researcher Timothy Caulfield talks with experts in medicine, pharmaceuticals, health and fitness, and even tries out many of the health...
| Author | Candace Savage |
| ISBN | 1553652347 |
When Candace Savage and her partner buy a house in the romantic little town of Eastend, she has no idea what awaits her. At first she enjoys exploring the area around their new home, including the boyhood haunts of the celebrated American writer Wallace Stegner, the back roads of the Cypress Hills, the...
| Author | Paul Quarrington |
| ISBN | 0385666012 |
Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey's greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund "Blue" Hermann, the antagonistic and alcoholic reporter who once chronicled his career, Leary looks back on his tumultuous life and times: his days at...
| Author | Douglas Coupland |
| ISBN | 1550549170 |
Full of surprises and insights,
Souvenir of Canada
presents us as we have never seen ourselves before in an irresistible flow of text and image.
Douglas Coupland offers new ways of seeing and experiencing Canada -- looking at how it feels to be a Canadian right now and speculating...
| Author | Jian Ghomeshi |
| ISBN | 0670066486 |
In 1982 the Commodore 64 computer was introduced, Ronald Reagan survived being shot, the Falkland War started and ended, Michael Jackson released, Thriller, Canada repatriated its Constitution, and the first compact disc was sold in Germany. And that’s not all. In 1982 I blossomed from a naive...
Tropic of Hockey: My Search for the Game in Unlikely Places
| Author | Dave Bidini |
| ISBN | 1592285171 |
So, an okay book, considering I am not a big hockey fan... not really a hockey fan at all, to be truthful. I also admit that I would have a hard time naming even one Rheostatics song. Yet, Dave Bidini made it to Canada Reads this year, so I thought it might be interesting to read something by him.
All...
| Author | Terry Fallis |
| ISBN | 0771047967 |
Well, this is just fun. Sometimes I love CanLit.
A guy working at a PR firm helps organize a competition to send two citizen astronauts up to the space station, one Canadian, one American. The Canadian is a seventy-one year old woman who lives in rural BC (and I mean seriously rural BC), is a former...
So, You Want to Be Canadian: All About the Most Fascinating People in the World and the Magical Place They Call Home
| Author | Kerry Colburn |
| ISBN | 0811845354 |
So, you want to be Canadian? Who doesn't these days? Canucks are enjoying a major renaissance in attention, from their enlightened social policies to their wild and wooly pop culture. This playful, trivia-packed book is a long-overdue celebration of all things Canadian, from the mysteries of "eh?"...
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
| Author | Grant Lawrence |
| ISBN | 1550175149 |
From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia's most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating...
| Author | Todd Babiak |
| ISBN | 0771009887 |
The Garneau Block follows the knowable citizens of the adored and hated city of Edmonton, capturing what we connect to in local stories and what is universal about modern life. Here, in what can only be described as a storytelling tour-de-force, we meet the warm, endearing, and delightfully flawed...
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
| Author | Richard Gwyn |
| ISBN | 0307356442 |
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.
John A. Macdonald, Canada's...
Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran
| Author | Jamie Maslin |
| ISBN | 1602397910 |
Iran looms large in the psyche of modern America. For decades, it has been “the enemy,” its government taunting us and attacking our Western, secular lifestyle. That is largely the Iranian government, however, not the Iranian people. Here’s the proof.
When Jamie Maslin decides to...
| Author | Alissa York |
| ISBN | 0307357902 |
In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife,...
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
| Author | Anita Rau Badami |
| ISBN | 0676976050 |
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The...
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
| Author | Emily Carr |
| ISBN | 1553650832 |
This autobiography by Emily has been called "probably the finest... in a literary sense, ever written in Canada."
Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an...
| Author | Robert J. Wiersema |
| ISBN | 0679313753 |
Following his bestselling debut, Before I Wake, Robert J. Wiersema returns with this exquisitely plotted blend of supernatural thriller and domestic drama.
For novelist Christopher Knox, getting up early every morning to write isn’t bringing him the sense of fulfillment it once did....
