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  • The Big Nickel: The Untold Story

    How Sudbury's Ted Szilva Turned a Five Cent Coin Into $1 million

    The Big Nickel. For 50 years it’s been one of Canada’s most recognizable landmarks. Finally, the complete story you’ve always wanted to know is ready to be told. Straight from the man who started it all, Ted Szilva shares his most intimate and personal details about how this incredible monument came to be. He’s been referred to as “the imagination, the driving force, the builder and the promoter ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Forgotten Leafs and the Rise of Professional Hockey

    Drawing on extensive archival records and illustrations, histories of the sport, and newspaper files, Canada’s Prime Minister delves into the fascinating early years of ice hockey.In the tumultuous beginnings of hockey, the fights were as much off the ice as on it. This engaging new book is about the hockey heroes and hard-boiled businessmen who built the game, and the rise and fall of legendary ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Necessary War, Volume 1

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 3 - Canadians Fighting
    Co-winner of the 2014-2015 Charles P. Stacey AwardTim Cook, Canada’s leading war historian, ventures deep into World War Two in this epic two-volume story of heroism and horror, of loss and longing, sacrifice and endurance.Written in Cook’s compelling narrative style, this book shows in impressive detail how soldiers, airmen, and sailors fought—the evolving tactics, weapons of war, logistics, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Me, the Mob, and the Music

    One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells

    by Tommy James ...
    Now in paperback, after five hardcover printings, Tommy James’s wild and entertaining true story of his career—part rock & roll fairytale, part valentine to a bygone era, and part mob epic—that “reads like a music-industry version of Goodfellas” (The Denver Post).Everyone knows the hits: “Hanky Panky,” “Mony Mony,” “I Think We’re Alone Now,” “Crimson and Clover,” “Crystal Blue Persuasion.” All of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Abramovich

    The billionaire from nowhere

    ‘An incredible story’ – Mail on Sunday; ‘Well researched and fluently written’ – The Times; ‘Draws a picture of a man of immense ruthlessness, nerve and charm . . . offers a Vanity Fair of Russian oligarchy’ – The Spectator; A superb insight into the Chelsea boss . . . a must read for both football fans and business tycoons’ – Sunday Business Post; ‘A well-researched investigation into the life ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

  • Eaton's

    The Trans-Canada Store

    Series series Landmarks
    Explore the broad, fascinating history of the Eaton's department store empire. Exhaustively researched and thoughtfully written by a prominent department store historian. Canada's largest and most well-known department store, Eaton's was an icon of Canadian culture. From its founding in 1869 to its famed catalogue and network of large stores spreading coast to coast, Eaton's offered something for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dangerous Spirits

    The Windigo in Myth and History

    In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Harvests of Joy

    How the Good Life Became Great Business

    A true story of midlife transformation by the Napa Valley entrepreneur who put California's wine industry on the map.In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi—then fifty-two years old—was thrown out of his family's winery. Far from defeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superior wine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of the greatest success stories of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Even Buffett Isn't Perfect

    What You Can--and Can't--Learn from the World's Greatest Investor

    A contrarian look at how Warren Buffett thinks about investing and related issuesWarren Buffett is the most successful and revered investor of all time. His ability to consistently find undervalued companies has made him one of the world’s richest men.Despite many previous books about him, it’s rare to find an objective assessment—one that praises him when appropriate, but also recognizes that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The White Girl

    True North Stories

    My name is Dawn Kostelnik and I am the White Girl, Mola ‘tu ‘we’/twa. In the 1960’s my father was hired by the Canadian Government to work as an Indian Agent in the tiny native village of Fort Norman, NWT. My father is known by the people on the river as Somba ralla; the moneylender. My life is changed forever. The Dhe Cho becomes my home, the Mighty Mackenzie River in Canada’s Arctic. This is the ... Read more

    $2.20 USD

  • Legacy

    A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg

    From the bestselling biographer of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman comes a multi-generational saga of one of America's wealthiest and most controversial families--the Annenbergs. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Three Million Acres of Flame

    For Skye Haverill and her family, it begins as an ordinary day. But in the annals of Canadian history, October 7, 1825, is the date of one of our greatest national disasters.The Haverill family has been turned upside down in the last year. Following the death of their mother, Skye and her brother, Tavish, have adjusted to live with a single parent. And when they're asked to make another adjustment ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus