Posts by pwsadmin
Distantly Related to Freud
Distantly Related to Freud More Reviews: “Charney distinguishes herself in her smart, playfully organic exploration of character… With Distantly Related to Freud, Charney has crafted a witty, psychologically astute account of a girl growing into herself and her talents.”The Montreal Gazette “…the tone and the pace of the novel is unwavering and strong.”Globe and Mail “The title of…
Read MoreDistantly Related to Freud
“With its winsome protagonist and the palpable interplay between innocence and the shadows that encroach on it, Charney has written one of the most endearing novels of the season.”Montreal Review of Books “Charney’s narration is elegant and understated throughout…[and] the novel offers considerable insight into the increasingly complex mind of an ambitious young writer.”Quill and…
Read More20b
Martyn Burke works in a multitude of worlds, moving between novels, films, and documentaries. He has published six highly acclaimed novels, been nominated for Emmys, as well as Director’s and Writer’s Guild awards for his feature and television films. He has made award-winning television and theatrical documentaries including the Academy Award-short listedUnder Fire: Journalists in Combat,…
Read MoreMusic For Love or War
Martyn Burke works in a multitude of worlds, moving between novels, films, and documentaries. He has published six highly acclaimed novels, been nominated for Emmys, as well as Director’s and Writer’s Guild awards for his feature and television films. He has made award-winning television and theatrical documentaries including the Academy Award-short listed Under Fire: Journalists in Combat,…
Read MoreEat Well, Age Better
Aileen Burford-Mason graduated form University College, Dublin and later received a Ph.D in immunology. She has worked as a medical researcher and was former assistant professor in the pathology department of Faculty of Medicine before becoming director of a Cancer Research Laboratory at Toronto General Hospital . She has developed a continuing medical education course for physicians and…
Read MoreTHE CONFUSIONS OF PLEASURE: A History Of Ming China 1368-1644
“This is joyful and comprehensive scholarship, full of motion and detail. Timothy Brook encases the fascinating and changeable world of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) in a clear conceptual and chronological framework which any non-specialist can follow. Here are a wealth of Ming people and their problems, along with the very stuff of their world: bricks…
Read MoreVermeer’s Hat
“Thanks to Brook’s roving and insatiably curious gaze, Vermeer’s small scenes widen onto the broad panorama of world history… The result is like one of Vermeer’s trademark reflective pearls that magically reveals a world beyond itself. A more entertaining guide to world history — and to Vermeer–is difficult to imagineâ€Ross King “Vermeer’s Hat is a deftly…
Read MorePraise for Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
Hugh Brewster has collaborated with Robert Ballard, the discoverer of the Titanic’s wreck on The Discovery of the Titanic and Titanic: An Illustrated History, which provided the inspiration for James Cameron’s epic movie Titanic. His 2007 bookCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by the Washington…
Read MoreOne Brother Shy
Terry Fallis is a best selling author who has an identical twin brother, Tim Fallis. PenguinRandomHouse Canada Fall 2017 One Brother Shy Ottawa software engineer, Alex MacAskill, 25, is a painfully and chronically shy man whose once bright future was seriously dimmed by an incident in high school. It was not talked about,…
Read MoreSolar Dance
Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty Modris Eksteins is the author of acclaimed books on modernism, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age and Walking Since Daybreak: A story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our…
Read MoreFairly Equal
“This truth-telling book brims with wisdom for every woman who sees injustice and asks herself ‘What can I do?’ Linda Silver Dranoff, a lifelong change agent, is the perfect role model for a new generation of feminists.†– Rona Maynard, former Chatelaine editor, author of My Mother’s Daughter “Linda Silver Dranoff has that elusive ‘it’ factor when it…
Read MoreThe Memory Clinic
Chinese Cover North American Cover Dr. Tiffany Chow is Senior Clinician-Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute, staff Behavioural Neurologist at Baycrest’s Brain Health Centre Memory Disorders Clinic and holds a dual appointment as Assistant Professor of Neurology and Geriatric Psychiatry with the University of Toronto. She studied or trained variously at Stanford, Rush Medical College,…
Read MoreLife Class
Ann Charney’s novels Distantly Related to Freud,Dobryd and Rousseau’s Garden were published in the US, Canada, France, Germany and Italy. She was born in Poland, studied at McGill University and the Sorbonne, and lives in Montreal. The government of France named her Officier de l’Ordre Arts et des Lettres. Praise for Life Class: “Charney writes in spare, tight prose, setting a…
Read MoreMusic For Love or War
Martyn Burke works in a multitude of worlds, moving between novels, films, and documentaries. He has published six highly acclaimed novels, been nominated for Emmys, as well as Director’s and Writer’s Guild awards for his feature and television films. He has made award-winning television and theatrical documentaries including the Academy Award-short listed Under Fire: Journalists in Combat,…
Read MoreThe Healthy Brain
Aileen Burford-Mason, author of the acclaimed bestseller, Eat Well Age Better, (Dundurn Press, Canada) is an immunologist, cell biologist and an orthomolecular nutritionist – a specialized field of nutrition that uses diet and vitamins, minerals and amino acids and other substances naturally present in the body to treat and prevent disease. She graduated from University College, Dublin…
Read MoreMr. Selden’s Map of China
Praise for Mr. Selden’s Map of China: “Brook is a true practitioner of the broad, rich and currently endangered concept of the humanities… reads like a perfect day at the library.†—The Globe and Mail “a fast-moving, conversational narrative, which flies by before you realise you have just been guided through some of the more esoteric…
Read MoreTimea E. Nagy & Shannon Moroney
Timea E. Nagy & Shannon Moroney Out of the Shadows “I was twenty when I answered an ad in Budapest to be a babysitter in Canada, but the job was a lie. They took my passport, my money and my freedom. They almost took my life.†Timea had been lured by a ring of international human…
Read MoreJennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten was a Grenadian radio announcer, a development worker, a Canadian diplomat, who earned two M.A university degrees. She also is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of five grandchildren. She lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, outside Toronto, and retains her connection to Grenada and the Caribbean. Jennifer Hosten Miss World 1970…
Read MoreHow Forbidden Love Drove a 12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family
How Forbidden Love Drove a12-Year-Old to Murder Her Family A true story of illicit love, lycanthropy and murder in a quiet prairie town. This chilling story alerts parents to the toxic stew of teenage rebellion, the internet, pubescent sexuality and the allure of the Goth style leading to a horrifying end of sickening murders. Runaway Devil,…
Read MoreThe Great Bratby
Maurice Yacowar, who writes extensively on popular culture, knew of Bratby the artist. When he spotted out-of-print copies of his novels for sale on eBay, which were previously unknown to him, his interest was piqued. It led him to a mountainous cache of diaries, letters and documents. He supplemented these with interviews of Bratby’s intimates.…
Read MoreYou Can’t Say That in Canada
Margaret Wente has enjoyed a successful career in Canadian journalism as both a writer and editor. Since 1992 she has been a leading columnist for The Globe and Mail and has twice won the National Newspaper Award for her writing. Born in Chicago, she moved to Toronto in her teens, and holds a B.A. from the University of…
Read More