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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print
Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

An exciting new collection, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles significant rediscovered primary materials on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors throughout her high-profile career as the author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908) and after her death.

Available Oct 2013
Memoirs and Reflections
Memoirs and Reflections
By Roy McMurtry

These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art.

Available Sep 2013
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Edited by Patrizia Gentile and Jane Nicholas

In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Available Sep 2013
Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945:
Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940-1945:
By Olivier Courteaux

Filled with international intrigue and larger-than-life characters, Canada between Vichy and Free France adds greatly to our comprehension of Canada’s foreign relations and political history.

Available Sep 2013
Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women
Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women
By Jan Noel

Exploring how the daughters and granddaughters of the filles du roi adapted to their terrain, turned their hands to trade, and even acquired surprising influence at the French court, Along a River is an innovative and engagingly written history.

Available Aug 2013
Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals
By Edward Shorter

In Partnership for Excellence, senior medical historian and award-winning author Edward Shorter details the Faculty of Medicine’s history from its inception as a small provincial school to its present day status as an international powerhouse.

Available Aug 2013
'A Justifiable Obsession': Conservative Ontario's Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985
'A Justifiable Obsession': Conservative Ontario's Relations with Ottawa, 1943-1985
By P.E. Bryden

‘A Justifiable Obsession’ traces the evolution of Ontario’s relationship with the federal government in the years following the Second World War.

Available Aug 2013
Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829–1908
Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829–1908
By J.I. Little

Joly’s life serves as a prism through which author J.I. Little elucidates important themes in Quebec and Canadian society, economy, politics, and culture during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Available Jul 2013
Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War
Art at the Service of War: Canada, Art, and the Great War
By Maria Tippett
With a New Introduction by the Author

Art at the Service of War is the story of how artists as diverse as modernist Paul Nash, the revolutionary Vorticist Wyndham Lewis, and young Canadians such as A.Y. Jackson came to paint Canada’s war.

Available Jul 2013
The Public intellectual in Canada
The Public intellectual in Canada
Edited by Nelson Wiseman

Broad in scope and stylistically diverse, these essays offer a fascinating overview of the links between thought, public exposition, and action in the fields of politics, science, and culture.

Available Jul 2013