All Book Talks
@ The Writer's Cafe

All our book talks

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The Return of the State
protestors, power-brokers and the new global compromise

by Adam Harmes
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Ecoholic
Your Guide to the Most Environmentally friendly information, products and services in Canada

by Adria Vasil
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Where The River Narrows
a novel

by Aimee Laberge
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The Secret Life of Owen Skye
a novel

by Alan Cumyn
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After Sylvia
a novel

by Alan Cumyn
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Dancing At The Dead Sea
Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots

by Alanna Mitchell
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A Reading Diary
A Year of Favourite Books

by Alberto Manguel
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery

by Alexander McCall Smith
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Two Innocents in Red China


by Alexandre Trudeau
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Cherry Bites
a novel

by Alison Preston
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The Washington Diaries
1981-1989

by Allan Gotlieb
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Small Island
a novel

by Andrea Levy
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While Canada Slept
How We Lost Our Place in the World

by Andrew Cohen
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The Unfinished Canadian
The People We Are

by Andrew Cohen
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Red Land Yellow River
A Story from the Cultural Revolution (Text and Illustratrations)

by Ange Zhang
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Can You Hear The Nightbird Call?
a novel

by Anita Rau Badami
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Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas
Women of the Great White North

by Ann Douglas
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Maclean's Guide to Universities 2004


by Ann Dowsett Johnston
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The Best Thing For You
novellas

by Annabel Lyon
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The Spiral Garden
a novel

by Anne Hines
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Treading Water
a novel

by Anne DeGrace
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Woman in Bronze
a novel

by Antanas Sileika
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Tribes


by Arthur Slade
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Mist Walker
An Inspector Green Mystery

by Barbara Fradkin
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Extraordinary Evil
A Brief History of Genocide

by Barbara Coloroso
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The Quirks and Quarks Question Book
101 Answers to Listeners' Questions

by Bob McDonald
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Damaged Angels
A mother discovers the terrible cost of alcohol in pregnancy

by Bonnie Buxton
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Busted Flush
a novel

by Brad Smith
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Big Man Coming Down The Road
a novel

by Brad Smith
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Boy O'Boy


by Brian Doyle
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Down the Road Never Travelled


by Brigitte Pellerin
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The Dolphin's Tooth
A Decade in Search of Adventure

by Bruce Kirkby
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Sweetness in the Belly
(a novel)

by Camilla Gibb
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Bitter Chocolate
Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

by Carol Off
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Swimming in the Ocean
a novel

by Catherine Jenkins
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From the Japanese
A Journalist's Encounters

by Catherine Bergman
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The Last Heathen
Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia

by Charles Montgomery
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A Civilizing Influence
Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet paints a softer face on the historical interactions between Muslims and the West

by Charles Foran
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Still At The Cottage
Or The Cabin, The Shack, The Lake, The Beach, or Camp

by Charles Gordon
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Grizzly Heart
Living without fear among the brown bears of Kamchatka

by Charlie Russell
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The Museum Called Canada
25 Rooms of Wonder

by Charlotte Gray
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Ego and Ink
The Inside Story of Canada's National Newspaper War

by Chris Cobb
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Melting Point
How global warming will melt our glaciers, empty the Great Lakes, force Canada to divert rivers, build dams, and, yes, sell water to the United States

by Chris Wood
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Betting on Separation
How speculation on the Quebec referendum nearly ended in financial disaster

by Christina Campbell
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Soundings
An Anthology of the Ottawa Poetry Group 1973-2002

by Christopher Levinson
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Seismic Shifts
Leading in Times of Change

by Christopher White
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Emily Carr Country
Portrayed by Courtney Milne

by Courtney Milne
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Visions of the Goddess
Text by Sherrill Miller

by Courtney Milne
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The End of the Alphabet
a novel

by CS Richardson
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Alms
a novel

by Cynthia Macdonald
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Hope In Hell
Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

by Dan Bortolotti
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Totally Genius
Were Mozart and Einstein special, or did they just work hard?

by Dan Falk
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Hell's Witness
Hit man, police informant, doting dad, bisexual biker - Dany Kane was a complicated case.

by Daniel Sanger
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Stumbling On Happiness


by Daniel Gilbert
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Divorcing Marriage
Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment

by Daniel Cere and Douglas Farrow
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Language Visible
Unravelling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z

by David Sacks
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The Bird Factory
a novel

by David Layton
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River of the Brokenhearted
a novel

by David Adams Richards
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The Heaven Shop
a novel

by Deborah Ellis
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Deborah Grey
Never Retreat, Never Explain, Never Apologize - My Life, My Politics

by Deborah Grey
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Iran's Quiet Revolution
As the standoff with the United States heats up, Iranians are united on nuclear policy, but little else

by Deborah Campbell
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The Prisoners of Cabrera
Napoleon's Forgotten Soldiers 1809-1814

by Denis Smith
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Any Day Now
(short stories)

by Denise Roig
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Garbage Delight
Another Helping

by Dennis Lee
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So Cool


by Dennis Lee
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Great Canadian Speeches
Selected and Edited by Dennis Gruending

by Dennis Gruending
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Fight or Pay
Soldiers' Families in the Great War

by Desmond Morton
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Names of the Dead
An Elegy for the Victims of September 11

by Diane Schoemperlen
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Blackbodying
(a novel)

by Dimitri Nasrallah
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Through the Eyes
a play for one actor

by Don Druick
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Kanata
a novel

by Don Gillmor
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Downhill Chance
a novel

by Donna Morrissey
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Sylvanus Now
a novel

by Donna Morrissey
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Pink Blood
Homophobic Violence in Canada

by Douglas Victor Janoff
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All Times Have Been Modern
a novel

by Elisabeth Harvor
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Garbo Laughs
a novel

by Elizabeth Hay
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Glimpse of Paradise
The Marvel of Massed Animals

by Fred Bruemmer
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Hold on to Your Kids
Why Parents Matter

by Gabor Mate, M.D. and Gordon Neufeld
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The Glass Coffin
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

by Gail Bowen
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Transient Dancing
a novel

by Gale Zoe Garnett
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100 Years of Canadian Cinema


by George Melnyk
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In The Shadow of Silence
From Hitler Youth to Allied Internment: A young woman's story of truth and denial

by Gertrud Mackprang Baer
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a Sunday at the pool in Kigali
a novel

by Gil Courtemanche
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So This Is Love
Lollipop and other stories

by Gilbert Reid
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The Delicate Storm
a novel

by Giles Blunt
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Blackfly Season
a novel

by Giles Blunt
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Power
Journeys Across an Energy Nation

by Gordon Laird
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More Marvelous Canadians
Hysterically Historical Rhymes

by Gordon Snell and Aislin
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The Price of a Bargain
The quest for cheap and the death of globalization

by Gordon Laird
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Sorry, I Don't Speak French
Confronting the Canadian crisis that won't go away

by Graham Fraser
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The Last Light of the Sun
a novel

by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Ysabel
(a novel)

by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Future: Tense
The Coming World Order

by Gwynne Dyer
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Containing China
The United States is drawing a military noose around China, and India is glad to help. But is anyone considering the possible consequence?

by Gwynne Dyer
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Free Will
Poems on Stage

by Harold Rhenisch
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Island of the Blessed
The Secrets of Egypt's Everlasting Oasis

by Harry Thurston
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Roses Sing On New Snow
A Delicious Tale - Harvey Chan (Illustrations) and Paul Yee (Text)

by Harvey Chan
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Dead Man's Gold
and other stories - Harvey Chan (Illustrations) and Paul Yee (Text)

by Harvey Chan
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Where the Meadowlark Sang
Cherished scenes from an artist's childhood

by Hazel Litzgus
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No Time
Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life

by Heather Menzies
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Freetown Ambush
A Reporter's Year in Africa

by Ian Stewart
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Bud Inc.
Inside Canada's Marijuana Industry

by Ian Mulgrew
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Fleshmarket Close


by Ian Rankin
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All That We Say Is Ours
Guugaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation

by Ian Gill
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Sugarmilk Falls
a novel

by Ilona Van Mil
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What Is a Canadian?
Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

by Irvin Studin
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If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
Finding Common Ground

by J. Edward Chamberlin
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Clothar The Frank
a novel

by Jack Whyte
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The Eleven Point Maple Leaf
Canada's Four Corners Logo

by Jack Cook
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The Last Good War
An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War | 1939-1945

by Jack Granatstein
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Battle Lines
Eyewitness Accounts from Canada\'s Military History

by Jack Granatstein and Norman Hillmer
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The Right Fight
Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma

by Jacques Poitras
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Wrong Way
The Fall of Conrad Black

by Jacquie McNish
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Arsenal of Illusion
Hollywood know-how is helping to create new kinds of military weapons that target the brain--but not with a bullet

by Jake MacDonald
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Red Diaper Baby
A Boyhood in the Age of McCarthyism

by James Laxer
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the border
Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel

by James Laxer
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Inventing Europe
The Rise of a New World Power

by James Laxer
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Stalking the Elephant
My Discovery of America

by James Laxer
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In Search of a New Left
Canadian Politics After The Neoconservative Assault

by James Laxer
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The Rising Fall of the American Empire
Republican Imperialism has left the US divided. Can a United Nations initiative save America from itself?

by James Laxer
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The Culture of Flushing
A Social and Legal History of Sewage

by Jamie Benidickson
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The Blue Roan Child


by Jamieson Findlay
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A Map of Glass
a novel

by Jane Urquhart
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Thieves
a novel

by Janice Kulyk Keefer
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Velocity of Honey


by Jay Ingram
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The Story of French


by Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow
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The European Dream
How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

by Jeremy Rifkin
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Critical Injuries
a novel

by Joan Barfoot
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The Separatist Curve Ball
How the Bloc Québécois cornered federalism

by Joan Bryden
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Rocks
Franklin Carmichael, Arthur Lismer, and the Group of Seven

by Joan Murray
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You made me love you
a novel

by Joanna Goodman
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Just Married
Gay Marriage and the Expansion of Human Rights

by Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa
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A Great Feast of Light
Growing Up Irish in the Television Age

by John Doyle
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Citizen of the World
The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968

by John English
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The End of Ignorance
Multiplying Our Human Potential

by John Mighton
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A Bitter Pill
How the medical system is failing the elderly

by John Sloan
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The Collapse of Globalism
And The Reinvention of the World

by John Ralston Saul
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High Flight
Aviation and the Canadian Imagination

by Jonathan Vance
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Artful Crimes
Curators call it the lost museum.

by Joshua Knelman
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The Trudeau Vector
a novel

by Juris Jurjevics
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Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
a novel

by Kate Taylor
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Capital Rambles
Exploring the National Captital Region

by Katharine Fletcher
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Life Sentences
Memoirs of an Incorrigible Canadian

by Keith Spicer
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The Pagan Nuptials of Julia
And Other Stories

by Keith Henderson
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No Humans Involved
a novel

by Kelley Armstrong
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The Town That Forgot How To Breathe
a novel

by Kenneth J. Harvey
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One Hundred Million Hearts
a novel

by Kerri Sakamoto
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The Human Factor
Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

by Kim Vicente
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Perpetual Ending
a novel

by Kristen den Hartog
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Origin of Haloes
(a novel)

by Kristen den Hartog
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Suburbia's Last Stand
A Government Plan to End the Middle-class Dream

by Larry Frolick
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Emery


by Laurence Hutchman
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Harvest Of A Quiet Eye
The Cabin as Sanctuary

by Lawrence Scanlan
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Angels, Mobsters and Narco-terrorists
The Rising Menace of Global Criminal Empires

by Lee Lamothe and Antonio Nicaso
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The Long Run
a novel

by Leo Furey
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Everything I needed to know about business...I Learned From A Canadian


by Leonard Brody
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The Corner Garden
a novel

by Lesley Krueger
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As She Grows
a novel

by Lesley Anne Cowan
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Garcia's Heart
a novel

by Liam Durcan
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Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes
Stories from Canada's British War Brides

by Linda Granfield
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It's The Crude, Dude
War, Big Oil, and The Fight For The Planet

by Linda McQuaig
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Holding the Bully's Coat
Canada and the U.S. Empire

by Linda McQuaig
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Eloise
Letters to a Lost Child

by Loise Lavellee
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The Girls
a novel

by Lori Lansens
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Tending The Earth
A Gardener's Manifesto

by Lorraine Johnson
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The Magyar Venus
An Archaeological Mystery

by Lyn Hamilton
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Saints of Big Harbour
a novel

by Lynn Coady
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The Breakdown So Far


by M.A.C. Farrant
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Making a Killing
How and why corporations use armed force to do business

by Madelaine Drohan
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Certainty
a novel

by Madeleine Thien
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Between Mountains
a novel

by Maggie Helwig
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Canada House
Rideau Hall and the invention of a Canadian home

by Margaret MacMillan
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Paris 1919
Six Month That Changed The World

by Margaret MacMillan
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Nixon In China
The Week That Changed The World

by Margaret MacMillan
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Solitaire
The Intimate Lives of Single Woman

by Marian Botsford Fraser
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Rogues and Vagabonds
a novel

by Marilyn Lightstone
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Prisoner of Tehran
A Memoir

by Marina Nemat
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Daughter of Strangers
a novel

by Marjory Gordon
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Holding Juno
Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

by Mark Zuehlke
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Fabrizio's Return
a novel

by Mark Frutkin
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Spelling Mississippi
a novel

by Marnie Woodrow
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The Battle of the Somme
The Heroism and Horror of War

by Martin Gilbert
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Crow Lake
a novel

by Mary Lawson
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Little Mosque on the Prairie


by Mary Darling
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Lament for a Lounge Lizard
A Fiona Silk Mystery

by Mary Jane Maffini
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no cage contains a stare that well
poems

by Matt Robinson
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
Soft Power and American Empire

by Matthew Fraser
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Vices Of My Blood
A Detective Murdoch Mystery

by Maureen Jennings
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Young Trudeau
Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944

by Max and Monique Nemni
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Saving Rome
Stories by Megan K. Williams

by Megan K. Williams
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River Thieves
a novel

by Michael Crummey
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Thrill of Victory
Best Sports Stories from the Pages of Maclean's

by Michael Benedict
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Fire and Ice
The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values

by Michael Adams
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Prescription for Excellence
How Innovation is Saving Canada's Health Care System

by Michael Rachlis
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The Wreckage
a novel

by Michael Crummey
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War Law
Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict

by Michael Byers
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American Backlash
The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States

by Michael Adams
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Galore
a novel

by Michael Crummey
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Plan B
One Man's Journey From Tragedy to Triumph

by Mike Harcourt
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A Gentle Revolution
B.C Natives Face Down the Government, Big Business and Their Own Chief

by Monte Paulsen
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Pierre
Colleagues and Friends Talk about the Trudeau They Knew

by Nancy Southam
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Red, White and Drunk All Over
A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

by Natalie MacLean
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The Unyielding Clamour of the Night
a novel

by Neil Bissoondath
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Bang Crunch
short stories

by Neil Smith
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a Bed of Red Flowers
in search of my Afghanistan

by Nelofer Pazira
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Believe Me
How curious can a five-year-old be?

by Patricia Pearson
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Revenge Of The Small
After a lifetime of two-party rule in Ottawa, the little guys are finally winning

by Paul Adams
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The Island of Seven Cities
Were The Chinese Here Before The Europeans?

by Paul Chiasson
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Will CANDU Do?
The black sheep of the world's nuclear-reactor family struggles to compete

by Paul Webster
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A Quiet Courage
Inspiring Stories from All of Us

by Paula Todd
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Intentional Grandparenting
A Boomer\'s Guide

by Peggy Edwards and Mary Jane Sterne
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Silent Partners
Taxpayers and the Bankrolling of Bombardier

by Peter Hadekel
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The Divine Economy of Salvation
a novel

by Priscila Uppal
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The Darkness That Comes Before
The Prince of Nothing Book One

by R. Scott Bakker
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A Perfect Pledge
a novel

by Rabindranath Maharaj
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Moody Food
a novel

by Ray Robertson
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Selling Sickness
How The World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients

by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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Time To Say Goodbye
Building a Better Canada Without Quebec

by Reed Scowen
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Wild Animus
a novel

by Rich Shapero
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Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates
(third edition)

by Richard W. Pound
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The Devil and the Disappearing Sea
A True Crime Story About the Aral Sea Catastrophe

by Rob Ferguson
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A Richer Dust
Family, Memory and the Second World War

by Robert Calder
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The Last Imaginary Place
A Human History of the Arctic World

by Robert McGhee
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The Last Guide
A Story of Fish and Love

by Ron Corbett
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Cuba
Grace Under Pressure

by Rosemary Sullivan
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Escape
In Search of the Natural Soul of Canada

by Roy MacGregor
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The Perilous Trade
Publishing Canada's Writers

by Roy MacSkimming
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The Weekender
A Cottage Journal

by Roy MacGregor
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The Dog and I
Confessions of a best firiend

by Roy MacGregor
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The Truth About Death and Dying
a novel

by Rui Umezawa
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Veiled Threat
The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan

by Sally Armstrong
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Children of the Day
a novel

by Sandra Birdsell
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King John of Canada
a novel

by Scott Gardiner
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He Drown She in the Sea
(a novel)

by Shani Mootoo
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Running With Swords
The Adventures and Misadventures of the Irrepressible Canadian Fencing Champion

by Sherraine MacKay
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Breaking the Age Barrier
Strategies for Optimum Health, Energy and Longevity

by Sherry Torkos
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Child's Play
Rediscovering the Joy of Play in Our Families and Communities

by Silken Laumann
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Promised the Moon
The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

by Stephanie Nolen
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28 Stories of AIDs in Africa


by Stephanie Nolan
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Uncle Sam and Us
Globalization, Neoconservatism and The Canadian State

by Stephen Clarkson
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Foreigners
stories

by Stephen Finucan
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Sea Of Faith
Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World

by Stephen O'Shea
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The Canadian Hockey Atlas


by Stephen Cole
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Merchant Kings
When Companies Ruled the World, 1600-1900

by Stephen Bown
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Afterlands
a novel

by Steven Heighton
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The Forest Lover
a novel

by Susan Vreeland
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Starlight Tour
The Last Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild

by Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud
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Waiting For The Macaws
and other stories from the age of extinctions

by Terry Glavin
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Remarkable Trees of the World


by Thomas Packenham
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The Upside of Down
Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization

by Thomas Homer-Dixon
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The End Of Food
How The Food Industry Is Destroying Our Food Supply - And What You Can Do About It

by Thomas F. Pawlick
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You Can Change Your Life
A Future Different from Your Past with the Hoffman Process

by Tim Laurence
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The Gift of the Game
A Father, a Son and the Wisdom of Hockey

by Tom Allen
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Dragonfly Kites
pimihakanisa

by Tomson Highway
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Reconciliation
First Nations Treaty Making in British Columbia

by Tony Penikett
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The Fearsome Particles
(a novel)

by Trevor Cole
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Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Stories

by Vincent Lam
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The Navigator of New York
a novel

by Wayne Johnston
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Aces, Warriors and Wingmen
Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War

by Wayne Ralph
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Bringing Back The Dodo
Lessons in Natural and Unatural History

by Wayne Grady
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The Custodian of Paradise
(a novel)

by Wayne Johnston
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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw
Travels in Search of Canada

by Will Ferguson
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I Was A Teenage Katima-Victim
A Canadian Odyssey

by Will Ferguson
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Why I Hate Canadians


by Will Ferguson
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Bastards and Boneheads
Canada's Glorious Leaders Past and Present

by Will Ferguson
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Canadian History For Dummies
2nd Edition

by Will Ferguson
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Political Parties
The Canadian Democratic Audit

by William Cross
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Empires At War
The Seven Years' War and the Struggle for North America 1754-1763

by William M. Fowler Jr.
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The Years of Fire
a novel

by Yves Beauchemin
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History of the Book in Canada
Volume One: Beginnings to 1840

by Yvon Lalonde,Gilles Gallichan, Patricia Lockhart Fleming