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Winner of the 2011 Canada Reads, author Terry Fallis' sharp, funny wit takes readers into the world of identity, inheritance, and belonging - begging the question: what's in a name? One morning a young copywriter finds himself unceremoniously fired from his job, and then catches his live-in girlfriend moving out of their apartment a couple of hours later. Believe it or not, these aren't the biggest problems in this copywriter's life. There's something...
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From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis introduces Adam Coryell, your average high-school student - until his life changes forever. Based on a study it turns out that Adam is good - very good, in fact - at golf. Even though he'd never even picked up a golf club. Almost instantly, and with his coach, hard-nosed Bobbie Davenport by his side, Adam and his new-found talent skyrocket to a prodigy-level stardom. But here's the catch: Adam doesn't...
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McClelland & Stewart
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Jack McMaster seemingly has it all. But he's also learning to live with loss, leaving a gaping hole in his life - a life that will never be the same as before. Jack passes his days knowing he has the support of his family and his friends, but he can't shake the feeling that his life has gone gray, and that time is slipping by so quickly. Then, a short and shocking video from an unexpected source gives him the gumption to make a change and maybe even...
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Angus McLintock is now the junior global affairs minister. While in London to meet with their international counterparts, Chief of Staff Daniel Addison receives a cryptic: Chechen separatists are plotting to assassinate the Russian President - and it's going to happen when he's in Ottawa to meet with the Prime Minister. In an instant, Angus and Daniel are thrown into a race against the clock to uncover the Chechen sleeper cell, thwart their plans,...
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WINNER OF CBC CANADA READS
WINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No need...
WINNER OF THE STEPHEN LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR
Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election—but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock—an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers—to let his name stand in the election. No need...
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McClelland & Stewart
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Few people know the real Alex MacAskill. Most of the world sees a painfully and chronically shy software engineer in his mid-20s, and that's just the way Alex wants it. Because no matter how many years have passed, the incident known only as "Gabriel" in the MacAskill family is something that still haunts him. But when his mother, one of the only people in the world who Alex felt comfortable as himself around, dies after a long illness, he suddenly...
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