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The accompanying book by Tom Smart sold more than 6,000 copies and made almost every \"best book of the year\" list in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Pratt: A Personal Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e features Mary's own writings, drawn and adapted from her personal journals, the essays that she has written for numerous publications ranging from \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, and the lectures that she has given at many public events. For the first time, Mary has written her own book in her own words, rather than rely on others to write about her. Treating both public and private issues, she writes of her childhood in Fredericton — her connection to her family, life in Salmonier as a young mother, her decision to pursue her own career as an artist, and her complicated relationship with her husband, Christopher. She writes about public issues — the death of Joey Smallwood, the 50th anniversary of Newfoundland's entry into Confederation, and the cod fishery. She writes about the images that interest her and influence her art, and the process of painting. Like her paintings, Pratt's writing packs a sucker punch. At first it appears to be a paean to the pleasures of house and home, until the more disturbing aspects subtly reveal themselves. Ironing shirts become an erotic act; a memory of visiting the local market with her grandmother conjures images of violence; dead chickens, meticulously plucked, and carcasses of cattle, meticulously flayed, suggest rituals of sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spring of 2001, Mary Pratt was awarded the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association prize for Non-fiction for \u003ci\u003eA Personal Calligraphy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eMary Pratt's paintings have been exhibited in Canada's most influential galleries and reproduced in magazines. Mary Frances West Pratt was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in 1935. She attended Mount Allison University and graduated with a bachelor of fine arts. In 1957, she married fellow student Christopher Pratt, and moved to Glasgow, Scotland. In 1959 they moved to Newfoundland, where Mary taught painting at Memorial University. 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Ultimately for Béchard, writing is freedom and Cures for Hunger is both a journey and a coming home.\" — \u003ci\u003eMontreal Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A coming of age story with rare and loving insights into the vulnerable hearts of men and boys — and the women that help shape them.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A poignant but rigorously unsentimental account of hard-won maturity.\" — \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCures for Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the ways in which storytelling can act as a means of self-discovery... much more than a memoir of youthful misadventure, though it contains plenty of that. It's also an exploration of the oppression of lineage, of familial duty, wanderlust, and perennial dissatisfaction, and the most American theme of them all: personal reinvention.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Béchard powerfully evokes the ever-present tension between the author and his parents... as well as his own struggle to emulate and escape his father... Béchard's story is also one of personal discovery, and a teasing out of the function of memory: what it keeps, what it loses, and what it saves.\" — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCures for Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant adventure story with a mystery... But it is also, perhaps even more so, the story of an artist coming of age. 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For Kishkan, trees are memory markers of life, and in this book she explores the presence of trees in nature, in culture and in her personal history. Naming each chapter for a particular tree — the Garry oak, the Ponderosa pine, the silver olive, the Plane tree, the Arbutus, and others — she draws on Pliny the Elder's \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, John Evelyn's \u003ci\u003eSylva\u003c\/i\u003e, and strands of mythology from other classical and contemporary sources to blend scientific fact with natural history and the artifacts of human culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNever pedantic and always accessible, \u003ci\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/i\u003e reveals — through one woman's relationship with the natural world — how all of us have roots that intertwine with the broader world, tapping deep into the rich well of universal themes. 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If this book were a tree, it would have deep and thirsty roots; broad and elegrant branches; its leaves would always be tipping toward the light; and its fruit would be tangy and sweet.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMnemonic: A Book of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (Goose Lane), Kishkan's newest collection of essays, contains some of her best writing yet. ... The essays in \u003ci\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/i\u003e transcend their autobiographical origins as Kishkan uses the personal as a lens through which to explore a broad range of interests. ... There's a wonderful sense of place throughout, and Kishkan's observant curiosity makes you think of Forster's exhortation in \u003ci\u003eHoward's End\u003c\/i\u003e: ‘Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted.’ \u003ci\u003eMnemonic\u003c\/i\u003e exalts.\" — \u003ci\u003eGeist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether discussing the olive trees of Knossos, Crete where she once lived or the displaced \u003ci\u003equercus virginiana\u003c\/i\u003e she knew as a child growing up in BC, Kishkan's mnemonic exercise and the result — ie, this book — is the consequence of her own evolving, unfolding perspective, told in wonderfully unadorned prose. Like the trees she so loves, her book is a living work.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMnemonic \u003c\/i\u003eis both tiny and astounding. Loss, life and love between two covers. 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The memoir is organized in chapters named for prominent trees in the author's life and meanders between personal memories, philosophical reflections, and impressively researched and always vividly presented and beautifully relevant botanical and literary intertexts. ... the book is a gorgeous read and contains breathtaking passages of associative brilliance.\" — \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, Volume 82, Number 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An astonishing book, a tribute to the unique and patient genius of its author. ... At once erotic, intellectually rigorous and beguiling, Mnemonic is cultural botany, memoir, arboreal ethnography and love story. It is a sublime and rare thing when writing so gracefully defies taxonomical classification.\" — Terry Glavin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Theresa Kishkan invites us into the company of her favourite trees, where memories perch lightly in the foliage. 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In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto, she's poked, prodded, and abandoned to a closet at one point, bearing the helplessness and indignities of a system that seems hell-bent on victimizing the sick.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRaw, harrowing, and darkly funny, \u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e argues convincingly for fixes to the system and better training for all medical personnel. As she recovers, she sets out to do just that: setting up a gurney on stage at workshops and conferences across the country to teach Bedside Manners 101 and to advocate for repairs to the system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part love story, part revolutionary manifesto, \u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e is politicially astute, gooey like cake batter, and raw like ulcerated bowels. Devaney writes the book that will heal her aching heart and relax her strictured rectum as she weaves stories from professional and public interactions with tales from her gurney.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eJulie Devaney is a patient-expert in the fields of disability rights advocacy and health care delivery. 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In giving us her rage, humour and fallibility, Devaney has perfectly highlighted our cultural fear of frankly discussing the reality of illness. She knows that we often live in a state of paranoia, attempting to hide from the inevitability of our own decay. We should be grateful she has done us the service of delivering every ugly detail of what she has endured, opening up a comforting conversation, giving her harrowing experience meaning, and utilizing it to empower others.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A complicated story told in a compelling way. ... with aching prose and wry humour, she shares the intimacies of her life and offers a glimpse into her rage and determination. ... It is a must-read for each of us who thinks there are definite answers to medical problems. It is a must-read for those who think that chronic illness must surely get easier to bear. And, yes, it is a must-read for medical professionals. ... There are exquisite pieces of wisdom in this book.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e... lays bare the deficiencies in health care, creating somewhat of a road map for others who want to\/must transform the system. This is a brave, daring, tell-all book filled with raw courage.\" — \u003ci\u003eOwen Sound Sun Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Devaney's vision is of a world where health care is fully funded, and where med students are taught good manners, where sick people are comforted, not warehoused. ... This dream should not only come true in theatres and books — but all across Canada.\" — \u003ci\u003eCatholic Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If literature is the artist vulnerable, then writer Julie Devaney has created art out of the unlikeliest of mediums: ulcerative colitis. ... This is a unique work, utterly original; raw, authentic and hungry.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e is self-aware without being self-pitying. It is empowering without being condescending and it is a strong, new young woman's voice in Canadian non-fiction. This book will resonate whether you're reading it on a stretcher in the closet of a hospital too full to house you, or curled up in bed or in a café.\" — \u003ci\u003eHerizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is one that anyone treating chronic disease should read, as a patient viewpoint reminder and a frank, honest, angry, and often funny demonstration of how our policies, actions, and discussions aren't always received by patients in the way we hope. It is extremely well written in a candid and un-self-conscious style, but I was most impressed by what Julie Devaney has herself taken on in her real life. She has used her story and her experiences in courageous and innovative performances to improve the lot of other patients to come.\" — \u003ci\u003eBC Medical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e is many things at once: it is a critical investigation of healthcare culture, an activist's handbook, a real-life horror story, and a provoking confessional memoir.\" — \u003ci\u003esubTerrain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerful, moving, enlightening, and funny, \u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for med students and all health care professionals and for anyone who has had to navigate the health care system.\" — Robin Duke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brave, honest, touching, and truly hilarious, \u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e can help unite medical professionals and patients to make health care the best it can be.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e is amazing and cutting edge. Julie is courageous to engage in this type of work which is testing the boundaries of traditional scientific approaches to health care research. Julie's performance work is vulnerable, touching, deep and real. It is reflective of how our current health care system can at times be. I think it is a unique approach and creates a gut impact. If you are a practitioner, policy maker or a patient, you must see her performance.\" — J. Lapum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With television filled with fictional shows about life as a doctor — from \u003ci\u003eER\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eGrey's Anatomy\u003c\/i\u003e — it is refreshing and insightful to see a performance about the reality of life as a patient. This intimate account blends anger and humour to reclaim the role as subject, not object. For those who think we have already achieved patient-centered care, this is a wake-up call.\" — Jesse McLaren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Activist Julie Devaney uses her own experiences with colitis to criticize the health care system and the insensitivity of medical professionals as she's dragged through what she dubs 'hospital purgatory.' The conversational material rings scarily true and blends ironic humour with chilling realities. Moments of fantasy — she's visited by health care saint Tommy Douglas and opens her heart to Shania Twain — mix with concerns about having sex and the trials she suffers at the hands of caregivers and insurance companies. There is no question that Devaney is brave not only to tell her story but also to put herself onstage.\" — \u003ci\u003eNOW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julie Devaney's startling tale of illness and resistance is gripping, angry, sharply funny, and eye-opening. She tells what it's like to be a leaky body, to live with a debilitating embodied condition that has consequences not just in her health care but in all her personal and social relationships. Julie is by turns filled with 'terror, pain and disgust,' expected to feel guilt and shame, and yet always sustained by an extraordinarily productive anger. Her condition opens up a commitment to health care advocacy that culminates in her exciting workshop performances in \u003ci\u003eMy Leaky Body\u003c\/i\u003e. It's a revelation to get an insight into her lived experience that is sure to find resonances in all of us.\" — Margrit Shildrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Devaney's writing talent turns emergency-room neglect into poetry... She is one of the few individuals brave enough to complain without blaming. Her courage is raw.\" — Heather Mallick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've often thought the only way people like me can really know what it's like to be a patient is to become one. 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As Proust recalled his past through the delicate taste of a madeleine, so, too, Curtis ruminates on growing up on the Miramichi, albeit through the more uniquely Canadian flavour of the home-cooked doughnut. Curtis writes of the simple pleasures of fishing with friends, of one's first unforgettable kiss, and of a father who teased his children that \"all dreams that were told before breakfast had a better chance of becoming real.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Earthly and River Things\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a nostalgic trek through history and elegy for a vanishing culture, a world where its people were grateful to the river for its bounty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eWayne Curtis was born in Keenan, New Brunswick, on the banks of the Miramichi River. He was educated at the local schoolhouse and at St. Thomas University. He started writing prose in the late 1960s. 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The book is a must-read for everyone, a work that cannot fail to educate, inspire and ignite all of us!\" — David Nettleship\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Read this book for entertainment, for inspiration and for truth about what it means to be fully human.\" — Nature Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This important biography is an intelligent and unvarnished tribute to a life well-lived.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Naturalist, educator, writer, and community activist, Mary Majka has done more to preserve the natural and cultural legacy of the Bay of Fundy than anyone in our time. \u003ci\u003eSanctuary\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and clear-eyed portrait of her indomitable spirit — a celebration of a courageous life — and an important book.\" — Harry Thurston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 24, 2010\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deborah Carr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864926241\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759864782,"sku":"9780864926241","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/716_255b3268-c75d-4309-8bfd-b435c6f029d3.jpg?v=1753862861"},{"product_id":"showman","title":"Showman","description":"His father was a magician; his mother trained white doves. 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Now available in paperback.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"On a Rrrroll! You may not be familiar with Ron Buist, but you know his handiwork.\" — The Ottawa Citizen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales from Under the Rim\u003c\/i\u003e is a behind-the-scenes look at a simple business that became a Canadian icon. \u003ci\u003eTales from Under the Rim\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the rise of Tim Hortons, from its humble beginnings to a national institution. The recipe was simple: it took \"one hockey player, one favourite barber shop, one former drummer, and one police officer\" plus \"the luck hard work brings\" to transform a once unknown donut shop into one of Canada's leading franchise operations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this bestselling business memoir, Ron Buist shows how Tim Hortons became a second home to millions of Canadians. It includes the grass-roots marketing strategy that defined the early years, the Tim Hortons habit of listening to customers, and the whole story of Roll Up the Rim to Win, the no-frills contest that has become a defining feature of Canadian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRon Buist worked in radio and television in Oakville, Ottawa, and Toronto before becoming advertising manager for Black's Camera Stores. There, he was in charge of marketing Black's Bigger Prints, a change in process that that revolutionized photo finishing in Canada. His 13-year experience with Black's helped him land a job with Tim Hortons in 1977, where he worked as the marketing director for 24 years. During that time, he launched some of the best-known and most successful marketing campaigns in Canadian advertising history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn entrepreneur, author, marketer, and thinker, he is now a highly demanded motivational speaker. 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Along with other brilliant Canadians who've enriched our lives with light bulbs and TV, we raise a cup to you.\" — \u003ci\u003eToronto Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A celebration of the results of marketing at its best.\" — \u003ci\u003eDaily Gleaner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Buist's \u003ci\u003eTales from Under the Rim: The Marketing of Tim Hortons\u003c\/i\u003e really does reveal the truth behind Tim Hortons success. That is, there is no mystery.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The perfect coffee-table book? — a book about coffee.\" — \u003ci\u003eEdmonton Sunday Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Enlightening peeks into the building of a business empire.\" — Canadian Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A readable and colourful account of the marketing successes that kept Tim Hortons in the forefront of the public mind...an interesting and accessible text for students of marketing.\" — \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Canadian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e218 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: September 9, 2011\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ron Buist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864926609\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759918990,"sku":"9780864926609","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/837_4e246581-3488-466d-b6ae-aaec0b0e2b38.jpg?v=1779198103"},{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-jacob-peck","title":"The Ballad of Jacob Peck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disembowelled his own sister, before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hard-working people violent, leading to a murder and an execution. Babcock was hanged for the murder of his sister, but in her meticulously researched book, Debra Komar shows that itinerant preacher Jacob Peck should have swung right beside him. The mystery lies not in the whodunit, but rather in a lingering question: should Jacob Peck, whose incendiary sermons directly contributed to the killing, have been charged with the murder of Mercy Hall?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this epic saga, media accounts of what happened in the aftermath of the murder have taken on a life all their own, one built of half-truths, conjecture, and narrative devices designed to titillate, if not inform. A forensic investigation of a crime from the Canadian frontier, the tale of Jacob Peck, Amos Babcock, and Mercy Hall remains as controversial and riveting today as it was more than two hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eDebra Komar is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lynching of Peter Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Fort Stikine\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2016 Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBlack River Road\u003c\/i\u003e. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a practicing forensic anthropologist for over twenty years, she investigated human-rights violations for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights. She has testified as an expert witness at The Hague and throughout North America and is the author of many scholarly articles and a textbook, \u003ci\u003eForensic Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eShortlisted: Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"Constructing \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e as though she's a prosecutor — dividing chapters with terms such as Res Gestae, scienter, et cetera — Komar builds a case against Jacob Peck for his role in the murder to highlight how current law continues to struggle with prosecuting such accomplices. ... \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e branches out to not only document the murder, but contextualize the players and era, offering a history of early crime in New Brunswick, and legal proceedings and court in early Canada. ... Her due diligence also does what it can to shape the murdered Mercy Babcock, and other women of the time, into a person, not only providing a sense of justice, but also documenting their lives like no one cared to do at the time or really ever since. ... Komar's voice, skill and insight defibrillate regional history, providing a professional perspective to the underserved genre.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Komar is both a skilled researcher and writer transporting readers back to a sparsely populated Canadian frontier in a time when law and order was in short supply. A non-fiction thriller, it is a firestorm of a book that explains why religious mania drove a decent man to kill.\" — \u003ci\u003eOwen Sound Sun Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Komar's voice, skill and insight defibrillate regional history, providing a professional perspective to the underserved genre. Digging up the bones of history, Komar has no use for ghost stories and legend, and neither will you after \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[R]ich, feisty prose . . . Komar has produced a grippingly good account of this notorious chapter in maritime history, one chockablock with intriguing side characters who — with names such as Dorcas Babcock, Hezekiah King and Mercy Hall — wouldn't be out of place in a Dickens novel (had he been around to write one). ... The compelling character portraits with which Komar  fleshes out this gruesome central event build a vivid sense of the social and political realities of the day. ... Tempting as it is to view \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e as CSI for the archivist set, the questions it raises, and which Komar explores with such energy and aplomb, are ultimately philosophic and legal ones; ones necessarily resolved in a class or courtroom, not a laboratory.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At story's end, however, there is much more than Peck's malignant spirit to ponder in this richly woven tale from Canada's past.\" — \u003ci\u003eMaple Tree Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Komar's prowess for investigation is well balanced with her ability to pen a page-turner ... Komar's respect for her readers' intelligence, combined with her compelling history lesson flavoured by the intrigue of murder, makes her work an engrossing read.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Komar's narrative is fast paced and grounded in extensive genealogical and historical research, giving it a surefootedness not always found in true crime writing. ... [T]he major thrust of her argument remains grounded and her imaginative recreation of events, which may make hide-bound historians wince, kept me turning the pages.\" — \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"S3he plans to write a series of books on Canadian cold cases. If subsequent publications are as engaging as this one, she will soon have a devoted following and perhaps even a television series.\" — \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The result is a seamlessly written narrative that evokes life on the Canadian frontier. ... Komar draws on her legal experience as an expert witness in The Hague to build a compelling case for the prosecution against Jacob Peck. ... As terrorist actions carried out in the name of religion continue to make headlines, there is a timely and timeless message to this book: religion can be a powerful weapon in the hands of those who would pervert its message for their own purposes.\" — \u003ci\u003eCatholic Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A potent mix of history and true crime. ... a well-told tale that nicely evokes a time and place, its people, and past events.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e is wonderfully written with historically correct information. It is a very fascinating and informative read. Debra Komar did a wonderful job with this book. This is a must read and I highly recommend it.\" — e-thriller.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Komar takes a no-nonsense approach to the retelling of this bit of Canadian history, differentiating between rumor and fact while keeping context in perspective. The sense of injustice here is palpable, as is the sorrow suffered by those taken in by Peck's deception.\" — \u003ci\u003eScene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e, by Debra Komar, is a nonfictional account of family, religion, murder, a charlatan, and early-nineteenth-century Canadian law that is as riveting as a good novel. ... This book will appeal to a wide audience, including those with interests in true crime, history, law, and human behavior. ... By simultaneously corroborating and refuting old media accounts of the murder, Komar allows the reader to act as a juror, and provides all available information to decide the verdict.\" — \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e, vol. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A genre-defying journey through two centuries, back to a time when law, religion, social order, and even murder were crude and brutish. Komar's story is a remarkably detailed re-creation of a bloody crime, an execution, and the failure of a nascent judicial system.\" — Rob Tripp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026gt;\"Impeccable research, a deft writing hand, and a comprehensive understanding of the legal and forensic worlds. A haunting and compelling archival journey.\" — Moira McLaughlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: March 26, 2013\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Debra Komar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864929037\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$19.95","offer_id":31759936782,"sku":"9780864929037","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/996.jpg?v=1780473700"},{"product_id":"the-lynching-of-peter-wheeler","title":"The Lynching of Peter Wheeler","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler — a \"coloured\" man accused of murdering a white girl — was strung up with a slipknot noose. The hanging was state-sanctioned but it was a lynching all the same. Now, a re-examination of his case using modern forensic science reveals one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Canadian history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the night of January 27, 1896, 14-year-old Annie Kempton found herself home alone in the picturesque village of Bear River, Nova Scotia. She did not live to see the morning. Shortly after midnight, Annie was assaulted and bludgeoned with a piece of firewood. Her killer slit her throat three times with a kitchen knife then coldly sat and ate a jar of homemade jam before fleeing into the night. The senseless and brutal slaying devastated the town and plunged her parents into a near-suicidal abyss of guilt and grief. At trial, the prosecution's case focused on the inconsistencies in Wheeler's statements, the testimony of two children who placed Peter near the house on the night in question, and the detective's novel analysis of the physical evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt was one of the first trials in Canada to use forensic science, albeit poorly. Wheeler's defense team called no witnesses and did little to challenge the evidence presented. The jury deliberated less than two hours before declaring Peter Wheeler guilty of murder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe trial itself was a media sensation; every word was front page news. Several papers each ran their own version of \"Wheeler's confession,\" an admission of guilt supposedly authored by the condemned man. Each rendition tried and failed to make sense of the conflicting timeline. With every new iteration, it became clearer that the case against Wheeler was not as airtight as the detective in charge, Nick Power, and the media had proclaimed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lynching of Peter Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of one town's rush to judgment. It is a tale of bigotry and incompetence, arrogance and pseudoscience, fear and misguided vengeance. It is a case study in media distortion, illustrating how the print media can manipulate the truth, destroy reputations, and so thoroughly taint a jury pool, that the notion of a fair trial becomes a statistical impossibility. At the height of the Victorian era, the media created a super villain in the mold of Jack the Ripper, the perfect foil for its other creation, super-sleuth Nick Power. The masterfully constructed narrative was perfect, save for one glaring detail: Peter Wheeler did not kill Annie Kempton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eDebra Komar is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Jacob Peck\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lynching of Peter Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Fort Stikine\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2016 Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eBlack River Road\u003c\/i\u003e. A Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and a practicing forensic anthropologist for over twenty years, she investigated human-rights violations for the United Nations and Physicians for Human Rights. 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Komar writes with great clarity of prose and mind. \u003ci\u003eThe Lynching of Peter Wheeler\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable book for any lover of Canadian true crime or criminal history. Highly recommended!\" — Lee Mellor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Debra Komar brings a career's worth of modern-day forensic smarts to her dissection of this more than 100-year-old miscarriage of justice. 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It is time that motherhood opened its gates to include everyone, not just the picture postcard stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a fabulous collection by a talented author and blogger, which is bound to attract readers from all walks of motherhood. The anthology that presents women's lives as they are really lived, probing the intractable connections between motherhood and womanhood with all necessary complexity and contradiction laid out in a glorious tangle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is a book whose contents themselves are in disagreement, essays rubbing up against one another in uncomfortable ways. There is no synthesis — is motherhood an expansive enterprise, or is motherhood a trap? — except perhaps a general sense that being a mother and not being a mother are each as terrible and wonderful as being alive is. What these essays do show, however, is that in this age of supposed reproductive choice, so many women still don't have the luxury of choosing their mothering story or how it will play out. And those who do exercise choice often still end up contending with judgement or backlash.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays also make clear that women are not as divided between the mothers and the childless as we might be led to believe. Women's lives are so much more complicated than that. There is mutual ground between the woman who decided to have no more children and the woman who decided to have none at all. A woman with no children also endures a similar kind of scrutiny as the woman who's had many, both of them operating outside of societal norms. A woman who has miscarried longs to be acknowledged for her own beyond-visible mothering experiences, for the baby she held inside her. And while infertility is its own kind of journey, that journey is also just one of so many whose origins lie with the desire for a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eKerry Clare reads and writes in Toronto, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Her essays, short stories, and book reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Notes \u0026amp; Queries\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToday's Parent\u003c\/i\u003e, and other fine places. She writes about books and reading at her blog Pickle Me This and is editor at 49thShelf.com. Her essay \"Love is a Let-Down\" was nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award and appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest Canadian Essays 2011\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003e: CNQ Editors' Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"This is a powerful collection of stories by Canadian women of various ages, and every woman will benefit from reading it.\" — \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe M Word: Conversations about Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful, female-driven anthology of short personal essays, poems, and illustrations, tells the many stories women so rarely share. ... \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the fickle emotional uncertainty awarded to mothers. It breaks down the walls of maternal isolation and offers companionship to anyone who has not had the fairy-tale journey to motherhood. These stories show us that the extraordinary gift of motherhood cannot be accepted without relinquishing something spectacular.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"That's what makes \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e so surprising, and also moving, gripping, funny, and, occasionally, really uncomfortable to read: the writers put it all on the table, all the confusion, ambivalence, difficulty, suffering, hope, despair, and insight that swirl around people's different experiences with motherhood, whether they are or aren't mothers, however motherhood is defined, and whether their situation arose from choice or accident, gift or tragedy. As many of the writers observe, there's a popular public story about motherhood that is all bliss, smiles, and cuddles. For many of them, there is plenty of bliss, but that's rarely the whole story and often not the story at all. \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't try to tell one story: it allows, even insists, on the coexistence of many different ones.\" — \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is a strong Canadian tradition of public discourse on motherhood, from the late journalist June Callwood's interviews with unwed teenaged mothers to Marni Jackson's memoirs, and anthologies like \u003ci\u003eDouble Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween Interruptions\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e adds 25 thoughtful voices to the mix ... You won't keep this book; you'll pass it on to friends whose current vocation is changing diapers, or to friends who want a child, and those who don't.\" — \u003ci\u003eHerizons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book about motherhood that includes those who never gave birth? Those who've been pregnant but never held a child? Halleluiah! Finally: a conversation with no 'us versus them.' Here is only 'us,' those who desire to 'be connected by this understanding of what it is to love and celebrate your children.' \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e offers what mothers (new and old) need most: to know we're not alone.\" — \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone grappling with the role of mother is certain to find themselves somewhere within these true stories of pregnancy, IVF, adoption, stepchildren, infertility, miscarriage, SIDS, multiples, dead children, teenagers, abortion and, above all, stories of the searing joy found within the wholeness of a mother's devotion.\" — \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether you're a mother by choice or by circumstance, a woman without childlren by choice, circumstance or tragedy, or simply someone who has yet to decide which path to take, you'll find yourself in one of these stories. And not always the ones you'd suspect.\" — \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Books Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As I finished reading it, a close friend found out that she was pregnant for the first time. As we celebrated her pregnancy, I hesitated to pass the collection along to her. Superstitious and hoping to pretect her, I worried about giving her essays on loss and trauma and regret. But women deserve to hear a conversation about motherhood that is as beautiful and scary and messy and complex as motherhood itself. When her experiences of motherhood strays from the accepted stereotype, if it hasn't already, she'll know that she is not alone.\" — \u003ci\u003eLibrary Mama\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stop everything. Withhold judgement for a minute. I promise you \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is not like any book you've read about motherhood.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Fernie Fix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rather than attempting to resolve issues once and for all, or to glorify and idealize a madonna-like figure, \u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e presents in alphabetical order a wide variety of the experiences of women who have embraced, eschewed or endured the experiences of motherhood in its many, different realities ... This book was a pleasure to read.\" — \u003ci\u003eKitchener-Waterloo Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e felt like a kind of emotional labour for the three days I was reading. This is a motherlode of deeply personal truths, generous and courageous souls, bearing witness to lives shaped, if not defined, by, well, 'life with a uterus,' as the foreword suggests.\" — \u003ci\u003eTelegraph-Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Would I recommend this book? I think so, but with a caveat. I turned to this to find communion, and a road map. To find other mothers facing things my partner and I are facing. In facing so many possible stresses, dangers, and unknowns, what the world needs is more complicated and probably 'uncomfortable' representations of motherhood ... So yes, I would recommend the book. I would say, it's a start.\" — \u003ci\u003eLemon Hound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not normally drawn to mothering books but I like Kerry Clare's work, so it was impossible not to be drawn to her anthology, \u003ci\u003eThe M Word: Conversations about Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, I knew I'd be in the hands of good taste and good writing, even if, as a Childless Woman, I couldn't actually relate. Well, what happened was this: I found myself not only enjoying the read, but relating. In a major way. Because, as it turns out, the essays are both about mothering and not mothering, about the exultant and the reluctant, the non-mothers by choice, the stepmothers by circumstance, women who will do anything to become a mother and those who will do anything to not. and in every scenario, the difficulties, joys, fears, the way life is changed for the better and sometimes for the not entirely better. There are celebrations, regrets, and such honesty that it's really quite impossible not to relate.\" — Matilda Magtree\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe M Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a book I would have benefited from reading when I was a young mother more than 30 years ago.\" — \u003ci\u003eCoastal Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These open-hearted essays are all fascinating and absorbing, and sometimes heartbreaking. Ultimately these writers are speaking, as they take care to point out, for no one but themselves, and they do it tremendously well.\" — \u003ci\u003eSlightly Bookist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've just spent a couple of days with a collection of essays about motherhood. About life with a uterus, as Kerry Clare puts it. It was like slipping into this wonderful story circle, 25 articulate women speaking honestly of being — or not being — a mother.\" — \u003ci\u003eBorrowing Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e314 pages\u003cbr\u003ePub date: April 15, 2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kerry Clare","offers":[{"title":"Paperback\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;9780864924872\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;$22.95","offer_id":31759989646,"sku":"9780864924872","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1403\/7679\/files\/1136.jpg?v=1777018146"},{"product_id":"the-metamorphosis","title":"The Metamorphosis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Best Atlantic Published Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner, Canadian Regional Design Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn May of 1896, a young magician from New York City joined the cast of the Marco Magic Company and embarked on a summer-long tour of eastern Canada, including New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It was during this excursion that Handcuff Harry AKA Harry Houdini first showcased the talent that transformed him from a small-time conjurer, who performed for pennies in dime museums, into the world's most celebrated escape artist. When he wasn't performing on stage, Houdini was barnstorming through the streets of every town and city he visited, astounding onlookers in police stations, hardware stores and hospitals by freeing himself from the clutches of every restraining device strapped or wrapped around him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this absorbing book, enriched by rare, period photographs, Bruce MacNab recounts a fascinating but shockingly untold chapter in the career of the man whose name is still synonymous with the word magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor\u003c\/h3\u003eBruce MacNab grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and attended the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology. Since then, he has worked as an author, carpenter, craftsman, tutor, and teacher. He has long been fascinated with the story of Harry Houdini. His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBeaver\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHistory Today\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines and newspapers. Bruce MacNab now lives in New Ross, Nova Scotia, a region steeped in the mythology of Oak Island and Prince Henry Sinclair. \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAwards\u003c\/h3\u003eWinner: APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner: Canadian Regional Design Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eReviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\"[A] magical history tour of the highest order ... Nova Scotia writer Bruce MacNab, according to experts cited all over, has simply nailed the untold apprenticeship of Harry Houdini as the magician performed throughout Maritime communities more than a century ago. ... you cannot escape the fact that this is an absolutely exceptional book.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bruce MacNab's absolutely fascinating reconstruction of Harry Houdini's summer-long 1896 tour of Eastern Canada was Atlantic Canada's 'sleeper' book of the past year. ... It's a fabulous book to read and savour, with an engaging narrative, detailed research and striking visuals, including rare news clippings, vintage posters, illustrative maps and newly unearthed photographs. ... In his first book, the author has produced a gem that won the 2012 APMA Best Atlantic Published Book Award. ... It has great appeal to those with a passion for Victorian Canadian life, travelling circuses, magic tricks, fortune tellers and freak shows. Fans of the master magician as well as curious people of all ages will also marvel at Houdini's sleights of hand and the secrets of his illusions. ... 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As expected, the Liberals won a second majority, but the fervently anti-bilingualism Confederation of Regions (COR) Party formed the official Opposition. For the first time in a hundred years, the Conservatives were out in the cold, victims of vote-splitting on the right.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Right Fight\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacques Poitras reveals that, although drug and other scandals plagued Richard Hatfields final years as premier, equally fatal was Hatfields insistence on English-French equality within his party. It ruptured the already uneasy coalition hed built and sent old-style Tories flocking into CORs arms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt took the unexpected arrival of Bernard Lord, young and untried, to lead a dramatic reversal in the partys fortunes. Luring COR members back into the Conservative fold while maintaining the Red Tory base so carefully cultivated by Hatfield, Lord reunited the party and won back-to-back majority governments. 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Like the eucalyptus, a tree imported to Ethiopia from Australia in the late 19th century to solve a firewood shortage, he and his missionary family were naturalized transplants. As ferenjie, they endlessly negotiated between the culture they brought with them and the culture in which they lived.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Scent of Eucalyptus\u003c\/i\u003e, Coleman reflects on his experience of \"in-between-ness\" amid Ethiopia's violent political upheavals. His intelligent and finely crafted memoir begins in the early 1960s, during the reign of Haile Selassie. 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He has won the John Charles Polanyi Prize for his study of how literary texts produce and reinforce categories of cultural identification such as gender, ethnicity and nationality. His critically acclaimed book, \u003cem\u003eMasculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in \"New Canadian\" Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1998 by University of Toronto Press, is considered the foundational Canadian work in the field. While being a bahir-zaff throughout his childhood brought Daniel Coleman the pain of never fully belonging, it also gave him the immeasurable benefits and insights of an intercultural life. 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