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  • Foreign Correspondent

    A Memoir

    by H.D.S. Greenway ...
    David Greenway, a journalist’s journalist in the tradition of Michael Herr, David Halberstam, and Dexter Filkins. In this vivid memoir, he tells us what it’s like to report a war up close.Reporter David Greenway was at the White House the day Kennedy was assassinated. He was in the jungles of Vietnam in that war’s most dangerous days, and left Saigon by helicopter from the American embassy as the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    by Jon Krakauer ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray.**“A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism.”—**PeopleA Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years</stro... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Self-Made Man

    One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man

    by Norah Vincent ...
    A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Can This Woman Save the CBC? Why Kirstine Stewart is banking on Canadian TV shows like Mr. D, Arctic Air, and Dragons' Den to justify the network's $800 million price tag

    by Jason McBride ...
    Kirstine Stewart, the CBCs executive vice-president in charge of English programming, has the most difficult job in Canadian media. Up against huge budget cuts, the Internet, corporate media giants, and millions of taxpaying critics, she is fighting back with an array of mass-appeal reality TV and sitcoms such as Dragons' Den and Little Mosque on the Prairie . Ratings have never been higher; ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Guerrilla Nation

    My Wars In and Out of Vietnam

    by Michael Maclear ...
    In September 1969, Michael Maclear, the first Western television journalist allowed inside North Vietnam, was in Hanoi for major Canadian and U.S. networks. He recounted in gripping detail how an entire population had been trained for generations in guerrilla combat. His reporting that the North was motivated more by nationalism than Marxism was highly controversial.Later Maclear was taken ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Road Less Travelled - A memoir of a privileged life

    by Robin Knight ...
    Robin Knight reported around the world for American newsmagazines and corporate publications for 40 years. He began covering international events in 1968 when he joined US News & World Report and soon after found himself in Northern Ireland as the civil rights movement began. Over the next 28 years, working for this prestigious American weekly publication, he reported from 50 countries in Europe, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Herself

    An Autobiographical Work

    by Hortense Calisher ...
    A National Book Award nominee: Hortense Calisher's autobiography captures the making of a distinct literary voiceAlthough Hortense Calisher's fiction often draws on autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author's life and work. She surveys the various decades and landscapes she has inhabited, mining her family's Jewish lineage, discussing her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Vast Fortune

    The Money Adventures of a Quixotic Capitalist

    by Andrew Tobias ...
    "This book will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit that you will retire with a vast fortune of laughter. "--Christopher Buckley, author of Wry MartinisAs Newsweek put it, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Loren Miller

    Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist

    by Amina Hassan, Ph.D. ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions effectively abolished racially restrictive housing covenants. One of these cases, Shelley v. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Capturing the News

    Three Decades of Reporting Crisis and Conflict

    by Anthony Collings ...
    Anthony Collings found himself in his share of difficult situations in his thirty-four years as a newsman. Like being captured by AK-47–toting Syrians in Lebanon in 1981 while looking for missiles that threatened a new outbreak of hostilities with Israel, or being “detained” by the KGB in Moscow in 1967 during his first foreign posting for the Associated Press filing stories about Soviet ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Dog Soldiers: Part 2 of 3

    Love, loyalty and sacrifice on the front line

    by Isabel George ...
    Dog Soldiers can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3.Dog Soldiers tells the story of two brave young ‘dog soldiers’ (Army bomb dog handlers), killed in action in Afghanistan with their dogs by their side, through the inspirational words of their mothers.Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe and Lance Corporal Liam Tasker were both dog lovers from ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • City Son

    Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

    by Wayne Dawkins ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    In 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act began liberating millions of southern blacks, New Yorkers challenged a political system that weakened their voting power. Andrew W. Cooper (1927-2002), a beer company employee, sued state officials in a case called Cooper vs. Power. In 1968, the courts agreed that black citizens were denied the right to elect an authentic representative of their ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD