Alan Frizzell and Jon H. Pammett’s report on the Canadian General Election of 1993. Alan Frizzell, BA, MA, is a well-known pollster and political analyst. He is co-author of the three previous volumes of The Canadian General Election in 1984, 1988, and 1993. Jon H. Pammett is a political science professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University and is the co-editor of several studies of Canadian elections, including, most recently, The Canadian Federal Election of 2008.

Canadian General Election Of 1993 (Carlton Contemporary, 13)

Politics & Social Sciences

Pammett, Jon H.

Frizzell, Alan

Politics & Government

Dundurn

Carol Rose's verse shimmers above the landscape of dream and desert, flesh and spirit, revelling in the sensual riches of the Israeli heartland, the body and the thinking heart. Rose exults in the visceral and the verbal, celebrating the resilience of women in Jerusalem and their sisters across faiths and generations. Both brave and brazen, Behind the Blue Gate is a literary manifesto unearthing the voices of those silenced by culture and history and inverting master stories honoured in scripture and myth with startling and liberating imagery - a challenge to both the stereotypical and the sacred. 
In an effort to reaffirm the bonds between religions, sexes, families and nations Rose redeems the ancient/modern Jerusalem, reconstituting a land, a legacy and a language. In five sections: Whenever I Return, The Crones, There's No Telling, Making Love in the Air and Behind the Blue Gate, Rose reveals herself a poet priestess, illuminating, genuflecting and gesturing to worlds real and imagined which envelope us in luminous strands of time and renewal.

Behind the Blue Gate

Literature & Fiction

Rose, Carol

Poetry

When tornado-force winds cause Sarah and Nicholas Fraser to seek shelter in the neighbourhood's barn, they get out of the storm but into big trouble! The property belongs to "Old McCurdy," a retired circus trainer who plays ringmaster to its wild residents: a cheetah, an ape, a python, and a tiger named Buddha!

Tiger by the Tail

Children's Books

Walters, Eric

Animals

Old Oakville is a chronological record illustrating the architectural styles of forty-five of the town's nineteenth-century buildings. From the simple farm cottage to the stately mansion, from the first public houses to the churches of the last quarter of the century, this book depicts the dwellings and commercial buildings that provide Oakville with its unique character. David Peacock's architectural portraits and detail drawings are complemented by rare photographs as well as by many contemporary photographs of interior views. The text, carefully researched by Suzanne Peacock, brings archival material to life by providing an insight into the personalities of the original inhabitants and by linking these particular traits to the architectural vernacular style of their homes and shops. For in the last century, even more than today, a house reflected its owner's character and station in life, Old Oakville is a tribute to our predecessors and an acknowledgement of their most personal legacy — the place they call home.

Old Oakville: A Character Study of the Town's Early Buildings and of the Men Who Built Them

History

Peacock, David

Peacock, Suzanne

Americas

Off Earth is a collection of "poems and effects" written and created by John Robert Colombo. This is his first new collection of poetry since the appearance of Selected Poems and Selected Translations in 1982. The new work gives expression to a skepticism modified by a sense of the possibilities occasioned by the prospects of outer space.  John Robert Colombo, nationally known as "the Master Gatherer," is the author, translator, and compiler of a great many publications. In fact, Off Earth is his seventy-sixth book. It is perhaps his most intriguing, inventive, and stimulating in scope and substance.

Off Earth: Poems and Effects

Colombo, John Robert

This fifth printing of the best-selling Holy Grail Across the Atlantic offers some fascinating interpretations of early Canadian history that you may prefer to doubt - but will not be able to forget! When the fortress of MontsAgur, reputed sanctuary of the great religious treasure of the Templars was sacked by forces of the Inquisition in 1244, did the Templars manage to escape with the Holy Grail? Legends insist that the Holy Grail was taken to safety before the doomed citadel was stormed. Was a castle in Nova Scotia the new haven for the Holy Grail? Is the famous and mysterious "money pit" on Oak Island in Mahone Bay connected with a desperate and courageous attempt to save the Holy Grail? Was Samuel de Champlain a secret agent for the Grail Dynasty, and did his maps and journals purposely obscure the location of the Grail's secret refuge in Acadia? And later on, was the Holy Grail transported to a new haven in Montreal founded by a mysterious secret society?

Holy Grail Across the Atlantic

BRADLEY, MICHAEL

Did Rasputin, the mad monk of Tsarist Russia, possess supernatural powers? Who was the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille who has gone down in history as "The Man in the Iron Mask"? Did he possess a priceless secret which Louis XIV desperately wanted to learn? Victorian Britain was terrorized by a weird super-athlete known to the popular press of those days as "Spring-heeled Jack." Was he just an eccentric gymnast, or could he have been an alien? Who or what was the mysterious man known as the Count of St. Germain whose abnormal powers seemed to defy both time and space – and is he still with us today? What strange powers of prophecy did Coinneach Odhar, the famous Brahan Seer, really possess? Was Bérenger Sauniëre, the enigmatic Priest of Rennes-Le-Château, one of the last guardians of a secret older than the Sphinx? Could the sinister Aleister Crowley have been merely a pathetic victim of self-deception and his own inflated ego, or did he really possess magical powers? What amazing secrets did electrical engineer Nikola Tesla control? Gurdjieff – one of the most amazing men of his time – has never been fully understood: what was the true meaning behind his strangely ambivalent messages? Was Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky a genius with strange paranormal powers, or merely a charlatan and a sensation-seeker? Francis Dashwood of Medmenham Abbey, leader of a sect of the wildest debauchees who roared their way across the eighteenth century, was an expert in the Black Arts. All of these strange, mysterious, and intriguing characters – and many others – are described, examined, and analyzed in The World's Most Mysterious People.  This is a collection of remarkable and mysterious people, from all ages and places – including our own. Some the authors have met, others were researched carefully from reliable archives. Some are Canadian, others are from the US, the UK, and all over the world. All are mysterious; all are intriguing; all are worth studying. Can anyone learn to use mysterious powers like theirs? To update what a great thinker once said: "The proper study of people is other human beings." And the more mysterious those human beings are, the more we shall learn from studying them.

The World's Most Mysterious People (Mysteries and Secrets)

Fanthorpe, Patricia

Reference

Death of a Sunday Writer

Lucy Brenner has left her husband, her town, and her previous life behind. She lives in Longborough, a town halfway between Kingston and Toronto, where she runs a bed and breakfast and where, one day while working in the library, a phone call sets into action events that change her up-to-now quite predictable existence. Lucy's cousin, David Trimble, has died and made her his sole beneficiary. With some trepidation, she makes the impulsive decision to carry on his business - a private detective agency, though these might be grand words for the down-and-out ransacked office she finds upon visiting Toronto to lay claim to her unexpected inheritance. Previously published in hardcover only, this is the first paperback release of the first Lucy Trimble mystery.

Wright,Eric

Genre Fiction

Charlie Slater is sixty - the age limit for active police work. Lately, he’s been a glorified receptionist for the deputy chief. But then a Toronto lawyer is murdered, and the prime suspect is a prostitute in a pair of silver boots. The case doesn’t ignite any interest until high-powered lawyer Calvin Gregson shows up, supposedly on Flora’s behalf, insisting the police solve the case quietly. Deputy Mackenzie figures the assignment will keep Salter temporarily occupied, and puts him on the case with a young Scotsman new to the force and city. Salter is thrilled. As he searches, he meets the law profession’s elite and, among others, the victim’s sister, MPP Flora Lucas. But it’s the lawyer’s book group that brings Salter the clues he needs to solve the case - and to discover why Gregson is so eager to wrap the case up quickly and quietly.

The Last Hand: A Charlie Salter Mystery

For one memorable year, nurse Dorothy Knight traded her conventional urban existence for a life of isolation in the Arctic. This is the story of her courage and humour while she faced the enormous responsibility of caring for the health of scattered villages; of journeys by dog-sled; of loneliness; and of the friendship and interdependence of the few companions who spoke her language. This dramatic, true story glows with human warmth and compassion as Dorothy struggles to carry on her job amid blizzards and epidemics, and as the white woman and the Eskimo community gradually achieve understanding, respect, and friendship. Dorothy Knight learned a lot that year; the conditions and courage of Eskimo life, the lack of facilities, the tragedies that are sometimes caused by the white man's interference in a long-established way of life. She left having earned the name Lutiapik -- the little one who cares for us. If Lutiapik is a life-affirming story of humour and strength, it is also a shocking book that reveals the ravages of disease brought by the white man to the Eskimo world. It reveals too the pathetic shortcomings of measures only half taken to correct the situation, as official apathy and bureaucratic indifference persists.

Lutiapik: The Little One Who Cares For Us

Biographies & Memoirs

LEE, BETTY

Community & Culture

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