Bøger om Greater Toronto Area

Tony, Charis og Roz er tre meget forskellige kvinder, der mødes til frokost én gang om måneden. Omdrejningspunktet for deres venskab er mindet om deres nu afdøde rivalinde Zenia, der ikke formåede at føle hverken empati, skyld eller skam, og som manipulerede sig vej ind i deres liv, stjal deres mænd én efter én - og siden forsvandt.Men en dag under frokosten træder den smukke, charmerende - og lyslevende Zenia ind på restauranten, på jagt efter mere.Røverbruden handler om kvinder og om dynamikkerne kvinder imellem. Atwood sætter tingene på spidsen og i perspektiv uden nogen form for politisk korrekthed. Det er både tankevækkende, tidløst og underholdende.?"En genialt tænkt og hudløs ærlig beskrivelse af kvinder, når de er bedst - men nok i højere grad værst." - Alt for Damerne"I Røverbruden spiller Atwood på alle sit talents strenge." - Jyllands-Posten"Humor og ironi drejer fortællingen i retning af det groteske, men uden at sætte den grundige, uddybende persontegning over styr." - Politiken

With suspicious accidents and mounting threats against the team, it's up to Devin and his sister Nadia to pull the team together and take a run at the championship.

Charlie McKelvey goes to his northern hometown to find that the big city isn't the only place with big problems. This book holds a magnifying glass to the decline of rural life, the scourge of meth, and what happens when an entire town loses faith.

When the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past define who we are, who we become? In April 1942, Suzanne's mother was an eight-month-old baby when her family was torn from their home in Victoria, B.C. Arriving at Vancouver's Hastings Park, her family bunked in horse stalls for months before being removed to an incarceration camp in the Slocan Valley. After the Second World War, forced resettlement scattered Japanese families across Canada leading to high intermarriage rates and an erosion of ethnicity. Loss of heritage language impeded the sharing of stories, contributing to strained generational relationships and a conflict between eastern and western values. This hybrid memoir and fourth-generation narrative of the Japanese Canadian experience bridges the individual and collective to celebrate family, places, and traditions. Steeped in history and cultural arts, it shows us how a community triumphed over adversity to rebuild their lives and make lasting contributions to the Toronto landscape.

A child of Holocaust survivors grapples with his parents' untold stories and their profound effect on the course of his extraordinary life.Growing up in Toronto, Sam Chaiton and his brothers knew their parents had been prisoners in Bergen-Belsen. But what their parents wouldn't share about their history -- including the fact they had also been in Auschwitz -- ended up shaping their children's lives. We Used to Dream of Freedom touches on the biggest concerns of our time: what a family is or could be, about the psychology of survivors and the impact of survivor silence, about the responsibility of second generations from traumatized communities to share knowledge drawn from their own histories to help alleviate the suffering of others. Irreverent, moving, and tragic, often all at once, at its heart is a story of a man who disappeared on his family, his quest to understand why he had to leave, and the long-overdue discovery about his parents that brought him back.

It's November and a savage murder has been committed in an affluent Toronto neighborhood. The brutality of the murder and the severe lack of evidence appears to indicate the perfect crime. This is something Sergeant Detective Aristotle Boyle will never accept, driving him to obsession, calling on all his hardened experience to lead his team in investigating this intricately planned homicide. The few clues embroil Boyle in a mystery involving BDSM and alternate sexualities, forcing him to look to his own life for answers: his love of Greek philosophy, Ouzo, and fine Cuban cigars.An intelligent, riveting novel any lover of crime mysteries will not be able to put down.

Timing matters when you have a biological clock ticking, when you've pictured your life one way but the years slip by and nothing changes.Anna has been waiting patiently (ok maybe not that patiently) for her boyfriend of five years to be ready for marriage and kids, and at thirty-two she feels that she can't wait much longer. If he hasn't realized that she's 'the one' by now, will he ever?When Anna discovers a poorly hidden diamond ring in Darren's sock drawer, she realizes the future she's always dreamed of is about to be hers. With an upcoming trip to Hawaii, she figures that's where it will happen and she's right. But when Darren is down on one knee, what he's proposing isn't everything she thought it would be and she's forced to make a choice between the man she loves and the family she's always dreamed of.Choosing to stay behind in Hawaii in hopes of gaining clarity, Anna will learn if timing really is everything and if true commitment is a wedding or something else entirely. But before she can make it home, a new variant of COVID triggers a global lockdown. Anna and Darren's relationship survived the first pandemic...will it survive another?Exploring themes of motherhood and marriage, All We Have Is Today offers an honest view of what it means to commit yourself to another and how women are seen and feel as girlfriends, wives, mothers or not.

Multiple food allergies destroy 12-year-old Ella's confidence, especially when it comes to public speaking. She plans to conquer her fear by participating in a CN Tower climb and reading her poetry when she gets to the top.

Brenda Draney's work explores the complex nature of intimacy.Referencing her own memories and experiences, theCanadian artist examines the layered meanings embeddedin everyday motifs and situations. The cumulative portraitthat emerges references a collective self that encompassesnot only her own experience but that of past generationsand current community members. However, instead ofsimply reproducing these elements, she is more interestedin addressing how their meanings can shift whenfiltered through individual interpretation. By deliberatelyleaving blank spaces in her paintings, Draney leaves roomfor viewers to place their own narrative within her imaginaryspaces and to connect to the wide range of emotionsthe artist subtly invokes.This richly illustrated catalogue-published in conjunctionwith Draney's solo exhibition organized by The PowerPlant Art Gallery in Toronto-features a selection of existingand newly commissioned works and original contributionsfrom Canadian scholars and writers.BRENDA DRANEY (*1976, Sawridge First Nation, Treaty 8, with a strong connection to Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada) has been featured in various exhibitions. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta.

In this partially illustrated early chapter book set in 1947, when a young girl's father is away in Europe helping refugees, she is left to deal with a stray peacock who has arrived in her family's yard, much to her mother's dismay. The girl devises a plan to earn the peacock's trust and return it to its home at the zoo.

Semi-Detached is a love story that spans time and crosses classes to explore the meaning of home. Set during two paralyzing ice storms (one in 1944 and one in 2013) that are connected by a murder, a house, and the real estate agent who pieces the puzzle together.

An intriguing look at the connections between Alberta premier Peter Lougheed and his Métis grandmother, Isabella Clarke Hardisty Lougheed, exploring how Métis identity, political activism, and colonial institutional power shaped the lives and legacies of both.

This fascinating book looks at the largely unknown history of hospital trains, which wound their way across the scarred landscapes war-weary Europe, and the doctors and nurses who sacrificed their lives treating patients from all sides of the conflict.

Raised in a loving but lacking household by their Holocaust survivor-grandparents and their godfather, the lives of twins Petal and Rose change drastically after a summer trip to Israel. Twenty years later, Petal is called back to Toronto from New York to help Rose during a crisis and is forced to confront her prejudices about her sister's life.

Emilie and Tim were odds-on favourites to end up together - until they met at her sister and his brother's wedding and he snubbed her, that is.Then, because everyone deserves a second chance, Emilie gave him one when Tim started a long-distance chat - then he ghosted her.So when her brother-in-law invites Tim to their farm to rehabilitate from a hockey injury, Emilie is not amused.It's a big farm, and she's busy with her physiotherapist job and the Thoroughbred retirement charity she volunteers for, so it should be easy to avoid him until he heads home. She's definitely not going to help him with his rehab, and any spare time she has goes to her off-the-track project horse, who should bring a nice price when she sells him.Problem number one? She's falling in love with her project horse.Problem number two? Tim starts showing up where - and in ways - she doesn't expect, helping her understand why he did what he did. She might be falling for him, too.Problem number three? What's the point in falling for Tim or the horse, when she can't keep either of them?

A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum's attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind.

A troubled Delia Ellis returns to her old neighbourhood, Don Mount Court, to retrieve a beloved childhood diary. While the entries uncover significant revelations around her mother's past, it is Delia's return home that leads to a true understanding of the circumstances that forged her identity.

In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in the most unexpected ways as they search to create meaning and relationships in their lives. What begins as a search for a lost dog propels a group of unconnected characters into a difficult journey of self-discovery.

"A parallel story to This Good Thing (Book Four) which can also be read as a standalone."--Back cover.

Jack Palace must contend with gang wars, bikers, and the mob when he agrees to help the woman who betrayed him.

Toronto Reborn covers a decisive period in the city's evolution, capturing how Toronto truly becomes a new version of itself.

gender identity, baseball, bravery, friendship, loyalty

Jack Palace wants to move on from his criminal past, but there's the small matter of owing his life to the son of a top mobster. Can he pay back his debt, shield his loved ones, and get out of the criminal life alive?

Toronto Then and Now pairs vintage images of Canada's largest city ¿ and North America's fourth most populous ¿ with the same views as they look today.

After migrating to Canada, Cyril Rowntree navigates the implications of being racialized in his new land as he pieces together the story of a mixed-race baby from the 1920s named Edward.