Entertainment & Performing Arts
Alien Creature
By Linda Griffiths
Alien Creature: a visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen is inspired by MacEwen's life and work, yet is an entirely new creation. MacEwen, as evoked by Linda Griffiths, returns to a modern world one night, bringing images and a prophetic warning. There has been a death of poetry, ... Read more
Aloha Wanderwell
By Christian Fink-Jensen & Randolph Eustace-Walden
In 1922, a 15-year-old girl, fed up with life in a French convent school, answered an ad for a travelling secretary. Tall, blonde, and swaggering with confidence, she might have passed for twenty. She also knew what she wanted: to become the first female to drive around the ... Read more
An American Demon
By Jack Grisham
Depravity, redemption, terror, and spiritual deliverance abound in this physically and psychologically complex memoir from the front man of the pioneer punk band True Sounds of Liberty (TSOL). Spanning the extremes between hard-core punk memoir and handbook for recovery and ... Read more
Anthem: Rush in the ’70s
By Martin Popoff
The definitive biography of the rock ’n’ roll kings of the North
With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, Anthem: Rush in the ’70s is a detailed portrait of Canada’s greatest ... Read more
Claire Danes
By Jennifer Ambrose
Heralded as the best actress of her generation by Steven Spielberg, Claire Danes` young life and successful career is chronicled in this biography. From her childhood growing up in New York City`s trendy Soho district with hippie-artist parents to her first year studying at ... Read more
Depp
By Christopher Heard
The truth behind Johnny Depp’s bad-boy image in this definitive biography. Accidental actor? Bratty bad boy? Consummate craftsman? Take a little of each, and a whole lot more, and you’ve got Johnny Depp. Delectably dreamy, dramatically dynamic, and Depp-endably dedicated, ... Read more
Director’s Cut
By Ted Kotcheff
With Josh Young
Foreword by Mariska Hargitay
With six decades in show business, legendary director Ted Kotcheff looks back on his life
Born to immigrant parents and raised in the slums of Toronto during the Depression, Ted Kotcheff learned storytelling on the streets before taking a stagehand job at CBC Television. Discovering ... Read more
Don Messer
By Johanna Bertin
Don Messer was more than a household name in Canada — he was part of family life, the background music in Canadian kitchens — first on radio, and then on television. Private and unassuming, Don was everyman, and yet someone singular and special: a devoted family man, a rigid ... Read more
