Books tagged: Entertainment
A Year with Minecraft
By Thomas Arnroth
In A Year with Minecraft, gaming journalist Thomas Arnroth brings you along for the ride in a gripping and entertaining story about how the shy and nerdy can become superstars in the age of video games. Go behind the scenes at the company responsible for this worldwide gaming ... Read more
Across Canada by Story
By Douglas Gibson
More adventures from one of Canada’s premier editors and storytellers
Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of ... Read more
Act
By David Rotenberg
“Simply put, I don’t think I would’ve found my voice as an actor without David. ” — Scott Speedman, actor
“Act has the roadmap for the most crucial task of an actor: getting present. ” — Shawn Doyle, actor
A lively, conversational textbook dedicated to the art ... Read more
Hello, Friends!
By Jerry Howarth
An honest memoir about life, family, and baseball from the longtime, legendary Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster
For 36 years, Jerry Howarth ushered in eternal hope each spring and thrived in the drive of each fall as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1982, the lifelong ... Read more
Immoral, Indecent, and Scurrilous
By Gerald Hannon
“At least by reputation, I am a sex radical: gay activist dating back to the Cretaceous, defender of pedophiles, defender of (and participant in) sex work, sometime porn actor and maker, shameless voyeur (no window is safe if my binoculars are at hand), perpetual sour-puss ... Read more
No Place for a Woman
By Antony Berger
***THE MIRAMICHI READER'S VERY BEST BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION: LONGLIST***
As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, to settle ... Read more
Once a Bitcoin Miner
By Ethan Lou
“Lou himself is a rare commodity in that he understands cryptocurrency and knows how to write about it … This book stands out as a rare example of a readable snapshot of a world we all need to get more informed about. ” — The Times
Ethan Lou goes on an epic quest through ... Read more
Starmaker
By Jay Bernstein
With Larry Hamm & David Rubini
Revealingly candid, this Hollywood memoir is the story of Jay Bernstein, an entertainment industry fixture who helped launch and sustain the careers of many celebrities including Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers. From his childhood in Oklahoma City and his first job in a Hollywood ... Read more