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Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of April 14th, 2009)
Brian Bethune
Brian Bethune writes about ideas, books and the book trade, and religion, but what really interests him is why people believe what they believe.
The making of Mary
How did a few cameos in the Bible create the world’s most powerful woman ever?
The PM for all seasons
Love him or hate him, Pierre Elliott Trudeau symbolized the nation
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of April 7th, 2009)
With a little help from his friends
‘No wife. No son! No daughter! You die alone!’ Near death, Wayson Choy heard painful voices.
What we can learn from pessimists
According to philosopher Alain de Botton sorrow is our true lot
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Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of March 31st, 2009)
’The Third Reich At War’ by Richard J. Evans
It brilliantly demonstrates the failures, moral as well as practical, of Hitler’s opponents
The Man Who Got Canadians
At his best, Stephen Leacock saw through us like no one else
Bestsellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of March 24th, 2009)