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THE UNDERDOGS
O/P THE UNDERDOGS Controversial satire of Quebec separation. Adapted for a successful play staged in Montreal in 1998.
Read MoreCITY UNIQUE: A Portrait Of Montreal
Robin Brass Studio Can/04 CITY UNIQUE: A Portrait Of Montreal Novelist, filmmaker, journalist, William Weintraub offers a social history of Montreal in the 1940s and 1950s, depicting the rise and fall of a great city in all its vibrancy, corruption, and diversity. Rich in detail and anecdote, and broad in sweep, it promises to recapture the vigor…
Read MoreGETTING STARTED
WILLIAM WEINTRAUB is the author of two novels, Why Rock the Boat and The Underdogs, and the non-fiction book, City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and 1950s. McClelland & Stewart CAN/Oct 2001 O/P GETTING STARTED A Memoir of the 1950s With Letters From Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian Moore. “Dear Bill:I got your highly unintellectual letter…
Read MoreCrazy About Lili
“It’s a happy publishing season that includes a new book by William Weintraub.â€The National Post “Crazy About Lili is a funny, farcical, and thoroughly engaging look back.â€The Globe and Mail “Weintraub is adept at playing the historical tease, sprinkling in enough actual facts and local colour to give…credence to his jocular coming-of-age tale.â€The Montreal Gazette Awards:Leacock Medal…
Read MoreOLD WOUNDS
Penguin CANU.N.C. US OLD WOUNDS Written by Harold Troper andMorton Weinfeld Jews, Ukranians, and the hunt for Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Read MoreWHO SPEAKS FOR CANADA?
McClelland & Stewart CAN/99 WHO SPEAKS FOR CANADA? Words That Shape A Country Here, in one handsome illustrated volume, is a treasury of memorable texts that have become part of the Canadian heritage. Who Speaks for Canada? is a compelling testament to the many ways of being Canadian, and to the power of words to…
Read MoreLIKE EVERYONE ELSE… BUT DIFFERENT
“Undoubtedly the most important study of Canadian Jewish life in a generation.”Harold Troper “There should be a book like this for any and all groups that make up Canadian society. Meanwhile, read this one. You will laugh a little, think a lot, and learn why no one will ever write the last word on the…
Read MoreThings Are Going to Slide
Praise for No Defense:“Wallace avoids any Grisham-come-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice… This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.†Booklist “Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William Faulkner.â€Winston…
Read MoreLove is Merely a Madness
Praise for No Defense: “Wallace avoids any Grisham-come-lately clichés in this interesting novel of southern justice… This page-turner of a novel is refreshing in it’s uncommon perspective, as opposed to the usual legal novel that focuses on lawyers.†Booklist “Rangeley Wallace has written a taut, compelling Southern drama that is cut from the same cloth as Harper Lee and the early William…
Read MoreWe Generation
“Can the “Me Generation†of baby boomers raise a “We Generation†of consciously compassionate, less self-involved kids? Canadian psychologist Ungar believes so… Each of these eight, action-oriented chapters offers anecdotes, self-evaluation tools, lists of activities and strategies for generating excitement about being part of a wider world… [This book] is timely. Just as cardigan-clad Mr.…
Read MoreI Still Love You
Praise for We Generation: “Can the “Me Generation†of baby boomers raise a “We Generation†of consciously compassionate, less self-involved kids? Canadian psychologist Ungar believes so… Each of these eight, action-oriented chapters offers anecdotes, self-evaluation tools, lists of activities and strategies for generating excitement about being part of a wider world… [This book] is timely. Just…
Read MoreOld Wounds
Penguin CANU.N.C. US Old Wounds by Harold Troper and Morton Weinfeld Jews, Ukrainians, and the hunt for Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Read MoreThe Defining Decade
“… an outstanding explanation of the transformation of Jews in Canada, from its origins, through the 60s and into the future.”New York Journal of Books “well-written…of interest to anyone looking for a better understanding of Canada’s evolution into a multicultural society and of how minority communities have asserted their places within it.”Montreal Gazette “…an antidote…
Read MoreThe Rescuer
“An important story that had to be told . . . As this book shows, sometimes the power of one is greater than the ignorance of many†The Globe and Mail “Over the course of 25 tumultuous, nail-biting, cloak-and-dagger years, this Toronto woman accomplished what entire governments and well-paid professionals could not…the rescue of the Jews…
Read MoreA GOOD PLACE TO COME FROM
“Morley Torgov is a brilliant writer — ironic, sad, funny; his stories come out of that powerful mixture of ancient Jewish tradition and New World experience that has produced some of this country’s best literature.”Stephen Vizinczey Awards:The Leacock Medal For Humor Four-part TV series/1970sThree full-length plays by Israel Horovitz continue to be staged in U.S.…
Read MoreTHE OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILIAN GLICK
“A beautiful book…”Antonine Maillet Awards:The Leacock Medal For HumorWinner of the Torgi AwardAward-winning film showing in Europe22-part TV series showing in Europe J’ai Lu France/94Atelier du Pere Castor France/94Panorama Czech/94/95Raincoast CAN/ReissueSalani Italy 2005 THE OUTSIDE CHANCE OF MAXIMILIAN GLICK A timeless gem about a boy choked by parental love. Two men clear his path to…
Read MoreTHE WAR TO END ALL WARS
“The War to End All Wars is a satirical, plot-driven narrative enhanced by Torgov’s fast-paced, polished prose, whimsically weaving the cosmopolitan with the provincial.”The Globe & Mail “Torgov has a good way with words, and the novel’s opening sentence would be right at home in a great war novel like All Quiet on the Western…
Read MoreMurder in A-Major
“It’s still easy to see why, in the early days of his long writing career, Toronto’s Morley Torgov won two Leacock medals for humour. Since his first win in 1974, Torgov has retained his aptitude for subtle amusement. 

This is so even in his first venture into crime genre fiction, which shifts back in time to the…
Read MoreMastersinger From Minsk
Praise for The Mastersinger From Minsk “You dont have to be a classical music lover to enjoy this one.” Publisher’s Weekly “The second Hermann Preiss novel by Morley Torgov, set in 19th-century Munich, is even better than the first… Torgov’s loudmouthed, demanding, entitled, screeching lecher [Vagner] may just be the real thing. In any event, it…
Read MoreKey Witness
Praise for Morley Torgov’s Hermann Preiss series: “Torgov has just the right feel for this kind of writing, never coy, solid with his history but not allowing the facts to get in the way of a good joke.†Toronto Star “You don’t have to be a classical music lover to enjoy this one.†Publisher’s Weekly …
Read MorePraise for God’s Brain
Prometheus Books US 2010 Wise Book Korea 2011Alfa Turkey 2011 Praise for God’s Brain “If God’s Brain sounds whimsically paradoxical, it is only because the authors believe that most people of faith have been looking for God in all the wrong places. The authors suggest that religious believers should look inward, rather than outward, to find God. The…
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