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Doug Janoff's book Pink Blood: Homophobic Violence in Canada

Two books mentioned by Dr Nina Woulff which explore forgiveness:
Dr Jeanne Safer's "Forgiving & Not Forgiving: A New Approach To Resolving Intimate Betrayal"
Fairmount Books -Forgiving & Not Forgiving,

and Aaron Lazare's "On Apology" Oxford University Press - On Apology


Rose Reisman is the author of fourteen cookbooks, including her most recent, "Weekday Wonders...Healthy Light Meals for Every Day."
You can order Rose's two most recent cookbooks online and support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation at the same time.


Recommended Books by Maritime Author

• Out Roddy's Way - Dervon Harrison


• An Expecation of Home- Larry Lynch


• Victory Meat - Lynn Coady


• Among The Saints - Donna Smyth


• Roads Unravelling - Kathy Diane Leveille


• That Singing You Hear At The Edges - Sue MacLeod


• Margaret's Peace - Linda Hall


• The Murder Of Medicine Bear - Susan Haley


• As The Crow Flies - Ann-Marie MacDonald


• The Magic Compass,
• Archibald's Boo Boo and Deadly Threat - Douglas Arthur Brown


• A Wolf To Remember - Kali Brazier-Tompkins


• Reading Hands - Shirly Burton Trites


• River Thieves - Michael Crummie


• The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston


• The Nymph & The Lamp - T.H. Raddall


• Seldom - Dawn Rae Downton


• Don't Let Them Smell the Lobsters and The Wildlife I've Led - Stuart Trueman


• Restless Spirits - Bill McTague


• Broadhorns - George Walsh


• Heave - Christy Ann Conlin


• A Prescription For A Full Life - Dr. George Dewar


• Letters From The Manse - Joan Archibald Colborne


• The Brennen Siding Trilogy (The Americans Are Coming, The Last Tasmanian and The Lone Angler) - Herb Curtis.


• The Channel Shore - Charles Bruce


• Kit's Law and Downhill Chance - Donna Morrissey

Books You've Recommended By Maritime Authors

Fiction:

• Among the Saints and Quilt - Donna E. Smyth
• Heave - Christy Ann Conlin
• Comfort Zones - Pamela Donoghue
• An Arch For The King - Michael Hennessey
• The Memory Stone - Louise MacDonald
• Rockbound - Frank Parker Day
• Steal Away - Linda Hall
• Also, works by David Adams Richards, Doug Underhill, Donna Morrissey, Terry Crawford, Alistair MacLeod, D.R. MacDonald

Non-fiction:

• The Garden - Freeman Patterson
• Nova Scotia Duck Tollers - Doug Caldwell
• Sailors, Slackers & Blind Pigs - Stephen Kimber
• Sails of Fundy - Stanley Spicer
• Guide to the Cape Breton Highlands National Park - Clarence Barrett

For Younger Readers & Young Adults:

• Shoulder the Sky - Lesley Choyce
• Smallest Rabbit - Joyce Barkhouse
• Lollypopsicles - Gretchen Kelbaugh / illustrated by J.O.Penninen
• Also, works by Sherry Fitch, Mary Jane Hampton

Video Gems suggested during our phone-in on Friday August 17/01.

• The Conversation


• Harold and Maude


• Waiting for Guffman


• Best In Show


• Spinal Tap


• The Limey


• Out of Sight


• Bill Murray movies - Rushmore in particular


• Shadowlands


• The Whales of August


• Dead Again


• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg


• The remake of The Incredible Journey


• Jock of the Bushveldt


• La Cage aux Folles


• 2001: A Space Oddessy


• Mad Dog and Glory


• Pollack


• Basquiat


• Before Night Falls


• Peeping Tom (1961)


• After Hours


• Big Lebowski


• Dr Strangelove


• Big Night


• Murial's Wedding


• Hotel De Love


• Last Night by Don McKellor


• Eating Raoul


• White Hunter Black Heart


• Margaret's Museum


• The Straight Story


• Truly Madly, Deeply


• Koyaaninsqatsi


• Brazil


• Manufactoring Consent - Noam Chomsky documentary


• The Duel


• The Fury


• The Game


• Babette's Feast


• Chocolat


• Leaving Normal


• Paradise Road


• Cookie's Fortune


• (1940s film noir - Warner Bros black and white gangster movies)


• From Here to Eternity


• Laura


• Double Indemnity


• Now Voyager


• The Fountainhead


• Electra Glide in Blue 1973

Favourite Atlantic Canadian Authors As Suggested During Our May 25 Program At The Atlantic Writing Awards, In Dartmouth

Fiction:

• Thomas H. Raddall - The Nymph And The Lamp
• Bruce Graham - The Parrsboro Boxing Club
• Lynn Coady - Strange Heaven, Play the Monster Blind
• Alistair MacLeod - The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, No Great Mischief
• Carol Bruneau - Purple For Sky
• Budge Wilson - The Leaving, Cordelia Clarke, The Courtship
• Ernest Buckler - The Mountain & the Valley, The Cruellest Month
• Donna Morrissey - Kit's Law
• Will R Bird - The Maid of the Marshes

Humor:

• Andy MacDonald - Bread & Molasses

History:

• Ed MacDonald - If You're Stronghearted: Prince Edward Island in the 20th Century

Assorted Non-Fiction:

• Terry Pratt - Prince Edward Island Sayings, Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English
• Silver Donald Cameron - Once Upon A Schooner, Sterling Silver (collection)
• Wayne Curtis - Fishing In The Miramichi
• Will R Bird - Ghosts Have Warm Hands

Children & Young Adult:

• Budge Wilson - Oliver's Wars, Sharla
• Elaine Breault Hammond - The Secret Under the Whirlpool, Beyond the Waterfall, Explosion at Dawson Creek
• Dorothy Perkins - Signal Across the Sea
• Sheree Fitch - Mabel Murple, Sleeping Dragons All Around

Books Suggested During Our Robert Munsch
Phone-In

We asked you to call and e-mail us the names of your favourite childrens' books. We received ninety-two e-mails during the hour, and more than a quarter of them identified "I Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch as the all-time family fave.
Here are some other books that were mentioned. Sorry about any spelling mistakes. We've not heard of many of these, and in some cases more than one person suggested the same book but spelled the title or the author's name differently. Good luck tracking them down!

• The Secret Garden


• Enid Blyton's books about The Famous Five


• Enid Blyton's books about The Secret Seven


• The Boxing Champion by Roch Carrier


• Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch


• The Little Engine That Could


• Are You My Mother? by Dr. Seuss


• Stephanie's Ponytail


• all of the Nancy Drew mysteries


• Franklin the Turtle books


• Pigs by Robert Munsch


• Caillou


• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown


• Good Families Don't by Robert Musch


• Curious George


• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White


• A Flood of Creatures by Dahlov Ipcar


• I Have To Go Pee


• Get Well Clown-Arounds! by Joanna Cole


• Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne


• Go, Dog, Go


• Dragons All Around by Sheri Fitch


• Purple Murple by Sheri Fitch


• Andrew's Loose Tooth by Robert Munsch


• The Princess and the Pea


• The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings


• The Runaway Bunny


• And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr Seuss


• Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendack


• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster


• Reveille-toi Papa by Robert Munsch


• The Dark by Robert Munsch


• David's Father by Robert Munsch


• A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester


• Train Song by Diane Siebert


• Thomas & His Most Horrible Snowsuit by Robert Munsch


• Mortimer by Robert Munsch


• Murmel, Murmel by Robert Munsch


• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss


• A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munsch


• Why?


• When The Sky Was Like Lace


• Horton Hears a Who! by Dr Seuss


• Come Away From The Water, Shirley by John Burmingham


• The Bear Who Wanted to Be Alone by Ginnie Hofmann


• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams


• The Little Fur Family by Margaret Wise Brown


• Winnie-the-Pooh - A Blustery Day


• The Centaur by May Swenson


• Un bebe Aligator


• The Firestation


• Bunny and Me by Greenspun and Schwarz


• Something From Nothing by Phoebe Gilman


• Polar Bear Polar Bear what do you hear by Eric Carle


• Brown Bear Brown bear what do you see by Eric Carle


• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle


• The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss


• Fox in Sox by Dr Seuss


• Green Eggs & Ham by Dr Seuss


• Hollow Tree House by Enid Blyton


• Whose Mouse Are You?


• Mud Puddle by Robert Munsch


• Angela's Airplane by Robert Munsch


• Paddle to the Sea


• Berstein Bears


• Bungaloo Boys


• Madeline L'Engle books


• books by Tolkien


• stories by Hans Christian Andersen


• Anne of Green Gables


• Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg


• Amos - An Old Dog and His Couch by Susan Seligson


• The Little Old Man Who Couldn't Read


• House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne


• Forty Below Zero


• Two By Two by Barbara Reid


• Purple, Green and Yellow by Robert Munsch


• Good Humor Man by Kathleen Daly


• Blueberries for Sal by Robert MacCloskey


• The Harry Potter series


• The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs by Phoebe Gilman


• The Amazing Bone by William Steig


• It's the Bear! by Jez Alborough


• The 7 Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman


• Fifty Below


• Grandfather Frog & other stories by Thornton W. Burgess


• Old Mother West Wind by Thornton Burgess


• The Borrowers by Mary Norton


• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


• The Twelve Dancing Princesses


• A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer


• Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride by William Steig


• Amos and Boris by William Steig

Books For Adults Suggested During
Previous Phone-Ins

• The Power of One; Jessica; The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtney


• The Bible - Matthew, Luke, etc


• Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt


• No Great Mischief - Alistair MacLeod


• Papillon - Henri Charriere


• Lives of Girls and of Women - Alice Munro


• Random Passage - Bernice Morgan


• Skull's Bridle - Minette Walters


• Too Close to The Falls - Catherine Gildener (autobiography)


• Where on Earth are we Going? - Maurice Strong


• The Essential Trudeau - editor, Ron Graham


• The Highland Heart of Nova Scotia


• London - Edward Rutherford


• Sarum - Edward Rutherford


• Wild and Wooly - Linda Johns


• Play the Monster Blind - Lynn Coady


• Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund


• The Making of Harry Cossaboom - Jerrad Edson


• Maritime Voices - collection, Dreamcatcher


• Overtime - Brad Janes


• The Horse's Mouth - Joyce Cary


• Lily - Cindy Boomer


• Country of the Pointed Firs - Sara Orne Jewett


• Wild Justice - Phillip Margolian


• Skeleton Canyon - J. A. Jance


• Black Notice - Patricia Cornwall


• The Stress of her Regard - Tim Powers


• Paper Grail; Homunculus; Wintertides - James Blaycock


• Doomsday Book - Connie Willis


• One Village, One War - Douglas How


• The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens


• Egotists and Autocrats - George Bowering


• Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury


• Bird by Bird - Ann Laurotte


• The Right to Write - Julia Cameron


• Freedom and Necessity - Steven Brust


• Purple for Sky - Carol Bruneau


• Red Dragon Square - Yvonne Wilson
  
  
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood; Little Altars Everywhere - Rebecca Wells

The Literature Of War

• The Wars - Timothy Findley


• No Man's Land - Kevin Major


• Broken Ground - Jack Hodgins


• Dieppe: Canada's Forgotten Heroes - John Mellor


• The Bay of Chaleur At War - A.J. McCarthy


• One Village, One War - Douglas How


• Ghosts Have Warm Hands, The Two Jacks - Will R. Bird


• Making It Home - J. Angus MacLean


• Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo


• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier


• Poland - James Michener


• The Diary of Anne Frank"


• The Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain


• The Baghavad Gita"


• Trinity, Redemption, Mila 18 - Leon Uris


• The War Poems - Wilfred Owen


• The Bravest Battle: The 28 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Dan Kurzman


• True Canadian War Stories - The Royal Canadian Legion


• Goodbye To All That - Robert Graves


• All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque


• The Guns of Normandy - George Blackburn


• The Battle For Canada - David Orchard


• Men From Saskatchewan - Elmer Howard Cayford

 

Listeners' Movie Picks

• Blue Sky


• The  Ice Storm


• Still Crazy


• Truly Madly Deeply


• The  Day Trippers


• Dog Day Afternoon


• The Sand Pebbles


• Waiting for Guffman


• Gallipoli


• The Natural


• Ordinary People


• Grand Canyon


• Searching for Bobby Fisher


• The Gods Must Be Crazy


• Sherman's March


• Dr. Strangelove


• 2001


• The Clockwork Orange


• Eye of The  Needle


• Shallow Grave


• Top Secret


• Walking Tall


• Fresh


• Pi


• Choose Me


• Kiki's Delivery Service


• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?


• A Touch of Evil


• Rueben Rueben


• Deceiver


• The Spanish Prisoner


• Last Night


• Six Degrees of Separation


• The Red Violin


• Ninotchka


• Kovitz


• The Newsies


• The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T


• The Pope of Greenwich Village


• Return to Paradise


• Barney Goes to School


• Dumb and Dumber


• Sinbad


• Siesta


• The Egyptian


• Shellaco