About Toronto

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction, Teen, Young, Adult lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Toronto is a concrete city. From international landmarks to civic buildings to cultural institutions to metropolitan infrastructure and the singlefamily home, reminders of the era of 'brutalist' Architecture, surround Torontonians. But for how long As architectural fashion has shifted to the glassandsteel neomodernism of today, these concrete st...

Foul ball!: Five years in the American League...

National Bestseller A Globe and Mail Best BookA National Post Best Book of the YearA passionate ode to baseball, its culture, and its community, which both celebrates and challenges the game and reminds us why it really matters. For Stacey May Fowles, the game of baseball is one of "long pauses punctuated by tiny miracles." In this entertaining a...

In Imagining Toronto, Amy Lavender Harris ventures deep into the imagined city ? the Toronto of fiction, poetry, and essays ? where she dowses for meaning in the literature of the city on the lake as its inhabitants understand, remember, and dream it. By tracing Toronto?s literary genealogies from their origins in First Nations stories to today?s g...

Twotime All Star Shawn Green shows how the surprising lessons the game has taught him transcend baseball and compose a life well lived.Shawn Green?s career statistics can be found on the backs of baseball cards in shoeboxes across America: 328 home runs, 1,071 RBIs, .282 career batting average, AllStar, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger...but numbers te...