Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk
Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk is a beautiful and generous collection of nonfiction.
Medicine
The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War by Kristen den Hartog
A trickle that began in 1915
turned to a flood of soldiers returning to Canada needing care for their often-devastating injuries:
missing limbs, ravaged lungs, faces and minds destroyed. Many of them ended up at Toronto’s
newly opened Christie Street hospital, also known as the Dominion Orthopedic Hospital (DOH).
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath
Why We Remember teaches the principles behind memory storage and retrieval and explains how our memories are always changing.
Does Coffee Cause Cancer? And 8 More Myths About the Food We Eat, by Dr. Christopher Labos
A book sprinkled with a number of references to statistics and studies might not sound enticing, but Labos sweetens the deal by using humour, and by structuring the book as a connected narrative rather than a series of stand-alone chapters.
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials And Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital By Jesse Donaldson & Erika Dyck
From the street, New Westminster’s Hollywood Hospital didn’t look like much – just a rambling white mansion, mostly obscured behind the holly trees from which it took its name.
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father by Brian Harvey
After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death.
