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Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten [ 2 ] Gemini Awards , an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2009 novel, The Bishop's Man .
Wake (Stylized WAKE) is a 2008 novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams.The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer ...
Causeway: A Passage from Innocence is a non-fiction book, written by Canadian writer Linden MacIntyre, first published in August 2006 by HarperCollins. In the book, the author recounts the 1950s construction of the Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton to mainland Nova Scotia. MacIntyre reflects on changing ways of life and his relationship with ...
The Bishop's Man was Linden MacIntyre second novel. His previous novel, The Long Stretch, which was published ten years earlier, in 1999.At the time of the new novel's publication author Linden MacIntyre was 66 years old and living in Toronto with his wife, and fellow journalist and author, Carol Off.
Off has also written books on the Canadian military, including The Lion, the Fox, and the Eagle (2000) and The Ghosts of Medak Pocket: the Story of Canada's Secret War (2005, ISBN 0-679-31294-3). In 2006, she released Bitter Chocolate , a book about the corruption and human rights abuses associated with the cocoa industry.
Wake has not interpreted the new state law’s wording about supplementary material as applying to school library books. Third graders search for books during the WAKE Up and Read event in Garner ...
Kirkus Reviews called the book "An urgent, brilliant work of historical excavation." [6] Annie Bostrom wrote in Booklist that the novel is "A necessary corrective to violent erasure and a tribute to untold strength". [7] Jaime Herndon wrote in Book Riot that it is "a powerful book that shines a light on an often-ignored part of history."
Burke and journalist Linden MacIntyre, both associated with the television program The Fifth Estate, later published Who Killed Ty Conn (Viking Press Canada, 2000; [6] reissued 2011, Creative Book Publishing, St. John's [4]). MacIntyre had met and befriended Conn in 1994, during the course of researching an investigative story on the effects of ...