Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through an Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western...
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- Auteur:Murtha, Mike, Helm, CharlesSommaire:
- Auteur:Kroeker, JeremySommaire:
Jeremy Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. He doesn’t have a funny beard and he’s never even driven a buggy, but his family hails from the same Mennonite community that Miriam Toews fictionalized in A Complicated Kindness. From...
- Auteur:Sangster, JoanSommaire:
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions...
- Auteur:Ursuliak, EmilySommaire:
In 1951 two intrepid women, Phyllis and her best friend, Anne, set off on a journey from Victoria, British Columbia, to Red Deer, Alberta, and back again. Travelling first by 1927 MG Roadster to Alberta, and then on horseback on the way...
- Auteur:Bedford, K. A.Sommaire:
In the future, Aloysius "Spider" Webb will journey to the End of Time. For now, Spider must be content with repairing broken time machines, rebuilding his life and avoiding the lunatic antics of his boss, Dickhead McMahon....
- Auteur:Reiff, TanaSommaire:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. The Hot Summer Race is only a week away. Bob's car is not ready. So he starts calling in sick....
- Auteur:Lewis, Naomi K.Sommaire:
When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved grandfather's escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi K. Lewis decides to retrace his journey to learn about her family...
- Auteur:Bateman, DavidSommaire:
Part memoir, part creative non-fiction, part poetic score without music, part off-Broadway show without a cast, part bungalow for gender -dysphoric bachelorettes, ’Tis Pity is furnished with poems that dart lyrically in and...
- Auteur:Holliday, BarbaraSommaire:
During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-...
- Auteur:Christensen, Oliver, Holliday, BarbaraSommaire:
During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-...
- Auteur:Pullan, BrandonSommaire:
An energetic and engaging investigation into the life and death of legendary climber, paddler, and recluse Billy 'Kayak Bill' Davidson. Billy Davidson (1947-2003) was born in Calgary, Alberta, and grew up in an orphanage in the 1950s....
- Auteur:Chapman, BrendaSommaire:
This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Anna Sweet’s PI business partner, Jada Price, has gone missing. Anna and new hire Nick...
- Auteur:Boyer, GenevieveSommaire:
Who comes to the rescue when people are in danger? Emergency vehicles! Some of them have sirens and lights, some have wings or propellers, but the one thing they all have in common is they're here to help. Learn about more than 20...
- Auteur:Siemens, J. T.Sommaire:
Disgraced ex-cop Sloane Donovan has relied on her job as a fitness instructor to keep her mental illness and PTSD in check-until she finds a close friend dead, apparently by her own hand. Obsessive demons triggered and doubtful of the...
- Auteur:Curry, GwenSommaire:
Tod Inlet has been a place of refuge for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but few are aware of its history. This tiny fjord, less than a half hour from downtown Victoria, is part of Gowlland/Tod Provincial Park and is accessed by a...
- Auteur:Cardinal, WillSommaire:
"One of the greatest marathon runners of all time, Tom Longboat was one of the best-known athletes of the western world in the early 20th century.*Longboat was an astonishing long-distance runner who grew up on the Six Nations reserve...
- Auteur:Liddell, Merilyn RuthSommaire:
"A misguided experiment. A devastated world. A chance for rebirth. In a world decimated by a killer virus, an isolated mountain community is left more dysfunctional than dystopian. Small town. Big secrets. It's a place where...
- Auteur:Kroetsch, RobertSommaire:
A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much&#...
- Auteur:Chapman, BrendaSommaire:
"This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Sometimes home is not a safe place to be. PI Anna Sweet is hired to look out for Max, a troubled...
- Auteur:Parsons, Jim, Schroder, MariahSommaire:
Engage your students AND keep your sanity with classroom-tested tools. Tools for Teaching Social Studies delivers a wealth of practical solutions for classroom success — all grounded in solid educational philosophy. A...