Just three months after his wife’s death to breast cancer, Jon packs up his infant son, Myles, and they set off on a six-week “Healing Tour” through Canada and the United States. Their journey, set to the soundtrack of the music Jon...
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- Auteur:Magidsohn, JonSommaire:
- Auteur:Van Dusen, ChrisSommaire:
With energetic rhyme and action-packed artwork to match, If I Built a Car sure to fuel any young inventor with big plans and grand imaginations. "If I built a car, it'd be totally new! Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . ."...
- Auteur:Stephenson, Wendy, Downey, AutumnSommaire:
Etseh, Etsi and their three grandchildren have just embarked on a month long canoe trip in the Northwest Territories -- from the town of Rae to Hottah Lake. They are following the Idaa trail, a trade route that the Dogrib people have...
- Auteur:McNeil, JeanSommaire:
"Ice Diaries is stunningly written and should be on the shelf of anyone fascinated by the globe’s final geographic and psychic frontier.” — The New York Times
“It’s a discussion of the Antarctic as a physical landscape—...
- Auteur:McNeil, JeanSommaire:
What do we stand to lose in a world without ice? A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer in residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic...
- Auteur:McNeil, JeanSommaire:
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian’s Best Books of 2016.
Drawn to understand what we might lose in a world without ice, acclaimed novelist and short-story writer Jean...
- Auteur:Frankel, MilesSommaire:
In 1969, Miles Frankel, a young British doctor, was recruited by the International Grenfell Association to provide medical services to communities in northern Newfoundland and coastal Labrador. From St. Anthony he travelled—by boat,...
- Auteur:Iduma, EmmanuelSommaire:
A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author's homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the...
- Auteur:Goslin, Priscilla AnnSommaire:
An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world's most colorful characters: the Carioca—those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home...
- Auteur:Scoones, Anny, Amos, RobertSommaire:
Join beloved storyteller Anny Scoones as she sets out to discover the quaint and quirky charms of Victoria, BC. Not just a book of facts, Hometown is a gentle stroll through a diverse region with a fascinating and layered history....
- Auteur:Stutzman, PaulSommaire:
After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart-the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. With a mixture of dread and determination, Paul left his job, traveled to Georgia, and took his first...
- Auteur:Orth, StephanSommaire:
An award-winning writer reveals a changing China - one conversation and adventure at a time. When Stephan Orth lands in China, he knows it's his last visit, having lied about his job as a journalist to get into the country. So, he...
- Auteur:Mowat, FarleySommaire:
In 1947, Farley Mowat traveled to the Canadian arctic, that vast part of Canada which most Canadians never come to know. Twenty years later, Mowat returned for the most extensive northern trip of his life. In this book, Mowat chronicles...
- Auteur:White, E. B.Sommaire:
In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author's stroll around Manhattan with the reader...
- Auteur:May, PeterSommaire:
Since the publication of The Blackhouse in 2011, the books of Peter May's groundbreaking Lewis Trilogy have enthralled millions of readers around the world with powerfully evocative descriptions of the Outer Hebrides. From its peat bogs...
- Auteur:Morton, Alexandra, Proctor, BillSommaire:
Originally published in 1998, this updated edition has a brand-new cover and new foreword by Alexandra Morton. Billy Proctor was born in 1934 and has spent his entire life in a remote coastal community called Echo Bay, BC on an island...
- Auteur:Hobson, Richmond P.Sommaire:
Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.
- Auteur:Goulding, MattSommaire:
Matt Goulding introduces you to the sprawling culinary and geographical landscape of his adoptive home, and offers an intimate portrait of this multifaceted country, its remarkable people, and its complex history. Fall in love with...
- Auteur:Jacques, CarolineSommaire:
La vie de Carlie a changé depuis son retour d'Afrique. James et elle sont désormais parents de deux fillettes et mènent une vie rangée mais essoufflante – jusqu'à ce que Carlie provoque l'éclatement de ce quotidien au...
- Auteur:Peart, NeilSommaire:
A bold narrative written by a man trying to stay alive by staying on the move. Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart suffered family losses so devastating that they left him a ghost — physically a man but with nothing inside: no hope,...