When a retired actor who frequents a city park is purported to be transitioning from man to deer, municipal authorities in St. John’s, Newfoundland, find themselves confronted by an exasperatingly difficult problem.Complications mount...
Parks
- Auteur:Riche, EdwardSommaire:
- Auteur:Karpan, RobinSommaire:
Discover 50 unforgettable natural wonders to see before you "kick the bucket". In every case, it's something special that leaves you with a sense of wonder, where you can't help but say, "Wow! This is really cool."
- Auteur:Eggers, DaveSommaire:
From the award-winning author of The Every comes an endearing story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes-to see everything...
- Auteur:Coles, Megan, Hynes, Joel Thomas, Tilley, Sara, Winter, Michael, Battery RadioSommaire:
An interactive site-specific audio fiction is set into the landscape of a city park in eastern Canada, experienced via an iphone app. Short stories by four award-winning authors are GPS-linked to actual locations where the story events...
- Auteur:Jean McKay, LauraSommaire:
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter,...
- Auteur:Beaty, AndreaSommaire:
Every morning, Abuelo walks Sofia to school...until the day that Abuelo hurts his ankle at a local landfill and he can no longer do so. Sofia misses her Abuelo and wonders what she can do about the dangerous Mount Trashmore. Then she...
- Auteur:Becker, AaronSommaire:
In this story without words, "a king emerges from a hidden door in a city park, startling two children sheltering from the rain. No sooner does he push a map and some strange objects into their hands than he is captured by hostile...
- Auteur:Boyden, Joseph, Leavitt, Sarah, Maharaj, Rabindranath, Richler, Noah, York, Alissa, Rogers, ShelaghSommaire:
Northwords is a collection of stories written by acclaimed Canadian authors Joseph Boyden, Sarah Leavitt, Rabindranath Maharaj, Noah Richler, and Alissa York as they experienced one of Canada’s most awe-inspiring northern parks, Torngat...
- Auteur:Mielnik, Tara MitchellSommaire:
Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which...
- Auteur:Kheraj, SeanSommaire:
In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless...
- Auteur:Nelson, RobinSommaire:
How do you organize a big project? See how these kids plan to clean up a park.
- Auteur:Baraton, AlainSommaire:
For gardening aficionados and Francophiles, a love letter to the Versailles Palace and grounds, from the man who knows them best. In Alain Baraton's Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its...
- Auteur:Tariq, AmbreenSommaire:
An immigrant family embarks on their first camping trip in the Midwest in this lively picture book by Ambreen Tariq, outdoors activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping Fatima Khazi is excited for the weekend. Her family is headed to a...
- Auteur:MacKay, EllySommaire:
A young girl discovers a vacant park next door to her new house that is intended for butterflies, but when she has trouble getting butterflies to stay there, her new neighbors help her plant flowers to attract them.
- Auteur:BC ParksSommaire:
As BC Parks embarks on our commitment to inclusion, we look forward to continuing to work with community organizations to realize our vision. If you are a member of a community organization and are interested in being a part of BC Parks...
- Auteur:Spector, DavidSommaire:
In 1904, Assiniboine Park was conceived as a peoples playground, a place devoid of commercial amusements where all classes of Winnipeggers could relax andrejuvenate in idyllic and Arcadian surroundings. The book traces the development...
- Auteur:Yazdani, Ashley BenhamSommaire:
In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be-a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering through trees and...