"This short illustrated book recounts twenty-one heart-felt stories about the relationships between blind people and their guide dogs. Some are funny, some are sad, some are ordinary, some extraordinary. Most are awe-inspiring. Learn...
Illustrated works
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Author:Members and Friends of Guide Dog Users of CanadaSummary: - Author:Biesty, StephenSummary:
This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings....
- Author:Henry, RobertSummary:
Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, and Jorgina are six Indigenous women previously involved in street gangs or the street lifestyle in Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. In collaboration with Indigenous Studies scholar Robert Henry (...
- Author:Magee, JoanSummary:
Filled with photographs, both historic and contemporary, this engaging book looks at the industrial pioneers of northwestern Ontario, and the activities which brought them to the wilderness: surveying, railroading, lumber, gold, bush...
- Author:Schutten, Jan PaulSummary:
A perfect book for STEM learning: Kids ages 8-12 will love these creepy X-Rays of bugs, reptiles, mammals, and more! A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year. Using incredible X-ray techniques, Inside In displays...
- Author:Hitchcock, Susan TylerSummary:
For millennia, trees have offered renewal and inspiration. They have provided for humanity on every level, from spiritual sanctuary to the raw material for our homes, books, and food. In this beautiful and revealing book, National...
- Author:Patterson, FrancineSummary:
The real life experience of Koko, a gorilla in California who uses sign language, with a young kitten whom she loved and grieved over when it died.
- Author:Keren, Gershon BenSummary:
Krav Maga Tactical Survival presents proven solutions to dangerous, real life situations. Krav Maga is the official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces, and has been battle-tested by police, armed forces, private security...
- Author:Gaboury, Étienne, Therrien, JohanneSummary:
Le beau-livre La Cathédrale de Saint-Boniface retrace l'histoire des six églises et cathédrales de Saint-Boniface au Manitoba depuis la fondation de la mission en 1818. Les photos contemporaines du photographe primé, Michel...
- Author:Hryniuk, Margaret, Korvemaker, FrankSummary:
A spectacular coffee-table book featuring the images and stories of some of Saskatchewan’s most impressive stone buildings, along with historical notes on some of the builders who made them. In words and stunning colour pictures, this...
- Author:Hryniuk, MargaretSummary:
This highly-anticipated companion volume to the best-selling Legacy of Stone: Saskatchewan's Stone Buildings, combines brilliant colour images of the buildings people worship in with the fascinating stories of those places and people....
- Author:Kluane First NationSummary:
With generosity, diligence and deep commitment to their community, Elders from Lhù'ààn Mân Keyi (Kluane First Nation) recorded oral histories about their lives in the southwest Yukon. They shared wisdom, stories and songs passed...
- Author:Baudemont, DavidSummary:
Est-il aisé de se fondre à la Prairie? À priori, cela paraît simple, car les reliefs y sont modérés : quelques modestes buttes, des vallons aux pentes douces, pas de sommets olympiens à gravir. Dans ce sens, la plaine est par nature...
- Author:Winsor, MichaelSummary:
Lost in Newfoundland works like the perfect photo album of the perfect trip to Newfoundland—one not limited by vacation time, and in which we see all the beauties promised to us by the advocates for Newfoundland tourism. If you wanted...
- Author:Brown, ChesterSummary:
Brown's celebrated biography of the Canadian rebel Louis Riel tells the story of the charismatic, and perhaps mad, nineteenth-century Metis leader whose struggle to win rights for his people led to violent rebellion on the nations...
- Author:Millet, JeanneSummary:
Le lecteur trouvera dans cet ouvrage hautement illustré l’ensemble des notions lui permettant d’observer l’architecture d’un arbre. On y présente quelques éléments d’histoire de l’évolution des concepts en architecture des arbres depuis...
- Author:Grandmaison, MikeSummary:
Manitoba—Land of the Unexpected is the culmination of author and photographer Mike Grandmaison’s years of exploration across his beloved “Keystone Province.” Come discover Manitoba’s untameable wilderness and myriad landscapes, from its...
- Author:Soucoup, DanSummary:
During the Great Depression, promoter, salesman, and pilot Richard Thorne McCully became an aviation pioneer, capturing much of the Maritime region from the air. Along with photographer Harold Reid and pilot Marty Fraser, McCully spent...
- Author:Crofts, A. V.Summary:
In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor' Crofts concocts a multimedia feast of photos, "sketchnotes," and vignettes,...
- Author:Hamilton, CathySummary:
Menopause means . . . breaking down in sobs at the checkout counter when you realize you love Costco more than your husband." — Menopause Means . . . Never Having to Say You're Chilly Cathy Hamilton humorously defines exactly what it...
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