Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: influential Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis; intrepid explorer of Western Canada...
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- Author: Paulin, Marguerite ; Alleyn, Nora ; Shardlow, Tom ; Kirk, Heather ; Cimon, Anne ; Vanasse, AndréSummary:
- Author: Blair, MichaelSummary:
Presenting two novels in the Granville Island series by Michael Blair. Commercial photographer Tom McCall sees a lot of Vancouver in his job, but he sees more than he’d like to when murderers strike. Witty and fast-paced, these stories...
- Author: Coates, Ken S. ; Morrison, BillSummary:
Going to college used to be a passport to future success, but that’s no longer the case. For some students, it’s still a good choice that leads to a successful career after graduation, but for many their degrees are worthless pieces of...
- Author: Slade, Arthur ; Stewart, Roderick ; Macpherson, Margaret ; Paulin, Marguerite ; Martin, Ged ; Argyle, Ray ; Ferguson, Julie H. ; goodall, lianSummary:
Presenting nine titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich political history through the fascinating lives of some of its most influential lives....
- Author: Maes, Nicholas ; Fitzgerald, Judith ; Rigelhof, T.F. ; Cowley, DeborahSummary:
Presenting four titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent people in Canada’s history. In these books we explore Canada’s rich academic and philosophical history through the fascinating lives of some of its most...
- Author: Brown, RonSummary:
Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use. Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been...
- Author: Easton, DonSummary:
Now available in one bundle for the first time, the first eight books of the Jack Taggart Mystery series are gathered together, including the latest mystery, The Benefactor. "Ripped from the headlines … Easton, an ex-Mountie, knows his...
- Author: Maruno, JenniferSummary:
This special bundle contains both of Jennifer Maruno’s Cherry Blossom novels about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, viewed through the eyes of nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa. Michiko bids her father goodbye before her birthday...
- Author: Marsh, CharisSummary:
Presenting the three titles in the Ballet School Confidential series, which follows a group of friends (and sometimes adversaries) during their time attending the Vancouver International Ballet Academy. Kaitlyn was the star at her old...
- Author: Goddard, JohnSummary:
Inside the Museums views Toronto’s heritage museums for the first time as a single community — linked by events, personalities, and function. In this special excerpt we visit Campbell House, 160 Queen Street West, at the northwest...
- Author: Reist, Michael ; Letourneau, Nicole ; Joschko, JustinSummary:
This special three-book bundle collects sage advice and guidance for today’s parent struggling to keep up in a rapidly-changing world. Two titles by Michael Reist discuss education; school is our children’s second home. They will spend...
- Author: Dance, JenniferSummary:
2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted • 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award — Winner, Young Adult Category • CCBC’s Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016) When a First Nations teen rescues a fish-hawk from a tailings pond in...
- Author: Archer, Lynda A.Summary:
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction — Shortlisted For Elinor Greystone, the only way forward is back into the past. At ninety years of age, Elinor, a Saskatchewan Cree artist, inveterate roll-your-own smoker, and talker to rivers...
- Author: Hauka, Donald J.Summary:
Fast-paced, funny, and suspenseful, the Mister Jinnah series feature the larger-than-life Vancouver Tribune crime reporter Hakeem Jinnah. Politically incorrect but relentless, Jinnah finds himself embroiled in an increasingly bizarre...
- Author: Batten, JackSummary:
When his popular hip-hop artist client is blackmailed, Crang stumbles on a porn operation and an unexpected case of murder. Crang is a smart-talking criminal lawyer who doesn’t mind chasing down unorthodox cases. That makes him just the...
- Author: de la Roche, MazoSummary:
Perhaps the most classic novels of Mazo de la Roche's monumental family saga are these four, which were the first books written in the series, though they fall in the middle of her books' multi-generation narrative. These,...
- Author: de la Roche, MazoSummary:
History flows swiftly on, and even the formidable family home of Jalna is swept up in its currents in this collection of books 9-12 of the Jalna series. Fortunes rise and crumble as older generations give way to the young, and the reins...
- Author: Wright, EricSummary:
This quadruple edition of the entire Charlie Salter Mystery series presents the complete stories of Eric Wright’s wry and much-loved detective Salter. This digital bundle includes The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, Death in the...
- Author: Ward, ChristopherSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie returns to Paris to attend the Christmas Eve wedding of her Dad's old friend, Rudee Daroo, and the love of his life, dancer Sashay D'or. Mac is told about the annual New Year's taxi road rally,...
- Author: Campey, Lucille H.Summary:
The story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail. Ignored but Not Forgotten is a compelling and moving account of one of Canada’s foremost immigrant groups: the story of the great migration of English...