The Tent Dwellers is a book by Albert Bigelow Paine, chronicling his travels through inland Nova Scotia on a trout fishing trip with Dr. Edward "Eddie" Breck, and with guides Charles "the Strong" and Del "the Stout", one June in the...
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- Author: Paine, Albert BigelowSummary:
- Author: Harrington, JenniferSummary:
Spirit Bear follows the adventures of Annuk, a little spirit bear cub growing up in the Great Bear Rainforest of BC’s Northwest coast. Annuk learns what it means to be different when he discovers that he has a coat of white fur instead...
- Author: Regehr, CherylSummary:
Essential Law for Social Work Practice in Canada addresses the need for an up-to-date, hands-on legal information guide that social workers can use as they interact with the Canadian federal and provincial legal system. It includes a...
- Author: Schwartz, Virginia FrancesSummary:
Narrated by a fat half-Persian half-alley cat called Amos, this very funny chapter book will delight young readers. When and injured baby squirrel moves into Amos' already crowded household, everything turns topsy-turvy. Ten year old...
- Author: Kaner, EttaSummary:
Takes a close look at what we dislike about each of 10 unpopular animals, and then presents the flip side: these very same animals are often smart, helpful to humans and the environment, or inspiring to scientists.
- Author: Kochanoff, PeggySummary:
With simple language and beautiful artwork, Kochanoff walks young readers through many nature puzzles.
- Author: Thomas, KeltieSummary:
Outlines the way different types of animals, including livestock, pets, such creatures as silkworms that sparked trade, working beasts, noxious animals, and those that inspire the imagination, have influenced human civilization.
- Author: Veloso, FelixSummary:
Stroke is the number one perpetrator of permanent disability and the number two cause of mortality in the world.
- Author: Veloso, Felix ; Veloso, Joanne ; Veloso-Tang, RoxanneSummary:
Unless preventative measures are taken a new dementia patient will be diagnosed in Canada every two minutes over the next 30 years.
- Author: Armstrong, NickySummary:
Saving Jesse is based on a diary Nicky started when she was asked by physicians to record the frequency and duration of Jesse's seizures. It became much more than a simple log. Told at the pace of a well plotted novel, Saving Jesse is a...
- Author: Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
Amélia est une enfant mal accrochée à la vie. Quand elle perd d’un coup sa mère puis son père, elle décide de ne plus continuer. Le temps fait d’elle une femme sans qu’elle s’en aperçoive. Angelo veille sur elle de tout son amour....
- Author: Noël-Maw, MartineSummary:
Dr. Emile Murray is the grandson of Fort San’s longtime director and pioneering tuberculosis specialist. Or is he? A late aunt’s diaries and letters suggests otherwise. Reading them, Emile’s wife Sophie is surprised to discover...
- Author: Petersen, Myrna L.Summary:
From his humble beginning in India, Dr. Krishna Kumar has achieved international renown as a neurosurgeon. He is the recipient of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honour that his adopted country has to offer.
- Author: McCorquodale, ElizabethSummary:
Presents general information about garden animals, as well as practical information and garden projects for creating a garden capable of sustaining a wide variety of wildlife.
- Author: Mogil, H. MichaelSummary:
Recent decades have brought record temperatures, devastating storms, and killer waves, which have in turn spurred widespread curiosity about how such weather systems develop. Organized by weather event—including hurricanes, winter...
- Author: Silvey, AnitaSummary:
"This biography for children trace's Goodall's life, but each chapter will also focus on two or more the chimpanzees that she observed, with information in sidebars about these particular animals. Along with biographical details, the...
- Author: Downer, AnnSummary:
This book explains that, as the human population tops seven billion, animals are running out of space causing them to invade urban neighborhoods and that the urban neighborhoods must create space to accommodate wildlife if we are to...
- Author: Currie, RobertSummary:
The spotlight is turned on the single events, the chance interactions, the moments that, in their ordinariness, are turning points masquerading as the everyday.
In this sublime collection, the ‘eternal’ boyhood of setting traps,...
- Author: Watt, MélanieSummary:
Uncomfortable with the idea of camping outdoors, Scaredy Squirrel engages in a camping venture on his couch away from mosquitoes, skunks and zippers and hopes to watch a camping show on his new television, which requires him to hunt for...
- Author: Matheson, M. J.Summary:
Strange things start happening in the bedrooms of Faith and Dakota. The siblings find a way to solve their problems and make friends in a special way.