1.
Series:
How I Won the War for the Allies
One Sassy Canadian Soldier's Story
Paperback
Doris Gregory
9781553803171
$21.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
May 25, 2015
Still sassy, Doris Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to the time when she broke with tradition, first by publicly challenging the University of British Columbia's discrimination against women, and then by joining the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Her memoir allows us to travel with her across the Atlantic at the height of the U-boat infestation and to take refuge in underground shelters while bombs fall on London. Unlike most memoirs of the war that focus on battles, Gregory shows the everyday mundane activities of office life, wo...
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2.
Series:
my June
Paperback
Danial Neil
9781553803355
$18.95
FICTION
Sep 30, 2014
In this hauntingly beautiful novel with its palette of blues and greys, Danial Neil explores the world of Reuben Dale after the sudden death from a stroke of his beloved wife, June. Neil takes us inside suffering to show us the thoughts and feelings of the one left behind. Lost without the woman he has loved and leaned on, Reuben wanders aimlessly for a time in the little town of Seaside on the Sunshine Coast where he had retired with his wife with expectations of leisure time to sail.But now their sailboat, my June, named after his wife, remai...
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3.
Series:
House Made of Rain
Paperback
Pamela Porter
9781553803416
$15.95
POETRY
Aug 15, 2014
In this breathtaking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural world. In the long poem "Atonement," Porter takes us into a human drama, rich with astonishments: "There was no snow, but you could say the snow buried everything, and you'd be right." In simple language at once lyrical and powerful, these poems are a meditation on vulnerability - "how fragilewe are; a word shatters us" - on nature, where plum blossoms...
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4.
Series:
Loose to the World
Paperback
Henry Rappaport
9781553803386
$15.95
POETRY
Jun 15, 2014
These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild. Some poems are narrative, some imagistic meditations, and some are small, playful pieces that edge into wisdom: "Here, here, you sing and now / Between me and what I see / lives eternity." Throughout there is a unifying voice that is all Rappaport's own and (unimaginably) blends skepticism with mysticism. The poems present themselves as both playful and worldlywise. These are poems that prefer understatement to hyperbol...
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5.
Series:
White Oneida, The
Paperback
Jean Rae Baxter
9781553803324
$11.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 10 - 15
May 15, 2014
In her fourth historical novel dealing with British North America and the American Revolution, Jean Rae Baxter focuses on Broken Trail, a young boy who was born white but captured and adopted by the Oneida people. The great Mohawk leader Thayendanegea - known to Euro-Canadians as Joseph Brant - has chosen Broken Trail to assist him in the daunting task of uniting all the tribes and nations with the goal of establishing a country of their own. In preparation, Broken Trail must attend a Christian boarding school for native youth, where he soon fi...
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6.
Series: Happy the Pocket Mouse
Jellybean Mouse
Hardcover
Philip Roy
9781553803447
$12.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Oct 15, 2014
Jellybean Mouse is the second tale in the exciting new picture book series, "Happy the Pocket Mouse." When a "boring" trip to the laundromat to wash their clothes frustrates Happy's insatiable appetite for adventure (and neither the skating rink nor the bowling alley can entice John away from their mundane task), Happy arrives at the laundromat in a funk, only to come face-to-face with his first jellybean machine. Thrilled with the discovery, Happy is confounded for a second time when John explains that he has only enough quarters for the wash....
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