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Dutch-born Wiebo Ludwig, former leader of a Christian Reformed Church in Goderich, Ontario, and his entourage, which consisted of his…
ever-growing family and a few sympathizers, decamped for Alberta in 1985 and bought a place called Trickle Creek - in oil country. What ensued was a long, nasty, and often violent conflict between Ludwig and the oil and gas industry over its legal right to drill on private land, regardless of landowners' concerns over the contamination of air and water by the pollutants that spew out of the wells. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. 2002.
For referendum-weary English Canadians, Quebec is an enigma wrapped in a yawn, so Grescoe explores a francophone country-and-western festival in…
rural Mauricie, deconstructs a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, covers the stunning diversity of Quebec's newspapers, and dismantles Bombardier snowmobiles, all while meeting Mohawk Warriors, Yiddish-speaking French Canadians, and the UFO-obsessed followers of Raël. He describes Quebec's love-hate relationship with France and the United States; the dance, theatre, and literary productions celebrated in Europe but little known here; and its fears about distinctness on an increasingly uniform continent. 2000.
Travel writer Maria Coffey and her husband, photographer Dag Goering, embark on a 3-month journey by wooden boat along Canada's…
western shores. Leading the way are legendary boat builders and sailors Allen and Sharie Farrell aboard China Cloud; they visit their old haunts along the coast, where they homesteaded, fished and built boats. 1996.
Though it was discovered almost 500 years ago, few people have visited Sable Island. Despite modern navigational tools, excessive fog…
and stormy weather still make travelling to Sable a challenge. But the island is part of Maritime lore--dubbed the "graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the number of ships wrecked on its shores. Sable Island also hosts wild horses, thousands of seals, and enchanting "singing" sands and "wandering" dunes. Sable Island is as dangerous as it is alluring. Grades 2-4. 2011.
Though Jack London set sail for the north to accumulate gold, in the back of his mind lurked a resolve…
to become a writer. He absorbed the experiences and observations he later organized into mesmerizing stories. This book is the story of the search for the Yukon bush cabin in which London wrote his name. 2006.
While walking from Boston to the Southwest to inspect a mine he inherited, Edward Dugan meets a man that tells…
him that Henry Christian, the man that has offered to buy the mine, can't be trusted. 2018.
While investigating the murder of a nun in an isolated Maine town, FBI agent Colin Donovan goes undercover as an…
Irish fisherman and must decide if he wants to work alone or with Emma Sharpe, an art detective, to stop a killer's plot for eternal glory. Followed by "Heron's Cove". 2012.
Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in…
1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle. 2010.
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper…
cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Based on a true story. Grades 4-7. 2002.
Back on the force, but at a reduced rank, John Rebus suspects that the daughter of a powerful businessman isn’t…
coming clean about her car accident. Meanwhile, the reopening of a decades-old case could cause problems for Rebus and his old team. 2013.
Poems of exploration and discovery from the pen of James Pollock. Here is a schoolboy’s fascination with the English teacher;…
the grandmother's old Bible; a Dantean-style extended account of a hiking adventure with a young son. Further out in time and geography, Pollock muses on figures from Canadian history, including explorer Henry Hudson, literary theorist Northrop Frye and pianist Glenn Gould. 2012.
Recreates the world of Christ, revising our understanding of the relationship between Jesus and Saul (better know to Christians as…
St. Paul). Explores The Epistles of Saul, the closest thing to a direct eye-witness account of the life of Jesus. This study probes the evidence for and against the historical status of Saul and Jesus, shedding light on such issues as Jesus' relationship with his family, views on divorce, and resurrection. 2000.
Description of the world's largest desert landscape and its inhabitants. Discusses the geography, natural cycles, and resilient life-forms of the…
sandy wilderness stretching across the broadest part of Africa. Covers the history of the Sahara's indigenous people--Berbers, Moors, and Tuareg--and the ancient kingdoms of past civilizations. 2003.
When English tycoon Sir Robert Waldo Hardwick dies mysteriously in a car accident, he leaves behind a will naming six…
people he suspects might have wanted him dead. Following Sir Robert's instructions, Daisy Keane and P.I. Harry Montana team up to take the suspects - and six red herrings - on a fabulous cruise, all expenses paid. 2006.
Designed to help you determine your patron saints, this book provides a biographical listing of saints arranged alphabetically, a calendar…
of saints by day of the year, and a list of patron saints for such categories as ethnicity, occupation, illness, and lifestyle. 1993.
The author chronicles his journey through the Sahara Desert, south from Algiers to Senegal, mostly by public transportation. Describes his…
grueling travel across a harsh terrain, the region's colonial history and current political unrest, and the hardscrabble life of the indigenous Tuareg nomads. 1996.
Robert Bateman takes the reader along for close encounters with the animals of the African plains. The facts about the…
height, weight, food, and habitat of each animal are also included so that the reader can easily compare the animals to one another and to things in their own lives. Grades 3-6. 1998.
"He will make himself useful", said Saddlebottom's proud and snobbish Mother. She meant as pork sausages for it would be…
a disgrace for a pure bred Wessex Saddleback to go through life with a saddle shaped patch on his bottom. But Saddlebottom has other ideas. Grades 3-6. 1985.