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Riding on the wild side: tales of adventure in the Canadian West (Amazing stories)
By Dale Portman. 2004
A collection of stories about working horses and the people who make a living riding them in Canada's mountain national…
parks: chasing a herd of wild horses, galloping at full speed toward an impenetrable forest, and so on. A sense of the excitement of the backcountry life. 2004.The Canadian style: a guide to writing and editing
By Secretary of State Staff, Dundurn Press Staff, Translation Bureau Staff, Public Works and Government Services Canada Staff. 1997
Writers talking
By John Metcalf, Claire Wilkshire. 2003
Includes interviews with and commentaries from eight Canadian writers. Listen in to Terry Griggs on where stories come from, Michael…
Winter on writing Newfoundland, and K.D. Miller on being 'an actor who writes'. Also features short stories by these authors. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2003.Virtual clearcut: or the way things are in my hometown
By Brian Fawcett. 2003
Prince George, a once-thriving city of 80,000 in British Columbia, has experienced an accelerating virtual clearcut that has undermined its…
economic and social culture over the past 40 years. In four carefully drawn portraits of the city sketched over a decade, the author, who grew up there and has tracked its steady decline, shows that in the face of globalization Prince George has lost its ability to control its own destiny, and is losing its will to care. 2003.Canada, the culture (Lands, peoples, and cultures series.)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1993
Canada, the land (Lands, peoples, and cultures series.)
By Bobbie Kalman. 1993
The Canadian writer's workplace: building writing skills
By John A Roberts. 2007
A complete grammar and composition text designed as a flexible resource for writers who need to improve their writing skills.…
It provides instructors with a wealth of grammar exercises and writing opportunities, and gives students a solid foundation for grammar mastery and the development of different styles and approaches to writing. 2007.The dolphin's tooth: a decade in search of adventure
By Bruce Kirkby. 2005
Stuck in an engineer's cubicle and tormented by doubts and boredom, Kirkby quit his job to bicycle the Karakoram Highway…
in northern Pakistan. Over the next fifteen years, he undertook some of the most challenging expeditions the world has to offer, including running Africa's Blue Nile Gorge, climbing Mount Everest, or learning to embrace the wilderness on the Tatshenshini River of Canada's Arctic. 2005.On the road again
By Wayne Rostad. 1996
Rostad revisits some of most interesting guests on his television show, "On the Road Again." Some of the extraordinary people…
he introduces are a Newfoundland man who is a connoisseur and salesman of fine iceberg ice, a couple in British Columbia who won the lottery but kept on running the town garbage dump, an Alberta man who eats bugs, and a Quebec woman who has adopted 24 disabled children.Four and a half years after the disappearance of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his two ships, HMS Investigator…
sets sail in search of them. Instead of rescuing lost comrades, the Investigator's officers and crew soon find themselves trapped in their own ordeal, facing starvation, madness, and death. If only they can save themselves, they will bring back news of a great achievement: their discovery of the elusive Northwest Passage. 2009.The joy of writing: a guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir
By Pierre Berton. 2003
Pierre Berton shares his own experiences in learning to write and in improving during his writing career. Includes information about…
editors, tips for writer's block, and story development through many drafts. 2003.Includes both Reagan's own writing and his favourite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature. The breadth of…
these notes sheds light on a man who was deeply engaged with the arts, culture, and politics. Known as the "Great Communicator," Reagan sought wisdom from a wide-ranging set of political figures, philosophers, novelists, and poets. Some strong language. c2011.Collins Cobuild English grammar: helping learners with real English (Collins Cobuild Ser.)
By University of Birmingham Staff. 1990
A comprehensive reference grammar specially developed for advanced students and teachers of English. Using information from the COBUILD database, the…
editors have selected what they consider to be the most important examples of spoken and written modern English. 1990.Parfums: A Catalogue Of Remembered Smells (Litterature & Documents Ser.)
By Philippe Claudel. 2015
"En dressant l'inventaire des parfums qui nous émeuvent - ce que j'ai fait pour moi, ce que chacun peut faire…
pour lui-même -, on voyage librement dans une vie. Le bagage est léger. On respire et on se laisse aller. Le temps n'existe plus : car c'est aussi cela la magie des parfums que de nous retirer du courant qui nous emporte, et nous donner l'illusion que nous sommes toujours ce que nous avons été, ou que nous fûmes ce que nous nous apprêtons à être. Alors la tête nous tourne délicieusement. P. Claudel" -- 4e de couv.Where the words come from: Canadian poets in conversation
By Tim Bowling. 2002
A comprehensive gathering of 17 interviews with and by many of Canada's most exciting poetic talents. In each of them,…
a younger and/or less widely known poet questions an older, more celebrated peer on a wide range of issues. 2002.Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
By Brian Harvey. 2019
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his fatherAfter a 25-year break from boating,…
Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after his father’s death. John Harvey was a neurosurgeon, violinist, and photographer who answered his door a decade into retirement to find a sheriff with a summons. It was a malpractice suit, and it did not go well. Dr. Harvey never got over it. The box contained every nurse’s record, doctor’s report, trial transcript, and expert testimony related to the case. Only Brian’s father had read it all — until now.In this beautifully written memoir, Brian Harvey shares how after two months of voyaging with his father’s ghost, he finally finds out what happened in the O.R. that crucial night and why Dr. Harvey felt compelled to fight the excruciating accusations.Nous étions le nouveau monde: 2. Le feuilleton des premières
By Jean-Claude Germain. 2012
" Jean-Claude Germain continue à revisiter la galerie des personnages essentiels de lépopée québécoise, des lendemains de la Défaite jusquau…
Rapport Durham, en sattardant sur les événements les plus significatifs de cette période. Après ce que lenvahisseur appelle la Conquête , des générations de Canadiens français font le dur apprentissage du joug anglais et, dans la mesure des faibles moyens politiques et juridiques qui sont les leurs, résistent à lassimilation prônée par les Anglais. Dans les premières décennies du XIXe siècle, des hommes politiques francophones saffirment et se posent en défenseurs dun peuple bafoué et sous-représenté au Parlement canadien. Parmi eux, Louis-Joseph Papineau demeure la figure marquante de ce mouvement dopposition et de revendication qui culmine avec la Rébellion des Patriotes, dont lauteur retrace ici la genèse méconnue et les épisodes les plus dramatiques. Mais dans la vie comme dans lœuvre de Jean-Claude Germain, la tragédie est souvent émaillée de savoureuses scènes de la comédie humaine. On découvre les innovations techniques de lépoque et leurs tâtonnements; les mésaventures des gouverneurs britanniques qui viennent au Bas-Canada veiller sur les intérêts de la mère patrie; le grotesque de la guerre canado-américaine de 1812 que sapprête à célébrer en grande pompe le gouvernement Harper. " -- 4e de couvSans faire plus d'histoire: anecdotes méconnues qui ont fait le Québec
By Anne De Léan. 2019
Saviez-vous que les États-Unis ont déjà largué une bombe atomique à Kamouraska? Que le stress est né à Montréal? Que…
le zoo de Granby a contribué au mariage de la princesse Grace de Monaco? Croiriez-vous que la chanson Give Peace a Chance de John Lennon a été produite à Brossard et que l'on attribue des origines québécoises au personnage du Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry? De Saint-Placide à Fermont, en passant par Warwick et Pointe-au-Père, les villes du Québec ont connu un nombre étonnant de faits insolites, mais pourtant bien réels. Enrichies de documents d'archives, de photographies, d'illustrations et de souvenirs de certaines personnalités, ces bribes de notre passé sont ici rassemblées dans un ouvrage esthétique et captivant. Toujours rigoureux mais jamais coupable de se prendre au sérieux, Sans faire plus d'histoire relate des anecdotes méconnues de notre 20e siècleEntry Island
By Peter May. 2016
"A VIVID, FULLY REALIZED NOVEL OF LOST LOVE, YEARNING AND UNBEARABLE HARDSHIP." --Seattle Times"IN A WORD, SUPERLATIVE AND A BOOK…
TO GET LOST IN" --Deadly Pleasures MagazineOnly two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been discovered murdered in his home. Covered in her husband's blood, the dead man's melancholy wife spins a tale for the police about a masked intruder armed with a knife. The investigation appears to be little more than a formality--the evidence points to a crime of passion by the wife. But homicide detective Sime Mackenzie is electrified by the widow during his interview, convinced that he has met her before, even though this is clearly impossible. Haunted by this strange certainty, Sime's insomnia is punctuated by vivid, hallucinatory dreams of a distant past on a Scottish island 3,000 miles away, dreams in which he and the widow play leading roles. Sime's conviction soon becomes an obsession. And despite mounting evidence of the woman's guilt, he finds himself convinced of her innocence, leading to a conflict between the professional duty he must fulfill and the personal destiny he is increasingly sure awaits him.Since their inception in 1977, the Toronto Blue Jays have been one of the most dynamic franchises in all of…
baseball. As an award-winning, longtime Jays columnist, Bob Elliott has witnessed more than his share of that history up close and personal. In If These Walls Could Talk: Toronto Blue Jays, Elliott provides insight into the Jays' inner sanctum as only he can. Readers will gain the perspective of players, coaches, and front office executives in times of greatness as well as defeat, making for a keepsake no fan will want to miss.