This gripping novel for young readers begins in 1805, when fifteen-year-old Duncan Scott and his sister Libby lose their parents in a Glasgow cotton mill fire.
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Author:Hodgins, Jack
Summary:With The Barclay Family Theatre, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrous worl
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Author:Mielnicki, Michel
Summary:This profoundly honest Holocaust memoir describes the transformation of everyday anti-Semitism into the Holocaust nightmare.
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Author:McDowell, Jim
Summary:Jim McDowell’s new biography of the little-known Spanish explorer José María Narváez, reveals his significant discoveries during the European exploration of what is now Canada’s Pacific Northwest C
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Author:Boraks-Nemetz, Lillian
Summary:The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press.
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Author:Gustafson, Paula
,Gustafson, Nisse
Summary:This third and final volume in the Craft Perception and Practice series features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the r
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Author:Smith, Lisa Anne Anne
Summary:On the morning of June 13, 1886, a rogue wind fanned the flames of a small clearing fire—and within five hours, the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, had been reduced to smold
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Author:Roy, Philip
Summary:In Seas of South Africa, the sixth volume in the best-selling Submarine Outlaw series, it has been over two years since the young explorer first set sail in his own submarine, with his dog and seag
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Author:Porter, Pamela
Summary:This collection of poems takes us on a journey — a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own — to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover:
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Author:Gustafson, Paula
Summary:Canada's ceramists, tapestry weavers, and other craft artists are recognized amongst the world's finest artisans.
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Author:Narwani, Ulrike
Summary:The poems in Collecting Silence arc through youth, love and loss, to maturation, aging, peace.
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Author:Twigg, Alan
Summary:Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg while travelling in northern India in 1961 encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had fled over the mountain passes.
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Author:Wagamese, Richard
Summary:Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape.
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Author:Richler, Howard
Summary:To some extent, everyone plays with language and uses it as a form of recreation as well as a means of communication.
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Author:Arnott, Joanne
Summary:A Night for the Lady explores the terrain of poetry conversation. Each poem arises from conversations with poets, colleagues and intimate friends.
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