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The Screech Owls are invited to compete in a four-day skills competition in Detroit. Along with another team, they will be participating in a reality show called Goals & Dreams.

"From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep

Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life.

Now that his hockey career is ending, what will become of his life? Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty.

In September 1972 Team Canada’s heroes triumphed over the Soviet Union in the greatest hockey battle of all time.

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.

Miranda Fox desperately wants to find the daughter her family took from her when she was young.

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless.

Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House.

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere.

When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage.

Gideon, recently discharged from the Army, has arrived in Hedderby only to discover another man has stolen his name and inheritance.

When Captain Merrivale dies, his daughters Martha and Penelope are left almost penniless.