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This is a book celebrating the incredible, awesome, special individual within each of us.

"The writer who never talks about eating, about appetite, hunger, food, about cooks and meals, arouses my suspicion, as though some vital element were missing in him." Scholarly, playful,

Everyone wonders what it's really like in space, but very few of us have ever had the chance to experience it firsthand.

Real taxi drivers know more than how to get you there without a GPS. Philosophers all, they know how to get you there in life.

Hello, grown-ups of all ages! Eclectic, bite-sized bursts of advice meet quirky illustrations in this playful guide to feeling like the grown-up we all wanted to be as a kid.

Musings from a "one-man flash mob" (Toronto Star) Comedian Shawn Hitchins explores his irreverent nature in this debut collection of essays.

Avid North American birders share wit, wisdom, advice, and what fuels their passion for birds.Birding gets you outside, helps you de-stress, exercises your body and mind, puts your day-to-day probl

A hockey history moment for every day of the year! A few seconds can make a game, even a season, and behind each play is a piece of history.

This is a book about a small Southern Italian village and its offshoots in Toronto.

A captivating collection of Jack Knox's most memorable, heart-warming, inspiring, and off-beat human-interest stories. Praise for Jack Knox: "Canada needs more Knox!" - Will Ferguson.

A colourful portrait of life in an eccentric fishing village on the BC coast.

A timely, intriguing collection of the overlooked stories of Victoria's pioneers, trailblazers, and community builders who were also diverse people of colour.

Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007.

The stories in Far Pastures take readers to R.M. Patterson’s homestead in the Peace River country of northern Alberta. To all-night dances that ended as the northern lights faded in the dawn.

Brought into the media spotlight by her great-niece Pamela Anderson, Auntie Vie burst onto the scene as Pamela’s biggest supporter on “Dancing with the Stars.” Unexpectedly, Auntie Vie’s distinctiv