34 Books Featured
How It Happened in Peach Hill
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings
978-1-77049-068-0 (1-77049-068-X)
February 1, 2012 | $6.99
The year is 1924, the heyday of the revived Spiritualist movement. Fourteen-year-old Annie and her mother are successful purveyors of psychic chicanery; they move from town to town, cashing in on the fad for clairvoyant guidance.
When they arrive in Peach Hill, Annie is once again compelled into her part of...
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations; Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Emotions & Feelings
978-1-77049-068-0 (1-77049-068-X)
February 1, 2012 | $6.99
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The year is 1924, the heyday of the revived Spiritualist movement. Fourteen-year-old Annie and her mother are successful purveyors of psychic chicanery; they move from town to town, cashing in on the fad for clairvoyant guidance.
When they arrive in Peach Hill, Annie is once again compelled into her part of...
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Double Hook
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-244-0 (1-55199-244-2)
January 25, 2012 | $17.95
In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that the flight from danger and the search for glory are both...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-244-0 (1-55199-244-2)
January 25, 2012 | $17.95
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In spare, allusive prose, Sheila Watson charts the destiny of a small, tightly knit community nestled in the BC Interior. Here, among the hills of Cariboo country, men and women are caught upon the double hook of existence, unaware that the flight from danger and the search for glory are both...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
Feast of Stephen
eBook | 162 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-1-55199-380-5 (1-55199-380-5)
January 25, 2012 | $14.95
“Do you know the characteristic wine of Madeira?…I do not know whether Leacock ever drank Madeira himself – he was very much a Scotch-whisky man – but I enjoy Madeira greatly, and I never drink it without thinking of Leacock, who was sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, but who always leaves upon...
eBook | 162 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Literary Criticism & Collections - Canadian
978-1-55199-380-5 (1-55199-380-5)
January 25, 2012 | $14.95
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“Do you know the characteristic wine of Madeira?…I do not know whether Leacock ever drank Madeira himself – he was very much a Scotch-whisky man – but I enjoy Madeira greatly, and I never drink it without thinking of Leacock, who was sometimes dry, sometimes sweet, but who always leaves upon...
Hetty Dorval
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-178-8 (1-55199-178-0)
January 25, 2012 | $19.95
Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. As Frankie Burnaby, the young schoolgirl Mrs. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty’s story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-1-55199-178-8 (1-55199-178-0)
January 25, 2012 | $19.95
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Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. As Frankie Burnaby, the young schoolgirl Mrs. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty’s story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
All the Stars in the Sky
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Legends, Myths, Fables; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Native American
978-1-77049-178-6 (1-77049-178-3)
January 11, 2012 | $17.95
The heavens — the sun, the stars, and the moon — have inspired, intrigued, and mystified us from the beginning of time. We’ve always searched for ways to comprehend their beauty and their meaning. Mohawk artist and author C. J. Taylor has drawn from First Nations legends from across North America...
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Legends, Myths, Fables; Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Native American
978-1-77049-178-6 (1-77049-178-3)
January 11, 2012 | $17.95
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The heavens — the sun, the stars, and the moon — have inspired, intrigued, and mystified us from the beginning of time. We’ve always searched for ways to comprehend their beauty and their meaning. Mohawk artist and author C. J. Taylor has drawn from First Nations legends from across North America...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Bear Attacks
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Bears; Nature - Wildlife
978-1-55199-480-2 (1-55199-480-1)
January 11, 2012 | $24.99
What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future?
Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching...
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Nature - Bears; Nature - Wildlife
978-1-55199-480-2 (1-55199-480-1)
January 11, 2012 | $24.99
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What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future?
Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Matchless Six
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics
978-1-77049-067-3 (1-77049-067-1)
January 11, 2012 | $16.95
It is July 1928, and Canada’s first women’s Olympic team — “The Matchless Six” — is heading to Amsterdam, the site of the ninth Olympiad of the modern era. Canada’s finest female track-and-field athletes, having survived rigorous training and the grueling selection process at the Olympic Trials, were determined to take...
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Olympics
978-1-77049-067-3 (1-77049-067-1)
January 11, 2012 | $16.95
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It is July 1928, and Canada’s first women’s Olympic team — “The Matchless Six” — is heading to Amsterdam, the site of the ninth Olympiad of the modern era. Canada’s finest female track-and-field athletes, having survived rigorous training and the grueling selection process at the Olympic Trials, were determined to take...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
No Great Mischief
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-547-2 (1-55199-547-6)
January 11, 2012 | $21.00
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where...
eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical; Fiction
978-1-55199-547-2 (1-55199-547-6)
January 11, 2012 | $21.00
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Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Perilous Trade
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Business & Economics; Business & Economics - Industries; Language Arts & Disciplines - Publishing
978-1-55199-261-7 (1-55199-261-2)
January 11, 2012 | $21.95
A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing
“Publishing Canadian books has always been an experiment. Like the great experiments of building a transcontinental railway and a national broadcasting system, it constitutes one of the nation’s defining acts. Publishing, after all, is a people’s way of telling its...
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Business & Economics; Business & Economics - Industries; Language Arts & Disciplines - Publishing
978-1-55199-261-7 (1-55199-261-2)
January 11, 2012 | $21.95
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A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing
“Publishing Canadian books has always been an experiment. Like the great experiments of building a transcontinental railway and a national broadcasting system, it constitutes one of the nation’s defining acts. Publishing, after all, is a people’s way of telling its...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Spirits, Fairies, and Merpeople
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Native American; Juvenile Fiction - Legends, Myths, Fables
978-1-77049-176-2 (1-77049-176-7)
January 11, 2012 | $19.95
From the heartbreaking Mi’kmaq story of Minnow, a mermaid in the Atlantic who must choose between two worlds to that of Water Lily and her five brothers, told by the Coos in British Columbia, creatures that inhabit fantastic realms appear in many First Nation stories. C. J. Taylor draws from those...
eBook | pages | Tundra Books | Juvenile Fiction - Ethnic - Native American; Juvenile Fiction - Legends, Myths, Fables
978-1-77049-176-2 (1-77049-176-7)
January 11, 2012 | $19.95
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From the heartbreaking Mi’kmaq story of Minnow, a mermaid in the Atlantic who must choose between two worlds to that of Water Lily and her five brothers, told by the Coos in British Columbia, creatures that inhabit fantastic realms appear in many First Nation stories. C. J. Taylor draws from those...
Also available as a
hardcover.
