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Deserts
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 22.95Next to rain forests, deserts are the most biologically diverse ecosystems on Earth. In fact, a desert is never a single ecosystem but a concentration of dozens, ranging from arid flatlands to high mesas to canyons, and oases. Filled with unexpected life and unforgiving conditions, the desert evokes a vivid and passionate response from those who experience... more...
Where the Silence Rings
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 22.95From Edward Whymper?s ascent of the Matterhorn in the 1860s to Jon Krakauer?s vivid profiles of modern mountaineers, this collection offers indelible impressions from writers who experienced the mystery and the grandeur of the mountains ? and who lived to tell about it. Highlights include John Muir?s ?A Perilous Night on Mount Shasta? and Belmore... more...
Dark Waters Dancing to a Breeze
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 22.95Humans? fascination with water finds full expression in this stellar collection. Included are writings from Mark Twain, who marvels at the teeming humanity on the Ganges; Henry Stanley, searching for Livingston and discovering instead Lake Albert Edward; selections from A Compleat Angler and A River Runs Through It; and more than a dozen other... more...
Technology
Groundwood Books 2011; US$ 9.95Technology is the most prevalent and powerful force in the modern world. Different aspects of technology play immense roles in our lives, from determining how doctors treat diseases to the kinds of energy we use to fuel our vehicles, from providing us with means of exploring the universe to communication systems like cell phones and the Internet.... more...
Emancipation Day
Doubleday Canada 2013; US$ 24.95How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him? With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled, romantic Vivian Clift, a local... more...
A Very Bold Leap
McClelland & Stewart 2009; US$ 21.00The third novel in the highly acclaimed quartet, The Charles the Bold Series, about a young man growing up in Montreal from the 1960s to 2000. The last lines of volume two, The Years of Fire , have young Charles Thibodeau defiantly shouting ?Montreal! You?re going to be hearing from me! I?m going to make your ears ring!? ? just like Balzac?s hero... more...
The Years of Fire
McClelland & Stewart 2011; US$ 21.00The second novel in the highly acclaimed series Charles the Bold , about a young man growing up in east-end Montreal. ?Montreal! You?re going to be hearing from me! I?m going to make your ears ring!? These are the last words in this hypnotically interesting saga that follow the adventurous life of our bold hero, Charles Thibodeau. This book takes... more...
Obomsawin of Sioux Junction
D & M Publishers 2010; US$ 9.99One fine spring morning, a float plane lands on a lake near the northern Ontario town of Sioux Junction, and three men get out: a judge, a Crown prosecutor and a defence attorney. The trial of Thomas Obomsawin, a native painter who has been accused of setting fire to his mother's house, is scheduled to begin. It soon becomes clear that it is not only... more...
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe
Greystone Books 2010; US$ 14.00What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady , the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds , her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes... more...









