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  • Unearthed

    Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

    **Shortlisted for the 2018 Kobzar AwardShortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors**Alexandra Risen's father dies just as she and her husband purchase a nondescript house set atop a natural gorge in the middle of the city. The garden is choked with weeds and crumbling structures. Over the years, as she undertakes the replanting, it stirs memories of her childhood when a nearby ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Unearthed

    Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden

    Narrated by Hillary Huber ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    Alex's father dies just as she and her husband buy a nondescript house set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city. Choked with weeds and crumbling antique structures, the abandoned garden turned wild jungle stirs cherished memories of Alex's childhood; when her home life became unbearable, she would escape to the forest. In her new home, Alex can ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    A Naturalist at Large

    The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich

    Narrated by Rick Adamson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    From one of the finest scientists and writers of our time comes an engaging record of a life spent in close observation of the natural world, one that has yielded marvelous, mind-altering (Los Angeles Times) insight and discoveries. In essays that span several decades, Bernd Heinrich finds himself at his beloved camp in Maine, plays host to annoying visitors from Europe (the cluster fly) and more ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Twenty-One Cardinals

    Translated by Rhonda Mullins ...
    From the author and translator of And the Birds Rained Down, a 2015 CBC Canada Reads selectionWinner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English TranslationAn abandoned mine. A large family driven by honour. And a source of pain, buried deep in the ground.We’re nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Dhow House

    by Jean McNeil ...
    A lushly imagined novel that asks, “When do we ever really know ourselves?”When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Do You Think This Is Strange?

    Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour WritingWinner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager.When he’s seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Five Roses

    by Alice Zorn ...
    2017 Evergreen Award, Forest of Reading — NominatedA sister. A baby. A man who watches from the trees.Fara and her husband buy a house with a disturbing history that reawakens memories of her own family tragedy. Maddy still lives in the house, once a hippie commune, where her daughter was kidnapped twenty-seven years ago. Rose grew up isolated with her mother in the backwoods north of Montreal. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 13th Gift

    A True Story of a Christmas Miracle

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Hanging with the Elephant

    A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation

    'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday TimesFrom the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking to S**trangers and On Tuesdays I'm A Buddhist**'In public or on stage, it's different. I'm fine. I have no bother talking to three hundred peopl. ... Read more

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  • Life's That Way

    by Jim Beaver ...
    A remarkable memoir that shows the capacity of the human heart to heal after the challenge of having to say goodbye.Even the hardest lessons contain great gifts.Jim Beaver and his wife Cecily Adams appeared to have it all-following years of fertility treatments, they were finally parents and they were building their dream home and successful Hollywood careers. Life was good. But then their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Here If You Need Me

    A True Story

    The remarkable story of one woman's journey from grief to faith to happiness—as she holds her family together in the wake of her husband's death, pursues his dream of becoming a minister, and ultimately finds her calling as a chaplain to search-and-rescue workers.Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Artful Garden

    Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design

    “I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It’s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of plants, paths, and ornaments into an adventure.”—James van SwedenGuided by world-renowned landscape architect James van Sweden and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD