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  • Journeywoman

    Swinging a Hammer in a Man's World

    by Kate Braid ...
    Since women started working in the trades in the 1970s, very little has been published about their experiences. In this provocative and important book, Kate Braid tells the story of how she became a carpenter in the face of skepticism and discouragement. In 1977 when Braid was broke and out of work, her male friends encouraged her to apply as a labourer on a construction site on Pender Island, off ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Emily Carr

    Rebel Artist

    by Kate Braid ...
    Series Book 2 - Quest Biography
    As a child she was "contrary,"as a young woman she defied convention to choose art over marriage, and as a middle-aged woman she was considered a full-blown eccentric. Listening to her own inner voice, Emily Carr created an art unique to British Columbia. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Rough Ground Revisited

    by Kate Braid ...
    Covering Rough Ground, Kate Braid’s first book, was published in 1991 and awarded the Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman. Since then Kate has written extensively in prose, poetry and on CBC Radio about her and other women’s experiences in the construction trades. Her work has been highly praised by women in almost every line of male-dominated work including lawyers, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Canadian Artists Bundle

    Emily Carr / Tom Thomson / James Wilson Morrice

    by Kate Braid, Wayne Larsen ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country has produced its share of talented landscape painters. Tom Thomson’s work is known the world over for its wild, vivid portrayals of Ontario’s wilderness. Emily Carr ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 1–5

    Emma Albani / Emily Carr / George Grant / Jacques Plante / John Diefenbaker

    by Vladimir Konieczny, Darcy Dunton, Michelle Labrèche-Larouche, T.F. Rigelhof, Arthur Slade, Raymond Plante, Kate Braid ...
    Series series Quest Biography
    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera singer from Quebec who became a diva of the musical world; Emily Carr, the artist famous for capturing the essence in her paintings of the Native cultures of the coast of British Columbia; George Grant, a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    A Novel

    by Graeme Simsion ...
    A first-date dud, socially awkward and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea.He will design a questionnaire—a sixteen-page, scientifically researched questionnaire—to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She ... Read more

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  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared

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    by Jonas Jonasson ...
    After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health, and one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn’t interested (and he’d like a bit more control over his alcohol consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks ... Read more

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  • This and That

    The Lost Stories of Emily Carr

    by Emily Carr ...
    Once available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection. Carr began to write these stories in the last two years of her life. She wrote of the project: ". . . they are too small each to be taken singly, but each, complete in itself, serves to ... Read more

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  • Defiant Spirits

    The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

    by Ross King ...
    Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Canadians: Emily Carr

    by Lewis Desoto ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Mad, bad, and dangerous to know is how Victorian society dismissed Emily Carr. Lewis DeSoto, a painter and novelist, sees Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the essence of art. Her quest to be an independent woman and a modern artist takes her from the studios of Paris to deep inside the remote Native villages of the West Coast forests. It is a lifetime journey of almost mythic ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    A Month-Long Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun!

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    Take your doodles to a whole new level with this fun and easy guide to learning the meditative art of Zentangle.Adapted from the best-selling One Zentangle a Day, The Beginner’s Guide to Zentangle shows aspiring Zentangle artists step by step how to create unique, mesmerizing designs. Featuring the incredibly beautiful and inspiring artwork of author Beckah Krahula, this easy-to-follow book is ... Read more

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  • The Rosie Effect

    by Graeme Simsion ...
    Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back. If you were swept away by Graeme Simsion’s international smash hit The Rosie Project, you will love The Rosie Effect.The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they’re about to face a new challenge.Rosie is pregnant.Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style ... Read more

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