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  • Nepal One Day at a Time

    One woman's quest to teach, trek and build a school in the remote Himalaya

    by Patti Lefkos ...
    A Himalayan adventure travel memoir with a humanitarian twist. About to turn sixty-eight, Patti's life was disintegrating. Leaving behind her injured husband she packs her bags and heads to Nepal. Solo travel forces her to surmount daunting hurdles-both physical and emotional. While trekking in the forbidden kingdom of Upper Mustang she realizes her strength and determination when she suffers a ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grounded by Granite

    A Memoir

    by Patti Shales Lefkos ...
    On Loon Island, a granite mound in a pristine lake near Frontenac Provincial Park in the Ontario Canadian Shield, post-war summer days for Patti and her siblings overflowed with swimming, fishing and hunting for snapping turtles. Life seemed perfect until a shocking letter from the Department of Lands and Forests questioned their ownership of the land.Grounded by Granite transports you to a time ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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    For ten years, listeners of The Vinyl Cafe have shared their personal stories with Stuart McLean on The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the segment, Stuart and his long-time radio producer, Jess Milton, have collected their favourites. The result is a wise, wonderful anthology of stories about rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey ... Read more

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  • Cottage Daze

    by James Ross ...
    Cottage Daze celebrates life at the cottage where the cottage is the main character, and family, friends, pets, and fellow cottagers are the supporting cast. Whether writing about cottage routine ("First Ski," "Of Mice and Men," "Cottage Guests"), cottage tasks ("Splitting Wood," "Boat Launch"), nature ("A Gathering of Loons," "The Sting," "Autumn Spell"), cottage fun ("The Cottage Duel"), or ... Read more

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  • A Ride to Remember

    In the Alberta Rockies

    by LILLIAN CATON MAJOR, THELMA JO DOBSON ...
    A Ride To Remember is a story to keep, from a time when horses carried us over mountain trails, there was no chopper, no I-phone, no GPS, no plastic wrap, but we had everything we needed. It was too good to be true. We were asked to come along on a wonderful horseback trip in the Rocky Mountains in 1947. We always intended to write about our adventure, now two of us who are left are doing just ... Read more

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  • Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

    Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

    by Louise Erdrich ...
    For more than three decades, bestselling author Louise Erdrich has enthralled readers with dazzling novels that paint an evocative portrait of Native American life. From her dazzling first novel, Love Medicine, to the National Book Award-winning The Round House, Erdrich’s lyrical skill and emotional assurance have earned her a place alongside William Faulkner and Willa Cather as an author deeply ... Read more

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  • Up The Coast

    One Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia

    by Kathryn Willcock ...
    Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and loggers risked their lives every single day. The author’s tales of grizzly bears, American tourists, and a couple of terrified gangsters, along with the wisdom of Indigenous elders, pour off the page like ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Home Sweet Home

    101 Stories about Hearth, Happiness, and Hard Work

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...
    Whether your home is an apartment, a house, or a condo -- rented or owned -- the 101 stories in this book all about the place you call home will warm your heart.Home is where the heart is. Be it your childhood home or where you lay your head now, you will find joy, laughter, and inspiration in these 101 stories about cooking, family meals, decorating, remodeling, repairing... everything we do to ... Read more

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  • 40 Below

    Edmonton's Winter Anthology

    by Jason Lee Norman ...
    40 Below is Edmonton's winter anthology. 70 pieces of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction about or inspired by winter in Edmonton. Contributors include Alice Major, Thomas Trofimuk, Jennifer Quist, Michael Hingston, Jessica Kluthe, Diana Davidson, and many many more. This book truly has something for everyone, whether you're warm-blooded or cold-blooded, a snow bird or new Canadian. Enjoy this one of ... Read more

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  • Where It Hurts

    by Sarah de Leeuw ...
    Where It Hurts is a highly-charged collection of personal essays, haunted by loss, evoking turbulent physical and emotional Canadian landscapes. Sarah de Leeuw's creative non-fiction captures strange inconsistencies and aberrations of human behaviour, urging us to be observant and aware. The essays are wide in scope and exposing what—and who—goes missing.With staggering insight, Sarah de Leeuw ... Read more

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  • Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle

    Cottage Daze/Still in a Daze at the Cottage

    by James Ross ...
    This special bundle contains both of James Ross’ essential companion volumes to the great Canadian tradition of life at the cottage. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the first time, launching a boat while the whole world seems to be watching, or getting caught up in a nest of wasps? These collections of stories, elegantly organized ... Read more

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  • Galena Bay Odyssey

    Reflections of a Hippie Homesteader

    by Ellen Schwartz ...
    A writer and educator reflects on the idealistic, tumultuous, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.What compelled a nice Jewish girl from the suburbs of New York to spend a decade of her life as a hippie homesteader in the BC wilderness? Galena Bay Odyssey traces Ellen Schwartz’s journey from a born-and-raised urbanite who was terrified ... Read more

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