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“peter kavanagh”

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  • The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times

    A Memoir

    by Peter Kavanagh ...
    From the well-known CBC journalist comes a story of hardship, resilience and repeatedly learning the same lesson.Peter Kavanagh was just an infant when he was diagnosed with paralytic polio and suffered permanent paralysis in the lower part of his left leg. As a child, Kavanagh endured painful medical procedures to even out the length of his legs, and experimental exercise techniques. He spent his ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Frankenstein Teacher

    by Tony Bradman ...
    Illustrated by Peter Kavanagh ...
    The floor shook. The tables and chairs shook. The children shook. Suddenly, the door creaked open... and a huge figure loomed over them. It was... The Frankenstein Teacher!Class 3F get a very unusual new teacher. Frankenstein! But although Frankenstein looks very very scary, he has a very big heart and Class 3 learn to see beyond his scary appearance to the real person beneath when the class ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Ghost Teacher

    by Tony Bradman ...
    Illustrated by Peter Kavanagh ...
    Look...there by the dustbins, what do you see? A shimmering and a glimmering, and a figure forming in the darkness. It is the Ghost Teacher...Class 3 are the worst class ever. They do lots of crashing and bashing, nose-picking and flicking, fighting and fidgeting. No teacher can control Class 3. Until Miss Shade - the Ghost Teacher - pays them a visit... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Red

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  • Finding Jim

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    Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the world: skiing the Himalaya, rafting in Nepal and mountaineering in North America. In time, they got ... Read more

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    How to Make and Use Herbal Remedies to Strengthen the Nervous System. A Storey BASICS® Title

    by Rosemary Gladstar ...
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  • Mad Miss Mimic

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    It's London, 1872, where 17-year-old heiress Leonora Somerville is preparing to be presented to upper upper-class society -- again. She's strikingly beautiful and going to be very rich, but Leo has a problem money can’t solve. A curious speech disorder causes her to stutter but also allows her to imitate other people’s voices flawlessly. Servants and ladies alike call her “Mad Miss Mimic” behind ... Read more

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  • The Social Life of Ink

    Culture Wonder And Our Relationship With The Written Word

    by Ted Bishop ...
    A rich and imaginative discovery of how ink has shaped culture and why it is here to stayInk is so much a part of daily life that we take it for granted, yet its invention was as significant as the wheel. Ink not only recorded culture, it bought political power, divided peoples, and led to murderous rivalries. Ancient letters on a page were revered as divine light, and precious ink recipes were ... Read more

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  • The Day My Brain Exploded

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    After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age of twenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to relearn everything: how to eat, how to walk and to speak, even things as basic as his sexual orientation. With humor and insight, he describes the events of that day (his brain exploded just before his brother’s wedding!), as well as the long, difficult recovery period. In the ... Read more

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  • 365 Thank Yous

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