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Through humorous anecdotes and compelling stories, trail-blazing George Zukerman recounts his life in music as concert bassoonist and impresario. George Zukerman, known as both the Pablo Casals and the Eddie Van Halen of the bassoon, describes how h...
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A lively recounting of the tough men and heroic but overworked packhorses who broke open B.C. to the big business of the 19th-century fur trade. Facing a gruelling thousand-mile trail, the brigades of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) pushed onward over...
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An accessible and comprehensive look at autistic adults, written with an aim towards understanding and empathy.Most research and writing about autism is focused on children, although most autistic people are adults. In this book, Daniel Smeenk addre...
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Three teens set out to stop a pipeline, but their secrets, anxieties, and one very obnoxious ex-boyfriend might just explode their friendship first. The novel is told from the points of view of the three main characters: Davis’ parents work for t...
In this classic adventure story, the diaries of two men, a scientist and a mountaineer, reveal their distinct struggles in the unforgiving wilds of the northern landscape. Four months alone in the remote windswept wilderness, adventurer and ecologi...
An act of passion reverberates across continents when Visma Sen, a retired army officer, decides to remain in Calcutta when his family migrates to Canada. Sabyasachi Nag evokes the rising heat of Calcutta in the early morning as masterfully as he de...
Selected by CBC as a young adult novel to read in spring 2023. For sixteen-year-old Klara, a devastating flood reveals a dark family secret. It is February 1953 in the Netherlands and Klara is expected to marry the son of a prominent farmer. In thi...
Selected by CBC as a young adult novel to read in spring 2023. A coming- of-age story filled with heroism and heartbreak for 13-year-old Acadian Nathalie Belliveau. Separated from her family during the brutal 1755 expulsion of Acadians from Grand-P...
The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand. Only four extensive miners’ journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners’ actual word...
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