So when a cache of whisky labeled Bailey Brothers’ Best is unearthed during a local home renovation, Cassie hopes to find the answers she’s been searching for about the legendary family of bootleggers... 1918 Corporal Jeremiah Bailey of the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company is tasked with planting mines in the tunnels beneath enemy trenches. After Jerry is badly wounded in an explosion, he finds himself in a Belgium field hospital under the care of Adele Savard, one of Canada’s nursing sisters, nicknamed “Bluebirds” for their blue gowns and white caps. As Jerry recovers, he forms a strong connection with Adele, who is from a place near his hometown of Windsor, along the Detroit River. In the midst of war, she’s a welcome reminder of home, and when Jerry is sent back to the front, he can only hope that he’ll see his bluebird again. By war’s end, both Jerry and Adele return home to Windsor, scarred by the horrors of what they endured overseas. When they cross paths one day, they have a chance to start over. But the city is in the grip of Prohibition, which brings exciting opportunities as well as new dangerous conflicts that threaten to destroy everything they have fought for. Pulled from the pages of history, Bluebird is a compelling, luminous novel about the strength of the human spirit and the power of love to call us home.

    History is a construction. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them a centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings?

    

    

    Let it be so and I’ll set you free, and toss you back with the tides where you belong.If Dot wishes hard enough on her special stone, maybe the world will slow down and be a little less topsy-turvy. When Dot tossed her wish into the sea, hoping for a friend her age, the stone brought her Sarah. And when the girls worried for the health of Sara’s mother, it made her healthy, and brought Sara her precious Pearl. It’s 1961, and Dot is teetering between childhood and adolescence. At the same time, her rustic world is catching up with the modern towns in the rest of Canada and Dot isn’t sure how she feels about that. Dot enjoys having both a winter and summer home, and knowing every face in three villages. If more changes come, will that mean more people and more noise will come with them? The Wishing Stone & Other Myths, Lessons Learned on Gullcliff Island will take both children and adults back in time through eleven-year-old Dot, a traditional girl coping with her father’s dream of becoming a boat-builder and the realization that Mum and Dad are people with thoughts, emotions, and secrets apart from the family. Alongside her adventurous best friend, Sara, Dot must make ready for the future, whether it be on Gullcliff, in Aylmer Sound, or someplace out of her father’s dream. Like Little House on the Prairie, or Anne of Green Gables, The Wishing Stone & Other Myths will take readers to a time and place where big dreams didn’t mean finding fame, but listening to the heart.

    Ejected after three months from a mental health institution, she was sent to one of Toronto's notorious boarding houses. In Upstairs in the Crazy House, she relates the stories of those who called the appalling institution home.Capponi also reveals how she suffered as a child at the hands of an abusive father and how, although she excelled academically, the repercussions of an adolescence infused with violence caused her to sink into deep depressions.

    A small town high in the Canadian mountains far away from anything. But this tiny town is not as peaceful as it seems. An obsessed detective, a crook escaping his past, an alien, demons and a missing boy. But when Waltham Pinchiksnits meets his untimely end, a strange chain of events is set in motion.Welcome to Faith...Expect the Unexpected.(Note: 50p or 65c of the profits shall be donated to the NGO For Tigers; a charity dedicated to improving the welfare of captive Tigers in Thailand.)

    He’d hunted men before, but never one who’d murdered his best friend.Speculation is a dangerous thing when dealing with someone's life.What causes people to react the way they do? Say the things they say?Fear. Anger. Mental instability. Revenge.Sometimes there is no clear motive at all.The absence of why is where speculation is born.Speculation can kill a man.On October 9, 1970, it killed two of them.

    

    The Supreme Master Ching Hai had been compiling these touching dog tales since she began adopting them, one after another, from shelters in 2001. It was a miraculous journey for these dogs in their rebirth through her compassion. Readers of this book will see dogs in a new light -- noble beings with a whole lot of love!

    

    

    

    Creating a life together is another story. . . Joined is a real-life read, a true confession, a compelling story of life's many challenges and its few choices.This is the fifth in Barbara Carter's memoir series, Barbara by the Bay (Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia). It stands well on its own, not requiring the reader to have read any of the earlier books, although certainly knowing about her earlier life will enhance the experience of travelling with her into marriage and motherhood. This is a story of the perseverance a woman needs while trying to make marriage work through a surprising barrage of adversity.A 5-star Readers' Favorite:A hard-hitting memoir. Provides an unbridled telling of the daily struggles of a difficult marriage. The book takes the reader through emotional highs and lows, all the while holding out for her to find happiness and for Mike to face his demons head-on. Recommended to anyone involved in a relationship where conflict is the norm rather than the exception

    

    

    Children aged 4 to 9 an audience that has traditionally been deemed too young to learn about war learn through touching stories based on children`s war time experiences in What We Remember. As the daughter of the Military Attaché to Belgium and Luxembourg, Lesley Anne Airth spent many years living in Europe and witnessed first hand how in countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, stories of war are shared with very young children. Children in these countries are exposed to personal accounts of how brave Canadian soldiers came to their rescue. The author shares the belief that if we fail to teach children about the atrocity that is war, we will be doomed to repeat a horrific nightmare. She also believes that we need to pay tribute to the brave Canadians who sacrificed and who continue to sacrifice everything for peace. Mother of three children and professional educator, Lesley Airth has a keen understanding of children`s sensibilities. The subject of war is certainly one of the most difficult subjects a teacher or parent ever has to address. To educate children without fear, she has written a collection of six true short stories. Each story has a child as the central character and describes how war had an impact on his or her life. The stories are simple with simple messages: children were in danger; some fathers were gone for a long time; some fathers never returned; some fathers were never healthy again; women made a significant contribution to the war effort; and, we must remember and appreciate the sacrifices that were made for our freedom. "Remembrance is important and not just once a year. Lesley Airth`s carefully crafted stories lead the youngest readers through Canada`s wars of freedom by showing how children faced dangers and reacted to their parents` absences." J

    Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences ?Social Work, Health Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and the general public. Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty?both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book.

    

    What role will Canada play in this vastly altered world? James Laxer examines the anatomy of the crash: the forces that have controlled the global system and the forces that have the capacity to usher in a new global system as the U.S.-centred age of globalization comes to an end. He explores what needs to be done to combat the crash in Canada, and poses the questions we all want to have answered. What comes next for the global economy, and what does this mean for Canada? Where will we fit in? Is an egalitarian economic future possible? What could an economics for humanity look like? A reflective and useful treatise on where we go from here, "Beyond the Bubble" is a must-read by one of Canada's best-known political commentators.

    

    

    

    Selected poetry from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Tennyson are included, complemented by art from contemporary artists.

    Dienstag. Mittwoch. Donnerstag. Freitag. Samstag. sonntag. These are the days of the weeks, in which this story unfolds wordlessly. There're some birds killed by a spaceship, drunken droids, and a girl from LadyFest in this cool comic. You will feel sad for an anonymous birdy.

    

    Ajay Nair shares how he survived a strict parental upbringing, why he hated books so much, and his struggles with running out of money, living in a railway station, and travelling without food.

    Ilsley, Betsy Warland, Brett Josef Grubisic, John Barton, Lydia Kwa, and more. Check out the website here: http://plenitudemagazine.ca/

    

    

    This honest book was created as a symbol of solidarity for moms everywhere, that will be visible every day on their baby's bookshelf.