Justine were long. Life centered around school, church, and the hockey rink, and every boy’s hero was Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice Richard. Everyone wore Richard’s number 9. They laced their skates like Richard. They even wore their hair like Richard. When Roch outgrows his cherished Canadiens sweater, his mother writes away for a new one. Much to Roch’s horror, he is sent the blue and white sweater of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, dreaded and hated foes to his beloved team. How can Roch face the other kids at the rink?From the Hardcover edition.

    This powerful, true account of the action he saw, fighting desperately to push the Nazis out of Italy, evokes the terrible reality of war with an honesty and clarity fiction can only imitate. In scene after unforgettable scene, he describes the agony and antic humor of the soldier's existence: the tedium of camp life, the savagery of the front, and the camaraderie shared by those who have been bloodied in battle.

    In order to pass the time, Sal explores the contents of an old trunk. Searching through the old photographs she comes across a little girl’s winter coat, tries it on, and finds herself transported into the past where she makes an unexpected connection to her heritage and her grandmother.This model tale of time travel was one of Margaret Laurence’s few forays into children’s literature and has remained a favourite of children of all ages. New art by the original illustrator makes this a beautiful book for Christmas and for all seasons. A special treat for Margaret Laurence fans.From the Hardcover edition.

    She was also reputed to be alone except for breeding dogs and a monkey, camping in isolated Indian islands to save the images of the last deteriorating totem poles. Lavishly illustrated with the photos of the person and her works.

    Au, the West Coast's primary drug trafficker. But Cobb-under pressure of a failing practice and a disintegrating marriage-has himself taken up a long-abandoned heroin habit. With a racing plot and dramatic flip-flops, this literary page-turner takes the reader into the seedy underground of crooked cops, drug lords, and a supercharged courtroom scene.Author Biography: William Deverell practiced law for 15 years before taking up writing full-time. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

    Johns, Newfoundland, during the 1930s and 1940s. Porter brings to life the lost community of her childhood, and introduces us to the vibrant characters who lived there - longshoremen, housewives, sailors, coopers, midwives, and even a few prostitutes.

    It was in 1812 that the United States purchased Louisiana and declared war on Britain. And it was in 1812 that Laurie Woodbyne, son of an English aristocrat, married for money. Esmeralda is a passionate wife, but suddenly things go sour, and Laurie wants to know why. When he discovers his wife's strange secret, he heads toward the frontier territory know as le pays sauvage...Rowan Malone is a beautiful, dark-haired half-breed, and 1812 found her being raised by the Sisters of St. Claire. When her innocence is torn from her by three drunken boys, she too heads for the Shining Mountains to the west. But the land of her mother's people is many hard miles away, and the voyageurs who agree to make the trip look at her with hungry eyes...When Laurie hears Rowan's screams from the woods, their journey has only begun. It is a journey between two continents, into a wilderness which challenges them to survive. It is a journey between men and women and the desire that makes them lovers or enemies.BEYOND THE SHINING MOUNTAINS is an epic of survival in the majestic Pacific Northwest; a spellbinding story of the forces that move mountains and men.

    It was an unlikely ambition for a woman in her day, particularly an English gentlewoman, and in the opinion of many, an impossible one. The reaction of onlookers was unhesitatingly and unqualifiedly unsupportive. Binnie-Clark, however, proved their skepticism to be unfounded.Originally published in 1914, Wheat and Woman is an autobiographical account of Georgina Binnie-Clark's first three years on the prairies, the story of how she learned to define and deal with her anomalous position in pre-war prairie society. Although Binnie-Clark does not dismiss the difficult lessons of life on the land for an 'English greenhorn, ' or the loneliness of a woman pursuing what was considered to be a man's job, she emphasizes the unique opportunities for women in Canada. If life was difficult in Canada, it was impossible, for some, in England. With a surplus population of more than a million women, most stood almost no statistical chance of finding a husband in England. The gentlewomen among them were barred by class from all but a few overcrowded and underpaid occupations.Wheat and Woman also illuminates the sexual politics of settlement. Binnie-Clark was only too familiar with the limitations that Canadian law placed on women. Among women of the prairies, chief among these was the homestead law, which excluded all but a handful of women from the right to claim a free farm from the Dominion's public lands. This new reprint of Binnie-Clark's autobiographical writing includes an introduction by Susan Jackel, written for a 1979 edition of the text, as well as a new scholarly introduction by historian Sarah A. Carter, who received a Killam Fellowship for the study of Great Plains women of Canada and the United States.Wheat and Woman is a fascinating record of a gifted and determined woman's experience in prairie farming and a unique document in Canadian social history.

    An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.

    All the rapids, whirlpools, avalanches, deserts, swamps, communist bullets and faulty parachutes that have hitherto provided the obstacle courses in Ranulph Fiennes' eventful career take a poor second place when compared with travel on the North Polar Icecap in the freak winter of 1976-77.The polar journey involved four men and two women, with no previous polar experience and nothing but a grand design and singleness of purpose to drive them on through the agonies of snow-blindness, skinned toes, damaged, unhealing hands and the constant fear of frostbite.