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  • The road to the rapids : nineteenth-century church and society at St. Andrew's Parish, Red River
    Author:
    Coutts, Robert J.
    Summary:

    The Road to the Rapids: Nineteenth-Century Church and Society at St. Andrew's Parish, Red River, rich in detail, provides an account of the impact of the Anglican Church on the nineteenth-century Red River parish of St. Andrew...
  • The Rockies of Canada
    Author:
    Wilcox, Walter
    Summary:

    As I paused on a massive ledge far out on the moraine I was nearly overcome with the deathly silence. The power and majesty of mountains stand forth most clearly when accompanied by some great sound, the crashing of thunder or avalanche...
  • The Rosetta Man
    Author:
    McCague, Claire
    Summary:

    Wanted: Translator for first contact. Immediate opening. Danger pay allowance. Estlin Hume lives in Twin Butte, Alberta surrounded by a horde of affectionate squirrels. His involuntary squirrel-attracting talent leaves him evicted,...
  • The Salarian Desert Game
    Author:
    McLachlan, J. A.
    Summary:

    What if someone you love gambled on her life? Games are serious business on Salaria, and the stakes are high. When Kia's older sister, in a desperate bid to erase their family debt, loses the game and forfeits her freedom, Kia is...
  • The Sasquatch at home : traditional protocols & modern storytelling
    Author:
    Robinson, Eden
    Summary:

    In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place...
  • The Saw That Talked
    Author:
    Reiff, Tana
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Lindy loves wood. She loves the look of wood. She loves the feel of wood. She gets a job in a...
  • The Seven Oaks Reader
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  • The Shadow Academy
    Author:
    Cole, Adrian
    Summary:

    In a world no more than a whisper away from our own, the Islands of Grand Britannia have been reduced by the ancient Plague Wars to a land of deep forests and small cities, all governed by a powerful totalitarian Authority. Against a...
  • The Shore Girl
    Author:
    Kimmel, Fran
    Summary:

    Rebee Shore’s life is fragmented. She’s forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Elizabeth. The Shore Girl follows Rebee from her toddler to her teen...
  • The Sorcerer's Last Words
    Author:
    Palmer, Judd
    Summary:

    In the aftermath of the notorious event of the enchanted broom, the Sorcerer’s Apprentice learns his lesson indeed: “Seek Truth, not Power,” is the Sorcerer’s dictum. Peace returns to the castle’s long...
  • The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties
    Author:
    Price, Richard
    Summary:

    Government and First Nations leaders have tended to operate within two different systems of knowledge and perception regarding treaty rights issues in Canada. While First Nations emphasize the original spirit or intent of an agreement,...
  • The Stalker
    Author:
    Anderson-Dargatz, Gail
    Summary:

    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Very early one Saturday morning, Mike's phone rings."Nice day for a little kayak trip, eh...
  • The sum of us : tales of the bonded and bound
    Author:
    Summary:

    "Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches. And, like wasps made of stinging words, there...
  • The teacher and the superintendent
    Author:
    Boulter II, George E., Grigor-Taylor, Barbara, Athabasca University Press
    Summary:

    From its inception in 1885, the Alaska School Service was charged with the assimilation of Alaskan Native children into mainstream American values and ways of life. Working in the missions and schools along the Yukon River were George E...
  • The Terror and the Tortoiseshell
    Author:
    Travis, John
    Summary:

    John Travis’ first novel, The Terror and the Tortoiseshell, is a noir-styled murder mystery with deft touches of both the Comedy and Science Fiction genres, but primary in it is the honouring of the classic hard-boiled...
  • The theory and practice of online learning
    Author:
    Anderson, Terry
    Summary:

    Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the...
  • The Tooth Fairy
    Author:
    Palmer, Judd
    Summary:

    Around the world, children’s teeth fall out. They tuck them expectantly under their pillows, and go to sleep. And in the dream-haunted night, a creeping creature from another world makes an exchange filled with dread...
  • The Triforium : the haunting of Westminster Abbey
    Author:
    Patton, Mark
    Summary:

    After Wallace Butterfield’s father's death, 'Butterfield and Son Architects' becomes, for all intents and purposes, 'Son — Newly Graduated — Without a Clue — Architect...
  • The Trillionist
    Author:
    Jeffries, Sagan
    Summary:

    In his novel, The Trillionist, author Sagan Jeffries exposes the 'who, what, when, where and why' of a boy- genius, turned madman, turned savior. Spurred on by a darkness residing within his brilliant mind, Sage Rogan, boy-...
  • The Wages of Relief
    Author:
    Strikwerda, Eric
    Summary:

    In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to...

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