On Easter Monday April 9, 1917, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-...
Anecdotes
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Author:Barris, TheodoreSummary: - Author:Koeppel, Dan.Summary:
When the author's father Richard was 11 years old, he spotted a Brown Thrasher, and his fascination with birds began. Now a "Big Lister," Richard is one of only 10 or so people to have recorded more than 7,000 species in...
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Author:Read, Charles H.Summary:Dr. Read entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1943 and worked for three years as a flight surgeon. When the war was winding down, he realized that his career as a flight surgeon was also over. But he remembered how much he had enjoyed the...
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Author:Lebovitz, DavidSummary:An American pastry chef living in Paris shares his deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights.
- Author:SALE, CharlesSummary:
The Specialist is one of the world's favourite humour classics. Generations of readers have enjoyed its gentle wisdom about the building of privies and applauded Lem Putt's devotion to making a privy a thing of beauty. Lem...
- Author:Jerome, JohnSummary:
Author and athlete John Jerome offers basic guidelines for beginning joggers as well as those preparing for marathons.
- Author:Russell, Ted, Miller, ElizabethSummary:
Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell’s stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and...
- Author:HILL, AnthonySummary:
An entertaining mixture of fact and fiction about experiences in a small N.S.W. town, prompted by the decision of a family to escape the tensions of life in Canberra.
- Author:Hoggard, Liz, Conville, Clare, Lovett, Sarah-JaneSummary:
Ever wonder how to best dress your apple-shaped figure? Do you know the top twelve rules on how to properly (and discreetly) conduct an affair? The Book for Dangerous Women is a sly, elegant encyclopedia of practicalwisdom by three...
- Author:Childs, CraigSummary:
Nature writer Craig Childs presents a collection of forty essays, each of which focuses on a personal encounter with a particular species. Replete with astonishing facts about the species' behavior, habitat, breeding, and lifespan...
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Author:LINGENFELTER, MikeSummary:It was 1994, and Mike Lingenfelter expected his life to end soon. Two heart attacks and open-heart surgery had stripped away the pleasure he had in life. But then a golden retriever named Dakota helped Mike in his rehabilitative therapy...
- Author:Katz, Jon.Summary:
Katz illuminates the interaction between humans and animals. Although he features his ever-faithful border collie Rose, Katz also includes revealing observations about Mother the murderous barn cat, Elvis the doughnut-loving steer, and...
- Author:Holland-Mcnair, LisaSummary:
The twelve women interviewed in this book all share a strong attachment to the physical and spiritual beauty of the Pilbara, in the northwest of Western Australia. A common bond between the four indigenous and eight non-indigenous women...
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Author:THACKER, BrianSummary:Whether you're an explorer or tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place your arrive at. Not to mention more alarming, entertaining, spectacular, dangerous or farcical. All of which is closely connected to...
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Author:Poundstone, PaulaSummary:Award-winning comedian Paula Poundstone is legendary for her spontaneous wit and razor-sharp humor. She is a popular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! and tours regularly, keeping audiences laughing in her one-woman shows....
- Author:Huckelbridge, DaneSummary:
Between 1900 and 1907, in the forested foothills of the Himalayas, a large Bengal tiger locals called the Champawat Man-Eater claimed 436 lives. Desperate for help, authorities appealed to Jim Corbett, a local hunter and officer in the...
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Author:Summary:"A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
- Author:Stanké, AlainSummary:
Ami de Désiré Haertz, directeur du Jardin des merveilles, autrefois dans le parc Lafontaine, Alain Stanké se voit offrir un renardeau. Il raconte ici les rapports qu'il a eus avec cet animal sauvage qu'il apprivoise et tente en vain de...
- Author:Rosebrook, Jeb Stuart, Rosebrook, JebSummary:
A memoir from screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook about the making of a classic film of the American west. Released in 1972, Junior Bonner is a modern-day western about a young, drifting rodeo star who decides to raise money for his father'...
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Author:Buckley, Susan WashburnSummary:Experience 20 great moments in American history, from the 1631 quest of Christian libertarian Roger Williams to the 1988 ordeal of Sudanese refugee Peter Malual.
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