Nature
- Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary:
- Author:WHITE, Stewart EdwardSummary:
The Blazed Trail is the story of early lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. The novel portrays the challenges faced by the workers focusing on one, Harry Thorpe, as he endeavors to be successful though completely unskilled when...
- Author:Scheub, UteSummary:
- Author:Grandin, TempleSummary:
Award-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin's fascinating explanations of how herd...
- Author:Creech, SteveSummary:
"Wyland is a marine life Michelangelo." —USA Today * Premier marine life artist Wyland—whose galleries are visited by more than five million people each year—offers a photographic tribute to the bond between mother and child...
- Author:Hache, LucySummary:
In this second installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hache once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sky and stars. Hache's prose is...
- Author:Kawatski, DeannaSummary:
A tale that begins in 1970 and involves two childhood friends, Emily and Rachel. Emily remains in their northern hometown while Rachel sets out for Europe. The focus is on Emily and her quest for wholeness, which leads her, at the age...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
An exploration of the nexus between human consciousness and the natural world.
John Donlan’s lyric work seeks the connection between lives – not just the life of a coyote and the life of a man, or the peaceful cacophony of a pond...
- Author:Nikiforuk, AndrewSummary:
- Author:Maharaj, RabindranathSummary:
"Samuel's New Voyage" is Rabindranth Maharaj's contribution to Northwords, a cross-platform project that takes urban Canadian writers to some of the world’s most extreme environments. Introduced by award-winning journalist and radio...
- Author:Challenger, RobertSummary:
This fourth collection of short stories written by Robert James (Jim) Challenger combines the timeless appeal of Aesop's fables with the oral storytelling traditions of First Nations and other cultures. Each story stimulates...
- Author:Challenger, Robert JamesSummary:
Robert James Challenger uses the form of parables to teach children important values. The observations of Grandmother and other family members interpret the actions of nature's creatures in a variety of circumstances. His simple, direct...
- Author:Trail, Jesse VernonSummary:
A fascinating exploration of the world’s most unusual plants
Whether it’s an arctic heather that can create subtropical conditions within its leaves or a dwarf mistletoe that can shoot its seeds up to 50 feet away,...
- Author:Simon, MattSummary:
A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature'and ourselves Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it...
- Author:Martin, ClaudeSummary:
- Author:Challenger, Robert JamesSummary:
This is Robert James Challenger's fifth collection of beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read short stories that impart practical, moral lessons about life in today's world. As in Aesop's fables and First Nations legends, animals, birds...
- Author:Joosten, JulieSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR POETRYShortlisted for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardFinalist for the 2014 Goldie Awards: Poetry CategoryMoving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the...
- Author:Faucon, BenjaminSummary:
À peine remis de ses émotions, Gabriel doit faire face à un nouveau défi, et non des moindres: cohabiter avec le nouveau directeur de l’académie! À l’ouest du royaume, d’étranges phénomènes piquent la curiosité des explorateurs....
- Author:Reeves, HubertSummary:
- Author:McCorquodale, ElizabethSummary:
Presents general information about garden animals, as well as practical information and garden projects for creating a garden capable of sustaining a wide variety of wildlife.