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Cancer - From Fear to Hope
A Pioneering Oncologist Reflects on Fifty Years of Practice Change and System Transformation
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Cancer - From Fear to Hope is a personal and authoritative memoir by Canadian oncologist Dr. William K. Evans. Tracing his career from early medical training in the sixties through his leadership roles in cancer system reform, Evans charts the...
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Lessons From the Camino
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Experiencing the Camino may begin with a single step, but the lessons it offers can last a lifetime. When Bonnie set out to walk the final 115 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago, she expected sore feet, beautiful scenery, and perhaps a...
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Passing Our Torch
A Journey of Family and Faith
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A compelling history of the epic journeys that weave together a multi-generational tapestry of family, faith and community. This story follows the lives and experiences of many pioneering first families who came to Lower Canada, Upper Canada and...
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The Television Creative Department
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Dan Williams was seven years old when he went on Captain Satellite, an experience that led him to seek his own television rocket ship—or so his mother theorized. The Television Creative Department tells the story of forty-four years in Canadian...
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Just One More Step Walk to Banff 2016
A journey of determination and awareness.
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"My body jerks with an electric shock, pins and needles surge through my hands and feet. I am exhausted. Pressure in my head intensifies with thoughts racing in all directions. Time is frozen. As everything spins around me, I lay in silence,...
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13 Months of Sunshine and Other Fables
The Beauty, Magnificence and Occasional Terror of Growing up as a Missionary Kid in Africa
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In 1956, a young Canadian family left behind the comfort and certainty of home to answer a call that would change their lives forever. What began as a mission of service in Egypt and Ethiopia became an extraordinary journey marked by courage,...
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Charles Henry Chapman
The Life of a Comic Book Artist
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A prolific British illustrator, CH Chapman (1878–1972) is best known for drawing characters such as Ally Sloper, Billy Bunter, and the rest of the Greyfriars School cohort. In this biography, John C. Chapman explores his grandfather’s long and...
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My Transformation From Trauma To Triumph
A Memoir
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My Transformation From Trauma To Triumph, A Memoir chronicles Gary’s transition from a troubled childhood in small-town Ontario. Raised in a large family that struggled with poverty and parental alcoholism, Gary shares how his early experiences...
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Razado and the Saddle Tramp
A Vanishing Way of Life Remembered
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Horse ownership in all its wonderful weirdness, from a veteran Canadian journalist and best-selling author! After becoming drawn to horses and the British Columbia countryside, former crime reporter Robin Brunet gradually earns his spurs as a...
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60 Years for Grenfell
The Legacy of Edith Sloan Griscom
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In 1919, Edith Sumner Sloan, a high society girl from New York City, decides to pack up her things and head north, to Newfoundland and Labrador. She volunteers for the International Grenfell Association, and teaches in a one-room schoolhouse in a...
