Travel, Special Interest
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BC Spirits Cocktail Book
Discover British Columbia’s Distilling Culture by Shawn Soole
The BC Spirits Cocktail book is the combination of a province wide guide book to the burgeoning distillery culture as well as an indepth and creative cocktail book. Showcasing the stories behind the distilleries, the people that run them and the...
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Out for a Rip
A Bike Ride Across Canada by Aidan Garcia Sadler, Zachary Rohland and Jeremy Mercado
Blood-sucking mosquitos, dark tunnels, heart-pumping mountain roads (and the occasional run-in with police) are just some of the challenges a trio of friends encounter on their cross-Canada adventure. After completing high school, Aidan Garcia...
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Twenty Years at Sea
The World as my Classroom by Laura Goor
Do you know, deep in your heart, that there’s more to life — but you don’t know what to make of that feeling? Why not travel the world, and learn just how right you are. Laura Goor believed that there were dreams, and there was reality, and the...
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Milk with Wine
A Child's Year in Paris, 1963 by Meg Westley
In 1963, eight-year-old Meg is swept off to Paris for a year with her family. A precocious child raised in an English enclave of Montreal, she speaks no French at all. Her parents enrol her at a strict Parisian school, where she is treated like...
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Mysterious Places
by Jeffrey Gorney
In this richly told narrative, an American writer travels to Romania in search of long-lost relatives. His quest sheds light on other lives in other times and places, and forgotten yet chilling aspects of World War II. More than memoir, with...
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Ten Cities
The Past Is Present by Wayne Johnston
Each of us has memories that are born of particular places. When we return to those places we enter a realm where the past engages in dialogue with the present. Our ghosts from the past persist even when the places have changed, our memories have...
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Footprints of a Foodie
by Tanya dePape
The concept of the “midlife crisis” has been the source of jokes for decades now, but for some people, the realization that they’ve entered their middle years can conjure up conflicting, often unexpected, feelings. For some, it is a time of...
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The Ultimate Belize Bucket List - 101 Insider Tips on What to See and Do
101 Insider Tips on What to See and Do by Larry Waight
The Ultimate Belize Bucket List is more than a compilation of exciting things to see and do in Central America’s fastest growing tourism hotspot. Offering an insider glimpse into the nation’s most coveted and awe-inspiring experiences, it goes...
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Time and Tides
One Woman's Inward Journey and Outward Adventure by Carol A. Heppenstall
It began with the idea of north... Twenty-five years later the author leads us on her odyssey into the Arctic wilderness, the rainforests of the west coast and further afield. From the totems of Haida Gwaii to the flickering light of a kudluk in...
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The Most Adventurous, the Most Arduous, and the Longest Way to Canada
A Documented Travel Adventure because of love for MEDICINE! by Birgit Kobold
A thrilling true story that follows the adventures of three medical professionals and their dog as they leave behind a thriving practice and head off on the journey of their lives aboard a 52-foot yacht named Nessie. With little experience aside...