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  • Glacial Erratics

    CA$19.95
    "... an erratic boulder rising from the marshes of the plaincurious relic of the past, scarred, battered, overgrown with moss, but enduring stoutly. A boulder people gaze at in passing, wondering where it might have come from and how it had survived." — Joseph Vida, Tomorrow It Will Be FineA collection of free verse and photographic imagery of the milestones of life's journey.
  • Tomorrow It Will Be Fine

    CA$22.95
    Struggling to find a foothold in Toronto of the early 1950s, Endre, a Hungarian immigrant, finds he cannot simply erase his former life and its ethnic and cultural values from memory--but neither can he deny his desire to create a new life and, perhaps, even fall in love.
  • Thin Pink Lines: My Life as...

    CA$19.95
    MURIEL A. JARVIS has seen many changes in Saskatchewan since her birth on the Prairies in 1920: the Saskatoon City Hospital is now a gleaming structure of steel and glass with ten floors and a central transparent elevator, a transformation from the brick structure where she trained and worked as a young nurse in the 1940s. Health care too has changed a great deal since then; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized.

    The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who had a dream...And her dream changed a province.
  • Cherry Blossoms

    CA$19.95
    Frustrated and disenchanted with farm life and marriage, Cherry Markowsky grabs her dog and heads toward a new beginning in the city of Saskatoon. Yet between dealing with a new career, a potential suitor, a drifting son, and newly-discovered quirk of her brother's, Cherry discovers this is only the first of the hurdles she must jump.
  • Wascana Wild Goose Chase

    CA$14.95
    "In this park that's so grand, in a city still grander, live Lucy the Goose and Alexander the Gander."

    So begins this charming tale of Alexander's search for Lucy throughout Wascana Centre, ”Regina, Saskatchewan's beautiful urban park, larger than Central Park in New York or Stanley Park in Vancouver.
  • Terror on Turtle Creek

    CA$14.95
    If you were swept away in the rushing waters of a raging river, what would you do?

    Barry is doing his best to overcome his reputation as a bit of a scaredycat when he volunteers to lend a hand filling sandbags to help prevent flooding in his home town of Valley View. But things don't go as planned, and he finds himself in a dangerous situation, having to cope with the raging river, a couple of criminals, and some grown-up responsibilities in the adventure of his life!
  • Black Fury

    CA$21.95
    After the war, Joe and Angelina, my mother, took to frequenting the local legion hall; a house band played there every weekend. It hadn't taken long for the couple's dancing prowess to become known; the other patrons would applaud and move aside when they saw the duo step out onto the floor: the handsome, well-dressed gentleman, and his exquisite, beautiful lady with golden locks that fell to her waist.

    How Mother loved it. For a time she would be one in mind and spirit with Joe. For a time she would be his equal.

    They wanted passion; I just wanted them to quit fighting. I wanted peace so badly...

    The compelling story of a troubled marriage and a family in turmoil.
  • Peace Rose, The: Memoirs of...

    CA$17.00
    The Peace rose glows a beautiful, soft yellow. A muted pink rims the petals. A hybrid tea rose, it is a hardy bloom, and its name commemorates the end of the Second World War.

    Every spring, Anna Maria Alberts-Zeeman watches the rose come to life in her garden and cannot help but remember. Amsterdam in the 1930s was a fun and a safe place to live; hers was a happy childhood filled with love, laughter, and hope. She never imagined how life would change so dramatically, how she'd live the next number of years in fear, oppression, and poverty. The end of the Second World War couldn't come soon enough for the Netherlands. The people were starving. Childhoods and teen years, like Anna Maria's, were lost. Never again would she take anything for granted.

    The Peace Rose is an inspiring personal story of love, hope, and faith.
  • Rink Burgers

    CA$19.95
    Wherever there is hockey there will always be a rink burger.

    Hockey isn't just about games in big stadiums. It can be played on ponds, streets and in small-town rinks. It creates bonds between fathers and sons. It forges friendships that last a lifetime.

    When the family home in Big River, Saskatchewan, is sold, Todd Devonshiredecides to visit his roots one last time and retrieve all the hockey mementos he'd promised to pick up someday. Packing up pictures, old hockey jerseys and his vast collection of O-Pee-Chee hockey cards, Todd reminisces about his youth as a player and avid fan in a comical and poignant coming of age.
  • It Takes 2 to Tango, Maybe...

    CA$14.95
    This book speaks to the power of commitment and availability as a treatment tool to effect the most change. In traditional therapy the therapist sits on one side of the process and the client sits on the other. In Dr. Manswell's approach, the therapist, while still respecting the boundaries of therapist and client, becomes part of the solution. Trust, availability, respect, commitment and patience shared equally amongst these three key players makes the difference. Gambling addiction is such a puzzle to those not afflicted with this disability. Dr. Manswell and his clients help us gain insight into the thinking process and emotions that are at war within the gambler as they struggle to overcome the devastating hold gambling has over their lives. It is a story of pain, but more importantly it is a story of hope and of perseverance — and, finally, of success.
  • Sixth Age, The

    CA$19.95
    As everyone knows, creative people really are different! Eleven years ago, a group of creative people bought the abandoned scholasticate on Mission Lake in the lovely Qu'Appelle Valley as a retirement home, craving the independence and respect they had known as productive, working members of society. Throughout retirement, they've maintained creative energy, willpower, humour--”and even a measure of foolhardiness! But now, in their golden years, they are beginning to experience the problems of aging. Is it enough to put an end to their collective dream of self-determination? Not if Allie Dutton can help it!
  • Full Throttle

    CA$18.95
    Full Throttle is a collection of poems served straight up, like a shot of whiskey, Gary Chappell writes about friction points in life, those moments of resistance or acceptance that lead to self-discovery: the freedom of a motorbike ride; the cry of a loon; the depth of love, of loss. From prairie to northern forest, Gary's poems portray a cross-section of our culture, sometimes written with despair, sometimes tongue-in-cheek.

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