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  • Let's Fly!: A Dragon's...

    CA$14.95
    Discover the wonders of Saskatoon! Share the adventures of two new friends as they explore places important to the city’s culture and heritage.
  • Leper Who Became a Prince...

    CA$14.95
    Imagine yourself seated near a flickering bonfire on an African night, listening to stories told by the elders of the tribe; folklore that passes on tradition, culture, history and manners. Or simply entertains.

    The stories in this collection transcend four tribal groupings: Bemba, Nsenga, Chewa and Lozi, and provide a snapshot of the depth and breadth of the richness of Zambian culture and heritage.
  • Leaving Mr. Humphries

    CA$12.95
    Josh's mom thinks Josh is too old for Mr. Humphries, his teddy bear. But when Josh has to stay at the summer cottage with Grandpa, it's Mr. Humphries who keeps him company at night in the attic room, on the long dark walks to the outhouse, and even for boat rides on the lake. When Mr. Humphries has anadventure of his own, Josh isn't sure he's ready to let him go.
  • Launch Lead Live: The...

    CA$24.95
    Is your organization struggling under the weight and expense of what feels like overwhelming but necessary change? Every day, organizations experience the fallout of failed organizational change initiatives—cynical employees, frustrated leaders—because they are not able to successfully implement or sustain the changes needed to compete. Leaders believe employees are resistant to change. Employees believe leaders are unreasonable and that change is undertaken only for its own sake.

    But resistance to change is not inevitable. It can be prevented. You don’thave to feel like you are going into battle every time your organization wants to do something different. There is a better way.

    Launch Lead Live helps the executive leader create a healthier, stronger organization because of change, not in spite of it, introducing keyelements that you can integrate into your leadership and management practices so change is no longer a liability but an asset.
  • Last Green Dragon, The

    CA$19.95
    Fear shared is a burden lightened. Courage shared is a hope doubled. Raised by a pair of owls since he was a hatchling, Gus grows up believing he is the last Green Dragon. Then a chance encounter with a girl named Ev uncovers a secret doorway between Gus's world and hers. Their unlikely friendship forges the key to unlocking Gus's mysterious past--and leads them to a shocking discovery about Ev. But can their friendship survive this life-changing revelation? An imaginative, suspenseful, and touching tale of the powerful magic of friendship.

    A grand prize finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards and finalist in the Whistler Independent Book Awards and Next Generation Indie Book Awards, The Last Green Dragon has also been selected for inclusion in Canadian Children's Book Centre Teacher's Book Bank.
  • Ladder Valley

    CA$21.95
    We had a saying: “Only the ‘weaker sex’ is tough enough, mule enough, to stick it out in the bush country.” Living on the edge of the Saskatchewan boreal forest, we learned what we were made of—both the good and the bad. The continuation of the award-winning series of memoirs: Black Fury, A Family of Our Own, and Know Thyself. The bittersweet memories of three generations of women.
  • Know Thyself

    CA$21.95
    I read the ad. "Know Thyself. Astrology lessons--only serious students need apply." To know myself--how wonderful! But I didn't realize just how long and rough the road to self-discovery would be. The sequel to the award-winning memoir, Black Fury and A Family of Our Own. The compelling true story of a family in turmoil.
  • Journey to Joy: The...

    CA$24.95
    You will laugh. You will cry. You will be uplifted. Journalist Christalee Froese vividly brings to life her recovery from depression in her first book, Journey to Joy. This bold, brave memoir follows Froese on a two-year journey to restore her happiness, and her faith in life. After spending 21 days each month focusing on life-restoring topics like peace, creativity, food, fitness, faith, love, writing, travel, gratitude, and joy itself, Froese emerges with the hope she’d lost. Both heartbreaking and humorous, Journey to Joy offers insight into the stumbles and falls of recovery, and the persistence required to get back up time and again. Froese’s journey takes her to a Chinese orphanage where she finds courage, strength and true purpose. The raw storytelling will change how you view depression and anxiety … and permanently alter your own approach to joy. Most profoundly, Journey to Joy will restore your faith in miracles, and the underlying goodness of mankind. "Grab a pack of sticky notes and choose your own topics of joy. I invite you to embrace your suppressed desires as we wind our way through this book, and life, together. May the act of writing down things you love and have always wanted to do set you free, as it did for me." --Christalee Froese
  • Jessie the Doo-Doo Dog Goes...

    CA$14.95
    Jessie and her sister Jo-Jo (and their bigger cousins, Katcha and Krissy!) get up to all sorts of neighbourhood highjinks. But when Jessie overhears Mom say that it’s time to go to the vet for her booster shots, she’s very worried—especially when Krissy tells her that the vet might even turn her into a sausage! That can’t pawsibly be true—can it?!
  • Jessie the Doo-Doo Dog and...

    CA$14.95
    A tail that's out of this world! Doo-Doo Dogs to the rescue! Jessie and her sister Jo-Jo (and their bigger cousins, Katcha and Krissy!) are out for their evening stroll when suddenly there’s a swirly-whirly whizzing sound and a loud CRASH! How can the Doo-Doo Dogs pawsibly help two stranded visitors from outer space return home from Earth?
  • Jakob, Out of the Village

    CA$16.95
    In the strict confines of a small Old Colony Mennonite community in rural Saskatchewan, the precociously observant Jakob Schellenberg, middle son of a God-fearing farming family, grows increasingly aware of the outside world from the pictures in the Eaton's catalogue, the weekly farm paper and the city folk who occasionally stop by and dazzle him with their shiny new cars, fancy clothes and perfume-scented skin.

    Jakob's instinctive, exuberant response to the daily events of prairie life during the Dirty Thirties somehow holds him apart from both family and community, causing him to look further, to yearn for something more. His poignant, often humorous, coming-of-age leads him out of the village, only to discover that the village will be with him wherever he goes.
  • 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.

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You're Going Where?!
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Where Does Your Dog Sleep?
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Jakob, Out of the Village
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He Who Flies By Night: The Story of Grey Owl
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