Dundurn: 2215 books
Dairy Farm
Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...
Caribou
Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...
The Gloomy Prospect
Early Voices — Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639–1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from...
by Stephen Henighan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former Soviet republic, Henighan feels...
Boy from Nowhere
A Life in Ninety-One Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Born in Hearne, Saskatchewan, in 1932, Allan Fotheringham has had a distinguished career. Dubbed "Dr. Foth," Fotheringhamgraduated from the University of British Columbia andhas worked for numerous news organizations, including the Vancouver Sun, Southam News, The Financial Post, Sun Media,...
Sleep and You
Sleep Better, Live Better
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
An easy and readable guide to the latest scientific information on how and why to sleep better and improve your wellbeing.
Why do we need to sleep? For those of who pass nights staring at the ceiling, the question is beside the point. In fact, we are all sleeping less, and worse, than ever....
by Anne Cimon
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Susanna Moodie was already a published author when she emigrated from England to Upper Canada with her husband and baby in 1832. The Moodies were seeking financial security and a better life in the colony, but they found themselves struggling to make a living on a bush farm. Despite her primitive...
World War II Women 3-Book Bundle
The Accidental Captives / Greatcoats and Glamour Boots / Props on Her Sleeves
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice marked the women caught up in conflict during the Second World War. This special collection of three books tells the stories of a young airwoman, prisoners of war, and women in service.
Includes:
The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Along in Nazi...
Notley Nation
How Alberta's Political Upheaval Swept the Country
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
#1 Edmonton Journal Bestseller! • 2017 Alberta Literary Awards, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction — Winner
Rachel Notley’s dramatic triumph over Alberta’s Conservative regime was an early rumble before the Trudeau landslide.
Alberta has long been seen as politically...
Canada's Road
A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Russia has the Trans-Siberian Highway, Australia has Highway 1, and Canada has the Trans-Canada Highway, an iconic road that stretches almost 8,000 kilometres across six time zones.
In the summer of 2012, on the highway's 50th birthday, Mark Richardson drove its entire length to find out how...
Memories of the Beach
Reflections on a Toronto Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Advance praise for Memories of the Beach:
"Lorraine O'Donnell Williams has given us a charming and evocative memoir of the Beach district six or seven decades ago, when it was a separate world in the southeast corner of Toronto. Everyone who knew the Beach that was, and everyone who knows...
Blue Moon
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious "torso murderer" acquitted on appeal...
by Mark Frutkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2001
Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry." Divided into two sections, one inspired by ancient Chinese art, the other limning the ambiguities and incongruities...
Buttertea at Sunrise
A Year in the Bhutan Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
Often seen as a magical paradise at the end of the world, Bhutan is inaccessible to most travellers. Set against the dramatic scenery of the Himalaya, this beguiling memoir recalls hardships and happiness in a land almost untouched by the West.
When Britta Das goes to work as a physiotherapist...