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Net Travel: How Travelers Use the Internet

The Internet is fast becoming the global library: an information resource unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Don’t know which refrigerator to buy? How to get in touch with childhood friends? Which store might sell ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Genealogy Online: Researching Your Roots

By Elizabeth Powell Crowe

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Internet for 50+: The Complete Guide for Every Canadian Over 50

By Andrew Dagys

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Good Health Online: A Wellness Guide for Every Canadian

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Soon to Be a Motion Picture

By Warren Dunford

Art and stardom have always been cousins, but in the 20th century, the glamour phenomenon has done much to confuse and conflate these two concepts. In a post-Warhol, cult-of-celebrities era, art does not catapult artists ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Accidental Orphan

By Constance Horne

To be an orphan in the late 1800s was a bleak fate indeed. Dressed in the workhouse uniform that proclaimed your state to the world, you were expected to express gratitude to your keepers while ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Famous at Last

By Lesley Choyce, Jill Quinn, illus.

Lesley Choyce, an accomplished Nova Scotian writer for adults and young people, turns his hand to chapter books in Pottersfield’s new reading series of first novels for kids. In this unlikely, fast-moving tale, pre-pubescent Fred ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Crazy for Chocolate

By Frieda Wishinsky, Jock McRae, illus.

As novels such as Chocolate Fever and The Chocolate Touch affirm, adventures about chocolate that are liberally laced with humour go down well with young readers of fiction. Crazy for Chocolate, an easy-to-read adventure story ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Xanthe’s Pyramid

By Ishbel Moore

In the first line of Xanthe’s Pyramid, we’re immediately assaulted by that eternal pubescent lament – “You don’t trust me.” Mom and our 16-year-old protagonist are in a pitched battle because Xanthe broke curfew with ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Make or Break Spring

By Janet McNaughton

This sequel to Catch Me Once, Catch Me Twice continues the story of Evelyn McCallum, now 15, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, awaiting the end of the Second World War and her father’s return from North ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Net Travel: How Travelers Use the Internet

Genealogy Online: Researching Your Roots

The Internet for 50+: The Complete Guide for Every Canadian Over 50

Good Health Online: A Wellness Guide for Every Canadian

Soon to Be a Motion Picture

The Accidental Orphan

Famous at Last

Crazy for Chocolate

Xanthe’s Pyramid

Make or Break Spring

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