Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy

In the 1960s and 70s, young, middle-class North Americans got the message loud and clear: follow your hearts, do whatever you want, drop out, be happy. The children of post-war boom years, they were well ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

When Work Doesn’t Work Anymore: Women, Work and Identity

By Elizabeth Perle McKenna

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Work Less, Live More: A Woman’s Guide

By Paula Brook

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ Straight Talk About Children and Sport: Advice for Parents, Coaches and Teachers

By Janet LeBlanc and Louise Dickson

It’s a fact of life that a youngster’s involvement in sport usually means an accompanying commitment by someone older, namely a parent, teacher, or coach. Kids grow in sport by being taught lessons about fair ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms and Figures of Speech

By Stephen Adams

Few things are more daunting to students of language than meter and scansion. The very mention of the words can glaze the eye or quicken the pulse with panic. The impulse of teachers is often ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Gage Canadian School Thesaurus

By T.K. Pratt, ed.

In 1852, the publishing house Longman released a reference work whose aim was “to supply, with respect to the English Language, a desideratum hitherto unsupplied in any language, namely, a collection of the words it ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Gage Canadian Thesaurus

By T.K. Pratt, ed.

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Witcher

By Joan Weir

Take an intriguing title, add a mystery, include a dash of danger, a bantering family, and a hate-love relationship with a horse, and you’ve got ingredients for a book that will please a wide-ranging audience. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Carving My Name

By Mary-Kate McDonald

This collection of short stories for young adults by Mary-Kate McDonald finds all protagonists in a state of emotional pain. Jason discovers from a third party that his best friend is moving away. As her ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Jeremy and the Air Pirates

By Felicity Finn, Sally J.K. Davies, illus.

Remember Jeremy and the Aunties, that funny 1992 novel about the old-lady mannequins who come to life? Here is the sequel, which may also be read on its own, thanks to the handy little prologue. ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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Work Less, Live More: A Woman’s Guide

★ Straight Talk About Children and Sport: Advice for Parents, Coaches and Teachers

Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms and Figures of Speech

Gage Canadian School Thesaurus

Gage Canadian Thesaurus

The Witcher

Carving My Name

Jeremy and the Air Pirates

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