Product Description: They are proof that you don't have to have a lot of money to live a full life, but you do need to enjoy life, have a sense of adventure and occasionally step outside your comfort zone.

Product Description: The Second World War came hard on the heels of a devastatingDepression in which families struggled to survive.Life on the HomeFrontpaints a poignant portrait of a city coping with the demandsof war. Montrealers, along with other Canadians, were being askedfor more sacrifice but this time it would include sending their sons,brothers, fathers and husbands off to war...read more

Product Description: 1909, and life is hard for young Poppy Powers in the Isle of Dogs. Her father has disappeared, but he's left behind his saxophone and Poppy's dream to become a musician. Working as a waitress in a drinking club in the terrible Great War is where Poppy first hears ragtime, and there too she falls in love - tragically and irrevocably - with the American Scott Warrender...read more

Product Description: The Isle of Dogs at the turn of the century is a close-knit community, and in Trinidad Street loves and lives tangle and interweave... When Tom Johnson is sacked and set upon, his daughter Ellen has to leave school and her dreams of an office job, but she can still dream of Harry Turner...read more

Product Description: Book by Burns, Patricia

Product Description: Although there have been some Irish living in Montreal since the early 1600's, augmented by Irish soldiers arriving with the conquering British army, it was only in the early 1800's that an Irish presence was truly noticed. By 1824 there were sufficient Irish in Montreal to organize the first St...read more

Product Description: These gripping stories of young men and women who served in the army, navy, and air force during World War II are a testament to the raw courage, youthful bravado, camaraderie, and sacrifice needed to defeat a powerful enemy. Many who returned from the theatre of war were never the same again...read more

Product Description: 1941: London is in the grip of the Blitz. Rita Johnson spends every night sheltering in the Underground, coming home each morning to the Isle of Dogs not knowing whether she still has a place to call her own. Rita longs to join the forces to escape the restrictions surrounding her and her loveless marriage to Ron...read more

Product Description: Sophy Franklin had loved her husband, despite his dubious lifestyle and irresponsibility which resulted in her being left a penniless widow with a tiny daughter. She was at the point of desperation when the letter arrived from Captain Ellard, offering her a cottage on the Essex marshes...read more

As Britain's railroads burgeon, a young Victorian woman named Kezzy is motivated by her love and her longing for a better life to struggle for her very survival