Product Description: Remembered in Bronze and Stone evokes the years immediately following the First World War, when grief was still freshly felt in communities from one end of Canada to the other. This book tells the story of the nations war memorialsparticularly bronze or stone sculptures depicting Canadian soldiersthrough the artists who conceived them, the communities that built them, and, above all, those who died in the war and were immortalized in these stunning sculptures raised in their honour...read more

Product Description: “Rich, imaginative. . . . One of the best novels I’ve read all year.”—Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last SupperA sensuous, heartbreaking novel about art, beauty, and the choices we make that define us for life.In 1968 a young man travels to Paris, where a series of unlikely events takes him to a tiny village in Italy—and to the one great love of his life...read more

Product Description: Canada’s largest city is undergoing a major transformation, but whether it’s for good or ill is up for debate. Will Toronto’s vital, livable urban core survive rampant gentrification? Will the shedding of its stodgy image make the city more exciting, or more dangerous? This provocative collection of essays examines these and other key issues facing Toronto and its citizens...read more

Product Description: A common wild gourd becomes a thing of beauty in the hands of 25 top artisans who specialize in exploring, expressing—and teaching—their handiwork. Magnificent projects shown in illuminating full-color photos and practical skills introduce you to a universe of ways to turn gourds into works of art...read more

Product Description: In an age of insecurity, few have a more tenuous hold on employment than the freelance newspaper writer. Fewer still have bigger egos. Comedy and anger, defiance and lonely bewilderment are woven together in a monologue that continually burst beyond the confines of a single character...read more

Product Description: Every time you mess up, you feel the need to make an excuse. If you're tired of offering the same old tired explanations, take your pick from this encyclopedic collection of hundreds of excuses you've never used before. They're organized into categories like medical emergencies ("I have a chemical imbalance"), weather ("the humidity swelled my door shut"), ancient proverbs ("nothing is inevitable until it happens"), and reasons that make no sense ("I did my own thing and now I have to undo it")...read more

Product Description: A common wild gourd becomes a thing of beauty in the hands of 25 top artisans who specialize in exploring, expressing--and teaching--their handiwork. Magnificent projects shown in illuminating full-color photos and practical skills introduce you to a diversity of ways to turn gourds into works of art...read more

A divorced father and his estranged son face death on a doomed canoe trip, and they must confront each other as they struggle to survive. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mother's relatives, the Goodyears of Newfoundland, David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of Newfoundland's twentieth century―the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal-hunt disaster; the bitter debate over whether to become part of Canada; and above all, the First World War―into a saga of the ill-starred yet heroic fortunes of his family, who were rarely in control of events but often at the center of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by MacFarlane, David, Van Niekerk, Philip

Product Description: For your amusement, for your edification and inspiration, for livening up that speech you have to give: proverbs have an irresistible power. These little pockets of wisdom say volumes about a culture--so take a tour around the world in words...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: You might think that an autobiography by the senior chairman of McDonald’s in Canada and Russia would be a modestly boastful, ho-hum business story of expansion and board-room debates, wrapped in some nice reminiscences about his family...read more

Product Description: Here’s a toast for you—to the bride, to the groom, from parents and friends, at the shower, bachelor party, and reception! Weddings, and their related festivities, offer so many opportunities to offer good wishes, hopes for future bliss, and words of love...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Demonstrates different types of written thank-you messages while exploring the basic elements of a letter