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214 pages. "As I grow old, and see how immeasurably sad life is, I depend on the kind of spirituality achieve when they locate their best self. What Sharon Brown has written is beautiful." - June Callwood. A direct and fearless account of how the author and her husband moved author's dying mother into their home to live her final weeks. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Trace of cigarette smoke. Excellent copy. Book
176 pages. "...a gemlike prose elegy of a man and a woman facing the tragedy of their final separation." - Sherwin Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die. Light to moderate wear. Remainder mark upon bottom edge. Solid copy. Book
480 pages including index. " A real and memorable tribute to the universal need to express love, fear, loss, sensual and spiritual joy, the inevitability of death, and the poignant, metaphysical quests of this generation's poets. Who can say which of them will rise to the challenge of greatness?" - From the Introduction. Light wear. Unmarked. Book
203 pages. Index. Notes. Blibliographic essay. "The Black Death was a combination of bubonic, pneumonic, and septicaemic strains. It devastated the Western world from 1347 to 1351, killing 25%-50% of Europe's population and causing or accelerating marked policial, economic, social and cultural changes." - from Introduction. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Blind stamp to dedication page. No other markings. Clean with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
315 pages including index. More than 50 million people have trouble sleeping. If you're one of them, here's a book that will help you sleep better tonight. Read about 42 major sleep problems and how to overcome them, including: bad sleep habits, conditioned insomnia, breathing disorders, narcolepsy, jet lag, Sudden Infant Death, sleep-walking, rhythm changes during aging, stress and anxiety, snoring. Learn crucial information about sleeping pills. Find out about the latest sleep treatments. Learn about intriguing research. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding solid. Book
82 pages. Features include: Carrier Strike on Wake Island; Capture of Peleliu - Bravery on the Beach; Andy Rooney' War; Darian Assassination - Death of a Double-Dealer. Moderate wear. Unmarked. No tears. Solid copy. Book
351 pages. A collection of stories, events, and experiences that provide a sense of what life is like for those who confront environmental crises of our time. Topics discussed: Local responses to economic development (cases from Indonesia and china); Conservation and conflict (cases from Africa); Gold mining in the Amazon and Wisconsin; Food, conflict, and justice (cases from the US and Honduras; and more. First half of book is high-lighted in yellow. Second half has blue pen underlining. Moderate wear. Glossy illustrated covers. Solid working copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Along the Iron Pike (pictorial); The Old Cincinnati & Lake Erie; Passenger Train Survey; Interesting Railfans No. 101- C. Grattan Price, Jr.; A Gift for Steamtown; The Death of a Depot; Rosters of Shortlines of Canada; Rosters of Wisconsin Shortlines; Private Car (fiction); Photo of beautiful Barbara Bartholomew (age 19) holding her calendar illustration in the 1956 Chessie calendar (drawn by Francis Chaney); Great photo of Canadian National's busy engine terminal on Spadina St., Toronto; and more. Above-average external wear. Contents unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
435 pages. For twelve arduous but captivating years, Raymond de Coccola was, for all intents and purposes, a Barren Land Eskimo. An unforgettable portrait of adventure, of murder, of sexual mores. It is Father Raymond's touching first-person revelation of birth and of death, of patience and of fatalism; and it is a staggering account of his people's tragedy and loss. It is also a story of survival and hope. Bookplate upon front flyleaf. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. Reading creases along spine. Includes a large assortment of excellent black and white plates. Book
"In this honest and healing picture book, Francie finds a way to share her nice memories of her Great-Granny and encourage others to remember the little things - the fireflies, peach pies, and lullabies - that celebrate the true life of a beloved one." - from dust jacket. Unpaginated. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy reading copy. Book
239 pages. "In 1956, nearly forty years after the death of Canadian artist, Tom Thomson, William T. Little and three companions set themselves to a macabre task. Ever since July 16, 1917, when the artist's badly decomposing body was found floating in the waters of Canoe Lake, controversey and conjecture hovered over the matter of how Tom Thomson really met his death. It was as a result of this prolonged uncertainty that the four men began digging in the little cemetery in Algonquin Park where Thomson was supposedly buried... On the one hand William Little has been able to give us a fuller understanding of both Thomson's personality and his instincts as a painter. On the other, he has amassed considerable evidence that suggests a murder, a suspect, and a motive." - from back cover. Gift greetings inside front cover and at foot of back flyleaf. Covers carefully preserved in glossy clear adhesive laminate. Tight and square with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
240 pages including index. Through colourful anecdotes, documented reports and personal remembrances, Ian Mahood tells of the birth and eventual death of forest management in British Columbia. Gift greetings and discard stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
100 pages. "These records of famous navigators and expeditions include the first newspaper release of the Mutiny on the Bounty story, the first account of the barbaric death of Captain Cook, and the last record of the tragic La Perouse expedition, with the strange disappearance of its 200-man contingent." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Worthy reference copy. Book
174 pages including black and white photographic plates. Author spent four years talking with Gerry, before his death in 1988, and with many of the people who were profoundly influenced by him. This is the story, largely in his own words, of an original and unique British Columbian who established the Yellow Point Lodge on Vancouver Island just south of Nanaimo. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding sound. A worthy reading copy. Book
309 pages including index. Argues that we've got the wrong deficit culprit and before we all gather for the public shooting, we should consider the consequences. Some small creases to dust jacket flaps otherwise unmarked with very light wear. Book
136 pages. Calls our minds to a practical way of dealing with death, and calls to our hearts the freedom to grieve, the freedom to then move on from our grief. Writing inside front cover and prior owner's name upon front flyleaf, else umarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
98 pages. Features include: Halifax W1048; Holscher's Heinkel; Death over Flak City; Ghosts of '44; Forgotten Warbird Graveyard; The Day it Rained P-40s; and many more. Above-average wear. Prior owner's details inside front cover. Book
46 pages. Wonderful colour photography throughout. Features: B.C. - Land of Bouquet - Canada's First Province for Flowers; Cumberland - Coal-dust memories stir a sleepy village - an explosive and tragic past; A Little Block of heritage homes in Vancouver's West End; River of White Death - why the Alsek River's Turnback Canyon is so named; Whistler heats up in summer. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
48 pages. Features: Democracy and the digital revolution; Closer to home with racism; Dissent and the digital age; The Life and Death of CIDA, 1968-2018; The Extradition case of Dr. Hassan Diab; and more. Average wear. Couple of library markings. A sound copy. Book
170 pages. Features: 1963 Ford XL - 425 HP 427 engine with four on the floor; Chevy Cabriolet - the luxury 1941 premium special De Luxe; Pontiac's GTO - a true legend among performance cars of the sixties and early 70s; 1916 Pierce-Arrow Model 48; 1966 Corsa Corvair convertible; Duesenberg J; How to enamel old car badges; Spring Carlisle; Charlotte '82; The Ricketts - the birth and death of an Indiana auto maker. Average wear. Two-inch opening to fore-edge of front cover. Faint date stamp on front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Secrets of the Lost Forest - Vietnam's rainforests teem with undiscovered life... a Canadian-Russian research group takes a dream trip along the biodiversity trail; Death of an Elder - A Labrador Community rallies at a dying Innu woman's bedside, preparing for her spirit's return to the land; Wanted - Will James... a.k.a. Ernest Dufault, for being the rootin' tootin' French Canadian cowboy fraud of the old Wild West; Let Your Fingers Do the Talking - a snappy salute to handmade gestures... humanity's original digital interface; Microbe Mystery - a newly discovered strain of hantavirus, spread by deer mice, is alarming country dwellers and cottagers alike... but have the viral sleuths really got their bug? Light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Prairie Roots - 'My ancestors ran from the Ukraine so they could keep their beliefs. I intend to keep the culture alive.'; Embattled Giant - Pollution threatens to destroy British Columbia's mighty Fraser River; The Golden Alphabet - Deciphering the architecture of the avian empire; At Home in Every Country - A Canadian comes calling on the world's richest families; Art of the State - after 108 years of neglect, Canada's national art collection finds a handsome high-tech home; Sandman's Surprise - Once considered a state akin to death, sleep may in fact hold the key to our most creative moments. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Life and Death of the Sea Tuskers - The Sea Cow Fishery on these islands is totally annihilated; Victorian Canada - A Photographic portfolio selected by Edward Cavell; Classic Revival - Greece battles to save the Sacred Rock of the Western World; Earth's Great Dyings - Scientists seek clues to the mystery of mass extinctions. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Small Rhododendrons from Alfeld, Germany; Rhododendrons on Postage Stamps; Proven Performers - ARS District 3; A Vireya Seed Odyssey - Some Observations; Azalea Society Convention 2001, Asheville, North Carolina; Deciduous Azaleas - Springtime in the South; Daylilies - Companion plants for Rhododendrons?; The Story of Rhododendron "Bonnie Bee'; Meerkerk Hybrid Test Garden Results, 2000; History of the ARS Research Foundation; Society News; What are These Spots? - Part II; Rhododendrons Linked to Sudden Oak Death; Rhododendrons in 3D - Dreams, Dwarfs and Delusions; The Gardens at Exbury - One Man's Obsession. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
58 pages. Features: Britain's Mailed Fist; Beginning - Henrietta's Big Night, by Edwin Balmer; Hollywood's Income-Tax Jitters; Death for a Lady's Arms, by John Erskine; Why the Grand National (Horse Race) is a Bad Bet; Sweepstakes Winners - glimpses of some lucky and unlucky Canadians, including winner Wilfred Leblanc; Three-Cornered Square, by Alberta Williams; Love Letters of a Prizefighter and a Hollywood Extra, by Bert Green; America's Queerest Trial - the Case of the Murdering Millionaire, by D. Thomas Curtin; Discretion be Damned, by Elmer Davis; Studebaker ad (only $959!); To the Ladies, by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin; St. Patrick's Day in the Morning, by Helen Dore Boylston; What Queen Elizabeth is Really Like - an intimate look at a charming new monarch and her romantic rise from gloomy Glamis Castle to Britain's shining throne, by Princess Catherine Radziwill; Youth to the Rescue - the kids make good, by Beverly Hills; Will German Sea Power Challenge Great Britain?, by Rear Admiral Yates Stirling; Marching Dead Men, by Terry Brennan as told to Captain W.J. Blackledge; Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Magazine