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Noo-Noos!
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Personal Account
After nearly four decades at Bank of Montreal, former President and CEO Tony Comper shares leadership lessons from his experience at the helm of one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Anthony “Tony” Comper likes to say that he can sum up his remarkable career in Canadian banking in 25 stories. In a business often filled with big personalities and memorable characters, Tony’s motto is Festina Lente — make haste slowly. In Personal Account: 25 Tales about Leadership, Learning, and Legacy from a Lifetime at Bank of Montreal, Comper chronicles how he guided the bank’s software evolution on real-time banking and the introduction of ABMs. He also saw BMO evolve from traditi...
The Woman with the German Accent
Many East Germans illegally escaped through Berlin before the wall was built. Freedom was possible if one could convince the guards there was a good reason to enter the Western side. Anita Plutte was one of those who found a way...... "It was December 1955, and I had just said a long, tearful, fearful good bye to my sister Renate. I found myself walking across the Berlin bridge with Frau Fischer. I hoped I was doing the right thing. When we got about halfway across, a young guard stopped us by holding up his hand and blocking our path. 'Where are you going? How long will you be there? What is the purpose of your visit?' The blonde guard on the bridge on the East Berlin side was probably only...
The Kindness of Strangers
Many of us care deeply about the fate of young people growing up in poverty. We worry about their future and the future of an increasingly fragmented society. We want to help, but often don't know how, or even where to begin. The Kindness of Strangers reveals how caring adults in cities across America are trying to turn young lives around. It also tells of the much-celebrated mentoring movement they have created. Based on interviews with over 300 mentors, young people, scholars, and youth workers, this book takes a hard look at mentoring and asks some critical questions: how much can mentoring really accomplish? what does it take to be a successful mentor? what makes the difference between an effective program and one fraught with difficulties? Marc Freedman brings experience, research, and realism to these questions in an effort to present the truth about the mentoring movement sweeping America today.
A Deed to the Light
In A Deed To the Light Jeanne Murray Walker asks probing questions about the depth of grief, about letting go, and about the possibility of faith. Her poems have been described by John Taylor, writing in Poetry, as "splendid, subtly erudite, uplifting, and funny."
The Flying Bandit
"When Janice Whiteman met her husband Robert at the airport she was stunned when he was tackled in front of her by plainclothes police and arrested for armed robbery. Since the day they met, Robert had been leading a double life; husband and father at home, spectacularly successful armed robber on the road. In a spree lasting thirty-three months, in cities, large and small from Vancouver to Halifax, he committed fifty-nine robberies, sometimes two in one day, for a combined take of over two million dollars. This is the extraordinary true story of the most daring criminal in the nation's history: Canada's Flying Bandit."--
Folk Art Patterns
Fancy turning your hand to the decorative arts? Carol Thomson shows you how with Folk Art Patterns. Painting Tips: brushes, paints, preparation, finishing; round brush comma strokes, flat brush crescent strokes...Coloured step-by-step worksheets Lettering and variations Forty-three projects: hat boxes, plates, jewellery boxes, mantle clocks, wedding bells...and much more
Thursday Nights at the Bluebell Inn
Six women, one aim and the stories they never told. Each week, six women of different ages and from varying backgrounds come together at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant, ladies darts team, but it is there hidden stories of love and loss that in the end binds them. There is the Irish widow with a heartbreaking secret; the young daughter of a gypsy family experiencing love for the first time; a cat woman alone with her memories who must return to the place of her birth before it's all too late. Their unspoken stories are ones of heartache, dull marriages, abusive relationships, lost loves and secret hopes. These displaced women know little of each other's lives, but their weekly meetings at their local pub weave a delicate and sustaining connection between them all, a constant that maybe they can rely on as the crossroads in their individual lives threaten to overwhelm. Raw, funny and devastating, all of life can be found at the Bluebell.
501
Every Monday the six players for the George Inn ladies dart's team meet for their league match but behind the camaraderie of the occasion each has their own story to tell.
Element of Hope
A national study of the history of cancer in Canada.
