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You Look Good for Your Age
"You Look Good for Your Age is a collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about ageism by 29 women writers ranging in age from forties to nineties. The anthology responds to a culture that values youth and that positions aging in women as a failure. Questions arise. What effects do negative social assumptions have on women as they age? What messages about aging do we pass on to our daughters? Through essays, short stories, and poetry, the contributing writers explore these questions with thoughtfulness, satire, and fury. Contributors: Rona Altrows, Debbie Bateman, Moni Brar, Maureen Bush, Sharon Butala, Jane Cawthorne, Joan Crate, Dora Dueck, Cecelia Frey, Ariel Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Vivian Hansen, Joyce Harries, Elizabeth Haynes, Paula Kirman, Joy Kogawa, Laurie MacFayden, JoAnn McCaig, Wendy McGrath, E.D. Morin, Lisa Murphy Lamb, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Olyn Ozbick, Roberta Rees, Julie Sedivy, Madelaine Shaw-Wong, Anne Sorbie, Aritha van Herk, Laura Wershler."--
Legendary Show Jumpers
A collection of tales about Canada's show-juming legends including Air Pilot, Barra Lad and Big Ben.
The Bad Wife
Micheline Maylor’s The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality, guilt, resentment, and pleasure, this collection asks: what if you set off a bomb in your own house? What if you lose love and destroy everything you ever knew? These poems have a disarming immediacy, full of surprising imagery, dark humour, and the bold thoughts of a vibrant and flawed protagonist. Balancing a need for wildness and the space to dwell, The Bad Wife explores the taut confines of those vivid, earthly pleasures that we all know and sometimes can’t escape. I forgot the oath: Do no harm. -from "Yesterday, I Went to the Market"
The Tale of Irwyn Tremayne
Young Irwyn Tremayne is petrified at the thought of following the family tradition of working underground in the Cornish copper mines. He blames himself for the death of his brother and is afraid to share the dark secrets he learns about body snatchers. Irwyn's widowed and depressed father needs a new start and books a passage for Irwyn and himself to Virgin Gorda to work in the copper mine there. Irwyn considers running away but wants to keep his promise made on his mother's deathbed to take care of his father. The rough sailing passage across the Atlantic presents no end of adventure and trouble. Will Irwyn find his true courage at sea'...
Rattenbury
The story of Francis Rattenbury, designer of some of BC's greatest landmarks, whose life was marred by failure and infidelity and ended in bloody murder, scandal, and suicide.
Trailblazing Sports Heroes
The stories of Canadian athletes and how they changed the sports of basketball, hockey, track and field, rowing, and skiing.
West Coast Adventures
West Coast Adventures- Shipwrecks, Lighthouses, and Rescues Along Canada's West Coast .,." The ship began to break up almost at once and the women and children were lashed to the rigging above the reach of the sea. It was a pitiful sight to see frail women, wearing only night dresses, ...trying to shield children in their arms." - Crewman of the Valencia This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history adventure The southwest coast of Vancouver Island is a reef-studded stretch, notorious for dramatic winter storms and thick cloaks of summer fog. Many ships have found themselves well off course, even lost, during sudden storms. This book tells the stories of the sailors, lighthouse keepers, and linemen who have weathered these west coast storms.
Arctic Explorers
The search for the Northwest Passage is a saga of hardship, tragedy and mystery. For over 400 years, the elusive, ice-choked Arctic waterway has been sought and travelled by daring men seeking profit and glory but often finding only a desperate struggle for survival. Spanning the centuries from Elizabethan privateer Martin Frobisher to RCMP officer Henry Larsen, the intrepid captain of the St. Roch, these stories of high adventure reveal why the Northwest Passage has gripped the imaginations of generations of explorers and lured them to its treacherous waters. Book jacket.
Sam Steele
The story of the man who played a significant role in the historical events during the pioneering years of the Canadian West.
Marie-Anne Lagimodiere
The story of Marie-Anne Lagimodiere who criss-crossed Canada in the early 1800s with her voyageur husband.
