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Le Petit Prince Special Edition Plain Pocket Notebook
Moleskine 2011 8862937628 Hardcover New 3.5 x 5.5
A special edition dedicated to the book, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Each Le Petit Prince special edition comes with a cut out scene from the story tucked away in the rear notebook pocket. The pocket size notebook includes a globe-shaped cut-out of the Prince enjoying a "perpetual sunset" on his home planet.
It features illustrations and quotations on the front and back pages and bespoke covers with white embossed illustrations, the quote 'L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux' and a full-colour paper band which continues the embossed cover artwork.
Small details capture the magic and idealism of the story. A custom "In case of loss" message reads "In case of loss, return to planet..." and "As a reward, my secret about...".
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Le Petit Prince Special Edition Ruled Pocket Notebook
Moleskine 2011 8862937636 Hardcover New 3.5 x 5.5, 192 pages
A special edition dedicated to the book, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Each Le Petit Prince special edition comes with a cut out scene from the story tucked away in the rear notebook pocket. The pocket size notebook includes a globe-shaped cut-out of the Prince enjoying a "perpetual sunset" on his home planet.
It features illustrations and quotations on the front and back pages and bespoke covers with white embossed illustrations, the quote 'L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux' and a full-colour paper band which continues the embossed cover artwork.
Small details capture the magic and idealism of the story. A custom "In case of loss" message reads "In case of loss, return to planet..." and "As a reward, my secret about...".
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Le Petit Prince Special Edition Plain Large Notebook
Moleskine 2011 8862937644 Hardcover New 5 x 8 1/4
A special edition dedicated to the book, Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Each Le Petit Prince special edition comes with a cut out scene from the story tucked away in the rear notebook pocket. The large size notebook includes a 3D landscape where the Prince meets the fox and tames him.
It features illustrations and quotations on the front and back pages and bespoke covers with white embossed illustrations, the quote 'L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux' and a full-colour paper band which continues the embossed cover artwork.
Small details capture the magic and idealism of the story. A custom "In case of loss" message reads "In case of loss, return to planet..." and "As a reward, my secret about...".
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Le Petit Prince Special Edition Ruled Large Notebook
Moleskine 2011 8862937652 Hardcover New 5 x 8 1/4
Each Le Petit Prince special edition comes with a cut out scene from the story tucked away in the rear notebook pocket. The large size notebook includes a 3D landscape where the Prince meets the fox and tames him. It features illustrations and quotations on the front and back pages and bespoke covers with white embossed illustrations, the quote 'L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux' and a full-colour paper band which continues the embossed cover artwork. Small details capture the magic and idealism of the story. A custom "In case of loss" message reads "In case of loss, return to planet..." and "As a reward, my secret about...".
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Weck Home-Canning Book, The
1984 1st English Edition Hardcover 7.25 x 7.5, 144 pages
Published by J. Weck GmbH & Co, this book takes you through the history and principles of home-canning (especially with Weck jars & products), canning methods, trouble-shooting guide, and recipes.
Definitely interesting for the range of unusual recipes, from sweet-sour pickled corn on the cob to marinades and veal head cheese.
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Star Wars Plain Pocket Notebook - Special Edition (Rebel Alliance cover band)
Moleskine 2011 8866130249 Hardcover New 3.5 x 5.5, 192 pages
From the classic saga with material to commemorate both sides of the Force: memorable quotes, Space-scapes, and battle scenes.
The cover is the opening scene with the "In a galaxy far, far away" text scrolling upwards.
The paper band, inside cover and Moleskine inner pocket reproduce famous scenes from the saga.
The inner pages are decorated with material from the Lucas film archive and include bespoke Star Wars paper inserts or stickers and full-colour end papers.
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Star Wars Lined Pocket Notebook - Special Edition (Darth Vader cover band)
Moleskine 2011 8866130257 Hardcover New 3.5 x 5.5, 192 pages
From the classic saga with material to commemorate both sides of the Force: memorable quotes, Space-scapes, and battle scenes.
The cover is the famous jump into hyperspace with the stretched star field.
The paper band, inside cover and Moleskine inner pocket reproduce famous scenes from the saga.
The inner pages are decorated with material from the Lucas film archive and include bespoke Star Wars paper inserts or stickers and full-colour end papers.
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Star Wars Plain Large Notebook - Special Edition (Rebel Alliance cover band)
Moleskine 2011 8866130265 Hardcover New 5 x 8 1/4", 240 pages
From the classic saga with material to commemorate both sides of the Force: memorable quotes, Space-scapes, and battle scenes.
The cover is the opening scene with the "In a galaxy far, far away" text scrolling upwards.
The paper band, inside cover and Moleskine inner pocket reproduce famous scenes from the saga.
The inner pages are decorated with material from the Lucas film archive and include bespoke Star Wars paper inserts or stickers and full-colour end papers.
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Star Wars Lined Large Notebook - Special Edition (Darth Vader cover band)
Moleskine 2011 8866130273 Hardcover New 5 x 8 1/4", 240 pages
From the classic saga with material to commemorate both sides of the Force: memorable quotes, Space-scapes, and battle scenes.
The cover is the famous jump into hyperspace with the stretched star field.
The paper band, inside cover and Moleskine inner pocket reproduce famous scenes from the saga.
The inner pages are decorated with material from the Lucas film archive and include bespoke Star Wars paper inserts or stickers and full-colour end papers.
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Asma Barlas "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriachal Interpretations of the Qur'an
University of Texas Press 2002 0292709048 Trade paper NEW 6 x 9
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings.
Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur'an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur'an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. She goes on to reread the Qur'an's position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes.
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BARKOW, Henriette Giant Turnip, The
Mantra Lingua 2003 1852698969 N Big Book NEW 16 x 13.75'' 22 JOHNSON, Richard N
Spiral bound. A multi-cultural retelling transposed to a school setting where the children have grown an enormous turnip and cannot harvest it. They think of various methods to try, first the boys, then the girls. As in the original story, it is the addition of that one more person and everyone working as a team that finally gets the job done.
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CASEY, Dawn Children of Lir, The/Clann Lir (Bilingual Irish/English)
Mantra Lingua 2003 1852698187 N Softcover NEW 8.5 x 10.75'' 30 MAYO, Diana N
"I curse you!" said the wicked stepmother and with these words the children of King Lir are turned into swans for nine hundred years.
"A chlann Lir" a deir Aoife, "Cuirim mallacht oraibh, beidh sibh mar ealai ar feadh naoi bliain."
As point of interest, Celts lived in Britain from around 700 BC; by 300 BC the Celts' lands extended from Ireland to Turkey. The Celtic peoples of the British Isles were well-known for the love of story-telling. Lir's Welsh equivalent, Llyr, became King Lear in Shakespeare's tragedy, and the principal place of his worship was named after him: Leicester (Llyr-cester).
Irish translation by Maire Begley O'Shea.
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DEPPE, Carol Resilient Gardener, The: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Chelsea Green 2010 160358031X Paper New 7.5 x 9.5
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine.
In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
In this book you’ll learn how to:
Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change
Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops
Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back)
Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed
Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy
Make whole-grain, corn-based breads and cakes using the author’s original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products
Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes
Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash
Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed.
The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book, and is suitable for gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, health problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional and global disasters and climate change. It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way — from tomorrow through the next thousand years. ~ From publisher's description
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DWYER, Terry Wreck Hunter: Quest For Lost Shipwrecks
Pottersfield Press September 4, 2004 1895900670 N Trade Paper NEW 224 N
"There are over 10,000 known shipwrecks off the coast of Nova Scotia. Wreck Hunter explores why there are so many, where they are located and even how to go about finding them. Learn about the latest in cutting-edge technology and the sophisticated hi-tech electronic equipment that is used to find shipwrecks. Enter the mysterious world of shipwreck diving and discover the emerging and fascinating business of shipwreck exploration.
Dwyer shares a wealth of knowledge and personal insight into how to research, locate and document shipwrecks and he brings the reader up to date on the current laws and regulations that govern shipwreck salvage and treasure hunting in Nova Scotia."
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FITZPATRICK, Deanne East Coast Rug-Hooking Designs: New Patterns From an Old Tradition
Halifax, Nova Scotia Nimbus Publishing 2006 1551095696 Trade Paper New 8 x 10
Shortlisted for the Best Atlantic Published Book Award Bronze winner of the IPPY Award for Regional Non-Fiction (Atlantic Canada)
East Coast Rug-Hooking Designs is filled with over thirty patterns for coastal-inspired hooked mats, and each pattern is accompanied by the stories that inspired them. The designs range from those suitable for beginners to those that will challenge the experienced hooker. Each design includes basic instructions, a pattern to copy, a list of necessary supplies, rug-hooking tips, a story about the design and a photograph of the finished hooked rug, by the author. Readers will be drawn into stories about women, friendship, community and tradition. It encourages new modern designs for hooked rugs while at the same time respecting the tradition of rug-hooking throughout Atlantic Canada.
Deanne Fiztpatrick works full time as a rug-hooking artist. Her work is exhibited at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and has been featured on CBC’s Land and Sea. ~ Fr publisher's description
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Gallant, Mavis From the Fifteenth District
Canada McCLelland & Stewart 0771032935 Trade Paperback NEW 5 3/8 x 8 3/8
One of the Canada Reads selection for 2008, this collection of nine stories set is in Europe after World War II.
Among the characters are an English family who go to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty; a displaced person-turned-French soldier in Algeria making a living as an actor in Paris; selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera who refuse to believe that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives; and a great writer’s quiet widow who blossoms, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a 10-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas.
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GREGORY, Manju Jill and the Beanstalk
Mantra Lingua 2004 1844441083 N Big Book NEW 16 x 13.75'' 22 ANSTEY, David N
Spiral Bound. From the back cover: "Jill heard a shout, it was her mother! "Come down at once, look after your brother!" But Jill just kept on climbing, she didn't stop, All the way upwards, right to the top."
The Crooked Man, beside the crooked stile, gave Jill the magic beans that started her on her journey to the land of the the Giant. Characters from different familiar nursery rhymes come together in this new verse version of an old favourite.
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HARRIS, Mark STEEVES, Dan Light That Lives in Darkness, The
Gaspereau Press 2006 1554470218 Y Softcover NEW 9.25 x 5.5'' 0 Y
First published in 2004 in a hand-printed limited edition, this collaboration between New Brunswick printmaker Dan Steeves and Nova Scotia writer Mark Harris is now being released in an trade edition featuring reproductions of the nine original intaglio prints with nine corresponding prose responses.
In speaking about the project, Harris said, “I wanted to articulate some of the interior spiritual landscapes in Dan’s work.” The psychological depth of Steeves’ work, in particular the cohabitation of things vague and articulate, is picked up in Harris’s meditations. Focusing on the surprising resilence of faith, questions of permanence and vulnerability, and on a more specific relationship with the Bay of Fundy shore, Harris unravels some of the turmoil in these prints. Several of the meditations begin with questions – about quality of life, about choices and about the presence of one who knows us better than we know ourselves. Working from the lowest emotional troughs and the sudden clarity that arrives when faith is tested, Harris's prose is imaginative and provocative, taking us into the darkest regions of Steeves' prints and pointing back to the lightest.
"Hope has a way of surfacing in the most unlikely places. Fear and anxiety assault us. Tightness lodges in our chest and once natural, unconscious rhythms of breathing become tense and laboured. Shadows threaten to engulf us, and darkness, mad and unrelenting, presses in so hard we fear the extinction of our very selves. We wonder if we will always feel this crippled, this tired. We're haunted by the possibility that we will never again be strong enough to care for those we love. Yet strangely, hope appears.
Gutted by life, it seem we're ready to be filled. There is nothing glib or forced about this hope. It surprises us, catches us unaware as it rises up from a place we never imagined, a place deeper than our pain. It's not a hope that emerges cautiously as darkness lifts and dawn breaks, but a hope that quietly, yet confidently, makes its presence felt in the darkness. Christ said, "the wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes." This wind can blow into the hardest circumstances of our lives. It's in darkest moments that we are most open to encounter a mysterious presence. Hope emerges because we know that someone else has been in this place of forsakenness; someone else is in this darkness now, with us, powerfully, unmistakably offering us consolation, assuring us this darkness hold its own pure purpose, even though we may never be able to fully understand nor articulate it.
What we are given to know is that we are not alone. This darkness is not absolute. It may even be, in some final sense, illusionary. A hidden God holds us in invisible light. Once again, we live. Once again, we breathe."
This book features black-and-white reproductions of nine intaglio prints. It is a smyth-sewn paperback bound into a paper cover with flaps. The text was typeset by Andrew Steeves, and printed offset on Mohawk Superfine paper.
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Holmgren, David Permaculture Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Holmgren Design Services 2009 0646418440 Trade Paper New 7 x 9.5
The word permaculture was coined by David Holmgren and Bill Mollison to describe an "integrated, evolving system of perennial or self-perpetuating plant and animal species useful to man."
David Holmgren uses permaculture principles as a framework for an empowering but challenging vision of creative adaptation to a world of energy descent.
This book builds on the extraordinary success of the permaculture concept and global permaculture movement (over the last 25 years), to provide a more cerebral and controversial contribution to the sustainability debate.
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HOLOWNIA, Thaddeus SANGER, Peter Arborealis
Anchorage Press 2005 1895488265 Y Hardcover NEW 80 N
(Jolicure, NB: Anchorage Press, 2005). Limited Edition. Pp. 80. With thirty-one full-size stochastic duotone reproductions of the original 7 x 17 inch contact prints by photographer Thaddeaus Holownia, accompanied by a collection of thirty poems by Peter Sanger. Oblong folio (10 x 19 inches), grey paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine, black titles to spine, in illustrated paper-covered slipcase.
'For a number of years, the photographer Thaddeus Holownia has journeyed to Gros Morne National Park and along Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula putting together the body of work presented in Arborealis. As response to Holownia's photographs, Peter Sanger has drawn upon his own experience of living, working and travelling in Newfoundland, particularly on the Northern Peninsula, to compose a suite of thirty poems.
Both the photographs and poems re-create the natural, historical, cultural and geographical aspects of Newfoundland's north-west coast by two independent but interlinked perspectives of imagination. Together, they are counterpointed meditations, a synthesis in the great tradition of combined pictorial, literary, and printing arts." -from the publisher.
The photographs are from 7 x 7 inch negatives made with a Folmer & Schwing Banquet Camera (1926) and a Wisner Technical Field Camera (1999). This edition is limited to 500 copies.
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Hopkinson, Nalo Brown Girl in the Ring
USA Grand Central Publishing 0446674338 Trade Paperback NEW 5 1/8 x 8
One of the Canada Reads 2008 selection.
To survive without traditional government, people in the inner city have had to rediscover old ways: farming, barter, herb lore. But now the wealthy want organs for transplants, and they begin to prey upon the helpless of the streets.
Ti-Jeanne, the mother of a newborn, is trying to break away from her drug-addicted boyfriend when she gets swept up in a much larger struggle. As she combats the power-mad gang lord Rudy, she also unveils the tragic mystery surrounding her mother and grandmother. In her journey, she has to bargain with gods and give birth to new legends.
This novel is a rich blend of Caribbean folklore and speculative fiction. It was published in 1998 after winning the Warner Aspect First Novel Prize in 1997.
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Les Stoodley Tales from the Landwash: Short Stories of Newfoundland
Shediac, New Brunswick L & M Cosmos 2007 978-0-9783232-0-2 First NEW Trade Paperback
A collection of "creative non-fiction" - the stories are true, but some of the names or identifying details have been changed.
Some of the chapter titles are Froze Stiff, The Old Age Pension Cheques, The Hand Knit Gloves, and The Fisherman and the President.
Les Stoodley is well known for his work in both television and radio. He was the mobile reporter on Information Morning, host of Reach for the Top, the first host of Land & Sea, host of Radio Noon & host of the musical "oldies" program "Solid Gold Sunday".
He is fiercely proud of his Newfoundland heritage and he writes because, in his words,
"Newfoundland stories have always held a special fascination for me. I readily admit to being captivated by stories and storytellers. As a child, I absorbed like a dry sponge, fishermen's tales of their adventures at sea. Incredible stories of lost men and dories on the Grand Banks or heroic deeds on the spring ice flows off the Northern Peninsula triggered my already active imagination.
I've marveled at the strength and perseverance of Newfoundlanders who have faced life's cruel obstacles with dignity and in many cases, humour.
With a strong need to hold on to the past, since it is a barometer to guide us in the future, I have attempted to show the courage and tenacity of people I knew and loved. Here are some of their stories."
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Liana Krissoff Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
Stewart Tabori & Chang 2010 1584798645 Trade Paper New 8 x 9", 304 pages
“When I was growing up, canning was for old folks and cranks and separatists,” writes Liana Krissoff in her introduction to Canning for a New Generation. But not anymore. With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all things domestic and DIY, there’s never been a better time to revisit the centuries-old techniques of preserving food at home.
This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year. Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods (such as scones, yoghurt, French vanilla ice cream, cheese, etc.).
Basic information on canning techniques and lively sidebars round out this refreshing take on a classic cooking tradition.
One hundred full-colour photographs, thirty gift labels,
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Madigan, Carleen Backyard Homestead, The
Storey Publishing 2009 1603421386 Trade Paper New 7 x 9
A great all-around guide to bringing "eating local" to your own backyard.
There is information on how to plan a garden for your area and how to grow from seed, how to raise chickens and goats, how to make your own beer and your own bread, how to forage for food and how to preserve it.
A very nice guide whether you have a small city backyard or a rural hobby farm.
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Mary Clemens Meyer & Susanna Meyer Saving the Seasons: How to Can, Freeze, or Dry Almost Anything
Herald Press 2010 0836195124 Trade Paper New 8 x 8
Top Five Reasons To Preserve Your Own Food
~Eat from known, local food sources—year round!
~Fill your cupboards with foods free from chemical additives and preservatives.
~Lock in peak flavors and nutrition by preserving the bounty of the season.
~Taste the full flavors of homemade—store-bought brands just can't compare!
~Preserve foods while they're plentiful, and the benefits last all year—with tastes you won't soon forget.
Step by step, easy instructions on how to preserve baby food to vinegars and much in between. Lots of illustrations, trouble-shooting charts, and a resource list in the appendix.
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MCCLUSKEY, Elaine The Watermelon Social
Gaspereau Press 2006 155447020X Y Trade Paper NEW 137 Y
Elaine McCluskey's debut collection contains ten comical and human slices of suburban life. From grocery aisles to strip-mall parking lots to school hallways and waiting rooms, these stories pulse with the bizarre and sometimes annoying trappings of in-between places and the people we encounter there.
McCluskey is an avid observer of subcultures and demonstrates a feel for the style and micro-dialects they foster. From the "psychotically precious" Sailor Moon girls at a city high school and the last of the hosers, to a weight loss convention and the night crew at a small-town paper, this collection offers up highly specific cross-sections of North American lifestyles.
The stories in The Watermelon Social are as compassionate as they are pointed.
"When I started to write my short stories, I focused on the people who are rarely heard from in our society: poor people, fat people, suburban housewives and tormented teens. Occasionally, cats. I believe the Maritimes has its share of voiceless souls, trying to maintain their humor and dignity in a challenging world. As they make their way through life, they leave stories that are curious and amusing, triumphant and absurd."
The title story in this collection was shortlisted for the 2004 Journey Prize and is included in the 2004 Journey Prize Anthology.
This book is a smyth-sewn paperback bound into a paper cover and enfolded into a printed jacket. The text was typeset by Andrew Steeves and printed offset on laid paper.
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NORAC, Carl My Daddy Is A Giant (French/English)
Mantra Lingua 2004 1844445070 N Hardcover NEW 8.5 x 12'' 25 GODON, Ingrid N
Excerpted: "My daddy is a giant. When we play hide-and-seek, my daddy has to hide behind a mountain ... when my daddy runs, the ground shakes as if it were scared. But I'm not scared of anything when I'm in my daddy's arms. My daddy is a giant, and he loves me with all his giant heart."
French translation by Gwennola Orio-Claunec.
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NORAC, Carl My Daddy Is A Giant (Italian/English)
Mantra Lingua 2004 1844445119 N Hardcover NEW 8.5 x 12'' 25 GODON, Ingrid N
Excerpted: "My daddy is a giant. When we play hide-and-seek, my daddy has to hide behind a mountain ... when my daddy runs, the ground shakes as if it were scared. But I'm not scared of anything when I'm in my daddy's arms. My daddy is a giant, and he loves me with all his giant heart."
Italian translation by Paola Antonioni
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NORAC, Carl My Daddy Is A Giant (Spanish/English)
Mantra Lingua 2004 1844445208 N Hardcover NEW 8 x 12.5'' 25 GODON, Ingrid N
Excerpted: "My daddy is a giant. When we play hide-and-seek, my daddy has to hide behind a mountain ... when my daddy runs, the ground shakes as if it were scared. But I'm not scared of anything when I'm in my daddy's arms. My daddy is a giant, and he loves me with all his giant heart."
Spanish translation by Maria Helena Thomas
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Nyerges, Christopher and Dolores Extreme Simplicity: Homesteading in the City
Chelsea Green 2002 1890132365 Trade Paper New 6 x 9
"The Nyergeses are gentle survivalists. Prepared to cope with the worst that nature or human craziness can deliver - earthquakes and droughts, power failures or terrorist attacks - they have devised ways of
growing and preserving garden produce
finding wild edibles
harvesting storm runoff for backup water supplies
preparing food with a wood stove and solar cooker
recycling everything from bottle caps to wood chips
Extreme Simplicity brings good humour, adaptability, and a passion for self-reliance to the challenges of living in the city. Get radical in your home town. The Nyergeses will show you how.
Christopher and Dolores Byerges have been successful at fashioning a livlihood doing what they love most, including market gardening and chemical-free landscaping. They teach courses on wild herbs, hiking and survival skills, animal husbandry, and beekeeping. ~ From back cover
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Paul Stamets Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Ten Speed Press 2005 1580085792 Paper New 7.5 x 9" 356 pages
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.
The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium’s digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening).
In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined “mycorestoration,” as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for be-mushroomed generations to come. ~ From publisher's description
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PEIRCE, Elizabeth Grow Organic: A Simple Guide to Nova Scotia Vegetable Gardening
Halifax, Nova Scotia Nimbus Publishing 2011 1551097508 Trade Paperback New 6.5 x 9
For Halifax customers, you can't get more local than this! Elizabeth Peirce is one of our own, passionate about gardening, local food and food security issues.
Grow Organic deals specifically with Nova Scotian issues, giving advice about our growing season, how to start, how to improve your soil, which types of vegetables grow best here, and where to get local organic seeds.
The book also contains a chapter on preserving the harvest, and another of inspirational profiles of specific gardening mentors and farmers from around the province.
The book is written in a friendly, straightforward manner, and is intended as a simple and accessible guide for people with a specific interest in organic vegetable gardening. It also includes many illustrative photographs and recipes.
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Pete Culler Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design Catalog
Maine, USA Wooden Boat Books 2010 1934982032 Hardcover New New 8.5 x 11.25
The three pillars of Culler’s design philosophy were simplicity, economy, and ease of use. He believed designs based on the working craft of the past could fulfill the needs of the present, and do so with style, while recognizing that many of these boat types could be cumbersome as required by the trade that spawned them. Every design Pete Culler ever put on paper, more than 100 in all, is here, including designs for outboard workboats, a double-paddle canoe, a scow schooner, fast launches, a 26-foot tugboat, a Tancook whaler, sampans, sharpies, schooners, and more. Originally published in 1984, WoodenBoat is pleased to bring this long-dormant book back to life.
John Burke spent much of his life in and out of the Culler house and shop. He has been a professional boatbuilder as well as contributor to WoodenBoat magazine.
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Quarrington, Paul King Leary
Canada Anchor Canada 0385666012 Trade Paper NEW 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Canada Reads 2008 selection
Tracked down by a young advertising executive, King Leary is invited to Toronto to record a ginger ale commercial alongside the NHL’s newest hockey sensation.
Leary travels to the big city with his roommate and a slightly off-kilter male nurse, but he’s also accompanied by his ghosts: Clay Clinton, his one-time best friend and former hockey manager; Manny Oz, Leary’s challenger for the crown; and the hockey-playing monks of Bowmanville Reformatory, where Leary’s career began.
The trip is a sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching odyssey that reveals the truths of Leary’s not-always-illustrious life.
Published in 1987, King Leary won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and was short-listed for the Trillium Award. The book has been out of print for some time, and is being republished with a new cover for Canada Reads.
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Rink Mann Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide
Woodstock Vermon Countryman Press 0881502162 Third Trade Paper New 6 x 9", 96 pages
From buying equipment to tapping your own trees to boiling the sap, this is the classic guide to making maple syrup.
This ... tells you how you can make maple syrup right in your own backyard without having to build a sap house, or buy buckets, holding tanks, evaporators and other expensive paraphernalia.
Also has lots of options for various styles of evaporators, "how-to" instructions, and tips readers have shared from their experiences.
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ROBERT, Na'ima bint Journey Through Islamic Art (Bilingual Arabic/English)
Mantra Lingua 2005 1844443337 N Hardcover NEW 30 MAYO, Diana N
A young girl's imagination takes flight and carries her on a magical journey. From the great mosques to wondrous palaces and ornamental gardens, she journeys through the rich artistic heritage of the Islamic civilisation. Beautiful lyrical text and a short historical glossary on the last page.
Arabic translation by Dr. Sajida Fawzi
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ROBERT, Na'imh bint The Swirling Hijaab (Bilingual Arabic/English)
Mantra Lingua 2002 1852691190 N Softcover NEW 10.5 x 8.5'' 22 MISTRY, Nilesh N
From a Books for Keeps review, May 2003: "This is a superb book with evocative full-page colour illustrations sweeping across each double-page spread. A simple but equally evocative text in rhyme relates all that a hijaab can be to the muslim girl in the text: My mum's hijaab is black and soft and wide, A fort for me to hide inside! A ship's sails flapping in the air, A comforter when she's not there...' The pictures capture these images in soft colours and present positive, self-confident images. The swirling hijaab is to the little girl a source of comfort and imaginary play, but as the text affirms at the end: "covering my mum as part of her faith / Is what the hijaab does best." A very welcome dual language title for primary classrooms as it invites opportunities for sharing religious, cultural and personal experiences." Books for Keeps May 2003"
Arabic translation by Sajida Fawzi Illustrations by Nilesh Mistry
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SANGER, Peter Aiken Drum
Gaspereau Press 2006 1554470145 Y Trade Paper NEW 137 Y
In this, his sixth collection of poetry, Peter Sanger brings his archaeologist's eye, along with classical and local iconography, to his encounters with domestic implements, local ecology, cultural relics and landmarks. The poems in this collection achieve a delicate balance between the grounded and the ethereal.
"The tutelary spirit in Aiken Drum is an archetypal, mercurial shape-shifter whose name gives the collection its title," says Sanger. "Originally, the character Aiken Drum appears in an old Scottish nursery rhyme of uncertain origin. Here, he also appears in the shape of the infamous 'mysterious stranger' who called himself during a career of thievery and fantastical escapades Smith or More or Newman or – Henry Moon. His story is told in the poem sequence 'Abatos,' but his presence, in various forms (including at one point, the philosopher Wittgenstein), infiltrates many poems throughout the collection."
"There was a man lived in the moon, lived
in the moon, lived in the moon,
There was a man lived in the moon
And his name was Aiken Drum.
And he played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle,
And he played upon a ladle
And his name was Aiken Drum
Scottish Traditional
Before Aiken Drum, his most recent work was White Salt Mountain, exploring the scope of words in time, and is a follow-up to Spar: Words in Place (2002), a collection of essays based on life in rural Nova Scotia. Sanger has been the poetry editor of The Antigonish Review since 1985.
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Sherri Brooks Vinton Put 'Em Up! A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling
Storey Publishing 2010 1603425462 Trade Paper New 7 3/8 x 9 1/8", 304 pages
Home preserving is back and better than every. Flavors are brighter, batch sizes are more flexible, and modern methods make the process safer and easier. Eating locally is on everybody's mind, and nothing is more local than Heirloom Salsa made from vine-fresh tomatoes or a quick batch of Ice-Box Berry Jam saved from the season's last berries. Even beginners who never made peach jam or dill pickles in their grandmothers kitchens are eager to pick up preserving skills as a way to save money, extend the local harvest, and control the quality of preserved ingredients.
With simple step-by-step instructions and 175 delicious recipes, Put ‘Em Up will have even the most timid beginners filling their pantries and freezers in no time! You’ll find complete how-to information for every kind of preserving: refrigerating, freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold- and hot-pack canning, and pickling.
Recipes range from the contemporary and daring — Wasabi Beans, Cherry and Black Pepper Preserves, Pickled Fennel, Figs in Honey Syrup, Sweet Pepper Marmalade, Berry Bourbon, Salsa Verde — to the very best versions of tried-and-true favorites, including applesauce and apple butter, dried tomatoes, marinara sauce, bread and butter pickles, classic strawberry jam, and much, much more. ~ Publisher's description
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SMEE, Nicola Sleepyhead/Dormilon (Bilingual Spanish/English)
Mantra Lingua 2005 1844447499 N Board Book NEW 7.75 x 7.5'' 0 N
Excerpted "Time for bed, Sleepyhead, bathtime's over, story's read. Ten tired fingers, ten tired toes, two tired eyelids, one tired nose." A board book with rhyming text to read before bed with a surprise touch-and-feel page at the back. Large, unfussy illustrations in soft colours.
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SMEE, Nicola Sleepyhead/Petite tete endormie (Bilingual French/English)
Mantra Lingua 2005 1844447472 N Board Book NEW 7.75 x 7.75'' 10 N
Excerpted "Time for bed, Sleepyhead, bathtime's over, story's read. Ten tired fingers, ten tired toes, two tired eyelids, one tired nose." A board book with rhyming text to read before bed with a surprise touch-and-feel page at the back. Large, unfussy illustrations in soft colours.
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Stephen Harrod Buhner Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
Brewers Publications 1998 0937381667 Trade Paper New 6x9", 534 pages
"Fermentation and plant use - as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on life's path - are an inescapable part of our exploration of what it means to be human. Ths this book conflicts with a number of popular beliefs about alchohol, plants, and the nature of material reality. It is, therefore, not politically correct.
...The ancient beers, created ... between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, were quite different from what we know as beer today. Many were sacred beers, and hundreds contained medicinal herbs." ~ From the book
The author explores the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation as revealed through 200 plants and hive products. Includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from 31 countries and six continents.
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Stephen Harrod Buhner Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Storey Publishing 1999 1580171486 Trade paper New 5.5 x 8.5", 144 pages
The era of the penicillin miracle is over. Through our indiscriminate use of pharmaceutical antibiotics in hospitals and factory farms, humans have created "Superbugs" -- tenacious and virulent bacteria that develop resistance to solitary antibiotic compounds at an alarming speed.
In this empowering book, Stephen Buhner offers conclusive evidence that plant medicines, with their complex mix of multiple antibiotic compounds, are remarkably effective against drug-resistant bacteria. You'll learn how antibiotic herbs such as aloe, garlic, and grapefruit seed extract represent our best defense against bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, and Salmonella -- and how their use will ensure that, in the future, antibiotic drugs will still be there when we really need them.
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Steve Vernon Wicked Woods: Ghost Stories from Old New Brunswick
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nimbus Publishing 2008 1551096668 Trade paper New 5 .5 x 8.25 Yours in storytelling Steve Vernon
A collection of twenty-five unforgettably spooky stories from every corner of New Brunswick's, based on both documented classics and legends passed on by word of mouth.
Steve Vernon is a long-established story-teller and has also written Halifax Haunts, Haunted Harbours, Maritime Monsters, and Sinking Deeper, among others.
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Steve Vernon Sinking Deeper or My Questionable Decision to Invent a Sea Monster
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nimbus Publishing 2011 155109777X Trade paper New 5.25 x 7.75 Enjoy the book Steve Vernon*
The tiny fishing community of Deeper Harbour is in deep trouble—and so is fourteen-year-old Roland MacTavish.
Roland’s mom wants to move with him to Ottawa, away from his father, his weird friend Dulsie, and his even weirder grandfather, Angus. So Roland does what any sane teenager would do: He invents a sea monster.
Unfortunately, the scheme quickly spins out of Roland’s control, and he has to go to greater and greater lengths to keep up the illusion. And then Roland must deal with a situation far more terrifying than any sea monster.
As moving as it is irresistibly funny, Steve Vernon’s portrait of Roland and Deeper Harbour is perfect for anyone who’s ever been stuck badly enough to do something awesomely, brilliantly, heroically stupid.
(From publisher's description)
Steve Vernon is a long-established story-teller and has also written Halifax Haunts, Haunted Harbours, Maritime Monsters, and Wicked Woods, among others.
* book is signed "Enjoy the book - Steve Vernon" and also has a small sea monster drawn next to the publisher's logo
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TODD, Nancy Jack A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design
Island Press 1559637781 Y Hardcover NEW 192 N
In the late sixties, as the world was waking to a need for Earth Day, a pioneering group founded a small non-profit research and education organization they called the New Alchemy Institute. Their aim was to explore the ways a safer and more sustainable world could be created. In the ensuing years, along with scientists, agriculturists, and a host of enthusiastic amateurs and friends, they set out to discover new ways that basic human needs--in the form of food, shelter, and energy--could be met. A Safe and Sustainable World is the story of that journey, as it was and as it continues to be.
The dynamics and the resilience of the living world were the Institute's model and the inspiration for their research. Central to their efforts then and now is, along with science, a spiritual quest for a more harmonious human role in our planet's future. The results of this work have now entered mainstream science through the emerging discipline of ecological design.
Nancy Jack Todd not only relates a fascinating journey from lofty ideals through the hard realities encountered in learning how to actually grow food, harness the energy of the sun and wind, and design green architecture. She also introduces us to some of the heroes and mentors who played a vital role in those efforts as well, from Buckminster Fuller to Margaret Mead. The early work of the Institute culminated in the design and building of two bioshelters--large greenhouse-like independent structures called Arks, that provided the setting for much of the research to follow.
Successfully proving through the Institute's designs and investigations that basic land sustainability is achievable, John Todd and the author founded a second non-profit research group, Ocean Arks International. Here they applied the New Alchemy's natural systems thinking to restoring polluted waters with the invention and implementation of biologically based living technologies called Ecomachines and Pond and Lake Restorers. A Safe and Sustainable World demonstrates what has and can be done--it also looks to what must be done to integrate human ingenuity and the four billion or so years of evolutionary intelligence of the natural world into healthy, decentralized, locally dreams hard won--and hope.
The Author
NANCY JACK TODD is a writer and editor based on Cape Cod, where she gardens and swims and publishes the environmental journal Annals of Earth. Her other books, with John Todd, include Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address and From Eco-Cities to Living Machines. Her writings have also appeared in a number of publications and anthologies. She and John Todd have received the Bioneers Award, the Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh Award the Daimler/Chrysler award for design, the United Nations (FUNEP) Award, and the Swiss Threshold Award for contributions to human knowledge.
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WEYGERS, Alexander G. The Complete Modern Blacksmith
Berkeley Ten Speed Press 1997 0898158966 Trade Paper New 7.75 x 11
This extremely hands-on book brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics (The Modern Blacksmith, The Recycling, Use, and Repair of Tools, and The Making of Tools) essential for anyone interested in the making, repair, maintenance, or arcana of tools.
This book covers setting up a smithy (anvil, forge, hammer, tongs, and all), and manufacturing everything from stone-carving chisels to decorative wall hooks.
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Wharton, Thomas Icefields
Canada NeWest 0920897878 Trade Paper NEW 4 3/4 x 7 3/4
Canada Reads 2008 Selection
During an expedition to the Arcturus glacier in 1898, British doctor Edward Byrne falls into a crevasse and spies something magical in the ice. While convalescing in the remote settlement of Jasper, he begins to grasp that the mysteries of this landscape are mirrored in its unusual inhabitants.
In his travels, Dr. Bryne uncovers near-mythical tales about the area and meets other eccentrics caught up in their own quests. He also becomes enamoured with Elspeth, a woman who shares his obsession with the things that lie hidden in the ice.
Told through a mixture of journal entries, clippings, scientific notes and letters, the novel blends history with fiction to tell a dazzling story of a singular place and time.
Icefields won numerous awards after its 1995 publication, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, Canada and the Caribbean; the Henry Kriesel Award for Best First Book; the Writers’ Guild of Alberta Best First Book Award; and Grand Prize for Best Book Overall at the Banff Mountain Book Festival.
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Wilbur F. Eastman, Jr. A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish, & Game
Storey Publishing 2002 1580174574 Trade paper New 6 x 9", 240 pages
This no-nonsense guide to canning, freezing, smoking and curing meat, fish and game is written in down-to-earth, informative, everyday language. It has been revised to comply with the latest health and safety guidelines.
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Wilson, Budge Before Green Gables
Penguin Canada 2008 0670067210 First NEW NEW 5 1/2 x 8
She's easily the most successful Canadian literary creation of all time, a fiery, red-headed orphan known as "Anne with an 'e'" and introduced in Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Now comes the "official prequel" -- a new book that will not only celebrate the 100th anniversary of an icon's creation, but will also invent a fresh back-story about Anne Shirley's early childhood.
It focuses on the young girl's hard-luck life with a string of foster families and at a Nova Scotia orphanage in the years before her momentous appearance as an 11-year-old adoptee at Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert's farm in turn-of-the-century Avonlea.
Written by award-winning Nova Scotia children's author Budge Wilson.
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