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Imagine living in the home that was the inspired setting for Lucy M. Montgomery카지노 게임 컬렉션�s famous Green Gables in her novels about Anne. This was the reality for Myrtle Webb, Montgomery카지노 게임 컬렉션�s cousin, who lived in the Cavendish, P.E.I., farmhouse featured in the Anne of Green Gables series. Becoming Green Gables by biographer Alan MacEachern, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션�91, PhD카지노 게임 컬렉션�97, provides a glimpse of what it was like to live in such a literary-famous place. The diary also tells how fame eventually upends the Webb family when they are faced with expropriation and forced to move. A contains digital scans, photos, and more. is available from McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 Press.

We카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve all experienced what it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s like to be pulled in different directions. For a child, that experience can seem irreversibly consequential. In After the Wallpaper Music, Flora, a 12-year-old violinist, has to choose between friends competing in a battle of the bands. Author Jean Mills, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�78, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션�80, explores empathy for outsiders, friendship, and being true to oneself in this novel for ages eight to 12. The author is an accomplished musician, and it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s no surprise that her book includes the score for her original song, Time is a Fickle Friend. Publishers Weekly says that 카지노 게임 컬렉션�poignant life lessons and a focus on the emotions evoked by music permeate this soulful novel.카지노 게임 컬렉션� is available from Pajama Press.

In the 21st century, Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s democracy is unprepared to meet shocks resulting from regional conflicts, climate change, and technology. In The Adaptable Country: How Canada Can Survive the Twenty-First Century, Alasdair S. Roberts, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�87, examines how Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s politicians and leaders, as well as technological changes affecting journalism and a lack of agility within the public service, have made the country less adaptable. The author reminds readers that a country that respects diversity and human rights can also respond well to existential threats.  is available from McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 Press.

Canada relies on thousands of temporary workers 카지노 게임 컬렉션� workers who are vulnerable to abuse. Catherine Connelly, MSc카지노 게임 컬렉션�00, PhD카지노 게임 컬렉션�04, looks at their experiences in Enduring Work: Experiences with Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Her book includes various forms of mistreatment, from the perspective of organizational behaviour and human resources management, and she also includes employers카지노 게임 컬렉션� perspectives, distinguishing between those who follow the rules and those who don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t. is available from McGill-Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 Press.

Author Gloria Blizzard, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�85, is an award-winning, Toronto-based writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages whose collection of personal essays, Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, is a thought-provoking and poetic work. Weaving together moments from different parts of her life, she takes a closer look at the connections between music, dance, and culture, as well as geography and language, in what CBC Books calls a 카지노 게임 컬렉션�powerful and deeply personal collection.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Her work draws attention to issues involving belonging, while fearlessly addressing contemporary themes of feminism, racism, and colonialism. is available from Dundurn Press.

In 1935, Martha Black became only the second woman ever elected to the House of Commons 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the culmination of an unstoppable spirit that governed her life and is captured by Enid Mallory, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�58, in her biography, Irrepressible: Yukon카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Martha Black. The author of 11 books, some of which chronicle other prominent figures of the North such as Robert Service and George M. Douglas, in Irrepressible she takes the reader from late 1800s gold-rush-era Yukon to Parliament Hill. Abandoned by her first husband, Martha perseveres and later marries a lawyer who becomes commissioner of the Yukon. When he falls ill, there is an opportunity for Martha to take his place. is available from Hancock House Publishers.

The mass death on an offshore oil rig on the East Coast is believed to be the work of the fabled kraken, a legendary sea monster of mythical proportions. In his debut novel, False Bodies, J.R. McConvey, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�02, plunges an already unhinged detective into a sinister world of squid cults, a corrupt corporation and tentacled beasts. The author was the winner of the for his collection of short stories, Different Beasts. Giller Prize-nominated author David Demchuk calls False Bodies 카지노 게임 컬렉션�a gripping supernatural thriller with a wry, noirish edge.카지노 게임 컬렉션� is available from Breakwater Books.

Idleness is not often praiseworthy; it is associated with laziness and unproductiveness that can lead to ruin 카지노 게임 컬렉션� a state captured by the idiom 카지노 게임 컬렉션�gone to seed.카지노 게임 컬렉션� But author Kate J. Neville, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�04, makes a case for the opposite in Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work. What could we learn about ourselves, our society, and our planet, she explores, if we simply took a cue from nature and sat idle like a seed, which is a packet containing the energy for new life? Winner of the. is available from 카지노게임사이트 of Regina Press.

You probably already know this, but here it is again: Canadians kick ass. Although our population is small and our time as a nation short, there카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a plethora of Canucks making a huge impact 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and they can all be found in one place. , a website created by writer/blogger/photographer/publisher Amanda Sage, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�01, who shares her insights, experiences, and encounters with inspiring Canadians such as environmentalist David Suzuki, astronaut Col. Chris Hadfield, and politician Elizabeth May, as well as many Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s alumni. It hosts podcasts, too, on a variety of current topics.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�If something is worth doing, it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s worth overdoing카지노 게임 컬렉션� 카지노 게임 컬렉션� so said the Canadian figure skater and artist Toller Cranston, who, it could be argued, overdid art throughout his life 카지노 게임 컬렉션� whether on the ice as an Olympic figure skater throughout the latter half of the 20th century, or as a painter, producing approximately 20,000 works exhibited worldwide. Toller passed away in 2015 at the age of 65. For his biography, Toller Cranston: Ice, Paint, Passion, his sister, Phillippa Cranston Baran, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�68, drew upon letters, interviews, photography, and original artwork to reveal who her brother was: a compelling and inspirational Canadian, an artist, an athlete, and an icon in the LGBTQ community.  is available from Sutherland House Books.

It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a difficult but essential conversation 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and with the right tools, a conversation on aging can be productive, according to author Laura Tamblyn Watts, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�95. CEO of CanAge, Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s national seniors카지노 게임 컬렉션� advocacy organization and a teacher on law and aging at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto. The author brings experience and expertise to her book, Let카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Talk About Aging Parents: A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations. In it, she argues that necessary discussions about such topics as caregiving, money, power of attorney, assisted living, and illness with aging parents can be challenging but navigable.  is published by The Experiment.

Understanding how Russia thinks and acts can seem perplexing to those in the West 카지노 게임 컬렉션� but perhaps it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s because we tend to view things from a western perspective. This is particularly evident with events leading up to the Second World War, argues Michael Carley, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션�71, MPhil카지노 게임 컬렉션�76, professor of history at the Université de Montréal. In Stalin카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 카지노 게임 컬렉션� part of a trilogy on Russia카지노 게임 컬렉션�s foreign policy leading up the war 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the author reveals Stalin as a foreign policy maker and examines his diplomatic manoeuvrings throughout the 1930s. is available from 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto Press.

A young artist reunites with her cousin on the muddy banks of Nova Scotia카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Fundy coast where the two spent memorable summers, but the reunion reveals a shared, uncomfortable past. Kettle Harbour is the debut graphic novel by Kyle Vingoe-Cram, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션�14, who explores, through innovative illustrative methods, the reliability of memory and the cascading effects of trauma. is available from Conundrum Press.

A couple카지노 게임 컬렉션�s escape from the city to a family farmhouse in northern Ontario leads to an unexpected discovery of a diary from the early 1900s. Behind the Pickle Jar, an historical novel by Wendy McQuaig, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션�82, weaves together Canadian history from the turn of the 20th century with the present, providing points of reflection for the woman, in particular, who grapples with her past and modernity. is self-published.

J.E.H. MacDonald, one of the members of the Group of Seven and famous for his striking landscapes and views of the Canadian wilderness, is the subject of interest for two Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s art conservation alumni: Kate Helwig, MAC카지노 게임 컬렉션�92; and Alison Douglas, BFA카지노 게임 컬렉션�94, MAC카지노 게임 컬렉션�96. In J.E.H. MacDonald Up Close: The Artist카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Materials and Techniques, the authors provide a fresh interpretation of the painter카지노 게임 컬렉션�s artistic development, looking at questions of authenticity and dating. Excerpts from the artist카지노 게임 컬렉션�s diaries, letters, and lectures are used to provide socio-historical context to their in-depth reading of the artist카지노 게임 컬렉션�s paintings as physical objects. is available from Goose Lane Editions.

Inspired by the Icelandic term doom eager, referring to an artist카지노 게임 컬렉션�s feeling of isolation and restlessness when sick with an idea, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s engineer-turned-poet Karl Meade, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션�85, set about penning a collection of poems about love and grief that convey an insistence that lost loves are never gone. doom eager also includes illustrations by Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s alumna Celia Meade (Scott), Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션�86. is available from Raven Chapbooks.