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The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

by Gretchen Rubin

Published: 2015-12-29

Paperback: 368 pages

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“This book made me happy in the first five pages.” —AJ Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible Award-winning author Gretchen Rubin is back with a bang, with The Happiness Project. The author of the bestselli...

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Kill All The Lawyers

by William Deverell

Published: 2011-10-10

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Arthur P. Besterman, criminal lawyer and reformed alcoholic, was the first to go. Counsel to Vancouver's assorted shifters and grifters, Besterman almost always lost his cases. But a recent victory defending a low-life client might be a clue as to why he was bludgeoned to death with a base...

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Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

by Kathleen Winter

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter (Annabel) embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to...

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Songs of a Sourdough

by Robert W. Service

Published: 2014-01-10

Paperback: 72 pages

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Robert W. Service is a critical figure in American poetry for two reasons. His historical content is essential for understanding the northwest expansion of both Canada and the United States, and it's so readable! If you have ever been to Alaska or just like the romance of the Alaskan gold rush and the...

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The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

by Louise Penny

Published: 2015-07-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On...

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Crimes Against My Brother

by David Adams Richards

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A brilliant, heartbreaking novel from a Canadian icon that tackles the theme of debt, and what we owe each other, through three unforgettable characters. This is Richards' best and most complex work since his Giller-winning Mercy Among the Children, and a fitting companion to that novel. �...

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Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, Book 2)

by L.M. Montgomery

Published: 1984-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 276 pages

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At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But...

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Miss Smithers

by Susan Juby

Published: 2005-05-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Sixteen-year-old Alice suspects that this is the year she’s going to bloom, graduating from the ranks of the marginal into the realm of the practically normal. That’s immediately confirmed when, lured by the $400 clothing allowance, she becomes the official Rod & Gun Club candidate in the town’s...

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Racing for Diamonds (Orca Young Readers)

by Anita Daher

Published: 2007-03-01

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Jaz lives in the small northern community of Destiny and is a new member of the Junior Canadian Rangers. Her divorced parents argue a lot, and Jaz hopes if she wins a dog-mushing derby, they will be so proud of her they will stop arguing. But the derby would be a lot more fun if she wasn't paired with...

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Otherwise (Globe and Mail Best Books)

by Farley Mowat

Published: 2009-10-13

Paperback: 368 pages

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A Canadian icon gives us his final book, a memoir of the events that shaped this beloved writer and activist.Farley Mowat has been beguiling readers for fifty years now, creating a body of writing that has thrilled two generations, selling literally millions of copies in the process. In lo...