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Grandpa can hardly wait! Starting with the anticipation of a new baby’s arrival, this book from Emmy Award-winning comedian Billy Crystal celebrates all the moments, great and small, that a new grandpa is ready to share. Whether it’s taking a nap together or attending baseball games, this grandpa just can’t wait for his grandchild to…

Introduces a program for self-discovery and divine connection that helps readers determine their higher purpose in life, a process that promotes emotional well-being, healthier relationships, and spiritual rebirth.

February 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the war began in Syria, Isam had run a chocolate company for over twenty years. But that life was gone now. The factory was destroyed, and he and his family had spent…

Developed soon after World War II, the de Havilland Beaver has become one of the most successful and long-lived designs in aviation history. The Beaver was conceived as a ?half-ton flying pickup truck” capable of setting down on land, water, and snow. Since its conception the Beaver has been adopted worldwide, becoming the floatplane of…

Carmen is vigorously polishing one of our three telephones. I am just twenty-five, Canadian, new to Britain and in awe of this formidable woman but as there are only two of us in the office I feel emboldened to ask: “Why did you start Virago?” She looks up and without missing a beat, replies “To…

Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush,” and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie’s 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. Set in the same place as Moodie’s colonial memoir, this genre-fluid novel is offered as a cure for Moodie’s racist treatment of Mississauga Nishnaabeg in her writing.…

This essay collection traces the sustained work over the past fifty years of the foremost historian of Canadian politics in the era of the two world wars.