Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with him at Simon Fraser University. Then you add Jeffrey Simpson, the highly respected Globe and Mail columnist, to punch the message home in a clear, hard-hitting way. The result is a ...

Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They create landscapes and provide water to people, plants and animals, nourishing both town and country. The flow of rivers has enthused poets and painters, explorers and pilgrims. Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can bear trade and sediment, culture and conflict. A river may inspire or it may terrify. This Very Sho...

Rivers have acted as cradles for civilization and agents of disaster; a river may be a barrier or a highway, it can support trade and sediment, culture and conflict. This Very Short Introduction is a celebration of rivers in all their diversity. Geographer Nick Middleton covers a wide and eclectic range of river-based themes, from physical geography to mythology, to industrial history and literary criticism. Offering a truly global look at rivers, with examples from all continents...

God grant me the serenity to not choke the wildcard of rich b*tches... Charlie f*cking McAllister.My best friend's little sister and tormentor extraordinaire. Star of my every trauma as a teenager. And thanks to our mothers and their matchmaking schemes for our annual ski week… my savior. Or ruin.One week as a couple, putting on a show for our parents while avoiding our exes. How hard could it be?Until we're stuck sharing a room. A room with one bed...

'It's not fair. We can't help being girls, can we?'Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy - but she feels as though life isn't fair for girls and poor people.Why can't she be educated at school like her brother?Why can't she learn to become a famous artist like her father?Why is life so unfair...

Small Town Thriller! ★★★★★Joscelyn Turner’s life is torn apart when she flees a deranged stalker who terrorizes her night and day. Seeking refuge in a small Montana town, she befriends the Stone family and is welcomed into their local ranching community.Her newfound sense of security and belonging are rocked when her deadly past comes calling. But this time, it’s not only Joscelyn's life that's on the line.Will Joscelyn reveal her deadly secrets in ...

Small Town Thriller! ★★★★★A charming but secretive hitch-hiker sets big hearted Tonya Anderson on a collision course she never imagined. In her desire to lend him a hand, she introduces the stranger to her hometown of Flint River. Soon after this charismatic man arrives, random petty thefts escalate to murder.Trent Stone doesn’t trust the new guy. His suspicion forces a revealing confrontation that ultimately places both his and Tonya’s lives on the line. W...

Danger In The Hills - Flint River Series, Book 3 ~ A Romantic SuspenseSpecial Agent Jack Stone leads an FBI contingent raiding a neo-Nazi compound in northern Idaho. The fanatics are responsible for the attempted bombing of an elementary school in Chicago. When the dust settles, the team realizes the group’s two leaders have escaped. Gone also, is an unaccounted for, mysterious beauty whom Jack noticed on the grounds that morning. Jack and his partner Rick, along with an FBI search...

Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an unhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something. But Cora Mae gives him a reason to live. Trouble is, he’s just arrested her on Sherman’s orders, and torn her from home and famil...

The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar worldThe magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Traveling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to ...

Bright Rivers chronicles the angling passions and frustrations of one of fly-fishing's greatest men of letters.A city dweller trapped in the complexities of modern life, Nick Lyons has always found solace in his pilgrimages to great rivers. It is there that he fishes for trout, and in Bright Rivers, Lyons recounts the sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious experiences of his expeditions to Delaware, Beaverkill, Madison, Big Hole, and Yellowstone rivers, sharing rem...

Meditations on grief and the propulsive power of nature to invite one to navigate the territory of loss.One of the poems written out of Michael Delp's experience with grief begins "At first a koan, "What to be done?" then a mantra, finally a prayer said into flowing water, because so many things bleed, each individual kind of pain like a fire coming in unseen from far off, then the searing begins"As heard in the sample, the eighty-four elegiac poems in this...