An eleven-year-old orphan is reconnected to her mother's family, but her courage and strength are tested as she is put to work in a textile mill.Flora is a young, imaginative girl who has dreamt of having a family to call her own since her parents died from pleurisy when she was three. She dreams of family dinners. She dreams of friends. But mostly she dreams of leaving the orphanage. As the diary begins, Flora is still in an orphanage in Kingston, but her...

Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends meet.Ivy's relatives pack up and head back to England, but to Ivy, Canada is full of wo...

Sarah Ellis's wife had been toughing it out with MS for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. The year of waiting brought astonishing moments of playfulness and joy. Ordinary concerns fell away. Ellis tells the story of her extraordinary sojourn in fairyland, the preparation, the journey, life in an altered state, and the return to the real world, forever changed.

A warm and witty portrait of child prodigy and world-famous classical musician Glenn Gould.Glenn was a child who knew his own mind — he liked boats but did not like fishing; he enjoyed puns and pranks but did not like bullying; he loved learning but did not like school … but more than anything else he loved to play the piano.Glenn had a professional performing career by the time he was fifteen; he gave concerts all over the world in his twenties. He became ...

Au fil des pages de son journal, Evelyn Weatherhall témoigne d'une partie de notre histoire. Les Weatherhall quittent une vie confortable à Londres pour aller s'installer dans l'Ouest canadien, où ils comptent faire fortune sur le ranch de l'oncle Alf. Lorsqu'ils arrivent au pays, c'est la désillusion. Ils doivent s'installer dans un campement rudimentaire sur une ferme louée. Evelyn ne se laisse pas abattre. Elle est déterminée à vivre sa vie pleinement, peu importent les épreuves.

Back in late October of 2009, Michael Grace-Martin did a fine art nude photo session with semi-famous fine art nude model Sarah Ellis. Sarah has posed for many photographers–famous (including people like Renée Jacobs and Terry Richardson) and not famous. In this book, Michael features 72 of his favorite photos from the 3-hour session. See more of Michael's photography at www.michaelgracemartin.com.

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER'The Squiggly Career is about navigating work in a way that suits you, it's a timely and brilliant handbook for now' Stylist'A brilliant guide. Read it and get the tools you need to thrive in your career now and in the future' Marie Forleo, author of Everything is Figureoutable'Logical, practical and based on tried and tested models' Financial Times's Book of...

Twelve original holiday stories from the top children's writers in the country!What an incredible gift book for Dear Canada fans! The twelve stories in this treasury are set around Christmas time and feature the young girls from a dozen previous Dear Canada books. Readers will be thrilled to reconnect with their favourites and get a glimpse of each character's life a year or so after the events in the actual diary are over. Anyone new to the Dear Canada series will be intr...

Een kat die opeens naar zijn baasje uithaalt of eentje die in huis gaat plassen nadat er een andere kat is bijgekomen. Veel katteneigenaren weten niet dat dit heel gemakkelijk is te voorkomen, met training.Training maakt katten ook gelukkiger. Je helpt ze met het overwinnen van hun natuurlijke remmingen, hun angsten en verlangens. Het trainen van katten verrijkt ook het leven van jou als baasje, want je krijgt een betere relatiemet je kat.Zo train je je kat be...

**'Amazing' GuardianFrom the on-screen experts for BBC2's Cat Watch, and based on their groundbreaking research - this is the ultimate guide to making your cat a happier, more sociable animal.**The idea of a trained cat is a contradiction in terms, isn't it? Naturally solitary, wary, easily threatened by newcomers, they are attached to place rather than people, and much of their 'antisocial' behaviour arises in situations where that attachment is threatened. But, a...

A wonderful seasonal anthology for Dear Canada readers, both old and new!A real treat for fans of this series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Eleven stories that each revisit a favourite character from books in the Dear Canada series are included in this special collection. These are completely original tales that stand alone as heartwarming Christmas stories, but also serve as a lovely "next chapter" to their original books.Each story is wr...

Dorothy Wilson a survécu au naufrage du Titanic, mais elle est hantée par le souvenir des autres passagers, et surtout de la personne avec qui elle voyageait, et avec qui elle sest disputée la nuit du drame.Dorothy Wilton survives the sinking of the Titanic, but is haunted by memories of what happened to the other passengers, in particular the person she was travelling with and fought with the night before the ship went down.Original title: Fatal Night