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The Crow Who Tampered With Time blossoms with essays that find radiance and coherence in a world (both natural and human) which formal religious dogma has forgotten.

Backwater Mystic Blues is a suite of intimate essays that summon the secret hiding spots, makeshift rafts and uncomplicated childhood joys that lay the foundations for adult philosophy.

Embattled Nation explores Canada’s tense wartime election of 1917.

In a series of reflections focused on his uneducated yet hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the juvenile fear of dying (which sp

One hundred years ago, Canadians went to the polls to decide the fate of their country in an election that raised issues vital to Canada’s national independence and its place in the world.

A modern look at a classic leader. Macdonald at 200 presents fifteen fresh interpretations of Canada’s founding Prime Minister, published for the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth in 1815.

This special 2-book bundle contains a number of perspectives on a man who was arguably Canada’s most famous political leader, a figure of legendary proportions in the history of Canada’s birth and

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.

Miranda Fox desperately wants to find the daughter her family took from her when she was young.

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless.

Gwynna had fallen from grace once, bearing a stillborn child out of wedlock. Determined to have a respectable future, she finds a position for herself as a nursemaid at Hungerton House.

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere.

When, after the death of her mother, Cassandra Trent is told that she must join her aunt and have a London Season, she is full of rage.