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Born in 1914, Joe Purdon was one of North America's early conservationists. After stumbling as a child upon a cluster of Showy Lady's Slippers in bloom, Joe dedicated his life to protecting these rare orchids. In this picture book, award-winning author and illustrator Ian Wallace depicts how Joe Purdon became a steward of a fragile piece of land in Eastern Ontario. Thanks to his passion, diligence and generosity, the Purdon Conservation Area (now...
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Renowned children's book illustrator Ian Wallace brings his masterful ability to paint landscape and his cultural sensitivity to The Huron Carol, a beautiful and unusual song with a rich history.
In the early 1600s, Father Jean de Brébeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people in what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brébeuf was sensitive to the people with...
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Nous rêvons tous, mais nos rêves semblent souvent être des expériences bizarres et confuses qui n'ont pas grand sens pour nous, peu importe à quel point nous essayons de les analyser. La clé pour comprendre nos rêves est de regarder au-delà des symboles individuels afin de prendre conscience des modèles plus généraux que nous créons chaque nuit quand nous rêvons. Cent de ces thèmes de rêves sont régulièrement rapportés par les rêveurs...
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There is only one way to reach Iola, where an interstellar distress signal had originated. For Iola belongs to a small group of stars cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the close presence of an all-enveloping black hole. The only way to reach Iola is through that timeless-spaceless cosmic warm.
Klaus Heller answered that call. He leapt, clad in a special self-sustaining spacesuit, through the black hole.
He returned to the world intact, silent,...
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Become your own dream analyst and begin a powerful journey of self-discovery with bestselling author, psychologist and dream expert Ian Wallace.
Dreams are no longer some largely indecipherable code. They are authored by our own subconscious. When you create a dream, you are encoding a meaningful story about how to fulfil your emotional needs, intentions and purpose in waking life. So, who better to decode your dreams than you?
“Decode Your Dreams”...
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This lavishly illustrated book brings Gordon Lightfoot's heart-stirring song, "Canadian Railroad Trilogy," to readers young and old. The song was commissioned by the CBC in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year and it has been a classic ever since. It eloquently describes the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway - "an iron road runnin' from the sea to the sea" - a great feat of nation building that changed Canada forever for good and for ill,...
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This is the true story of a Short-eared Owl that plummeted onto the deck of an oilrig in the North Sea, one hundred miles from shore. Weak and tired, it huddled on the deck until riggers provided it with a makeshift shelter and fresh meat to eat. When a helicopter arrived to transport some of the workers back home, they took the owl with them, handing it over to the Scottish SPCA. A few weeks later the owl was strong enough to be released into the...