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Thelma A Life in Pictures
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95Thelma Stevens Pepper was born in 1920. A century later—from her adoptive home in Saskatoon—she reflects on a hundred years of life, love, and pictures.
At 60, it was creativity and passion that rescued Thelma Pepper from the depths of depression. With her kids grown and gone, she was floundering, wondering who she was, and what she was meant to do. In photography, she found what her father and grandfather before her had found and that was a capacity to peer into other lives and to find in them a celebration of the human spirit.
It was that commitment to capturing the human condition that led to her work not only being celebrated here in Canada but around the world. In these noble lives, she found herself.
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Old Winnipeg A History in Pictures
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95Remember the Beachcomber Restaurant, the Assiniboine Park Conservatory, and a very small but well-designed international airport with concrete walls? From the early fortifications of Upper Fort Garry, to the architectonic surge of Winnipeg as a transportation hub—and Canada’s third largest urban centre—to the demolition of the iconic Eaton’s department store, Old Winnipeg is the story of a city that never stopped reinventing itself.
With more than 140 photographs—many of them seen here for the first time—Old Winnipeg: A History in Pictures is a visual treat. It offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived.
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Flavours of New Brunswick
Photographer: Heidi JirotkaPublisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$34.95Whether you consider yourself a foodie or dine out only a few times a year, Flavours of New Brunswick offers you a window into the best food the province has to offer.
Canada’s only bilingual province has long been a gathering place for people of differing cultures from around the world. The natural beauty and quality of life that draws people to New Brunswick is today attracting a new generation of chefs, bringing with them new flavours and experiences, and we are all the richer for it.
Some hail from places halfway around the world and bring with them the cooking traditions and sensibilities of their homelands. For those who grew up on the East Coast, they have not only kept the culinary traditions of their home province alive but have adapted them and given them new life. The result is a food scene that has never been more innovative or diverse.
In Flavours of New Brunswick, the best of the regions epicurean leaders take food lovers on a culinary journey through the province’s emerging hotspots. The book is a celebration of the culinary scene in all its resplendent glory.
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Fishing for a Living A Nova Scotia History in Pictures
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95With more than 140, never-seen-before photos, Fishing for a Living: A Nova Scotia History in Pictures captures the world?s most dangerous profession. We see up close the men and women (and often children) whose livelihood was derived from the sea. Indeed, it is the sea that provided not only sustenance and a living but shaped every aspect of their lives.
This stunning historical portrait is a tour de force that will appeal to Nova Scotians and tourists alike. It is a visual window into the much-fabled life of Fishing for a Living.
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Rhode Island 101
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$14.95From Narragansett Bay, Roger Williams, the American Industrial Revolution and the Independent Man to the New England mob, the Big Blue Bug, the Newport Mansions, Family Guy and profiles of Buddy Cianci, H.P. Lovecraft and the Farrelly brothers, no book provides a more insightful lowdown on the Ocean State than Rhode Island 101. No book is more fun!
Well known Rhode Islanders weigh in on the nation?s smallest state. Investigative reporter Jim Taricani recounts his top stories, Mark Patinkin provides signs that you’ve been in Rhode Island too long, meteorologist John Ghiorse revisits the most memorable weather events of the last 40 years, Lincoln Chafee offers a Rhode Island treasure hunt and Rory Raven illuminates haunted Rhode Island.
From fabulous beaches, historic cities, and dynamite cuisine to corrupt politicians, elite universities and a unique accent and slang, it?s all here.
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Out of Old Ontario Kitchens
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$24.95Out of Old Ontario Kitchens is a window into the past, exploring the stories of the First Peoples and settlers. It pays homage to all those who trapped and fished and hunted; to those who cleared the land and planted crops; and most importantly to all those women — our mothers and aunts, our grandmothers and great-grandmothers and great-great grandmothers — who got up and lit the fire; who toiled and stirred and cooked and baked and who kept families alive through long hard winters, through plagues and depressions, famines and wars. Work every bit as important as agriculture, commerce, mining, politics, and the development of infrastructure.
With over a hundred historically sourced recipes as well as scores of old photographs, early artworks, botanical prints, and illustrations, Out of Old Ontario Kitchens is both a visual and virtual feast. If you want to know what life was really like in early Ontario, come to the table with us. Food stories are, after all, the real stories of our lives.
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New Brunswick Book of Everything
Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$13.95Everything you wanted to know about New Brunswick and were going to ask anyway
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An Introduction to Island Studies
Publisher: Island Studies Press$39.95An Introduction to Island Studies examines the key issues concerning islands today: tourism, economic change and development, geopolitics, climate change, epidemiology, and migration. This introductory textbook will help students and instructors develop a more comprehensive understanding and appreciation of island issues and the lessons they provide for our global society.
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Peggy of the Cove: Secrets
Publisher: Ivan Fraser$15.00The Legend Continues, second in the Peggy of the Cove series begins with conflicts between the bully of the cover and Peggy. Throughout the narrative, Peggy becomes friends with Sarah, a Mi’kmaq Native, and through their friendship and surroundings Peggy has flashes of her past. The people, places and objects she sees are beginning to awaken hopes of discovering her identity. When a stranger arrives in town and starts asking strange questions, Peggy discovers that the truth may not be so easy to find. Defying her fears, Peggy struggles to solve the mystery that may lead to her family inheritance.–This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Indigenous Business in Canada: Principles and Practices
Editor: Janice Esther Tulk, Keith G. BrownPublisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95Indigenous Business in Canada addresses contemporary concerns and issues in the doing of Indigenous business in Canada, reveals some of the challenges and diverse approaches to business in Aboriginal contexts from coast to coast to coast, and demonstrates the direct impact that history and policy, past and present, have on business and business education.
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The Birth and the Babyhood of the Telephone A Talk to Telephone Pioneers by The Other Man on the Line
Publisher: Breton Books$16.95While Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, Thomas A. Watson was the craftsman who gave the telephone life. Model after model, night and day, together they battled disappointment, and were spurred on by hints of success. Then in 1875, Watson’s hands created the first telephone that actually carried the human voice.
Yet the world barely remembers Thomas Watson beyond the first sentence transmitted over the telephone: “Mr. Watson—come here—I want you.”
In this classic book, restored and expanded, The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone delivers both a detailed record of the development of the first telephone as it also reveals the very human story of the relationship between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson. We see the younger Watson grow up through the guidance of the better educated and more sophisticated A. G. Bell, as Watson receives books, and lessons in elocution and even table manners.
This moving first-person account keeps alive the story of a relationship between two brilliant, impassioned men who changed the world.
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Sterling Silver
Publisher: Breton Books$16.95The personal essay has so much potential as a literary form that it’s gratifying to see it being skilfully and engagingly employed in this book. Silver Donald Cameron has plenty on his mind, and he knows how to hold our attention. Cameron easily entices us into his essay “Rocky Mountain High” with this for openers:”Downhill skiing is a certifiably silly sport, I whimper to myself as the chair-lift bears me inexorably over the treetops and gullies, like a slab of beef going around the overhead conveyors in an abattoir. “.
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