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Canada's National Parks volume 2
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English
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The vibrant city of Vancouver blends the call of the wild with big city charm. Tour the city's landmark sites, including historic Gastown and the Capilano Suspension Bridge. On Vancouver Island, the capital city, Victoria, defines itself by all things British. Experience ziptrek flights through forest treetops, and cruise Alaska's Inside Passage aboard a paddle wheel ship.
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[2006]
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English
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In the Canadian Rockies, seek out all that's spectacular in Banff and Jasper National Parks, including stunning panoramic vistas, mountain biking, rafting, and snowboarding. In British Columbia, tour Vancouver, the "pearl of the Pacific," and go off the beaten path to untamed wilderness, and the best in kiteboarding, windsurfing, and whale watching.
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Darkness rising volume 1
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
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"The Long Hello distills the seven years the author spent caring for her mother into a page-turning memoir that offers insight into the "altering world of the dementia mind." During that time, Borrie recorded brief conversations she had with her mother that revealed the transformations within--and sometimes yielded an almost Zenlike poetry. She includes selections from them in chapters about her experience that are as evocative as diary entries. Her...
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After Jake quits the drug business, his realtor/ex-wife, Nina, gets him a job as a housesitter for her wealthy clients. Jake celebrates by throwing a party in the mansion he was hired to look after. Unfortunately, the guest list gets out of hand, leaving Jake to contend with a hallucinogenic-vitamin-dispensing yogi, a dead guy in the bathroom, and The Norwegian - a criminal force of nature with a grudge against Jake. When the owner of the multimillion...
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"In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and-- perhaps most heartbreaking...
9) Cut you down
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"Tabitha Sorenson is missing. The bright but unstable student disappeared in the aftermath of a scandal involving millions of dollars in college funds. Professor Dana Essex doesn't think the missing money and the missing student are connected, but she hires Vancouver PI David Wakeland to find Tabitha, with whom she is in love. When Wakeland discovers Tabitha has in fact stolen the money and is hiding out with her lover and reports back to his client,...
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"Nine years ago, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland tore apart two young lovers ... Now, in 1983, Davy McCutcheon and Fiona Kavanagh find themselves worlds apart. Davy, once a bomb-maker for the Provisional IRA, is serving a twenty-five-year sentence in a British prison. Having seen enough of death and violence, he wants nothing more to do with the struggle that cost him his freedom and his love. But old loyalties die hard and, despite himself,...
14) Lass
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Keller adopts a sheepdog, Lass, and persuades her to trust and love him, just as he has come to trust and love God.
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