Georgina Danforth Witley has never felt she has led anything but an ordinary life. But here she is on her way to meet the Queen. Born on April 21, 1926, the exact same day as Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Georgie is one of 99 privileged Commonwealth subjects invited to an 80th-birthday lunch at Buckingham Palace. All she has to do is drive two hours to the airport and board the plane for London. Except that in her excited state, Georgie drives her car off the road, tumbling hood over trunk into a thickly wooded ravine. Thrown from the car, injured and unable to move but desperately hopeful that someone will find her, she must rely on her strength, her full store of family memories, her no-nonsense wit and a recitation of the names of the bones in her body—a long-forgotten exercise from childhood that reminds her she is still very much alive.
As Georgina lies stranded and helpless, she reflects on her role as a daughter, mother, sister, wife and widow; she casts back over family histories, lost loves and painful secrets. What has it all amounted to? Frances Itani has given us an insightful, moving and beautifully written novel, fanciful and profound by turns. Remembering the Bones goes deeply into the life of an ordinary person who, in her instincts to survive, becomes extraordinary.
Grand Dan sat with her head bowed while she listened to the memories of a lineup of colleagues and patients, and then she laughed with a sudden, short bark. It was as if she was telling them that they knew nothing of Dr. Matthias Danforth, whom she had loved. She had held him between her thighs; she had run her hand down the muscles of his back; she was the one who made King Edward cake the way he liked it, with walnuts ground into the icing. . . . She was the one whose skin, under his tracing fingers, had turned to silk. —From Remembering the Bones

Remembering the Bones

Literature & Fiction

frances-itani

Literary

Harper Collins Canada

There's A Seal in my Sleeping Bag

Travel

Wild,Margaret

Canada

There are no effective curbs on the amount of money a bank can manufacture via a few keystrokes of the computer. Banks have turned service charges into a major profit center with wonderful fees that ding you every time you use your account - and every time you don't (didn't that used to be called saving?). 
 And there's more, much more, that award-winning veteran journalist Walter Stewart has unearthed about the Canadian banking system, which is undergoing an extensive review during the next two years. The powerful big banks have mounted a steady, systematic effort to take over the trust, brokerage and insurance industries in Canada, have worked at bankrupting small business owners by refusing or calling in loans, and are quickly becoming accountable to nobody. 
 In an expose that is as timely as it is provocative, Bank Heist cracks open the safe and we thought secure world of the Canadian banking industry, to reveal that the vault is piled high with fat profits that came out of our pockets.

Bank Heist: How Our Financial Giants Are Costing You Money

Business & Money

Stewart, Walter

Economics

Refugees are a controversial topic of discussion in Canada today. All too often, they are treated as nameless statistics or caricatures in the occasional story that flares across the front pages of newspapers. In At The Border Called Hope, refugees have names and faces and they reveal a Canada that is better than we think and worse than we know. At the Border Called Hope tells the remarkable story of Mary Jo Leddy's fight for justice on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves.

At the border called hope: Where refugees are neighbours

Leddy, Mary Jo

The Night the Gods Smiled

Eric Wright

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Do you know how to get the best summer job; how to negotiate with a bank -- and win; how to afford holidays on a student budget; how to eat, drink, and be merry on a budget; how to reduce the amount of tax you pay; how to find affordable student housing; how to graduate from college or university without a staggering $15,000-$25,000 debt load? Murray Baker does and he tells all in this witty and accessible book geared exclusively to Canadian post-secondary students. With tuition fees across Canada set to skyrocket, it has never been more important for university and college students to take control of their own finances -- and The Debt-Free Graduate will show them how.

The Debt-Free Graduate: How to Survive College or University Without Going Broke

Baker, Murray

Reference

Everyone's Guide to the Law brings the law to you and makes its complexities accessible and understandable. From birth issues to settling an estate, Everyone's Guide to the Law is the essential legal guide for Canadian families. * What are the legal rights of a worker who is fired, harassed, suffers discrimination, gets pregnant, is paid unequally, or is forced to work on contract? 
 * What are the legal responsibilities of a spouse, unmarried partner, parent, child, teen, employer, landlord, doctor, citizen, government? 
 * What are the legal remedies when a person is injured in an accident, medical operation, childbirth? By libel or slander, second-hand smoke, or discrimination? As a victim of crime, incest, rape or other forms of sexual exploitation? 
 * What are the legal rules for abortion, adoption, bankruptcy, divorce, support, custody, estate distribution, living wills, marriage and cohabitation contracts, home ownership and mortgages, organ donations, powers of attorney?

Everyone's Guide to the Law: A Handbook for Canadians

Dranoff, Linda Silver

Catalogs & Directories

"Most of us are so accustomed to thinking of women and men as psychological opposites that we don't even notice that our actual experiences contradict our beliefs." 
 With this powerful introduction, Kate Fillion launches Lip Service, the #1 bestseller that explodes the myth of female virtue. Women are not morally superior to men, she argues, nor should they want to be. Puncturing damaging old stereotypes with both insight and wit, Fillion shows that women who believe they are better than men usually wind up feeling worse about themselves - and perpetuating double standards that hurt both sexes. In love, sex, and friendship, women are more than victims, less than saints - and the equal of any man.

Lip Service: The Truth About Women's Darker Side in Love, Sex and Friendship

Kate Fillion

I've Got an Idea

Eric Walters

Ricky

Walters, Eric

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