This is the must-have handbook for the cottage, cabin, or chalet owner. Full of useful facts and tips, this elegantly designed book offers the home owner space for filling in information along with practical help and useful ideas. Handy tabs allow for quick access to sections, and storage pockets are included for holding correspondence, invoices, and important documents. Starting with the history of the vacation home, space is provided for all of the relevant phone numbers and safety and maintenance information. Checklists are featured and invaluable background is included on everything from opening, closing, and operating the building (electrical system, heating, septic system, plumbing, garbage disposal, etc.) to dealing with local animals and insects. There are suggestions for indoor and outdoor games, first aid and safety prevention essentials are outlined, and a few tasty food recipes and barbecue tips are included for good measure. An excellent gift, this unique customizable book allows the owner to create a personalized record of everything relevant to their vacation property so that friends, family or even renters will know how everything works and where everything is.

Cottages, Cabins & Chalets: An Owner's Companion

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thomas Allen Publishers

Home Improvement & Design

Thomas Allen Pub

At Kovalam beach on India's southwestern shore I plunge into the Arabian Sea, the same soft temperature as the air...Looking shoreward, I see lifeguards gesturing. Since I'm much further than I imagined, I begin a determined swim toward them...The lifeguards continue to blast and gesture, but I'm powerless against the riptide irresistibly sweeping me out to sea. Though my situation appears hopeless, I'm about to undergo the most remarkable and mysterious event of my life.... So begins The Rope in the Water, the story of Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of something larger than myself, something deeper, something more. Travelling 12,000 kilometers across deserts and through jungles, Fraser visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges, dense with the smoke of hundreds of funeral pyres; north to the glittering Golden Temple of the Sikhs; up Mount Abu where she stays with a Hindu sect called the Brahma Kumaris; south to a Buddhist

The Rope in the Water: A Pilgrimage to India

Travel

FRASER, Sylvia

Asia

On June 6, 1944, nearly 15,000 Canadians - at sea, in the air, and on the ground - joined the long-anticipated D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on the Normandy beaches. The piece of ground on which the Canadians fought so hard against heavily armed and embedded German troops was codenamed Juno. On that day, the Candian infantry fought their way farther inland than any other Allied troops. For Canada, and all Canadians, this was a coming of age, an extraordinary moment of courage and sacrifice. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of D-Day, Barris takes us back to those momentous few hours that forever changed the course of our history in the voices of those who were there. In what might be described as Canada's longest day, we follow the course of action hour by hour, minute by minute, as we meet and follow the soldiers who leapt off landing craft into the shallow waters off Normandy, who were strafed by machinegun fire before they could even reach the shore. We meet the airmen wh

Juno: Canadians at D-Day, June 6, 1944

History

Barris, Ted

Americas

Set in the 1960s, The Fire Thief is the story of Sonny Wheeler, who grew up in a time of '50s conformity that exploded into revolution, protest, and days of rage for many of his generation. When his mother remarries, teenaged Sonny moves with his new family to Danforth, Washington, a city that exists solely because of the nuclear power plant humming at its core. This is the Cold War at its height: his stepfather is a nuclear engineer, his home is visited every month by FBI agents looking for Soviet spies, and the daughter of high school science teached is named Marie Curie. Sonny's ony connection to the world outside this stifling city is his wild Aunt Alice, a lounge club singer who rejects all of the social norms of the age. Having fallen in love with the angst-ridden Karen, Sonny follows her descent into radicalism and joins the Weathermen, a revolutionary group dedicated to the overthrow of the state and the atomic utopia their parents had created. After staging the theft of pl

The Fire Thief

Literature & Fiction

Guppy, Stephen

Literary

The Best Golf Tips Ever covers every aspect of the game, from equipment to swing technique to competitive golf. Individual chapters present tips using quotations from some of the most popular and best-selling golf instruction books, and tips which author Nick Wright has picked up during his years working with top pros. Each chapter is rounded off with an On-course Analysis feature, where one of the game's legendary pros puts the tips from that chapter into the context of one of the world's 18 greatest golf holes. In addition, an extensive cross-referencing system links tips for every aspect of your game to help take you from one chapter to another in search of the elusive swing thought.

The Best Golf Tips Ever: Guaranteed Shot-Savers from the World's Top Pros

Sports & Outdoors

Wright,Nick

Golf

Story-Wallah! - A Celebration Of South Asian Fiction

Selvadurai, Shyam

World Literature

Based on Paula Todd's widely viewed television program Person to Person, an intimate biography show about human behaviour, A Quiet Courage shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us. Todd explores the unique ways twelve fascinating men and women from around the world not only survive the unimaginable, but manage to thrive afterwards, including: an artist whose family is murdered; a sales clerk diagnosed with colon cancer who is given six months to live; an award-winning chef who is paralyzed in a car accident and is told he will never be able to cook again; a paramedic who suffers from critical incident stress disorder after discovering a murdered rape victim who closely resembles his fiancee; and a senior police officer who suffers clinical depression after investigating some of Canada's most notorious murderers, including Paul Bernardo. A Quiet Courage is an inspirational book about overcoming the worst life has to offer, deriving st

A QUIET COURAGE: Inspiring stories for all of us

Todd, Paula

Biographies & Memoirs

Military

On May 4, 1945, Canadian artillery captain David Francis found himself near the village of Otterloo, Holland. Shell fire on both sides had diminished noticeably. Both sides tried to avoid last minute read morecasualties. That night, the eve of Dutch liberation, the quartermaster arranged a party for the troops. The local citizenry were also invited, Francis recalled. At the height of the party news came over the radio of the surrender of the German forces in Holland ... The loud resulting cheers were suddenly hushed as all the Dutch people present stood and, with tears streaming down their cheeks, sang their national anthem, and sang it again, and yet again as these normally undemonstrative Dutch people gave vent to their pent-up emotions and the realization sank in that they were free at last of the Nazi yoke. When the German capitulation in Europe came on May 8 - VE Day - celebrations swept the continent. Festivities also spilled into the streets of Halifax, Ottawa, Sudbury, Regina and Vancouver back home. Both the liberators and the liberated erupted in fits of cheers and singing, tears and hugging, dancing, praying, flag-waving, bonfires, parades, and every other demonstration of delight imaginable. It was, to be sure, a sweet day and a bitter one for millions of people whose lives had been changed forever by nearly six years of global war. This day, and the long days of war that led to it, come to life in Days of Victory: 60th Anniversary Edition. This volume of wartime remembrance carries the reader from the early days the Second World War -- when Canadians in combat experienced more trials than triumphs when those on the homefront endured rationing, yearning and tremendous social upheaval where, beyond the wire of POW camps, prisoners (Allied and German) masterminded and executed escapes and where so-called aliens inside Canadian internment camps fought to prove their loyalty. Ultimately, the book offers the voices of the Canadians' ultimate march to victory that began on D-Day in 1944 and culminated in VE and VJ Day, more than a year later. Contained here are the stories of average volunteers, some of whom became well known after the war - including war correspondents Ross Munro, Matthew Halton and J.D. MacFarlane; broadcasters Marcel Ouimet, Art Cole and Clyde Gilmour; seamen Dave Broadfoot, Murray Westgate and Scott Young; air crew Buzz Beurling, Marion Orr and Phil Marchaldon; and army troops James Doohan and Barney Danson as well as homegrown entertainers such as Fred Davis, Alan and Blanche Lund, Murray Ginsberg, Victor Feldbrill, Robert Goodier and comedians Wayne and Shuster. From interviews, research and images originally gathered by father and son writing team - Alex and Ted Barris - best-selling author Ted Barris has broadened the initial manuscript to include stories of Canadian heroism in the Pacific war, accounts of Canadian war correspondents battling to beat the censors, more first-hand impressions of the Canadians who liberated Europe and from the civilians they liberated in Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark and finally Holland. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of European liberation this book gives voice to perhaps Canada's greatest generation, those who gave the world a second chance. The Days of Victory is enhanced by 32 pages of personal/archival photographs and maps.

Days of Victory: Canadians Remember, 1939-1945

Ladykiller is the astonishing debut collection of seven smart stories from an exciting new voice in Canadian literature. Charlotte Gill is a brilliant young writer who is not afraid to stare down the truth and shame the devil. She conjures compelling stories about escape, self-sabotage, and the power of unconscious desire. A couple plots against a crying baby in the apartment below as their dysfunctional relationship begins to veer off course. A hot-shot scuba-diving instructor falls for a teenaged girl in a perilous Lolita-like romance. Twin sisters travel to exotic lands in search of romance in order to rescue themselves from their own dark, intense bond. A woman reconnects with the son of her father's mistress, and together they begin an obsession with the past. A medical student embarks on an affair with a professor and discovers revolution in disastrous consequences. An unfaithful man takes his girlfriend to his ailing mother's for Christmas, only to find himself at the crossro

Ladykiller: Stories

Gill, Charlotte

Short Stories & Anthologies

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