Random Acts Of Beautification
The other day I was hauling my tools and a few plants to a new area of the property that needed civilizing. My husband had mentioned planting there a couple of years back, and even put a huge clump of Iris pseudacorus there, to which I added a ... [... more]
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David Masiel
By all accounts, Henry Seine should have packed it in long ago, certainly before he started scanning marine distress channels for fun. But sixteen-hour days spent hauling heavy cargo aboard tugs and icebreakers along ... [... more]
Random House |
Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire
 Simply one of the best mob books It just goes to show that even though Rico took it's toll on the mob heirchy in the 80's certain rackets such as the garbage cartel have only been taken down in the last few years. Most of it happend by luck one day when ... [... more]
CDN$44.95
Amazon CA |
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the ...
Persistence of vision The first transatlantic cable was a Victorian era triumph that enchanted the world with its glory. The story is one of the courage and persistence of its director-in-charge, Cyrus Field, born in 1819 to a prominent family of ... [... more]
CDN$30.00
Amazon CA |
Papa, Please Get The Moon For Me
What a great dad! This book is the beautiful story of a dad who goes to all lengths for his daughter - he actually gets the moon for her! In typical "Carle fashion" this book expands (as the moon appears to do), the pages ascend ever higher (as ... [... more]
CDN$23.99
Amazon CA |
The Jewish People In Classical Antiquity: From Alexander ...
Not enough about Bar Kochba This book "The Jewish People in Classical Antiquity: From Alexander to Bar Kochba" surprised me because, even though it mentions covering Bar Kochba, it contains very little information about Bar Kochba, only 4 pages ... [... more]
CDN$32.99
Amazon CA |
The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
It's not surprising that authors/partners Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's attempt to eat locally for one year--that is, consume only foodstuffs cultivated and harvested within 100 miles of their Vancouver pad--became a sensation first on the web and ... [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Abduction
Perry Berg is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy ... [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
More Reasons To Grow Daylilies
My primary flowers, at that time, were roses, marigolds and some daylilies. They were the early lemon lilies that smelled so wonderful--nothing fancy, yet! Garden clubs were my favorite pastime, when I had the time. Working full time and hauling ... [... more]
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A Loving Father's Day Out Of The Garden
"In honor of Father's Day you are excused from all hard labor in the garden for the day. This will include but is not limited to: mowing the meadow with the walk-behind mower, weed whacking and bush hogging, shoveling mulch and/or gravel, hauling ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Hard Coal and Coal Cars: Hauling Anthracite on the New ...
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CDN$53.65
Amazon CA |
Robert Polidori: Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Extraordinary Work I won't endeavor to describe this book any more than Amazon's editors. But, I will say that I've collected photography books for close to twenty years and this is one of the most beautiful I've seen. The work is extraordinary, both ... [... more]
CDN$73.15
Amazon CA |
