Neighborhood Gardening Co-op
How about forming a neighborhood gardening co-op to share labor and equipment with your neighbors or extended family. It's a great way to build community, get chores done and have a good time too. All the current talk about what going to war will ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Michele B. Slawson
In the rich, warm colors of autumn, here's a slice of American history as we watch Anna and her extended family help with the town's traditional fall apple harvest. Now available in paperback. Apple Picking Time Michele B. Slawson [... more]
Random House |
Ian Hancock
As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with ... [... more]
Random House |
Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr
Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight--the ... [... more]
Random House |
The Heroic Present
As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with ... [... more]
Random House |
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard is the author of several books that celebrate her extended family. The real Lulu is the author's great-aunt. Born in 1870, Lulu was an elementary school teacher for almost fifty years. She also rolled bandages for the ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
By the Banks of the Brokenhead: One Life, and One ...
 A Full Circle: I found this book to be an emotional tour-de-force by a talented writer who brings her 2 little Hong Kong-born daughters to spend a Canadian summer on the family farm where her great-grandparents first homesteaded in 1896. By interweaving [... more]
CDN$18.01
Amazon CA |
Julie's Wolf Pack
best of the trilogy: This book is the continuing saga of the wolf pack we first met in Julie of the Wolves. Unlike the other two, this book focuses on the wolves mainly, and their extended family. For this reason I feel it was a stronger effort than the [... more]
CDN$21.89
Amazon CA |
Toast
Hilarious yet poignant memoir: I bought this book while on vacation in the U. K. and annoyed my traveling companions because I kept laughing out loud. This autobiography covers the author's life from boyhood to early adulthood showing how his interest in [... more]
CDN$27.29
Amazon CA |
MEMORY (HARDCOVER)
From Amazon.com: Miles turns 30, and--though he isn't slowing down just yet--he is starting to lose interest in the game of Wall: the one where he tries to climb the wall, fails, gets up, and tries again. Having finally reached a point in his life where [... more]
CDN$22.92
Amazon CA |
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: In the book Any Small Goodness, the characater Arturo gets a thumbs up. He lives in L.A. in a place where random acts of generosity and good will improve the lives of L.A. There is also another L.A. , a place of movie stars and [... more]
CDN$6.99
Amazon CA |
The Gathering
This is a complicated book: One that requires more than one reading with which to fully come to grips. There's a lot going on here, about family, about the ties that bind, about the fact we can never escape the past. Everyone will not like this book, it' [... more]
CDN$25.00
Amazon CA |
