Gail: 1480 books
The List
100 Ways to Shake Up Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Get a tattoo, ride in a fire truck, or use food as foreplay-in short, get out there and shake things up! Fun, inspirational, and incredibly motivating, The List offers one hundred ideas-ranging from challenging to outrageous-for women who have been craving a little novelty in their lives.
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Home Children Bundle
The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
On Laughter-Silvered Wings
The Story of Lt. Col. E.T (Ted) Strever D.F.C
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This well written and thoroughly researched biographical account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot (the author's father) is sure to appeal widely. The story is by necessity highly personal, drawing on family history and changing lifestyles as the central figure fights his way through...
by Gail Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From the "Queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the 16th instalment of the much-loved Joanne Kilbourn series.
The latest novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series opens in the month of May, a time of beginnings when all things seem possible. Joanne's husband, Zack,...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pirates
Fascinating Facts About the World’s Most Infamous Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
A view of pirate life-from the crow's nest ...
Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain...
American Patriots: A Young People's Edition
The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
They fought on Lexington Green the first morning of the Revolution and survived the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge. They stormed San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor. They are the black Americans who fought, often in foreign lands,...
Growing up Untouchable in India
A Dalit Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2002
'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies
Northern Kentucky University
A Panoramic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Northern Kentucky University's evolution from an educational branch of the University of Kentucky into a major university in its own right is a tale of promise and humble beginnings. Could the handful of students and instructors attending classes in a Covington bus station in 1946 have ever imagined...
Kevin Thinks
...about Outer Space, Confusing Expressions and the Perfectly Logical World of Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Kevin thinks his mum is ridiculous for saying that he is wasting the sunshine and fresh air. As if it would ever run out! Kevin thinks you should always do up the top button. Why else is it there? Kevin thinks his computer brain is awesome because he can remember lots and lots of important facts about...
On Eagle's Wings
The Inspirational Life of Annie Stites, Crohn's Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Pain was her constant companion —but it didn't define her. Meet Annie. Animal lover. Compassionate teacher. Avid sailor. Charity founder. Crohn's fighter. With her soul mate and husband, Glenn, and their menagerie of rescued animals at her side, she lived life to the fullest, in spite of severe Crohn's...
by Gail MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
After losing his family in the Scottish Clearances, Harry Wallace becomes infamous for his clever revenge on the ruling English upper class, but his success can last only so long. With the shadow of a noose hanging over him, he barely escapes with his life and sails for British North America and a...
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities
Toward Civic Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...