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  • Working Parent
    Paula Johanson
    Looking for real life stories? You’ll find them here. Working Parent continues the adventures of two writers raising gifted twins, that began in the popular book No Parent Is An Island. On the farm or bouncing like ping-pong balls in Grandma’s basement, this family is always busy. Author Paula Johanson has calluses from farming and from writing these stories and a stack of nonf...
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    12,10 €

  • Under The Plow
    Paula Johanson
    Real life stories can tell who you are, and where you are, and sometimes whether anyone else is like you. Here in Under the Plow, there’s a lot you’ll recognize about home and neighbours or family and gardening, in these real life stories by writer Paula Johanson. Look here for insights into city folk and country living, as when Paula writes of learning to be both a writer and ...
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    15,38 €

  • No Parent Is An Island
    Paula Johanson
    It’s two a.m. and you’ve got a crying child and you know you’ll never remember this five years from now, but tonight it’s all there is.It’s two p.m. and the kids have covered themselves - outside and in! - with petroleum jelly, in just under thirty seconds. You know this could never happen to anyone else. Could it?No Parent Is An Island explores those moments when life becomes ...
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    12,19 €

  • Green Paddler
    Paula Johanson
    This book on paddlesports details using kayaks and other small boats with an eye to environmental sensibility and affordable recreation. In Green Paddler, author Paula Johanson reprises her short articles from Kayak Yak website and brings new insights & humour to the time she spends on the water. "Superb! What a fantastic read for a Monday morning." -Pearly on AdvancedElements ...
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    11,10 €

  • Woolgathering
    Paula Johanson
    Working in wool to make traditional woven blankets and modern knitting has long been a primary cultural communication method of people in Cowichan First Nation, but published comments suggest non-Cowichan people have consistently failed to understand what was being communicated. An examination of the last 240 years of published comments on Cowichan woolworking shows themes of f...
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    8,29 €

  • Charles Tupper
    Paula Johanson
    Not the worst prime minister of Canada, but not by much, Tupper held office for only ten weeks during an election before reluctantly conceding he lost. As a member of Parliament he always kept his doctor’s bag under his desk, and Parliament kept two bars open while in session. There’s a famous Canadian painting of the Fathers of Confederation, with John A. Macdonald at the cent...
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    13,31 €

  • Pierre Elliott Trudeau
    Paula Johanson
    Before he was elected to office, he hitch-hiked across North Africa, swam the Bosporus Strait on a whim, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona -- twice. Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada’s 15th prime minister, could be called the most colourful of them all. Trudeau was confident that his informed opinions were good for all Canadians. Not everyone agreed. Suspending civil liberties wi...
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    12,19 €

  • King Kwong
    Paula Johanson
    Who broke the colour barrier in the NHL? A man whose professional hockey career statistics include leading the senior leagues for scoring and for low penalty minutes -- and a single shift on the ice in an NHL game. He was scouted three times by NHL teams before that game, and courted away from the NHL to a powerful role in three different international leagues before retiring.H...
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    12,13 €

  • Tower in the Crooked Wood
    Paula Johanson
    They were stolen in the dark to work for a night and a day, building a tower for the wizard Krummholz on faraway Copper Island, in a place where the trees grow twisted in a poisoned bog. Some of the unwilling workers were returned bewildered, bruised, and marked by whips -- others died as the uncaring wizard called new workers to his tower. Now Jenia is the only one left of her...
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    12,21 €

  • Plum Tree
    Paula Johanson
    Driving with her Dad to visit Aunt May is his idea of how to help Tina out of a depression that’s lasted months. But the highway is boring, the weather is hot, and she’s seen enough rocks and sticks for a lifetime. Tina is so preoccupied with her thoughts and memories that she hardly sees the world changing around her. When Tina and her Dad stop in a small town that hasn’t chan...
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    10,68 €

  • Island Views
    Paula Johanson
    After finishing her bachelor degree, an island holiday was just what Elise wanted, and the chance to discover stone carvings. Any place with a carrot juice stand couldn’t be all bad. It might even be ... interesting. But the first thing she found was a jack-of-all-trades. Now, Dale knows about petroglyphs and how to find these carvings. Elise doesn’t want to be one more project...
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    10,59 €

  • Small Rain and Other Nightmares
    Paula Johanson
    Whether walking from the big city to beyond Hope, or from a secret house in the hills to what’s left of town, the characters in these stories are in transition from coping with the past and fears for the future. They find small but astonishing strengths when tried and tested in the story collection Small Rain and Other Nightmares.In stories of near futures uncomfortably like ou...
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    11,03 €