This is a brand-new e-edition of the award-winning paperback book originally published by Pottersfield Press. Anna Leonowens was famous for tutoring the children and wives of King Maha Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam (now Thailand). Yet she disguised her lowly birth in India and pretended to be an English Governess. She spent forty years in Canada (in Halifax and in Montreal) following her glamorous job, where she founded NSCAD and was involved in many causes and organizations. In her spare time...

Rule a Healthy Roost provides just the right amount of easy-to-use information to make nutrition and fitness as simple and fun as possible, as well as tips for getting everyone on board.With humor and a good scoop of mom-sense, Leslie Smith Grant walks you through:Nutrition and Kitchen 101Safety adviceTips for cooking with kidsShopping and pantry tipsRecipes and menusActivities and games...and more!

Percy is a withdrawn, untalented vampire who hates his talented neighbour, Keppler, a wealthy advisor to the king. His perceptions of reality are tainted by his jealousy, and his cravings for raw meat, which he has abandoned at the urging of his therapist, Max. But Percy has made a grave error, and now the Kill Keppler Club is insisting he rectify it by...killing his nemesis. Don't be swayed by Percy's dubious self-justification. He is just as greedy and weak as the rest of us.Here...

Charles Lennox is dying in the barn of the Chapman farm, of rabies contracted from the bite of an infected fox 60 days before. He has spent 13 months in Canada, and has already seen a great deal more of Upper and Lower Canada than any of his predecessors. His stamina, for one who has never shown much ambition before, is astounding. He wavers in and out of consciousness. He froths at the mouth and begins to behave like an animal. He still has a few lucid moments, in which he reflects upon h...

The Billings Kids History Mystery series begins with 12-year-old Elkanah Stowell, who ventures into the wilderness with his uncle, Braddish Billings, to help found what will become the Billings Bridge settlement. He's an orphan, so he has to grow up quickly. He helps his uncle build a log cabin, plant crops for the upcoming winter, and drive log cribs down the Rideau River into the Ottawa – and eventually to Quebec.Then he's left alone with a hired hand, William Blakey for a month, ...

Happy Birthday! Born in an undisclosed South American mountain village, Felix Crumple was misnamed by the indigenous midwife who, upon presenting the newborn child to his mother, murmured, erroneously, "felix crumple"--instead of "feliz cumpleanos"--Happy Birthday. From that moment on, young Felix was marked as special, and his continual brushes with the supernatural also mark his adventures into the realm of very original love. His voice is magnificent, and women literally fall at his fee...

When Victor Hugo died in 1885, the world was shocked to discover that he had a lone survivor: his daughter Adèle, incarcerated in an asylum for insane gentlewomen. Adèle Hugo was an accomplished, intelligent, and ambitious young woman whose potential shrank with every year she spent under her tyrannical father’s roof. At thirty-three, she fell desperately in love with an English soldier who quickly lost interest in everything about her except her money. Her obsession with him proved her un...

'Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society' Jeremy CorbynTHIS A CALL TO ARMS FOR THE MANY, NOT THE FEW: DON'T LET THE PAST BECOME OUR FUTUREHarry Leslie Smith is a great British stalwart. A survivor of the Great Depression, a Second World War veteran, a lifelong Labour supporter and a proud Yorkshire man, Harry's life has straddled two centuries. As a young man, he wit...

'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.' The Guardian'It is not enough to read Harry's record of the struggles and hopes of a generation – we have to re-assert his pri...

'[Harry Leslie Smith] is absolutely one of my heroes. Everyone should read this and be humbled.' Annie Lennox'A deep love of humanity is what animates Smith. He is a hero of our times.' Newsweek'His straight-from-the-heart delivery makes these events seem as clear and immediate as if they happened yesterday' Morning StarAt 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith – the now 92-year-...

This textbook describes the field of radio and television in the United States, presents the material in a manner the reader can grasp and enjoy, and makes the book useful for the classroom teacher.Written for adaptation to individual teaching situations, the book is divided by subject matter into logical chapter divisions that can be assigned in the order appropriate for specific course students. Each chapter stands by itself, but the book is also an integrated whole. It is easy t...

Jean Piaget is one of the greatest names in psychology. A knowledge of his ideas is essential for all in psychology and education. Sociological Studies is one of his major works to remain untranslated. Now an international team of Piaget experts has got together to ensure that this important work is available in English.This classic text, exploring the role of social experience in the development of understanding, shows the general perception of Piaget as someone who took i...