Shelterbelts are those long rows of trees one sees on North America’s prairies and plains. Farmstead shelterbelts are those that encompass farmers’ residences and workyards. This book focuses on Manitoba farmstead shelterbelts and the people who live with them. Today’s farmstead shelterbelts are the result of large-scale governmental policies and agencies as well as local vernacular expressions. Taken together, their presence, absence, and/or character indicate larger social, economic and ...

A busy, unmarried salon owner finds herself unexpectedly pregnant in this poignant novel about love and its complications . . .Kat has a busy life. She runs her own beauty salon and has an alcoholic father to worry about. To make matters worse, she has just discovered she is pregnant.Kat and Max have only been together for six months, and she has a turbulent relationship with his mother—and with his ex-girlfriend, who refuses to go away. As the pressure build...

Two disparate souls, a young Iranian woman with a promising nursing career, and an American collegiate athlete seeking a career in the intelligence field, meet by happenstance. Realizing their mutual passion to serve others, the two connect intellectually and romantically, not knowing they are both connected to secrets that will force their worlds to collide and reveal truths unknown to not only both of them, but also the world.No Borders for Truth explores love and loss w...

The young prince’s birthday is fast approaching and Gertrude, The Royal Librarian, has to find just the right book for the occasion. Join her on her journey as the whole kingdom gets ready for the festivities! This book is set in medieval times and focuses on reading. It shows the head of the country is an avid reader who is teaching his son to appreciate reading.About the AuthorThis book introduces a new author in the genre of children’s books. Ms. Brown was born in and cur...

James is a trans boy who goes to a Catholic boarding school. He is hoping for a calm year, but other people have different plans...Soon, he finds himself entangled in a murder investigation. Now he has to find the killer while staying true to himself. The police are useless, and his classmate deserves justice.One question remains: who killed Daniel Smith, and why?

Sinead is an exceptionally talented U of T music student facing a frightening problem. She has been asked to enter an international two-piano music competition with a concert pianist friend, just as she is experiencing unexplained memory lapses during performances.She sees a psychologist specializing in performance anxiety, on the advice of her boyfriend. The resulting theory for the cause of the lapses comes as a shock to her parents. She has seven months to work on her problem in...

If you've spent any time in Texas in spring, you know the bluebonnets. Now imagine a pair of glasses that shows you what you had been missing — every ultraviolet the flower had been wearing all along, a field suddenly purple, a world you had been standing inside without seeing.That is love, for Richard Smith. That is Zin.Richard has spent his life making himself small. He writes poetry in secret. With Zin, he learns to see. He builds a technology that puts a kind of sight on...

The world you see isn't the only one that exists.These stories are drawn from real, documented psychological conditions – then followed, unflinching, into the territory of horror and the supernatural. They don't just unsettle. They take you inside private realities so consuming that you'll question what you thought you understood about the mind.To the outside world, it's a panic attack. To the sufferer, it's a suffocating entity with fingers like ice. To yo...

What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this sequel to the beloved postapocalyptic queer YA adventure romance All That's Left in the World by USA Today bestselling author Erik J. Brown.Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.After a long and treacherous journey south, Andrew and Jamie have finally found safety in the Florida Keys. But they soon le...

A careful and unbiased analysis of how thinkers from church history interpreted the creation narrative in Genesis  How literally are we meant to take the creation week of Genesis 1? In this polarizing debate, contemporary interpreters invoke great theologians from history to support their own side, whether that be a young Earth, theistic evolution, or any other view.The problem lies in trying to force ancient authors into contemporary boxes, as Andrew...

What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance from debut author Erik J. Brown. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie’s house, he’s injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world’s population, including everyone both boys have ever loved. And if this new world has taught them anything, it’s to be scared of ...

Retrace Nellie Bly's attempt to beat Jules Verne's fictional record in Around the World in 80 Days while pioneering journalism and challenging oppression."Reading Rosemary Brown's carefully crafted, charming book, readers can now be armchair companions of two amazing women." — New York Journal of BooksIntrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a "man's world"—alone and...