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Best bicycle park & rail trails in Ontario. 60 more / by Roitner, Dan,author.;
More great off-road riding trail reviews from Dan Roitner in the follow-up to first volume of Best Bicycle Park and Rail Trails in Ontario!. The weekend is here! Where to go? Plan your next great day ride with this handy trail guide ... 60 Bike Trail Reviews, 140 pages--30 Park Paths + 30 Rail Trails--60 Trail Maps and Elevation Charts--Most routes are 100% car-free, easy, off-road paths--Consistent review ratings from one source, the author--Trail Reviews List: Length, Elevation, Terrain, Skill, Traffic, Maps, Facilities, Highlights, Phone #, Websites, Similar Trails, Local Cycling Clubs, Trail Access and best locations to Park--Bonus PDF eBook version included. To complement the trails detailed in Volume 1, Dan has scouted and reviewed 60 MORE of the best bike trails in Ontario, Canada. In this collection, Dan introduces easy Park Paths and longer Rail Trails--car-free, self-guided routes, suitable for hybrid and gravel bikes--in all corners of the province. This concise, well-researched guide features detailed maps, graphs, trail photos, and bicycling tips to optimize your time cycling. It's an excellent resource to plan your next weekend outing and discover new regions in this diverse province.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Bicycle touring; Bicycle trails; Cycling; Cycling; Rail-trails; Trails;
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The celestial wife : a novel / by Howard, Leslie,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Keep sweet no matter what, for this is the way to be lifted up Keep sweet with every breath, for it is a matter of life or death 1964. Fifteen-year-old Daisy Shoemaker dreams of life beyond her small, isolated fundamentalist Mormon community of Redemption on the Canada--US border--despite Bishop Thorsen's warning that the outside world is full of sin. According to the Principle, the only way to enter the celestial kingdom is through plural marriage. While the boys are taught to work in the lucrative sawmill that supports their enclave, Daisy and her best friend, Brighten, are instructed to keep sweet and wait for Placement--the day the bishop will choose a husband for them. But Daisy wants to be more than a sister-wife and a mother. So when she is placed with a man forty years her senior, she makes the daring decision to flee Redemption. Years later, Daisy has a job and a group of trustworthy friends. Emboldened by the ideas of the feminist and counterculture movements, she is freer than she has ever been ... until Brighten reaches out with a cry for help and Daisy's past comes hurtling back. But to save the women she left behind, Daisy must risk her newfound independence and return to Redemption, where hellfire surely awaits. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure comes an arresting coming-of-age novel about a fearless young girl's fight for freedom at a time of great historic change."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Communal living; Latter Day Saints; Nineteen sixties; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Teenage girls;
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Operation Medusa : the furious battle that saved Afghanistan from the Taliban / by Fraser, David(Major-General),author.; Hanington, Brian,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."David Fraser, the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, tells the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa." In 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Like the troops under his command, he was in no way ready for what happened on Friday, September 1st of that year. He had been woken the night before by his intelligence officers who informed him that the Taliban were amassing on all fronts for an all-out battle. The NATO Alliance was about to engage the enemy in the greatest and bloodiest battle of their 70-year history. And they were grossly outnumbered. The facts of Operation Medusa have themselves been the casualties of war. At first deliberately withheld as classified, then muddied by imprecise and isolated personal accounts, exaggerated by rumour, misstated by ambition, or just rejected outright as irrelevant, the details of these events are still unknown by citizens of Canada and her allies. And yet the truth about those 15 agonizing days between September 2 and 17 is astounding. The secret agreements made in those two weeks, the expected death toll of Canadian soldiers, the wholesale changes to tactics made after the first engagement, the strafing of Charles Company by an American A-10, the contribution of the Afghan police, the genius of the Dutch artillery, the discovery of drugs, the extent of unreported civilian casualties, and even Canadian and Allied reliance on the insights of village elders were classified and kept from public knowledge. And yet in international military circles, the Battle of Panjwayi was quickly hailed as the defining moment of Operation Medusa. Canadians were credited with nothing less than saving Afghanistan from falling under Taliban rule. Our military's strategy and tactics were soon studied in warfare colleges in the U.S., and practiced by NATO troops in exercises around the world. Canada's reputation as a contributor to allied defence was once again revered. There is no one architect of Operation Medusa, a theme deeply embedded in David Fraser's first-hand account, but if anyone really had to point to the one person who could tell this incredible story, it is the Canadian General in charge of the joint military command"--
Subjects: International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan); North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Operation Medusa, 2006.; Afghan War, 2001-;
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Murdoch mysteries. [videorecording] / by Bisson, Yannick,1969-actor.; Craig, Tom,1962-actor.; Harris, Jonny,actor.; Jennings, Maureen,creator.; Joy, Helene,actor.; Reilly, Georgina,actor.; Television adaptation of (work):Jennings, Maureen.Detective Murdoch mystery.Videorecording.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,broadcaster.; ITV Studios,production company.; Ovation (TV network),broadcaster.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.; Shaftesbury Production,production company.;
Disc 1. On the waterfront, part 1 ; On the waterfront, part 2 ; Glory days ; Holy matrimony, Murdoch! -- Disc 2. Murdoch takes Manhattan ; The Murdoch appreciation society ; What lies buried ; High voltage -- Disc 3. The Keystone Constables ; Murdoch and the temple of death ; All the glitters ; The devil wears whalebone -- Disc 4. The incurables ; Toronto's girl problem ; Shipwreck -- Disc 5. CrabtreeMania ; Election day ; Artful detective.Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Georgina Reilly, Jonny Harris, Thomas Craig.In Season 8 of this delightful detective show, joy and heartbreak await Detective William Murdoch and his friends in turn-of-the-century Toronto. After his brutal beating by the dockyard gang, Inspector Brackenreid's future remains uncertain. Constable Crabtree faces life-altering changes, including a new romance, while Dr. Emily Grace and Dr. Julia Ogden join the women's suffrage movement. And in the show's 100th episode, wedding bells ring as Murdoch and Julia finally walk down the aisle.PG.DVD, NTSC region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Constables; Criminal investigation; Detective and mystery television programs.; Forensic sciences; Forensic sciences; Murder; Murdoch, William (Fictitious character); Police; Women pathologists;
For private home use only.
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Orange is the new black. [videorecording]. by Schilling, Taylor,1984-actor.; Brooks, Danielle,actor.; Manning, Taryn,actor.; Mulgrew, Kate,1955-actor.; Prepon, Laura,1980-actor.; Kerman, Piper.Orange is the new black.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),film distributor.;
Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon.A new regime has arrived at Litchfield and with it comes new business interests, spiritual movements, and parental problems that turn life behind bars upside down and ignite power struggles among Litchfield's residents and guards.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Kerman, Piper.; Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.); Women prisoners; Reformatories for women; Female friendship;
For private home use only.
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Framed in fire / by Whishaw, Iona,1948-author.;
"It's early spring 1948 and Lane arrives in New Denver to find that her friend, Peter Barisoff, is not at home. Instead, in a nearby meadow, she encounters Tom, an Indigenous man in search of his ancestral lands. Lane is intrigued. Unfortunately, once Peter returns home, the day takes a gloomy turn when the trio uncovers human remains next to Peter's garden, and Lane must tell her husband, Inspector Darling, that she's inadvertently stumbled into his professional domain--again. Back in Nelson, the Vitalis, Lane and Darling's favourite restaurateurs, are victims of arson. Constable Terrell's investigation suggests prejudice as a motive, and the case quickly escalates, as the Vitalis receive increasingly threatening notes of warning. Meanwhile, Sergeant Ames works a robbery while alienating Tina Van Eyck in his personal time, and a swirling rumour sets the entire station on edge and prompts an RCMP investigation into Darling's integrity. Amid the local bustle series readers have come to love, Framed in Fire is bound up in difficult questions of community and belonging, and the knowledge that trusted neighbours can sometimes be as sinister as a stranger in the dark"--Back cover.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Arson investigation; British; Robbery; Wilderness areas;
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Peppa Pig. [videorecording] / by Astley, Neville,creator.; Baker, Mark,1959-creator.; Astley Baker Davies Ltd.,production company.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada),distributor.; Nick Jr. (Firm),broadcaster,production company.;
Peppa and her friends are using their imagination to decide what to be when they grow up. They explore helping others when learning about the police, doctors, and the fire engine. Later, the playgroup gets excited for a bit of show time! Then it's time to shake, rattle and bang while learning to play instruments for an oinktastic performance! Watch all twelve Peppa-sodes for lots of giggles with Peppa, her little brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, and friends.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Peppa Pig (Fictitious character); Brothers and sisters; Friendship; Parent and child; Swine;
For private home use only.
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Top 60 canoe routes of Ontario / by Callan, Kevin,author.; translation of:Callan, Kevin.Top 50 canoe routes of Ontario.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A new edition of the best-selling guide, expanded with 10 more routes over 48 more pages. Ontario is blessed with some of the most scenic and enjoyable lakes and rivers in the world - it truly is a paddler's paradise. Like the first edition of this book, this updated and expanded second edition is destined to become the classic guide to the very best canoeing the province has to offer. Top 60 Canoe Routes of Ontario includes 10 more of Kevin Callan's favorite canoe excursions. While some of these routes are well known to paddlers province-wide, such as the Bonnechere River, others are hidden secrets, like the ambitious and magical Woodland Caribou Park. The routes range from two-day paddles to week-long expeditions and are divided amongst nine regions: Southern Ontario, Cottage Country, Algonquin, Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, Temagami, Ontario's Near North, Northern Ontario and Northwestern Ontario. Kevin gives paddlers all the information they need to complete each route, including accurate maps of all access points, portage lengths, important river features and campsites - all embellished with historical notes and Kevin's trademark humor. He also includes a detailed "Before You Go" section in which he shares the expertise that has earned him the title of Canada's Happy Camper."--
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Canoes and canoeing;
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Blood : the science, medicine, and mythology of menstruation / by Gunter, Jen,author.;
Most of us know about as much about how the uterus and ovaries function as we do about how the liver works. Add in societal shame around the menstrual cycle, and it's not surprising that misinformation is widespread. But, as women's health advocate and trusted OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter writes, "you don't have to think about your liver 5 days a month for 30 years, so I'd argue people should know more about the uterus." Enter Blood, the galvanizing new book dispels the shame, mythology, and misinformation around menstruation with scientific facts, medical expertise, and a fierce feminist perspective. Surprising, funny, and fact-filled, Blood is an essential and empowering resource from the doctor who, in the words of Dr. Lori Brotto, Canada Research Chair in Women's Sexual Health, "takes the mystery out of women's health and replaces it with evidence-informed concrete recommendations."
Subjects: Gynecology.; Menstrual cycle.; Menstruation.; Women;
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A land so wide : a novel / by Craig, Erin A.,author.;
Like everyone else in the settlement of Mistaken, Greer Mackenzie is trapped. Founded by an ambitious lumber merchant, the village is blessed with rich natural resources that have made its people prosperous--but at a cost. The same woods that have lined the townsfolks' pockets harbor dangerous beasts: wolves, bears, and the Bright-Eyeds--monsters beyond description who have rained utter destruction down on nearby settlements. But Mistaken's founders made a deal with the mysterious Benevolence: the Warding Stones that surround the town will keep the Bright-Eyeds out--and the town's citizens in. Anyone who spends a night within Mistaken's borders belongs to it forever. Greer, a mapmaker and eccentric dreamer, has always ached to explore the world outside, even though she knows she and her longtime love, Ellis Beaufort, will never see it. Until, on the day she and Ellis are meant to finally begin their lives together, Greer watches in horror as her beloved disappears beyond the Warding Stones, pursued by a monstrous creature. Determined to rescue Ellis, she figures out a way to defy Mistaken's curse and begins a trek through the cold and pitiless wilderness. But there, Greer is hunted, not only by the ruthless Bright-Eyeds but by the secret truths behind Mistaken's founding and her own origins.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Blessing and cursing; Boundary stones; Magic; Man-woman relationships; Monsters; Villages; Wilderness areas;
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