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“mike mccardell”

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  • Girl on the Roof

    Memories of a Remarkable Life

    by Mike McCardell ...
    In this tender, humorous and moving tribute, former journalist and broadcaster Mike McCardell brings his sharp eye and sense of compassion to the story of his fifty-eight-year marriage to his late wife, in an unforgettable expression of love, loss and the solace of memory.Mike McCardell’s gift for revealing deep, heartwarming significance in the details of everyday life has made him one of BC’s ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cardboard Ocean

    A Memoir

    by Mike McCardell ...
    Bestselling author and TV personality Mike McCardell, known for his humorous and touching portraits of ordinary BC lives, turns a new page and crafts a bittersweet memoir of his own hardscrabble childhood in New York City.Written with all the warmth and ironic humour his fans have come to know and love, Cardboard Ocean is an affectionate evocation of a childhood in a rough setting, but with the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shoelaces are Hard

    And Other Thoughtful Scribbles

    by Mike McCardell ...
    Mike McCardell’s instinct for finding the perfect story at just the right time has led him to a lifetime of great scoops and gripping tales as an author and Vancouver news icon. Years of chasing and reporting human-interest stories have honed his ability to see the deeper meaning behind the everyday, and to capture the universal and familiar in even the strangest and most outlandish events. With ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haunting British Columbia

    Ghostly Tales from the Past

    by Mike McCardell ...
    Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia’s past in order to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada.Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, Mike McCardell summons the ghost of real-life pioneer Jock Linn to provide hair-raising and humorous versions of what really happened during some of the formative events that shaped British Columbia. McCardell’s ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unlikely Love Stories

    by Mike McCardell ...
    These are stories of the defender of a handicapped parking spot, a woman who has delivered homemade Valentine cards to neighbours for twenty years, and love between a widower and a woman who had never been on a date before. They are the stories that never make front page headlines, but that Mike, with his keen eye for observation, reveals to be just as meaningful and important.With a rare gift for ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • None of This Was Planned

    The Stories Behind the Stories

    by Mike McCardell ...
    Vancouver news icon and co-host of CTV’s The Last Word,” Mike McCardell is the crafter of human-interest stories that counteract the doom and gloom of conventional news programming. With his unerring instinct for teasing out the powerful hook” of human connection from the most innocuous (or bizarre) events, McCardell’s unique perspective has endeared him to hundreds of thousands of fans.He has ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Novel

    by Nadia Hashimi ...
    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • My Mother's Secret

    A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

    by J.L. Witterick ...
    Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Time Now for the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange

    by Stuart McLean ...
    For ten years, listeners of The Vinyl Cafe have shared their personal stories with Stuart McLean on The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the segment, Stuart and his long-time radio producer, Jess Milton, have collected their favourites. The result is a wise, wonderful anthology of stories about rituals and romance, road trips and guitar licks, Saturday-night hockey ... Read more

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada

    101 Heartwarming and Inspiring Stories by and for Canadians

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...
    With 101 heartwarming and inspiring stories by Canadians and for Canadians, this book will delight, amuse, and invigorate Canadian readers.Chicken Soup for the Soul: O Canada is full of inspirational, amusing, and encouraging stories that will touch the heart of any Canadian. Stories include a wide range of topics written by Canadians, from daily life to Canadian holidays, along with tales from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Across Canada by Story

    A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

    by Douglas Gibson ...
    Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Town Stories of BC: Tales of Hope, Heroism and Tragedy

    Tales of Hope, Heroism and Tragedy

    by Johnnie Bachusky ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD