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  • My Year in Fairyland

    Grief, MAID, and a Lifetime of Books

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Sarah Ellis's wife had been toughing it out with MS for more than a decade when she finally received a date for a medically assisted death in Switzerland. The year of waiting brought astonishing moments of playfulness and joy. Ordinary concerns fell away. Ellis tells the story of her extraordinary sojourn in fairyland, the preparation, the journey, life in an altered state, and the return to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Learn Like a Lobster

    Accelerate Your Growth, Achieve More at Work, and Advance Your Career

    **#1 International BestsellerAn empowering guide to career growth that reveals how to “be more lobster”—to never stop learning and pave the way to a meaningful working life**In today’s working world, careers are characterized by change. You can take control of your own development at any time, but many of us don't as we feel held back by time, money, or imposter syndrome. Careers used to be linear ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • As Glenn as Can Be

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Illustrated by Nancy Vo ...
    A warm and witty portrait of child prodigy and world-famous classical musician Glenn Gould.Glenn was a child who knew his own mind — he liked boats but did not like fishing; he enjoyed puns and pranks but did not like bullying; he loved learning but did not like school … but more than anything else he loved to play the piano.Glenn had a professional performing career by the time he was fifteen; he ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Odd Man Out

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature AwardKip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog. Gran's house is about to be demolished, so anything goes, whether it's drawing maps on the walls or sawing off the knob at the bottom of the banister for a smoother ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Trainable Cat

    A Practical Guide to Making Life Happier for You and Your Cat

    "I have to hand it to Bradshaw and Ellis: Once you suss out their basic cat-training philosophy, their methods totally work." -- SlateWe often assume that cats can't be trained, and don't need to be. But in The Trainable Cat, bestselling anthrozoologist John Bradshaw and cat expert Sarah Ellis show that cats absolutely must be trained in order to enrich the bond between pet and owner. Full of ... Read more

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  • The Several Lives of Orphan Jack

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Illustrated by Bruno St-Aubin ...
    Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book AwardFor young Jack, life is tough at the Opportunities School for Orphans. But Jack is good at staying out of trouble. He has skipped over trouble, danced around trouble, slid under trouble, melted away from trouble, talked his way out of trouble and slipped between two close troubles like a cat through a picket fence.When ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Blue

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Winner of the Mr. Christie's Book Award and the Violet Downey Book AwardWhen Megan finds out why her mother is acting so odd, she is shocked and overwhelmed. Suddenly she is expected to welcome a new half-sister as part of the family.This is a beautiful, compassionate novel that is both poignant and funny. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baby Project

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Jessica knew that the family meeting Dad had called for that evening probably wouldn't be good news. Family meetings usually meant Mum talking a lot and then the whole family getting involved in some project that left everything in a mess until they gradually forgot about it. But at school that day, Jessica forgot about the meeting. A teacher announced a new class project: They were to choose ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outside In

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Lynn’s life is full — choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family — both more bizarre, yet somehow more sane, than Lynn’s own.Blossom’s family is a small band of outcasts and eccentrics who live secretly in an ingenious bunker ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dear Canada: That Fatal Night

    The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1912

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, a young girl must come to terms with haunting memories from the voyage.It is May 1912, one month after the horrific sinking of the Titanic, and twelve-year-old survivor Dorothy Wilton is sent home from school in disgrace when she strikes another student. Although she's expelled, her sympathetic teacher encourages Dorothy to write an account of her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: Days of Toil and Tears

    The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford, Almonte, Ontario, 1887

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    An eleven-year-old orphan is reconnected to her mother's family, but her courage and strength are tested as she is put to work in a textile mill.Flora is a young, imaginative girl who has dreamt of having a family to call her own since her parents died from pleurisy when she was three. She dreams of family dinners. She dreams of friends. But mostly she dreams of leaving the orphanage. As the diary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Dear Canada: A Prairie as Wide as the Sea

    The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, Milorie, Saskatchewan, 1926

    by Sarah Ellis ...
    Series series Dear Canada
    Ivy Weatherall is just 11 years old when her family leaves England for the promised riches of Canada's expanding West. They've come to join her uncle for the available land, the lush harvests, and the opportunity for success. But in Milorie, Saskatchewan, their dreams crumble into dust when they reach Uncle Alf's small sod hut and discover that jobs are scarce, and that they can barely make ends ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD