Search Results: Authors starting with M from Werdz Quality Used Books

Toronto, ON: Harper Collins, 2009. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY JAKE MACDONALD; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; Part memoir, part natural history. Grizzlyville is MacDonald's fascinating meditation on North America's largest predators and on the people who live alongside them. As he skillfully interweaves their stories he delivers a message for all to consider as bear habitat shrinks and our worlds come ever closer together.

Ottawa, ON: Borealis Press, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; very light wear; During the Second World War, the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment and the enthusiastic young women who volunteered, served their country and humanity in a time of dire need. This book provides the unique perspective of a young Canadian woman in the Red Cross who has a front row seat on history as she records the routine of daily life and impressions of tumultuous events unfolding around her in the letters she wrote to her parents.

Toronto. ON: Knopf Canada, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY ANN-MARIE MACDONALD on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; MR or "Mister" is a successful author who has opted to put aside her career in her 40s and devote herself to her young family. Over the course of one outwardly ordinary week, Mister's world threatens to unravel, as the spectre of violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her and her children. Crafted with humour and unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset is a contemporary tale by turns searing and uplifting.

U.S.A.: Xlibris, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. SIGNED BY LES MACDONALD on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; A well-researched documentation of the differnt true stories of the persons whose names are forever etched in the history of music. Throughout, readers will get an intimate look inot the deaths of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Elvis Presley, Brian Jones, Bob Marley, John Lennon, George Harrison, Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, Selena, Michael Jackson and many more. As each of these artists permanently faded from the limelight, their music lives on.

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Turnstone Press Canada, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. INSCRIPTION WITH A SKETCH OF A FISH BY JAKE MACDONALD on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; a few light scratches to covers; spine straight and uncreased; minimal wear; Forty-year-old Michael Saunders abandons his upscale lifestyle and shady consulting business for the wilds of northern Ontario when he inherits a run-down tourist lodge. In the course of renovating his boyhood home, he travels from Toronto to Winnipeg to Mexico, and contends with wealthy mobsters, a series of natural disasters, and his growing desire for a stubbornly independent woman.

Nepean, Ontario, Canada: Borealis PrESS, 2006. Soft cover. Very Good. SIGNED BY BILL MACDONALD on half title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; a few scratches to front cover; otherwise very minimal wear; Come meet dwarfish Nigel Tillich, oracle, clairvoyant, guru, soothsayer. He sees visions, makes predictions, is never wrong. After seventeen years in a metal institution, he breaks free and turns his talents to good use. Fame and fortune do not lessen his ability. His dreams are just a vivid, his prophecies just as spooky. And meet the fine, upstanding people who know Nigel better than he knows himself, and are happy to share their secrets.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Great Plains Pubns, 2001. Soft cover. As New. SIGNED BY JAKE MACDONALD with sketch of a duck on title page; As new condition; "The story of a young girl who attempts to deal with her parents' divorce while at her father's fishing lodge. Over the summer, with the help of an Ojibway friend, Juliana uncovers an ancient secret that helps her reconcile with her father and, at the same time, acquire a new appreciation for the dangerous beauty of Canada's north country.

Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. INSCRIPTION FROM JAKE MACDONALD WITH A SMALL SKETCH OF A FISH on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this funny and thoughtful collection, MacDonald chronicles the outdoor adventures of guys he's known all his life. They fish, they hunt, they take off on foreign jaunts. He writes with the sensitivity of a man who was taught ethics by his father, who cherishes nature and who loves the company of women.

Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2000. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; From a discussion of the British naturalist, Charles Waterton, for whom the park was named, to explorations of such topics as conservation and ecology, native traditions and treaties, townsite development and the current challenges facing national parks, this book provides a broad interpretive history of this unique area.

Winnipeg, MB, Canada: Great Plains Publications, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Thomson, Tom; Reede, Dave. Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; Combining archival and modern photography with personal reminiscences by notable Manitobans, it covers in words and pictures every aspect of cottage life. Stunning full-colour photographs by Tom Thomson and Dave Reede reveal the astonishing beauty of lake country. Large book.

Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to inside corners; otherwise absolute minimal wear; spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; This book will transform the teaching of gender and politics in political science by expanding the understanding to represent more than the binary of woman and man to include non-binary categories such as transgender as well as the intersectional experiences of gendered persons that include race, sexuality, size, Indigeneity, disability, and the relationship of Indigenous feminism with the land. This book is so needed and timely.

Toronto, ON: Knopf Canada, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY ANN-MARIE MACDONALD on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; small area of remainder of address label on ffep; very minimal shelfwear; "At once a loving portrayal and indictment of an era. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd and the quintessentially human, MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion and humour of childhood in a perilous adult world.

Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIPTION FROM JAKE MACDONALD with a sketch on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal shelfwear; "Written partly as reportage and partly as memoir, this book brilliantly evokes both the wilderness and the people who make a living in the Shield county within Ontario's Canadian Shield.

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Borealis Press, Limited, 2009. Trade Paper. New. 0888873767; New Book in original manufacturer's wraps; "Recently widowed, Marge and Zelda have courage, determination, defiance, self-esteem, a zest for living. The two ladies decide serve as summer wardens of remote Trowbridge lighthouse in northern Lake Superior. There, they experience freedom from prejudice and an opportunity to regain control of their destinies. But forces on Trowbridge Island prove to be as treacherous as the surrounding waters. "

Toronto, ON: Talonbooks, 2018. Paperback. As New. As New; Part detective story, part memory play, and part supernatural chiller, stars crime - solving Sister Vivian Salter, an astute, flinty yet compelling Catholic nun forced into the role of amateur sleuth. The mystery she uncovers combines family secrets, unanticipated twists, sudden shocks... and, ultimately, a heart-warming love story between an adult child and an elderly, failing parent.

Winnipeg, MB: Manitoba Department of Agriculture, 1968. Stapled Soft Cover. Very Good. Clean, tight; a few very small marks to covers; unfaded with very minimal wear; 420 Manitoba plants are separated into non-botanical sections; trees and shrubs, vines and climbers, woodland plants, ferns and mosses, lake, stream and muskeg plants, moist prairie plants, dry prairie plants, grasses. Each has a line drawing of its leaves and flowers.

Banff, AB, Canada: Banff Centre Press, 2007. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to inside corners; otherwise very minimal wear; This book offers readers a look behind the scenes at the creation and success of the summer dance program at The Banff Centre. Since 1947, dance has been dreamed and devised, and dancer's careers have been shaped and launched right here among the majesty of the mountains.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Thistledown Pr Ltd, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. INSCRIPTION FROM MARY KATE on half title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; The young people in these stories are all touched by grief, loneliness and neglect, but they are sustained by a rare courage and resilience. Love may be withheld or betrayed but there is the possibility of friendship and loyalty to all of her characters.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Seraphim Editions, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. INSCRIBED BY TANIS on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; MacDonald explores the imaginative depths of contemporary womanhood. Sharply witty, yet abidingly tender, these poems speak eloquently of love and mourning, laundry and gardening, and the hundred other difficult lessons of being human.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: Watson& Dwyer, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; bump to bottom back corner; otherwise absolute minimal wear; This pictorial history, richly illustrated in colour and black and white, presents the history of the Lower Fort from the rollicking days of the fur trade to its transformation as one of Canada's historic legacies.