Highway Book Shop

Author : Lois Pollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Authors, Canadian (English)
ISBN : 1894747305

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Highway Book Shop by Lois Pollard Pdf

"In March 1981, The Toronto Star's Today Magazine asked its readers to nominate 100 praiseworthy things, the best in their category anywhere in Canada. Highway Book Shop was nominated as the Best Bookstore. Other writers have noted that from its small beginning in job printing, Highway Book Shop became one of the largest independent book stores in Canada, and a tourist attraction in its own right. It is also credited as a promoter and preserver of local history and culture, and for this and other reasons, its founder and proprietor Dr. Douglas C. Pollard was awarded membership in the Order of Canada, October 23, 2008.Unique in its character, with its policies grounded in service to the reading public, it attracted four generations of customers who returned year after year. This is the story from its beginnings told by Lois Pollard while the pieces of the story exist intact, undamaged by time. The Tri-Town area comprises the City of Temiskaming Shores (formerly New Liskeard, Haileybury and Dymond Township) and Cobalt. Its location is approximately 150 kilometers or about 95 miles north of North Bay on Highway 11. Highway Book Shop has been referred to jokingly as bearing the address 300,000 Yonge Street, because if you follow Toronto's Yonge Street straight north you will eventually find yourself on Highway 11.The book includes an extensive Appendix which includes a series of the floor plans depicting how the Book Shop expanded over the years, a listing of the over 300 individual authors published by HBS over the years, and a listing of the 460+ book titles they published. Many have asked how and why a small enterprise could have pursued its way steadily into the internet age, as though a strange phenomenon had occurred. We present some of the answers in this history of an unexpected, unique book shop and publishing house in northern Ontario."--Www.wmpub.ca/1033-HBS.htm.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222373

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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : Tammy Ingram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469612980

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Dixie Highway by Tammy Ingram Pdf

Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1427978491

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The Highway Book Shop, Cobalt Ontario presents the book shopsandwich book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sebastian Robertson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781466883185

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Rock and Roll Highway by Sebastian Robertson Pdf

Canadian guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson is known mainly for his central role in the musical group the Band. But how did he become one of Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time? Written by his son, Sebastian, this is the story of a rock-and-roll legend's journey through music, beginning when he was taught to play guitar at nine years old on a Native American reservation. Rock and Roll Highway is the story of a young person's passion, drive, and determination to follow his dream.

Author : Lanz, Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Dempster Highway (N.W.T. and Yukon)
ISBN : 0889256144

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Along the Dempster : an Outdoor Guide to Canada's Northernmost Highway by Lanz, Walter Pdf

Comprehensive guide which directs hiking, climbing and canoeing enthusiasts towards true wilderness adventures along the Dempster Highway. Gives km to km points along the highway from which excursions into the wilderness can be made. Detailed contour maps included.

Author : Jennifer Battisti
Publisher : Tolsun Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 194880039X

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Off Boulder Highway by Jennifer Battisti Pdf

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Within the pages of OFF BOULDER HIGHWAY--a hybrid work of poetry; memoir; and surrealistic prose--we encounter Vegas landmarks that act as characters; Reagan era disasters; the loss of a father. Jennifer Battisti--an '80s latchkey kid; now mother--transforms narrative into a pop-culture artifact filled with people as beautiful as they are broken; unexpected heroes like L.L. Cool J and Hulk Hogan; trauma; addiction; disaster; and ritualistic paths to redemption.

Author : David Hughes
Publisher : ICE Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0727759930

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Highways by David Hughes Pdf

Highways, 5th edition covers road location and plans, roadwork materials, surface and subsurface moisture control, pavement design and construction, thickness design of bituminous and concrete pavements, and road maintenance and rehabilitation.

Author : Charlie Angus,Brit Griffin
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781896357065

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We Lived a Life and Then Some by Charlie Angus,Brit Griffin Pdf

The unique culture of the hardrock mining town is exposed through the eyes of retired miners, young welfare mothers, and children. In spite of great adversity, Cobalt remains a distinctive and cohesive working-class community

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:C3045707

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Canadiana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lillian Driessens-Fleming
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460293515

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A Separate Branch by Lillian Driessens-Fleming Pdf

What people say about you is a reflection on them and not on you. Sometimes broken roads lead to the best destinations. Having no verbal support from the family I was born into left me alone and lost for many years. There may be many obstacles, but we end up where we are supposed to be. In my case, I endured heartaches, disappointments, loss, betrayals, abuse, being ostracized for wanting a better life for my children, being criticized for fighting for women to speak out against having no voice in the past, and being told I am the kind of woman who deserves a beating. Also, for fighting against the injustice against all ages and groups.

Author : Kerry M. Abel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575981

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Changing Places by Kerry M. Abel Pdf

Changing Places examines the process by which a relatively coherent community emerged in the sub-region of Northern Ontario bounded by Timmins, Iroquois Falls, and Matheson. Using archival, oral, and newspaper sources, Kerry Abel offers the only comprehensive history of the area. She rejects traditional sociological and anthropological models about community and identity in favour of a more nuanced interpretation that takes historical process into account.

Author : John S. Long
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773581357

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Treaty No. 9 by John S. Long Pdf

For more than a century, the vast lands of Northern Ontario have been shared among the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the First Nations who signed Treaty No. 9 in 1905. For just as long, details about the signing of the constitutionally recognized agreement have been known only through the accounts of two of the commissioners appointed by the Government of Canada. Treaty No. 9 provides a truer perspective on the treaty by adding the neglected account of a third commissioner and tracing the treaty's origins, negotiation, explanation, interpretation, signing, implementation, and recent commemoration.

Author : Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802080464

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The Gold Crusades by Douglas Fetherling,George Fetherling Pdf

Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat - only to set in motion the diamond and gold rushes that transformed southern Africa. And so it went. Most previous historians of the gold rushes have tended to view them as acts of spontaneous nationalism. Each country likes to see its own gold rush as the one that either shaped those that followed or epitomized all the rest. In The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929, Douglas Fetherling takes a different approach. Fetherling argues that the gold rushes in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa shared the same causes and results, the same characters and characteristics. He posits that they were in fact a single discontinuous event, an expression of the British imperial experience and nineteenth-century liberalism. He does so with dash and style and with a sharp eye for the telling anecdote, the out-of-the-way document, and the bold connection between seemingly unrelated disciplines. Originally published by Macmillan of Canada, 1988.

Author : Angus Phillips
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004283534

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The Cottage by the Highway and Other Essays on Publishing: 25 Years of Logos by Angus Phillips Pdf

Logos – the international journal of the publishing community – celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2015. Since its first publication it has gained a reputation for publishing insightful and clear-headed articles about publishing, and this tradition continues to the present day, with the addition in recent years of academic articles reflecting the growth in the discipline of publishing studies. The present collection provides the opportunity to mark this milestone in the journal’s history by reprinting over thirty articles in book form.