The Roads of Go Home Lake is the long-awaited sequel to Christina Kilbourne’s award winning novel Day of the Dog-Tooth Violets. When Winnie finds herself suddenly widowed and an unemployed mother of six, she is forced to change her life in order to keep her family together. Illiterate, shy and inexperienced in the ways of the white man’s world, Winnie relies on her eldest son and the strength of her Chippewan ancestors to give her the courage to find help. The Roads of Go Home Lake follows Winnie’s journey as she faces her darkest secrets and recalls the bittersweet memories of growing up in an abandoned logging town in the 1950's. Here she finds the strength to forgive her parents their weaknesses and cruelties, gives herself permission to remember their tenderness and pride, and is compelled to search for the family she long ago fled. The Roads of Go Home Lake is a novel of heritage and blood, it is a novel of courage and healing, it is a novel of inner growth and universal hope.

The Roads of Go Home Lake

Literature & Fiction

Christina Kilbourne

Genre Fiction

Bookland Press

Abandoned at an early age, one parent simply packing and leaving, the other suffering an unexpected death, Michaela is raised by her grandparents. Precocious and independent, she runs away for the first time when she is four, and for the final time when she is fifteen. To survive on the street, Michaela scams her way to food and a dry place to sleep. She meets Thomas when she hides out in a seminary library, disguising her female body in baggy clothes, passing time reading books on the lives of the church fathers and saints. A scholar and would-be priest, Thomas thinks he is simply doing a good deed when he invites the runaway to stay with him. Michaela doesn't look like the gypsy traveller she claims to be. Pale as the moon, body rake-thin, hair cropped short and the colour of corn silk, she weaves with gypsy ardor the tale of her Rom origin and her olive-skinned parents. With each new telling, the currents of story and memory shift like the direction of the wind along the open road. To Michaela, home is not a location. She carries it with her in the same way she carries her memories. She is always destined to leave.

Tending Memory

Marianne Paul

Literary

"Karen Cockburn: Soaring High", the second book in the new BookLand Press series "Celebrating Canadian Athletes", is the exciting story of the trampolinist who is reigning Canadian national champion, a World Cup and World champion, and a two time Olympic medal winner. Karen Cockburn is currently ranked No. 1 female trampolinist in the world by the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG). This inspiring sports biography, told in the words of the athlete, tells the whole story about life as an elite international athlete, including all the lows as well as the highs. It will appeal to all young athletes, girls, and Canadians. Karen reveals her "Top 24 Secrets of Success" and gives the low-down on her competitors. The book is packed with factual and historical information about her dangerous and beautiful sport.

Karen Cockburn: Soaring High

Martin Avery with Karen Cockburn

Biographies & Memoirs

Spanning two continents, one war and several generations, "Where Lives Take Root" follows the stories of three unforgettable characters as their lives become forever linked and grounded in Muskoka. First there is Nan, a grown woman and mother of two young boys who suddenly discovers her family secret: that her deceased mother was half Chippewa. Then there is Gunner, a First Nations classmate from Nan's small rural community and the only reference point Nan has to her new identity. Finally, there is Hamar, Gunner's father, a displaced Norwegian who escaped his homeland during the German occupation and found himself at the end of the war, still tied to the Norwegian airforce training camp in Muskoka. Weaving together different decades and narrative points of view, "Where Lives Take Root" is about the universal search for identity and belonging. Suitable for both adults and young adults, this story examines the meaning of blood and ancestry and the inevitable conclusion that what really matters is not about race or religion, but about finding a place and purpose in the world.

Where Lives Take Root

Tales from the Faraway forest

Alex Asmolov

Children's Books

On Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions is a collection of soldiers stories from Canadian men and women who have served overseas on UN or NATO missions from the end of the Cold War to the present day.The stories are collected directly from the individual veterans. Contributors represent virtually every major Canadian mission, including Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cambodia, Somalia, and Afghanistan. They represent the whole of the operational experience, from the training they undergo before the mission begins, to the moment they land on foreign soil, to the return to Canada and beyond.The result is a raw, honest look at peacekeeping, from the legendary missions in Rwanda and Bosnia, to the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to the ongoing fight in Afghanistan. The full Canadian peacekeeping experience is here, showing, from the ground level, how Canadas international reputation was built.

On The Guard For Thee: Canadian Peacekeeping Missions

History

Bin, Matthew

Americas

Canada is synonymous with success in figure skating. Taking the Ice tells us about some of the people who have been instrumental in creating the Ice Dynasty that we have come to enjoy as Canadians. It all begins with the love affair between Canadians and Barbara Ann Scott, the 1948 Olympic Champion, and the book takes us right up to the stories of the Canadian Champions at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games: Patrick Chan, Jessica Dub and Bryce Davison, Olympic Bronze Medallist Joannie Rochette, and Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. Aside from skaters like Cranston, Stojko, Browning, Orser, Magnussen, Manley, Underhill and Martini, and Wilson and McCall, the book talks about the coaches who stood at the boards, including Burka, Galbraith, Leigh, and Perron. You will also get an inside look at choreographers Sandra Bezic, Lori Nichol, and David Wilson. As a PA announcer at the 2002 Olympic Games, Pj Kwong brings thirty seven first-hand personal accounts from people who were there behind the scenes during the judging scandal that rocked the figure skating world. Included are the stories from the athletes Jamie Sal and David Pelletier, coach Jan Ullmark, and NBC radio commentator Elizabeth Manley among many others. Taking the Ice is not just for skating fans but for everyone who loves the personal and human details in a story that connects us all.

Taking the Ice: Success Stories from the World of Canadian Figure Skating

Sports & Outdoors

Kwong, Pj

Winter Sports

Keeping with traditions of great mystery books that combine ancient history, secret societies, and hidden documents, "The Heir" has all the elements of a classic esoteric thriller but explodes the genre with its cutting-edge science. The Holy Grail is neither in Europe nor in Africa but in North America! Better yet, it is in Montreal. It is not the blood of Christ but that of Roman Emperor Constantine. The quest to find The Holy Grail is led by an iron-fist lady supported by her four protégées and a computer surrogate. The woman only answers to the name Madam and her group called the Enterprise. Genetic espionage, neuronal handling, hacking of the quantum web, devastating and programmable beauties - Madam uses all available tools to succeed. But Madam has complex past and powerful enemies. The Crowned heads of Europe will not allow their legitimacy to be questioned. They will counteract with catastrophic results. From a simple quest, the blood of Constantine will force friends and foes to accept the impossible - that they are to conclude something that started over 70,000 years ago and will end 5,000 years in the future.

The Heir: The Donation of Constantine

Cyr, Shantale

Keays, Glenn

For the Despairing Alone

Lapierre, René

Poetry

"La Loi de Murphy," le deuxième épisode des "Chroniques du Canal Lachine," suit Tom Murphy essayant de faire face aux évènements tragiques du précédent roman ainsi qu'à sa nouvelle renommée en tant qu'écrivain. Ce dernier tente de se débarrasser de ses tendances autodestructrices et est invité à faire un témoignage lors d'un de ses meatings chez les A.A. La trame du roman tourne autour de Tom racontant sa vie en détail: de ses débuts à Ville LaSalle, jusqu'à son amitié avec Eamon, son temps dans l'armée ainsi que sa vie sexuelle débridée; perdant, en chemin, tous ceux qui lui sont chers. La Loi de Murphy affirme que tout ce qui est susceptible de mal tourner, tournera mal. Ce roman est basé sur cette affirmation.

Les Chroniques Du Canal Lachine: La Loi de Murphy (French Edition)

Latreille, Frédéric

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