Cape Breton Road

7 best books like Cape Breton Road (D.R. MacDonald): The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed, Fall on Your Knees, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Biophilia, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

Author	John Vaillant
ISBN	0393328643

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands,...

Fall on Your Knees

Author	Ann-Marie MacDonald
ISBN	0743466527

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable...

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada

Author

Will Ferguson

Canada's number one humorist, routinely compared to our own Bill Bryson, has written a funny, idiosyncratic, and warmly humane book full of sly observations and witty stories culled from his travels among the people and places of our neighbors up north.
Will Ferguson spent the past three years...

Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

Author	Shigeru Mizuki
ISBN	1770460411

A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists

Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English...

Biophilia

Author	Edward O. Wilson
ISBN	0674074424

I will be so bold as to define biophilia as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
from the Prologue





E.O. Wilson, September 2009 (Wiki, Acghost)

Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology,...

Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound

Author	Grant Lawrence
ISBN	1550175149

From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel "Curve of Time" Blanchet to Jim "Spilsbury's Coast" Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia's most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating...

By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

Author	Max Eisen
ISBN	1443449288

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor

More than 70 years after the Nazi camps were liberated by the Allies, a new Canadian Holocaust memoir details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau,...