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Kickstart: How Successful Canadians Got Started
By Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews, and Andrew Feindel
Alexander Herman, Paul Matthews, and Andrew Feindel had recently graduated from university and weren’t sure what to do with their lives. Then they had an idea. Over the next two years, they interviewed over 70 well-known Canadians in a variety of fields and asked how each had kickstarted their own careers. The stories they heard were not always what they expected. But each one proved insightful - and inspiring.
For interviews, excerpts and more, visit their website!
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Boxcar Kid
By Norma Charles
In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrives in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they‘d move into hasn't been built. So the Godins have to make due with living in a railway boxcar with three other families.
Luc's father and the many other newcomers to the Fraser Valley have come to work in the lumber industry. Their new home still has vestiges of the wilderness, and Luc and his family find find pioneering life difficult, especially as French speakers in a world of English.
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Dinosaur Fever
By Marion Woodson It's the summer of 1988, and fifteen-year-old aspiring artists Adam Zapotica has a big problem. He's crazy about dinosaurs, and a team of paleontologists and scientists at Milk River Ridge near Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta has recently unearthed a major cache of dinosaur eggs. They need volunteers to assist them at the dig, but there's a catch -- you have to be eighteen!
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Blood of the Donnellys
By David McRaeJason Stevens is already an angry fifteen-year-old when his parents decide to move from Toronto to Lucan, Ontario, site of the notorious February 4, 1880, massacre of the Irish-Canadian Donnelly family. In the big city, Jason's petty thievery earned him a sentence of community service under the tutelage of his grandfather, an eccentric retired schoolteacher who is building a new museum wing devoted to the history of semi-rural Lucan.
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Reading the Bones
By Gina McMurchy-Barber Due to circumstances beyond her control, twelve-year-old Peggy Henderson has to move to the quiet town of Crescent Beach, British Columbia, to live with her aunt and uncle. Without a father and separated from her mother who's looking for work, Peggy feels her unhappiness increasing until the day she and her uncle start digging a pond in the backyard and she realizes the rock she's been trying to pry from the ground is really a human skull!
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Forever Dead
By Suzanne F. Kingsmill
The discovery of a bear-ravaged body abandoned in the wilderness, some killer rapids, a fumigated lab, stolen research disks, and a stalled career all coalesce into the ripening madness that hauls zoology professor Cordi O'Callaghan into some very wild, very dangerous places.
While the police label the wilderness mauling an accidental death, Cordi realizes that the theft of her disks is somehow related to the body she found in the woods. She must unsnarl the mess if she is to salvage her academic career.
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Sucker Punch
By Marc Strange
Joe Grundy is an ex-heavyweight boxer whose main claim to fame was that he got knocked out by champ Evander Holyfield. Now he's chief of security for a posh old hotel, the Lord Douglas, in downtown Vancouver, and life is pretty good. But then a young neo-hippie inherits more than half a billion dollars and decides to give it all away.
As soon as the kid checks into the Lord Douglas with the intention of holding a press conference to announce the scheme, Joe knows big trouble is headed his way, especially when the kid winds up dead.
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