Moon Vancouver & Canadian Rockies Road Trip


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From the ocean to the mountains, go off the beaten path and into the heart of Western Canada with Moon Vancouver & Canadian Rockies Road Trip. Eat, Sleep, Stop and Explore: With lists of the best trails, views, and more, you can hike the Rocky Mountains, canoe in Lake Louise, and snorkel with seals in the Pacific. Explore one of Vancouver's many parks, soak up the surfer vibe in Tofino, or go wine-tasting in the Okanagan Flexible Itineraries: Drive the entire two-week road trip or follow strategic routes like a week-long drive along the coast of British Columbia, as well as suggestions for spending time in Victoria, Vancouver, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, and the Okanagan Maps and Driving Tools: 49 easy-to-use maps keep you oriented on and off the highway, along with site-to-site mileage, driving times, detailed directions for the entire route, and full-color photos throughout Local Expertise: Seasoned road-tripper and Canadian Carolyn B. Heller shares her passion for the mountains, shores, and rich history of Vancouver and the Canadian Rockies How to Plan Your Trip: Know when and where to get gas and how to avoid traffic, plus tips for driving in different road and weather conditions and suggestions for LGBTQ travelers, seniors, and road-trippers with kids With Moon Vancouver & Canadian Rockies Road Trip's practical tips, flexible itineraries, and local know-how, you're ready to fill up the tank and hit the road. Looking to explore more of North America on wheels? Try Moon Pacific Northwest Road Trip. Hanging out for a while? Check out Moon Vancouver, Moon British Columbia, or Moon Canadian Rockies.




The Blue Spark


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The climactic third novel in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, envisions humankind’s destiny through a transformative sacrifice. Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a post-invasion dystopian world with humankind on a razor’s edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction. A transformative sacrifice seals humankind’s destiny at the end of a celestial path. Sometimes, history repeats. THE BLUE SPARK picks up the narrative after Book Two, THE LOST SHIP, injecting readers into an intricately detailed and all-too-plausible near-future world grappling with a never-ending analog reality amid the chaos and corruption. The 510-page novel introduces the trilogy’s lynchpin, Hannah Haig (Rachel and Owen’s daughter), and a host of intriguing new characters joining the multi-generational cast of human and non-human heroes and villains. Matching wits through a complexity of interwoven storylines and gripping character arcs, the epic saga culminates with an against-all-odds celestial sacrifice to preserve humankind’s destiny in a crowded universe.







Like a Spark


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Petra, a young carefree wild horse, after a life-changing event finds out that she is not like any of the other horses- she has wings! Disoriented and seemingly disadvantaged, Petra wishes that she could be just like everyone else. But with the help of her friends and family, Petra learns how to use her wings for the good of her herd and learns that it is ok to be different! Editorial Review "Like a Spark" is a beautifully told story about a horse trying to fit in and help her herd despite the awful way most of the other horses treated her because of her unusual wings. I personally love horses, and this well-written book piqued my interest the moment I started reading it. The author definitely has a wild imagination, and I loved the way she narrated her original tale. The descriptive yet simple way each animal character came to life and their interactions with each other didn't require any pictures since the author made it easy to imagine it all, but I still loved the ones included. I quite enjoyed this book even though I am an adult, and believe that older kids as well as young teens would too. It's an easy and fun read -Chantelle Belleheumer




The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark


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Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected.




The Reform Advocate


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The Spark of Life


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The authors examine the enduring mysteries surrounding life's origin: did life arise on Earth or on some other planet? What did the earliest primitive organisms look like? Were they based on RNA, DNA, or on something we would hardly recognize today? They explore the latest research - in fields ranging from molecular biology to astronomy - on questions surrounding life's origins.










All the Stories of Muriel Spark


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Four brand new tales are now added to New Directions' original 1997 cloth edition of Open to the Public. This new and complete paperback edition now contains every one of her forty-one marvelous stories, catnip for all Spark fans. All the Stories of Muriel Spark spans Dame Muriel Spark's entire career to date and displays all her signature stealth, originality, beauty, elegance, wit, and shock value.No writer commands so exhilarating a style—playful and rigorous, cheerful and venomous, hilariously acute and coolly supernatural. Ranging from South Africa to the West End, her dazzling stories feature hanging judges, fortune-tellers, shy girls, psychiatrists, dress designers, pensive ghosts, imaginary chauffeurs, and persistent guests. Regarding one story ("The Portobello Road"), Stephen Schiff said in The New Yorker: "Muriel Spark has written some of the best sentences in English. For instance: 'He looked as if he would murder me, and he did.' It's a nasty piece of work, that sentence."