The traditions, mission, and work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are explained using the alphabet, covering a variety of topics, such as badges, investigation, Musical Ride, and rank.
A memoir in which the author describes the places he went, food he ate, and people he met while traveling with his wife and dog aboard an English narrowboat on a nine-month voyage down the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
Tess, a young seamstress working for designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon, survives the sinking of the RMS "Titanic," and finds herself torn between loyalty to her employer and to the sailor who saved her when Lady Duff Gordon's version of their escape differs from the truth.
Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears.
When a little girl is abandoned on a ship going to Australia in 1913 and arrives with only her clothes and a book of fairy tales, she is raised by the dockmaster and his wife as their own; as a young woman, she travels to England where, over time, her own granddaughter eventually assembles the pieces of her life's puzzle.
Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears.
In the spring of 1918, the Spanish Flu epidemic spreads even as World War I is ending. Nurse Bess Crawford has her hands full with war wounded and now, dead bodies. When Bess discovers a murdered man among the deceased flu victims, she knows she needs to report the news. But before she can, she also becomes ill with the flu. By the time she recovers, the murdered body has been buried and the only other person who saw it has hanged himself. Or did he?.
Realistic illustrations and rhyming text describes shared moments between a mother and child, and introduces the letters of the alphabet to early readers.
Text in English and Spanish. Approximately 2600 entries include the definition, phonetic transcription, use of word in a sentence, translation, and a picture, if feasible.
