The Log Driver's Waltz

The Log Driver's Waltz
Author: Wade Hemsworth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1501161970

Acclaimed illustrator Jennifer Phelan reimagines Wade Hemsworth’s iconic log driver in a beautiful, contemporary picture-book adaptation of a beloved Canadian classic. If you ask any girl from the parish around What pleases her most from her head to her toes She’ll say I'm not sure that it’s business of yours But I do like to waltz with a log driver Based on the perennially popular Canadian folk song and animated short film of the same name, The Log Driver’s Waltz showcases a spunky, independent young woman whose parents are keen for her to marry. The town’s well-to-do doctors, merchants, and lawyers try to impress her, but it’s the humble log driver—with his style, grace, and joie de vivre—who captures her attention. When she and the log driver finally meet on the dance floor, their joy leaps off the page. With homages to the original film, and celebrating the flora, fauna, and folk art of this great land, The Log Driver’s Waltz brings a hallmark of Canadian childhood to life.

Hey, Boy

Hey, Boy
Author: Benjamin Strouse
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481471015

"A different version of this book was previously self-published [in 2014]"--Copyright page.

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road

The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
Author: Finn Murphy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0393608727

“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul.”—Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he’s covered more than a million miles as a mover, packing, loading, hauling people’s belongings all over America. In The Long Haul, Murphy recounts with wit, candor, and charm the America he has seen change over the decades and the poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job.

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1920
Genre: Animals
ISBN:

Up to Low

Up to Low
Author: Brian Doyle
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0888996225

A cast of motley characters helps Young Tommy and Baby Bridget discover that there are many ways to love and heal and die.

Faster

Faster
Author: Neal Bascomb
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1328489833

Winner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three unlikely heroes—a driver banned from the best European teams because of his Jewish heritage, the owner of a faltering automaker company, and the adventurous daughter of an American multimillionaire—banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the Grand Prix, the apex of motorsport. Bringing to life this glamorous era and the sport that defined it, Faster chronicles one of the most inspiring, death-defying upsets of all time: a symbolic blow against the Nazis during history’s darkest hour.

How Music Works

How Music Works
Author: David Byrne
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0804188947

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. “How Music Works is a buoyant hybrid of social history, anthropological survey, autobiography, personal philosophy, and business manual”—The Boston Globe Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and many others, David Byrne taps deeply into his lifetime of knowledge to explore the panoptic elements of music, how it shapes the human experience, and reveals the impetus behind how we create, consume, distribute, and enjoy the songs, symphonies, and rhythms that provide the backbeat of life. Byrne’s magnum opus uncovers thrilling realizations about the redemptive liberation that music brings us all.

Bobby Orr and the Hand-me-down Skates

Bobby Orr and the Hand-me-down Skates
Author: Kara Kootstra
Publisher: Tundra Books
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 073526533X

Even hockey legends start with hand-me-downs. A beautifully illustrated true childhood story about hockey great Bobby Orr. Bobby eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. So when his birthday is coming up, he only wants one thing: new skates. He's seen the exact pair he wants in the shop window: sparkling blades, shiny leather, clean new laces tied in perfect bows. But when Bobby opens his gift, he's dismayed to find hand-me-down skates: scuffed leather, nicked blades, floppy laces. Once Bobby breaks them in, though, he and the hand-me-down skates become inseparable, and he can't imagine life without them . . . until the brand-new skates come into his life. How can he leave his hand-me-down skates behind? Log Driver's Waltz illustrator Jennifer Phelan brings this classic story to life with timeless, gorgeous art, and Kara Kootsra's words evoke the joy and dedication that Bobby Orr brought to his favorite sport. A perfect gift for readers and fans big and small, this book is destined to be a classic that is reached for time and time again.

Girl from the Gulches

Girl from the Gulches
Author: Mary Ronan
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780917298974

An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.