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Cream Money: Stories of Prairie People. Compiled and Edited By Deana J. Driver
Description: Selling milk and cream was an integral way of life on the Canadian Prairies in the early to mid-1900s. On many farms, the women were in charge of milking the cows, separating the cream from the milk, and selling that cream to neighbours and townspeople. The extra money earned was used to subsidize the family’s income, especially in years of poor crops. Cream money helped purchase groceries, fabric, farm supplies, and other items that could not be produced on the farm. While children cherished the occasional candy treat purchased with cream cheque money, everyone in the family enjoyed the everyday bounty of delicious foods cooked with homemade butter or slathered with rich, whipped cream. Cream Money honours this bygone era of Prairie farming, celebrating the work of farm families through true stories and poems of how cream money was earned and spent. A donation from Cream Money books sold will be made to Lung Association of Saskatchewan.
ISBN: 978-1-927570-20-3; 6"w x 9"h; 144 pages; 65 photos © 2015; Ages 13 to Adult; Non-fiction; Prairie authors; Canadian non-fiction; Biography; Prairie Provinces; Anecdotes; Farming; Rural life; History; Family life; Education. |
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Dear Me: The Widow Letters. Compiled By Dianne Young
Description: “If you could send a letter back in time to your newly-widowed self – that heartbroken, overwhelmed woman – what would you say?”
Dianne Young, an author and editor in Martensville, SK asked that question of 20 women of various ages, widowed under various circumstances. These women from across North America courageously responded by writing heartfelt letters to their newly-widowed selves – letters of grief, of love and, most importantly, of hope. These letters will resonate with other widows, who may recognize similarities to their own grief journeys. The letters will also help friends and families who may be at a loss of what to say or do. ISBN: 978-1-927570-43-2; 5.5"w x 8.5"h; 80 pages; 20 photos © 2018; Ages 15 to Adult; Non-fiction; Prairie authors; North American authors; Canadian non-fiction; Anecdotes; Death; Grief; bereavement; Self-help; Family relationships; Saskatchewan. |
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Football In Focus: Five Decades of Filming Pro Games. By Darrell Davis &
John Solilo
John Solilo
Description: Some of the earliest visual recordings of Canadian football were accomplished with bulky, hand-wound cameras which held three minutes’ worth of black-and-white film and had to be reloaded about 20 times per game. Ken Davey, a tireless photography aficionado who was the first person to film a Grey Cup game (in 1935), knew the craft well. He shared his passion with John Solilo, who would spend five decades as the main camera operator for Saskatchewan Roughriders home games. Solilo’s cameras recorded every play so coaches such as Eagle Keys, John Gregory and Jim Daley could watch the films for pre-game preparations. In the early days, Solilo had to teach coaches how to run the reel-to-reel projectors to watch those games. Solilo’s entire family eventually got involved, forming a company, going into debt and buying their own equipment. They remained until the technology changed to the point where tiny, hand-held cameras produced high-definition, digital recordings that could be instantly sent electronically to anywhere in the world. It’s a far cry from shipping film canisters to CFL teams across North America via airplanes! Being involved in this evolution – from film to video cassettes to digital recordings – is an interesting, historical journey and personal commitment that Solilo and others relate through Darrell Davis, an author and long-time sports writer at the Regina Leader-Post. Proudly published by the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum and DriverWorks Ink.
ISBN 978-1-986758041; 6” x 9”; 104 pages; 42 photos © 2017; Ages 13 to Adult; Non-fiction; Canadian history; Canadian Football League; Videotaping; Video camera; Football; Tampa Bay; Saskatchewan authors; Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame. |
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Forever Changed. By Cheri Helstrom
Description: Ritchie Scott grew up in the small prairie town of Alameda, Saskatchewan in the 1920s and Dirty Thirties. He was the youngest son of seven children born to Richard Herbert Scott, a well-established businessman and the first mayor of Alameda, and Myrtle Scott (McNaughton) of Wawanesa, Manitoba. Forever Changed, written by Ritchie’s daughter Cheri Helstrom, is told through Ritchie’s eyes, in Ritchie's words, taking the reader from rural Saskatchewan to the north, to eastern Canada (Toronto), across the Atlantic to Britain, to the battlefields of Italy during the Second World War, to an English military hospital and, finally, home to Canada. The story centres on major, traumatic events in Ritchie’s life which led him to sign up for military duty when he was nineteen. The resulting post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had far-reaching effects physically, emotionally, and socially. Forever Changed honours Ritchie’s life and times and celebrates his accomplishments.
Awards/Honours: Runner-Up, Biography, 2016 Great Midwest Book Festival; Honorable Mention, Non-fiction, 2016 Hollywood Book Festival ISBN 978-1-927570-27-2; 5.5"w x 8.5"h; 128 pages; 30 photos © 2016; Ages 13 to Adult; Creative Non-fiction; Non-fiction; Canadian history; World War II; Biography; Prairies; Memoir; Saskatchewan author. |
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Gina's Wheels. Mary Harelkin Bishop. Illustrated by Diane L. Greenhorn
Description: What would it be like to spend your life in a wheelchair? After meeting Colette Bourgonje, one of Canada’s most accomplished Paralympic athletes, five-year-old Gina explores her own world from her version of a wheelchair. How will this affect Gina when she goes to kindergarten? Based on a true story; a real life Métis story. Includes facts about 10-time Saskatchewan Paralympian Colette Bourgonje.
Awards/Honours: Honourable Mention, Children's Books 2014 Great Midwest Book Festival ISBN 978-1-927570-12-8; 32 pages; 12 illustrations; 4 photos; 8"w x 8"h © 2014; Ages 2 to Adult; Children's fiction; Non-fiction facts about Canadian Paralympian Colette Bourgonje; Inspiring Saskatchewan athlete; Sports; Cross-country sit-skiing; Saskatchewan author; Acceptance; Tolerance; Inclusiveness; Education; Early readers. |
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Murphy Mondays: The first St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog in a Canadian Emergency Room. By Jane Smith. Illustrated by Wendi Nordell
Description: Murphy, an English Springer Spaniel, is the first St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog to visit an emergency room in all of Canada. The visits by Murphy and his handler, Jane, to the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon Saskatchewan are enjoyed so much by hospital patients that Mondays have become known in the emergency room as “Murphy Mondays”. Jane and Murphy also love to teach children how to wash their hands properly. Singing "Happy Birthday to Murphy" is a fun way to learn.
ISBN 978-1-927570-45-6; 8"w x 8"h; 36 pages; 10 illustrations, 13 photos; Discussion questions. © 2018; Ages 4 and up; Children's non-fiction; Animals, Dogs; Health care; Behaviour; Royal University Hospital Foundation; St. John Ambulance: Therapy dogs; Sociology; Saskatchewan author; Canadian author. |
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Prairie Pilot: Lady Luck Was on My Side. The Stories of Walter D. Williams. Compiled and Edited By Deana J. Driver
Description: This fascinating book contains 100 short stories written by the late Walter Williams, a ‘character’ and former resident of Kerrobert, SK. who owned an International Harvester dealership and loved to fly his small airplane to help people in need. He landed in farmers' fields in snow storms and fog, picking up pregnant women or injured children and transporting them to the nearest hospital. He also flew doctors, RCMP officers, corpses, criminals, books and friends to many communities in west central Saskatchewan and east central Alberta. Prairie Pilot: Lady Luck was on My Side chronicles some of Walter Williams’ more hair-raising, humourous and helpful experiences from 1946 to 1963 when he was in the air. In honour of Walter Williams, a donation of $1,900 from Prairie Pilot books sold has been made to KLD Wellness Foundation in west central Saskatchewan.
ISBN 978-0-9810394-2-8; 6"w x 9"h; 248 pages; 51 photos © 2008. Second printing 2012. Ages 12 to Adult; Non-fiction; Biography; Pilot; Adventure; Prairie Provinces; Flying; Anecdotes; Saskatchewan author. |
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Rescued. By Janice Howden. Illustrated by Erika Folnovic
Description: Hawkeye, the Tibetan Terrier, was raised in a place where dogs are bred and sold for profit. He and his brother Freddie are forced to leave the “puppy mill” and head out into a large, unknown world. Although scared at first, they manage to find a place to sleep and enough food to eat, for awhile. Then one day, two men come to the park where Hawkeye and Freddie are hiding. The men are carrying a net and Freddie is caught and taken away. Hawkeye’s life will never be the same.
Awards/Honours: Honourable Mention, Animals/Pets, 2017 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards; Runner-Up, Wild Card, 2017 Great Northwest Book Festival; Five Star Rating, Reader's Favorite Book Reviews and Award Contest 2017 ISBN 978-1-927570-31-9; 25"w x 7.5"h; 64 pages; 6 illustrations; 11 photos © 2016; Children's creative non-fiction; Animal rescue; Animal shelter; Animal care; Education, Early reader; Humane society; Saskatchewan author. |
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Running the Riders: My Decade as CEO of Canada's Team. By Jim Hopson with Darrell Davis
Description: The Saskatchewan Roughriders were mired in mediocrity, a decent football team that couldn’t advance to the Grey Cup as the franchise worked its way out of financial distress and tried to reconnect with its fan base. In 2004, offensive lineman-turned educator Jim Hopson was hopeful that the Roughriders directors would hire him as the team’s first full-time president and CEO. He believed that the team, with its incredible fan base, could become a successful business that consistently posted strong annual profits while playing in and winning multiple Grey Cups. And it happened. After a decade under Hopson’s leadership (2005 to 2015), the Roughriders became the Canadian Football League's strongest franchise, appearing in four Grey Cup games (winning twice) and selling more team merchandise than the other eight CFL franchises combined. They obliterated their debt and posted a record-setting profit of $10.4 million after winning a hometown Grey Cup in 2013, which has been described as the biggest moment in the 105-year-old team’s history. Hopson’s book, with the assistance of Darrell Davis (an author and long-time sports writer and Roughriders beat writer at the Regina Leader-Post), describes Hopson’s business plans, the resistance to change within the organization, the interplay with the fans of Rider Nation, difficult decisions made, and the euphoria of winning two league championships. An emotional man with a firm disposition, Jim Hopson describes the highs and lows that went along with the job and the path he took, professionally and personally, to the biggest office with the franchise known as “Canada’s Team."
ISBN 978-1-927570-23-4; 6"w x 9"h; 224 pages; 68 photos © 2015; Ages 15 to Adult; Non-fiction; Saskatchewan Roughriders; Sports; Canadian Football League; Prairie Provinces; Canada; Business; Leadership; Education; Saskatchewan author.
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The Inquiring Reporter. By Clay Stacey
Description: As an inquisitive newspaperman for the past 50 years, Clay Stacey has followed leads down dirt roads, had guns pointed at him and pies thrown in his face. He's written about school board meetings, land claims, political kerfuffles and snow festivals. For five decades, Clay has been a reporter, editor and newspaper publisher in Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan, ending his career as publisher of The Senior, with readers across Canada and beyond. His own 'Deep Throat' experience and his volunteer hours as a fire fighter and ambulance attendant added a little more spice to an already fascinating way of life. He typed his reports of rodeos, pranks, fist fights, fires, awards and accidents on an old Underwood typewriter. Now his intriguing, funny and daring adventures are shared in The Inquiring Reporter.
ISBN 978-0-9879643-1-1; 6"w x 9"h; 256 pages © 2012; Ages 13 to Adult; Non-fiction; Canada; Journalism; History; Anecdotes; Memoir; Biography; Prairie Provinces; British Columbia; Newspapers; Saskatchewan author. |
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The Little Coat: The Bob and Sue Elliott Story. By Alan J. Buick
Description: This award-winning national bestseller tells the true story of Bob Elliott, a 19-year-old Canadian tank commander, and Sussie Cretier, a 10-year-old Dutch girl who met during the Second World War. Sussie's family had run across a mine field, dodging German bullets to seek refuge with the Canadian soldiers. This feisty little girl quickly became a good-luck charm and beacon of hope for the weary Canadian troops. On Christmas Day 1944, the Canadians honoured their little adopted soldier with a special Army-style coat they ordered from a local seamstress. Decades later, the relationship between Sussie (Sue) and Bob not only endured but flourished. As adults, they fell in love and Sue followed Bob back to Canada, bringing her beloved 'little coat’ with her. Due to author Alan Buick's interest in this amazing true story, Sue and Bob donated her special child's coat to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario as a permanent reminder of this powerful tale of courage, hope and love. $4,500 from sales of The Little Coat has been donated to the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command Poppy Trust Fund. $1 from every book sold from 2013 forward is donated to the Canadian War Museum, the new home of the 'child's coat' in this inspiring war story turned love story.
Awards/Honours: Honourable Mention, 2010 Hollywood Book Festival ISBN 978-0-9810394-3-5; 6"w x 9"h; 176 pages; 40 photos © 2009. Second printing 2011. Ages 10 to Adult; Non-fiction; Canadian history; World War II; Canadian hero; Canadian Armed Forces; Netherlands; Inspirational non-fiction; Biography; Literacy; Canadian War Museum; Canadian artifact; Sussie Cretier's coat; True story; Saskatchewan author. |
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The Sailor and the Christmas Trees. By Deana J. Driver. Illustrated by Catherine Folnovic
Description: John Hanlon of Brandon, Manitoba, served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. In late November 1944, the frigate he was stationed on was docked in St. John's, Newfoundland. John realized that they would likely be at sea on Christmas Day, so he decided that he and some other sailors should go up a nearby hill and cut down a few evergreen trees, then hide them in the ship until Christmas. On Christmas morning, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on their way back to Canada from England, John and his friends pulled out those trees and surprised their fellow shipmates with a hearty ‘Merry Christmas’ wish! They also shared this unexpected Christmas gift with some small English children on another ship in that convoy, who were being transported to safety in Canada. Decades later, John met one of the women who was a child on that ship, and they savoured the memory of that special Christmas Day. A donation of $1 per book sold will be made to the Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command Poppy Trust Fund.
Awards/Honour: Winner, Children's category, 2015 Holiday Book Festival ISBN 978-1-927570-02-09; 6"w x 9"h; 48 pages; 14 illustrations; 9 photos © 2012; Ages 8 and Up; Juvenile Non-fiction; Features the story as told by John Hanlon, a biography of John Hanlon, and a glossary; World War II; Canadian history; Canadian sailor; Canadian war hero; Inspirational non-fiction; Children's books; Anecdote; Early reader; Senior Citizens'; Manitoba hero; Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan author. |
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