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The Citizen, 2010-02-18, Page 24404 Queen St., Blyth 519-523-4792 541 Turnberry St., Brussels 519-887-9114 The Citizen Explore some great books & DVDs! UNFORGETTABLE CANADA Explore your country, if only in print with this beautifully illustrated tour to 100 destinations across the country from Signal Hill, Newfoundland to the killer whales off the west coast to the Yukon’s Top of the World highway. $29.95 WELLINGTON COUNTY Fred Dahms has produced a beautiful salute to Wellington County, from its limestone architecture to its lakes and rivers, from the role of agriculture to its artists and artisans, and from the humblest cross-road hamlet to the Royal City of Guelph. $39.95 MAGICAL, MYSTERIOUS LAKE OF THE WOODS Heather Robertson and Melinda McCracken explore the past of this jewel of Northwestern Ontario with historic photos, maps, drawings and colour photos. $24.95 ONTARIO’S SECRET LANDSCAPES: Ron Brown highlights 50 unusual places to visit around Ontario from Thornbury’s Mystery Mound to Kitchener’s Pioneer Tower and Castle Kilbride at Baden. 166 pages of stories and photos. $19.95 OWEN SOUND: The Port City The story of Owen Sound from 1840 to today. $21.95 A PADDLER’S GUIDE TO ONTARIO’S LOST CANOE ROUTES For canoe adventurers who want to to explore less- known routes, this book offers 15 trips in northern and eastern Ontario. Lots of colour photos let you preview the trip. Includes 21 maps. $19.95 THE SNOWSHOE EXPERIENCE Snowshoeing can be your passport to winter enjoyment. With this nuts- and-bolts guide you have everything you need to know to get started and enjoy this low-cost, hassle-free winter sport. $13.50 VANISHED VILLAGES OF MIDDLESEX Twelve villages were swallowed up by what is now the city of London. Many more rural villages have disappeared over the years. Jennifer Grainger digs up the history of these vanished communities. $26.95 BACKROADS OF ONTARIO Ron Brown gives information and directions to discover delightful backroads and small towns and villages across Ontario including some in midwestern Ontario. $19.95 BIRDING THE BRUCE PENINSULA For years Mike Pickup shared his knowledge of spring, summer, fall and winter birding on the Bruce Peninsula leading hikes of the Bruce Birding Club. In this book he provides a written guide to birds and locations. $13.00 THE DUST AND THE DEW Shakespeare writer Robert G. Irvine writes poems about everything from cattle shows to one- room schoolhouses to ancestors and small towns. 56 pages in all. $14.15 FEEDING THE FUTURE: From Fat to Famine Thought-provoking essays on food and agriculture from experts around the world, edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon who also produced Fueling the Future. $37.95 FIDDLE AND FLY Young readers can learn about what life was like for pioneer young people through this book. Based on his own family’s history as first-generation white settlers in Grey County, Neil Aitken creates a story of two fictional boys and their experiences. $18.00 THE FIREFLY DICTIONARY OF PLANT NAMES: Common & Botanical Confused about common and botanical plant names? This dictionary translates from common to botanical and vice versa. 440 pages. $24.95 GENERAL STORES OF CANADA R.B. Fleming, who grew up in a general store north of Toronto tells the story of general stores and their owners from coast to coast. Hundreds of photos tell their history. $24.95 THE GIFT OF COUNTRY LIFE Saskatchewan writer Victor Carl Friesen turns his memories of growing up on a small farm in the 1940s into poems. Illustrated by his own photos, he tells of a simpler time when less was more. $18.95 THE GREAT OUTDOORS GAMES & PUZZLES Kids who love the outdoors can learn even while indoors with 100 mazes, word games, picture puzzles, jokes, riddles, brain-teasers and fun-packed games. Designed for children aged 8-12. $13.50 A GUIDE TO PROVINCIAL PLAQUES IN ONTARIO A well-kept secret is in plain view around Ontario, telling the stories of communities across the province. This guide describes the inscriptions on historical plaques across Ontario. $9.95GROWING TREES FROM SEED The late Henry Kock of the University of Guelph Arboretum shows how to collect and plant the seeds of dozens of varieties of native trees. Comprehensive instructions, beautiful illustrations, 30 pages of colour photos. $45.00 BUILDING WITH LOGS Log homes were among the earliest structures erected by settlers but they are still popular and oh so beautiful. This comprehensive book shows you how to build your own log structure with the latest advances in comfort and utility. $24.95 THE BLACKSMITH’S CRAFT Blacksmithing is a romantic and practical skill and it still has many applications today. This comprehensive book is a primer of the tools and methods of the blacksmith and provides tips on how to make this skill pay. $26.95 BEHIND BARS — Inside Ontario’s Heritage Gaols: Popular Ontario historian Ron Brown tells short, colourful stories of more than 50 Ontario jails, including Goderich, Owen Sound, Stratford and Walkerton and those people who have been imprisoned in them. $22.95 ATTICS, DORMERS AND SKYLIGHTS From the editors of Fine Homebuilding comes this book on how to expand your attic to make it usable space. Information on everything from adding a second story to adding a skylight to creating a bathroom in the attic. $25.95 ALFALFABET A TO Z Help a youngster learn the alphabet and learn about food and agriculture at the same time with this colourfully illustrated picture book. As well as learning the ABCs youngsters will learn of everything from farm animals to fruits and the bees that pollinate them. $19.95 HIKING ONTARIO’S HEARTLAND Get to know Ontario intimately by hiking some of the 40 trails outlined in this book. Try local southwestern Ontario trails as well as trails in eastern, central , near north and Lake Superior regions. $18.95 Check out all our books at... PAGE 24. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010.