manitoba

Collects more than sixty stories and essays drawn from the author's years in veterinary medicine.

"Cats, dogs, people - funny and heartbreaking stories from a pet veterinarian with insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he took into his career of veterinary science and anecdotes from his successful small-animal clinic. Dr. Schott brings to his writing the benefit of many years of expertise. Wisdom he imparts on readers includes the best way to give your cat a pill, how to prevent your very handy dog from opening a fridge, and how to handle your fish when it has half-swallowed another"--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of Kyle Unger, covering how he was wrongfully convicted, the sting that landed him in prison, and his acquittal in 2009.

Tells the story of the false arrest and imprisonment of Kyle Unger for the murder of a teenage girl in 1990, describing how the police used a sting operation to force him to confess to the murder.

Shortly after her first kiss but before her sixteenth birthday in December, 1941, Marie Claire and her younger brother and sister are sent to a tuberculosis sanatorium near their Manitoba farm.

Seventeen-year-old Dolina May Hunter doesn't quite know how to handle the generosity of the perfect strangers who take her in during her time of need--a Manitoba farm family that finds her in the rain after she jumps out of her abusive boyfriend's car.

Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel searches for the truth when her mother and sister disappear from their Mennonite home.

In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cree Indian neighbors and, especially, White Loon, their father's new wife.

Beryl, a nature photographer, joins an expedition to photograph polar bears in Manitoba; when things go disastrously wrong, she and three others must make their way past starving bears and cross frozen tundra and treacherous ice floes to reach the safety of the town of Churchill.