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SHOW NO FEAR OR HESITATION Liano rose to his feet, frowning. "Maybe you are the heirs of King Malori, but you are still young and have no idea what you are dealing with, here. Do you really expect me to turn my forces over to inexperienced hands? You aren't even old enough to take your Ordeal yet!" When Darathe pulled down his collar to reveal his honor marks, Liano stepped back, his eyes wide. "My Ordeal was nothing compared to the nightmare of my last six years of life. You have no idea who you are dealing with!" Prince Darathe Caloran is Kithe's rightful Heir Apparent; but another Kithean nobleman has started a rebellion in Kithe against the Andaran emperor Greston Dorendi. Darathe wants to present his claim to the Kithean throne before Marquis Liano Zakira seizes control, but at sixteen, Darathe doesn't feel ready to be a king. Caught between Liano and Greston, Darathe is determined to regain his country despite the odds; but if Darathe has to fight Liano before he faces Greston, trying to regain Kithe may cost him his life.

"Golath'ain!" Kirien yelled to the patrol. "Back to the palace, now! Ride hard! There are too many to fight!" Kylen's heart raced as he urged his horse away from the twenty cold auras emanating from the approaching men."It's Aren! I recognize him from Father's memories!" Kirien jerked and stared at the redhead hounding them. "It is Aren. Tell Zairyn to hurry! This may end up badly for all of us!" Kidnapped for Greston Dorendi by Aren Dragar and held for ransom, Prince Kylen Rithael endures his kidnappers abuse as he waits for the Maragoran Grand Dukes, Rynn Tebarah, and his brother Kayden to rescue him. What the Andarans don't realize is that the royal twins are telepathic; everywhere the kidnappers take Prince Kylen, he tells Kayden exactly where he is. The rescuers scramble to catch up with the evasive kidnappers, but will they make it in time before Greston exacts revenge on the Rithaels during the ransom exchange?

The letters collected in this volume preserve the vivid and thoughtful impressions of a young man who came to western Canada in the early twentieth century. J. Burgon Bickersteth joined the Anglican mission in Edmonton a year after its establishment in 1910. As a lay missionary he travelled in the country northwest of Edmonton for two years, during the first year among homesteaders, and in the second among railroad builders. In his letters to friends and relatives in England he described the land he found so captivating and ‘life in the raw’ as he witnessed it day by day. He wrote ‘of some discomfort, of occasional hardships, but most certainly of absorbing interest and unique opportunity.’ On his return to England in 1913 he was encouraged to publish his letters by Lord Grey, the recently retired governor-general of Canada. The Land of Open Doors appeared the next year, with the letters edited only for factual errors and punctuation. For this reprint, Mr. Bickersteth has prepared a new introduction to the letters he wrote over sixty years ago. (Social History of Canada 29)

Robert Barr has been almost completely overlooked by critics and anthologists of Canadian literature, in part because, although he was educated in Canada, he spent most of his life in the United States and England. However, since most of his serious novels are either set in Canada or have some Canadian connection, Barr deserves attention. The Measure of the Rule, originally published in 1907, is the nearest he came to writing an autobiographical novel. It concerns the Toronto Normal School and the experiences there in the 1870s of a young man who undoubtedly is Barr himself. In this novel, Barr is exorcising unhappy memories and is ironic, even bitter, about the school’s quality of education, the rigid discipline observed by its staff and their indifference to their students, and the sexual segregation practiced. A number of men under whom Barr actually studied are vividly caricatured. As a realistic study of Ontario's only central teacher-training institution in the late nineteenth century, The Measure of the Rule will appeal both to those interested in Canadian fiction of that period and to those more concerned with the evolution of the system of education established by Egerton Ryerson. Also included with this reprint of the novel is an essay originally published in 1899 and entitled 'Literature in Canada.' In this essay, Barr elaborated upon his opinions of the school system and its quality of education.

Rynn looked at the sky, still feeling Martan's power holding the weather. "These are not natural disasters happening, Adviser. Martan is behind them. He's become a rogue and is destroying everything." Zairyn stared at him, his yellow eyes glowing but not showing the terror he felt inside. "Then you must stop him." Kithe, Raenai, and Maragor have been pounded by a series of unusual natural disasters; but when Raenai's ancient volcano reactivates again, Rynn Tebarah finally realizes that Lord Martan Hendreli is behind the process. The Ahyn'ain Council charges Rynn with bringing the rogue viscount under control, but he soon realizes there's a more sinister hand behind the destruction. The safety of all three kingdoms will be determined by whether Rynn is strong enough to defeat the viscount before they are overrun by their former empire once again.

A part of the Toronto Reprint Library of Canadian Prose and Poetry Series, this series is intended to provide for libraries a varied selection of titles of Canadian prose and poetry which have been long out-of-print. Each work is a reprint of a reliable edition, in a modern binding, and appropriate for public circulation. The Toronto Reprint Library makes available lesser known works of popular writers, and in some cases the only works of little known poets and prose writers. All form part of Canada's literary history: all help to provide a better knowledge of our cultural and social past. The Toronto Reprint Library is produced in short-run editions made possible by special techniques, some of which have been developed at the University of Toronto Press.

From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by a distinguished Canadian historian. Mr. Guillet has written a book which is often humorous and always human, to be enjoyed by readers of many ages. It contains nearly two hundred sketches, engravings, paintings, and photographs, most of them contemporary, gathered from archives and libraries across the country and well displayed in the specially chosen large format. Few are generally available elsewhere. For school and public libraries, as well as the general reader, this book documents a fascinating aspect of Canada's social history.

WHO WILL BE TRIBAL KING? "I don't want to move!" Alekani glared at him. "You will go, Rolan." Seeing he would not prevail, Rolan growled and jumped up. "Fine. You can make me go, but you can't make me like it." Rolan Rademar doesn't want to be a prince; but after discovering his father Alec Rademar is really Alekani Ramida, Crown Prince of Caldasar, Rolan's family emigrates to regain control of that country. Surrounded by new terrain, new expectations, and new rules to follow, Rolan feels completely overwhelmed. He's not even sure he wants to be part of this new life, especially since his father isn't the only one who wants the Tribal Throne and their opponent will do anything to snatch the Ramidas' rightful title.