R.I.P Irene Howard (1922 – 2023)

“Irene Howard (left) wrote an important bio of  the first woman to be elected to Vancouver City Council. But she is probably best known for the memoir about her immigrant mining family.FULL STORY

 

 

Everyday Hero

November 09th, 2015

Everyday Hero (Orca $9.95), the second book by Kathleen Cherry of Kitimat, will be a portrait of a schoolgirl, Alice, who has Asperger’s syndrome but her ailment is unknown to her new schoolmates. When Alice invariably gets herself sent to detention, she is intrigued by a fellow detainee, Megan, who resolves to run away. Alice resolves to help her. Cherry has a degree in Creative Writing and history from the University of Victoria and a Masters in Education from UVic. While publishing her first book, Blowing Bubbles (Mississauga: Aaspirations 2012), she was enrolled in a doctoral program in counselling psychology through Walden University, a U.S. online university. Everyday Hero will be available in the spring of 2016. 9781459809826

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