Janice's detailed trail and road directions and her enthusiastic personal narratives, help hikers of all skill levels to explore on their own, using her book as their guide. Most hikes in the book are day hikes or backpacking trips into the mountains, while some other hikes are short and easy walks in the lowlands.

Gail Lim, the novelist�s alter ego, is an Asian-Canadian radio writer whose grandfather was killed under suspicious circumstances by the Japanese in Indonesia during the Second World War. Gail dies on the first page of Certainty, and the book proceeds back in time, recounting Gail�s mission to uncover her family�s long-hidden secret.

Read Glenda's inspiring autobiography I'll Do It Myself: A Collection of Memories from a Woman Living with Cerebral Palsy, due out November 2006! Glenda intimately shares her life story to show others cerebral palsy is not a death sentence, but rather a life sentence.