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Terry & Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of HopeThere has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there's never been a story quite like The Marathon of Hope.A twenty-two-year-old cancer survivor and amputee, Terry set out from St. John's, Newfoundland in April 1980, aiming to run across Canada to raise...
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Dennis and His Canadian AdventuresTravel across Canada with your children and learn about the provinces and territories that make up this great country. From Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon you and your children will see some of the wonders of Canada.Author: Thom BlairPublisher: Thomas BlairPublished: 08/24/2023Pages: 36Binding...
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300 Reasons to Love MontrealAs a cosmopolitan, eclectic, culturally rich, networked city that is also an economic hub and a center of innovation and creativity, Montreal is, without question, unique. This guide highlights the distinctive character of the "city of a hundred bell towers" and presents its most...
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V0n 1b0: General Delivery, Whistler, BCAuthor: Ian VercherePublisher: Douglas & McIntyrePublished: 01/11/2006Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781553652113
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History of Ancient Mexico: An Enthralling Guide to Pre-Columbian Mexico and Its Civilizations, Such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, TolteChocolate, bouncy rubber balls, and the "Three Sisters" agricultural system-the people of ancient Mexico invented them all 3,600 years ago.They also built the world's largest pyramid by volume and the sixth most-populated city without the wheel and without pack animals. Ancient Mexico introduced the...
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Listen While I Tell You: A Story of the Jews of St. John's, NewfoundlandAuthor: Alison KahnPublisher: ISER BooksPublished: 01/01/1987Pages: 220Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9780919666559About the AuthorKahn, Alison: - Alison Kahn first came to Newfoundland in 1980 as a graduate student in folklore at Memorial University. She received her B.A. in American literature...
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A Northern AlphabetA is for Arctic, B for Bering Sea, C for Clyde River - and Z for Zangeza Bay - all to be explored above the 60th parallel.Author: Ted HarrisonPublisher: Tundra Books (NY)Published: 10/13/2009Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.80h x 9.90w x 0.20dISBN: 9780887769603Audience: Ages...
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Frida Kahlo (Little Guides to Great Lives)Frida Kahlo was a colorful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and reveal her true personality. She created over 50 self-portraits, and is considered to be one of the most influential and...
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Exploring Vancouver: Ten Tours of the City and Its Buildings (Fifth Edition)This new edition of the classic urban guidebook brings the city's architectural story up to date. Harold Kalman and Robin Ward, long-time chroniclers of Vancouver, offer an authoritative and highly readable book about Vancouver's most interesting places and explain how, why and by whom...
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The Aboriginal Races of North America: Comprising Biographical Sketches of Eminent Tribes, From the First Discovery of the Continent to the Present PeThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Open Field: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian PoetsIncluded in this unparalleled collection are Christian B k, Anne Carson, and Erin Mour , whose experiments with genre have landed them international acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whose explorations of the pastoral and the sonnet, respectively, reach as far back into poetry's...
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Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of CanadaStephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur...
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GringosCharles Portis's Gringos is a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a...
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Mexikid (Spanish Edition)Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia ( 11 personas!)...
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The Banana Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Interventions of the United States in Central America, Mexico, and the CaribbeanThe United States Marine Corps once fought for God, country, and bananas.This book is about the Banana Wars that lasted from the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898 until Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy of 1934. When you read this story, you'll learn...
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La Danza de Los Amantes En PrimaveraPedro es un bailarín, de los primeros que se dedicaron al teatro musical y de revista en México durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. A través de sus propias palabras, descubriremos sus triunfos, desdichas, pasiones, la vida detrás de los escenarios y, de...
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Tales from the Great Lakes: Based on C.H.J. Snider's Schooner DaysCoupled with C.H.J. Snider's writings are those of Robert B. Townsend, who, besides introducing Snider's stories, adds some of his own about the "Schooner Days" on the Great Lakes.Author: Robert B. TownsendPublisher: Dundurn PressPublished: 07/26/1996Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43dISBN:...
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Shizue's PathA war from far across the ocean washed up onto our new country's shore. I wish that I could skip this chapter of the story, darling. Just as you may want to skip parts of your own life story in time. But, you see,...
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Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto RaptorsThe improbable story of the birth of modern-day pro basketball in Toronto In just over 25 years, the Toronto Raptors have evolved from an intrepid expansion team to an NBA champion. But for all the triumphs of the past decade, the beginning looked a...
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Evocación: Mi Vida Al Lado del CheIn this Spanish-language edition, Che Guevara's widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che's assassination in Bolivia. La viuda del Che Guevara recuerda el gran romance revolucionario trágicamente acortado por el asesinato del Che en Bolivia. When Aleida March first met...
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