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Rafael Has Pretty Eyes"You go through life convinced you're going to get diabetes like your old man and one day you choke to death on chicken gristle, and the autopsy shows your blood sugars were perfect."The seventeen stories in Elaine McCluskey's latest collection, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes,...
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305 Lost Buildings of CanadaA National BestsellerThe legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more -- torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost -- are uncovered in this bittersweet collection. Using archival photographs, blueprints, and written reports, Raymond Biesinger has rendered a selection of Canada's most...
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Prairie 123sJocey Asnong's whimsical illustrations celebrate the prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in this unique board book. Graze with bison in Grasslands National Park, cheer on two Stampede stars in Calgary, sing country songs with meadowlarks in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and play hide and...
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Time to Wonder - Volume 2: A Kid's Guide to Bc's Regional Museums: Vancouver Island, Salt Spring, Alert Bay, and Haida GwaiiGo on... be a time traveller, an anthropologist, an archeologist, an artist, or an explorer! Be everything at once! When you visit a museum, you enter an amazing world where you are limited only by your imagination. The books in the Time to Wonder...
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The French Invasion of Western PennsylvaniaDonald Kent provides the French vantage point from French documents concerning the forays in the Ohio country, later western Pennsylvania. The strategic aim of the French advances was to provide passage from French Canada to Louisianna via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. To do...
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Transforming Saints: From Spain to New SpainTransforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy women within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the rise of the cults of the...
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Manitoba Muslims: A History of Resilience and GrowthManitoba Muslims: A History of Resiliance and Growth is both a look back at the history of Muslims in the province of Manitoba, and a look forward into the future. The Muslims of Manitoba have a presence that reaches back beyond a century. They...
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Hastings Mill: The Historic Times of a Vancouver CommunityIn the summer of 1865 when Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small saw milling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metropolis was in the making. The fledgling Stamp's Mill, later...
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Biggest to Smallest: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionEnookie is learning how to sort things. He has four animals he needs to sort by their size. Can you help Enookie sort the animals from biggest to smallest?Author: Inhabit Education BooksPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 08/02/2022Pages: 28Binding Type: Board BookWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 7.10h x...
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Best Hikes and Nature Walks with Kids in and Around Southwestern British ColumbiaFrom bestselling hiking guidebook author (and dad) Stephen Hui comes a collection of fun-filled hikes field-tested by parents and kids.The best thing about hiking with kids is appreciating nature as a whole family. But hiking with kids can be challenging when little ones get...
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Emily ClimbsAuthor: L. M. MontgomeryPublisher: Tundra Books (NY)Published: 09/09/2014Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.63h x 5.19w x 1.00dISBN: 9781770497498Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.3Point Value: 17Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8104 / Emily ClimbsAbout the AuthorLucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was born in what is now...
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Confessions of a Jewish ShiksaConfessions of a Jewish Shiksa is more than an autobiography or a memoir. It's a powerful confession...it is a trip worth taking. "Compelled to tell her story and create shows from frantic chaotic moments in her life and relationships, Sheridan created a confes- sional...
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1939 Crossword Puzzle Book: Challenging Crossword Puzzles For AdultsThis is a large-format Crossword book with easy-to-read type. This Book Included- 80 PUZZLES WITH SOLUTIONS ONE PUZZLE PER PAGE LARGE GRIDS MAKE IT EASIER TO ENTER LETTERS IDEAL GIFT FOR THOSE WITH LIMITED EYESIGHT Author: W. a. Lourdaes PzlePublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 05/18/2021Pages: 104Binding...
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Crossword Puzzle Book: You Were Born In 1950: Crossword Puzzle Book for Adults With SolutionsCrossword is also an excellent brain game. If you like your puzzles big and easy to see then Large Print Crossword Puzzles is the book for you. This is a large-format Crossword book with easy-to-read type. This Book Included- 80 PUZZLES WITH SOLUTIONS LARGE...
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Large Print Word Search Puzzle Book: You Were Born In 1941: Word Search Large Print Puzzle Book for Adults - Word Search For Adults Large PrintWord Search is also an excellent brain game. If you like your puzzles big and easy to see then Large Print Word Search Puzzles is the book for you. This is a large-format word search book with easy-to-read type. This Book Included- 85 PUZZLES...
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Large Print Word Search Puzzle Book: You Were Born In 1938: Word Search Large Print Puzzle Book for Adults - Word Search For Adults Large PrintWord Search is also an excellent brain game. If you like your puzzles big and easy to see then Large Print Word Search Puzzles is the book for you. This is a large-format word search book with easy-to-read type. This Book Included- 85 PUZZLES...
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Blackout OdysseyAll Mallory needs to do to get home is travel across Toronto in a straight line-how hard could it be?But in this genderbent retelling of Homer's Odyssey set in the 2003 Northeastern Blackout, nothing so simple can ever go according to plan.Before even boarding...
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Autonomy Is in Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government Through the Lens of the Tsotsil LanguageFollowing the Zapatista uprising on New Year's Day 1994, the EZLN communities of Chiapas began the slow process of creating a system of autonomous government that would bring their call for freedom, justice, and democracy from word to reality. Autonomy Is in Our Hearts...
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Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War HeroThe unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War.Born in 1913 in the home of a millionaire philanthropist, Muggins was a purebred Spitz, a sharp-eared, sharp-nosed, fluffy-tailed sort...
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1 Sussex Drive: Short stories, memorable moments and anecdotes from the past, as told by those who worked behind the scenes at the offRideau Hall, the official Residence of Canada's Governors General, has been host to some of the greatest leaders and dignitaries in history. Members of royal families, world leaders and heads of state have stayed there and have experienced, firsthand, the warmth and hospitality so...
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