North America local history
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A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine FireOn March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compa a de Santa Gertrudis--the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company--may have committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a...
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The Blue CastleValancy Stirling is unmarried at 29. Frustrated by her loveless state and stifled by her moralistic family, for years she has been escaping into an imaginary life in her Blue Castle in Spain. Then unexpected news shocks her into asserting her independence and striking...
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Anne of Green GablesWhen Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, decide to adopt a child from a distant orphanage, they don't get quite what they bargained for. The child who awaits them at the tiny Bright River train station is not the strapping young boy they'd imagined--someone...
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Montreal's Expo 67In 1967, Canada celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a spectacular party, and the whole world was invited. Montreal's Expo 67 was the first world's fair held in Canada, and it was a huge success, attracting over 50 million visitors. The 1,000-acre...
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Shadows Cast by StarsOld ways are pitted against new horrors in this compellingly crafted, "atmospherically beautiful" (Kirkus Reviews) dystopian tale about a girl who is both healer and seer. Two hundred years from now, blood has become the most valuable commodity on the planet--especially the blood of...
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SombrioVulnerable and hallucinatory, Rhonda Waterfall writes an alarming and vivid West Coast novel. Set in the rainforest on the outer coast of Vancouver Island, Sombrio takes us into the dark heart of lost childhoods. Three men - an artist, his apprentice and an ex-bank...
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Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth CenturyIn this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and J rgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men;...
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Truth and Bright WaterThomas King is a writer of lyrical, comic poignancy, and a best-selling author in Canada. Of his latest novel, Newsday wrote, Thomas King has quietly and gorgeously done it again. Truth and Bright Water tells of a summer in the life of Tecumseh and...
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Against All EnemiesRacing from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality. Working behind the scenes for the CIA, ex-Navy...
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No Such Thing as GoodbyeShortlist & Honourable mention at the Black Spring Crime Fiction Prize 2020A spy with a criminal past. A dark family secret. Freedom at the cost of betrayal.To escape her mobster family, Toni fakes her own death, but before she can start anew in Mexico...
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Chasing Northern Lights: Chronicle of a Motorcycle Ride from New York City to the Arctic CircleOne man. One bike. One ride to see it all . . . When Latino immigrant Miguel Oldenburg became an American citizen, he decided to celebrate in an unique and personal way. An experienced motorcyclist, Miguel set off on a sprawling series of road...
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Canada: From the Great Lakes to the Arctic CirclePresented in a landscape format and with captions explaining the story behind each entry, Canada is a stunning collection of images celebrating this beautiful country. When you think of Canada do you picture the awe-inspiring natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains, the sprawling metropolis...
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My Name Is Seepeetza: 30th Anniversary EditionAn honest look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it -- 30th anniversary edition. Seepeetza loves living on Joyaska Ranch with her family. But when she is six years old, she is driven...
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Exposing the Maya: Early Archaeological Photography in the AmericasA compelling account of the early period of expeditionary archaeology and photography told through the words and works of six pioneersExposing the Maya focuses on the works of Désiré Charnay, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon, Teobert Maler, Alfred Maudslay and Adela Breton, all of...
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Hard Is the Journey: Stories of Chinese Settlement in Bc's Kootenays and Interior TownsIn Hard is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow shares the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay. She unearths the racism of early newspapers that portrayed Chinese immigrants as dirty, sinister, and lethargic people not fit to live in BC...
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Talking to the Story Keepers: Tales from the Chilcotin PlateauIn Talking to the Story Keepers, writer and journalist Sage Birchwater gathers dozens of stories spanning decades in the Cariboo Chilcotin. These stories reflect on the story keepers themselves as well as our collective humanity, tying everything from the small moments, heroic deeds, and...
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Guess Who? with Tuktu and Friends: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionTuktu and his friends are hiding. Can you find them? In this interactive book, children will follow clues to find the animals hidden in the illustrations.Author: Nadia Sammurtok, Rachel RupkePublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 11/08/2022Pages: 34Binding Type: Board BookWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 7.90h x 9.90w x...
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La Terre Me Parle: Un Livre Sur Les SaisonsSee below for English description.Comment sais-tu quelle est la saison? Quand les bleuets m rs tombent et que le sable br le, comprends-tu que c'est l' t ? Quand le carouge paulettes s'envole, comprends-tu que c'est l'automne? Arr te-toi une minute et regarde autour...
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Arctic Plants: An Introduction to Edible and Medicinal Plants of the North: English EditionMany plants in the tundra can help and even heal people This nature book teaches children traditional and scientific knowledge about Arctic willow, crowberry, and peat moss.Author: Rebecca HainnuPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 07/31/2017Pages: 40Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9781772665666Audience:...
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2018 la Salida: Decadencia y Renacimiento de MexicoIn this book, I reassert a conviction I have expressed before: corruption is the number one problem Mexico faces nowadays. For this reason, I call upon all Mexicans, whether they are women or men, poor or rich, rural or urban settlers, religious o freethinkers,...
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