North America local history
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The Big RainIt's been raining and raining and raining. When the sun finally peeks out from behind the clouds, Carlos and Carmen find their entire backyard is one big puddle. But the twins don't mind once they discover it's not just a puddle of water--it's a...
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The One-Tire HouseCarlos and Carmen get some unexpected news. They're moving to a new house. The new house is big, red, and has one tire. What A house with one tire? The twins worry and worry but soon discover a house with one tire can be...
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Florentine Codex: Book 11: Book 11: Earthly Things Volume 11Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahag n's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of...
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Good Night CanadaGood Night Canada includes the Canadian Rockies, Niagara Falls Stanley Park in Vancouver, icebergs in Newfoundland, streetcars in Toronto, Prince Edward Island, Bay of Fundy, British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Dinosaur Provincial Park, fishing boats, farms, wildlife, hockey, and so much more. This soothing nighttime...
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Armando Y La Escuela de Lona AzulLasting Connection Title, Book Links Choice, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Editor's Favorites, The Bloomsbury Review Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones MagazineIn Spanish. The story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward...
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Explorer's Guide Buffalo & Niagara FallsThe Empire State is home to some of the nation's most astounding natural and cultural wonders. From beautiful Lake Erie to the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains mountains to historically rich Buffalo, this region has the makings for a world-class destination for any traveler....
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Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary CompanionMexico City is a place of superlatives. The oldest city in the Americas, it is now the world's largest urban area. Formerly the center of the Aztec and Spanish empires, this vast modern metropolis is home to over fifteen million people, mirroring Mexico's mixed...
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Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical ReaderCarlos Fuentes writes, John Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of Mexico. Here, Woack examines the conflict in Chiapas in light of 500 years of struggle and uneasy accomodation between the region's Maya population and the Spanish conquerors and ladino...
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I Know HereWinner of the 2011 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the 2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the 2011 Ezra Jack Keats and New York Public Library New Writer Award, and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration The little girl in this...
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Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)This is the first book to offer a thorough collection of documents detailing the history of black slavery in the Canadian Maritimes. Author: Harvey Amani WhitfieldPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9781554813865About the AuthorHarvey Amani Whitfield...
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The Kids Book of CanadaFinally, the premier children's resource on Canada is available in a fully revised paperback edition --- bringing up to date this bestselling treasury of information that has long been an essential book for schools, libraries and homes from coast to coast. Ten years after...
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Canada at War: A Graphic History of World War TwoIn 1914, Canada went to war as a subject of Britain. In 1939, it made the choice to fight all on its own. Canada at War follows the developments and setbacks, wins and losses, of a nation learning to stand up for itself under...
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The Free People - Li Gens Libres: A History of the Métis Community of Batoche, SaskatchewanRevised and expanded to include fresh research, a discussion of recent interpretive trends, and a review of new literature, The Free People--Li Gens Libres is a comprehensive history of the Métis community and national historic site of Batoche, Saskatchewan. Diane Payment has a long...
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The BeothukA history of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Exciting in its detail, this book gives us a rare picture of a lost people whose culture was destroyed after the arrival of white settlers.Author: Ingeborg MarshallPublisher: Breakwater BooksPublished: 03/09/2009Pages: 88Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...
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No Place More Suitable: Four Centuries of Montreal StoriesFor centuries Montreal reigned as Canada's most beguiling city. Inspired by the pages of the Gazette, Canada's oldest daily newspaper (founded in 1778), here are seventy-five true tales to inspire, amuse, horrify and captivate. Stories include humourist Stephen Leacock's flinty bitterness at being forced...
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The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold WarDescribing a generation of radicals, this is a book about Canadian communists.Author: Merrily WeisbordPublisher: Vehicule PressPublished: 01/01/1994Pages: 269Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.36w x 0.78dISBN: 9781550650532This title is only available via back order
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Hiking the Gulf Islands of British Columbia: 4th EditionNestled in the Strait of Georgia between British Columbia's mainland and Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands are a hiker's paradise, each boasting an eclectic character and an array of flora and fauna unique to the temperate climate of the southern West Coast of Canada....
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Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian WestBeginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title remittance men, these men set out to continue their lives...
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Voyages to Windward: Sailing Adventures on Vancouver Island's West CoastWhen Elsie Hulsizer was little, she lived on the shores of Puget Sound in Washington where she spent the summers sailing in a small open sailboat with her parents. Her parents would always start out by sailing to windward, or against the wind, so...
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Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest AmericaWinner of the John Lyman Book Award for best Canadian naval and maritime historyFinalist for the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-fiction AwardFinalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book PrizeLonglisted for the 2007 Victoria Butler Book PrizeHonourable Mention for the Canadian Nautical Research Society's...
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