North America local history
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Hanged in Medicine Hat: Murders in a Nazi Prisoner-Of-War Camp, and the Disturbing True Story of Canada's Last Mass ExecutionWas justice served?For three years during the Second World War, 12,000 Nazis were held in a prisoner-of-war camp at the edge of Medicine Hat, an isolated city of 12,000 people on the bald Canadian prairie. The camp and the townsfolk lived cheerfully side-by-side until...
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Heart Berry BlingOn a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny shares how beading helped her persevere and stay connected...
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La Mazorca MágicaAuthor: Cynthia HarmonyPublisher: Teacher Created MaterialsPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 20Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.82h x 6.77w x 0.39dISBN: 9798765901571Language: SpanishAudience: Ages 4-8
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Conquistador Voices (vol I): The Spanish Conquest of the Americas as Recounted Largely by the Participants"Exceptionally well written...very highly recommended."-Midwest Book Review You're not stuck in history class any more. But you've discovered, as an adult, that you really like history. The problem is you don't like wading through thick prose. Something that might make it easier for you...
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Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North AmericaThis important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America. Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these...
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Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New SpainIn this biography of Joaqu n de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776-1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during...
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Elena's SerenadeWho ever heard of a girl glassblower? In Mexico, where the sun is called el sol and the moon is called la luna, a little girl called Elena wants to blow into a long pipe...and make bottles appear, like magic. But girls can't be...
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Elijah of BuxtonNewbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel for Scholastic features his trademark humor, compelling storytelling, and unique narrative voice.Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border...
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Travelogue SketchesStraight from Zandro Tumaliuan's sketchbooks, this coffee table book contains drawings done while on personal and business trips in England, France, the United States, the Philippines and around his own backyard, Canada. Rather than taking photos, as an urban sketching aficionado the artist prefers...
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The Oxford History of MexicoThe Oxford History of Mexico is a narrative history of the events, institutions and characters that have shaped Mexican history from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. When the hardcover edition released in 2000, it was praised for both its breadth...
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Fifth BusinessThe first book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria...
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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains FrontierWallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the...
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A Métis Christmas: Thelma's Gift*Winner of the Best of State Medal for Children's Books*"Julie Coulter Bellon captures the specific distinction of the Métis powerfully...This story has a rightful place on the shelves of every home and school library." ---Readers' FavoriteA beautiful introduction to Métis culture and traditions ....
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Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and ClassPoint Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city's English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal's Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry...
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MIA and the Monsters Search for Colours: Bilingual Inuktitut and English EditionMia and the monsters are looking for colours! Can you help them? In this interactive board book, children can join Mia and her monster friends as they look for different colours on the tundra.Author: Neil ChristopherPublisher: Inhabit Education Books Inc.Published: 11/08/2022Pages: 16Binding Type: Board...
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Alberta Fishes: A Folding Pocket Guide to All Known Native and Introduced SpeciesCo-authored by experts Dr. Sean Rogers and Matthew J. Morris, this guide highlights 54 fish species that are native to Alberta and 16 species that have been introduced to the province. This beautifully illustrated guide provides descriptions on fish anatomy, a key to identifying...
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Owóknage: The Story of Carry the Kettle Nakoda First NationThe definitive story of the Nakoda people, in their own words Born out of a meticulous, well-researched historical and current traditional land-use study led by Cega̔ K iɳna Nakoda Oyáté (Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation), Owóknage is the first book to tell the...
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Harvey Comes HomeNow in paperback, the award-winning story of a lost West Highland Terrier warming hearts and bringing generations together A dog's world is a world of scents, of adventure. When Harvey the West Highland Terrier wanders out of his old life guided only by his...
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North America: A Fold-Out Graphic HistoryA richly illustrated, foldout graphic history of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.North American history unfolds in this graphic timeline that places the United States, Canadian and Mexican/Caribbean histories in the context of their continent. From healers in the...
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Let's Work: Mexican Folk Art Trabajos in English and SpanishA butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker...what people do has always made little kids curious.Cynthia Weill scores again with an early concept book that bring every kind of job to life, including the work of the dedicated palm weavers of Flavio Gallardo's workshop, whose...
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