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British Columbia Seashore Life: A Waterproof Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Animals & PlantsBritish Columbia Seashore Life is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the beachcomber, and features over 140 beautiful illustrations of familiar and unique seashore plants and animals, including birds, marine mammals, fish, and crustaceans. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, folding guide is an excellent...
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Playing with Osito Jouer avec Osito: Bilingual English FrenchOsito wants to play, but his fur is growing slowly and he's got the shivers. His new friend thinks covering this baby bear with honey and a coat of wild flowers is a good idea. Osito does get warm, but then the bees arrive,...
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The Forgotten Diaspora: Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico BorderlandsIn The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest pursued hidden agendas, deploying a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities even as they were technically...
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Hiking the West Coast of Vancouver Island: An Updated and Comprehensive Trail GuideThe rugged west coast of Vancouver Island offers some of the most spectacular and storied hiking in the Pacific Northwest. Home to the world-famous West Coast Trail, once a lifeline for marooned sailors and still among the most breath-taking yet demanding hikes on the...
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Californio Portraits: Baja California's Vanishing CultureFirst published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios' contact with the outside world and...
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Room at the Inn: Historic Hotels of British Columbia's Southern InteriorA fully illustrated social history profiling forty historic hotels spread over five regions of the southern interior of British Columbia, covering the time period of the 1890s to 1950s. Room at the Inn reveals the long-forgotten histories of British Columbia's early hospitality industry, through...
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Don't Hurt a Sasquatch: And Other Wacky-But-Real Laws in the USA and CanadaThis hilarious compendium dives into the quirkiest decrees from around the country, from Alabama's ban on driving blindfolded to Delaware's restriction on selling dog hair. Every state in the country has its own set of rules, carefully designed to identify the biggest problems in...
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William F. Buckley Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908-1922In 1909, young William F. Buckley Sr. (1881-1958), who grew up in the dusty South Texas town of San Diego, graduated from the University of Texas law school and headed for Mexico City. Fluent in Spanish, familiar with Mexican traditions, and soon fit to...
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Benito Juárez Fights for JusticeFrom the incredible illustrator of Dreams from Many Rivers comes the story of Benito Juárez, a man who devoted himself to his country and became president of Mexico. Juárez grew up in a village filled with orange trees, surrounded by the mountains of Oaxaca....
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Niagara: A History of the Falls"The noble cataract reflects the concerns, failings, and fancies of the times. If we gaze deeply into its shimmering image we can perhaps discern our own." - page 22"[Pierre Berton] makes a serious and convincing case for Niagara's pivotal role in North American history....
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MexikidAn unforgettable graphic memoir about a Mexican-American boy's family and their adventure-filled road trip to bring their abuelito back from Mexico to live with them that National Book Award Finalist Victoria Jamieson calls "one of those books that kids will pass to their friends...
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Nueve Veces El Asombro / Astonished Nine Times«Alberto Ruy Sánchez es la mejor carta que tiene la literatura mexicana y una de las mejores de nuestra lengua. -Octavio Paz Éste es un libro escrito sobre la piel, como un tatuaje ritual del deseo. En nueve capítulos de nueve fragmentos cada uno,...
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Team Up: Frida Kahlo & Diego RiveraAll kinds of couples, all kinds of relationships, just one focus: a shared talent. This series looks at the magic that can happen when two talents meet and work together to do inspiring things, in a more in-depth version of the bestselling series Little...
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Extrañas / Strangers«No era un animal, quizá tampoco un ser humano, parecía un ángel roto, perdido, ignorado. Inglaterra, 1781. William Burton, un joven noble, afronta un encuentro cuya intensidad marcará y cambiará su vida. Resuelto, se embarca en una aventura donde conocerá a los genios de...
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East Grand LakeShayne won't get out of the car. It's the summer of 1972 and the whole family has come up to Grandpa Murphy's cottage for their annual trip. Three generations are out on the property, swimming, wandering through the forest, fixing up the clubhouse, getting...
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The Ghosts of SpiritwoodThe first English edition of the popular young adult novel Les fantômes de Spiritwood, originally published in French by Éditions de la nouvelle plume, translated by the authorOne summer night, Ethan and four friends are heading north of Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, for a weekend of...
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Tragicomedia Mexicana 1: La Vida En México de 1940 a 1970 / Tragicomedy 1La radiografía de un país hecha por uno de sus más conocidos autores.En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos, los modos del "tapadismo" y del fraude electoral, las leyes no escritas del...
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Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for VengeanceA riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter--from a global investigative correspondent for The New York Times "A work of journalistic...
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Gardening with Grandma: An Everyday Adventure SeriesEnjoy this everyday adventure series about Grandma & Her Munchkins. Profitez de cette série d'aventures quotidiennes avec Mémé et ses Petits-tout. In this issue grandma and her munchkins play in the garden. Dans cette édition, Mémé et ses Petits-tout jouent dans le jardin. A...
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Christmas in MexicoChristmas is a special holiday that is celebrated all over the world. Look inside to learn the customs and traditions of people in Mexico. Create a special Christmas craft and make a tasty recipe, too! Comprehension Questions with answers. Includes a support page of...
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