North America local history
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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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White RavenLittle Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood.All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of...
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Día de Los MuertosD a de los Muertos is a special holiday to remember and celebrate loved ones. It is a Mexican tradition held to honor those who have died. Some people dress up and go to parades. Others sing, dance, and eat special food. Others decorate...
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Archiving Mexican Masculinities in DiasporaIn Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges machismo--a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative Latinx men's misogyny--with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border. Guidotti-Hernández foregrounds Mexican men's emotional vulnerabilities and intimacies in their diasporic communities....
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The Trail of the ConestogaAn historically accurate novel about the journey of Mennonites from Pennsylvania to Canada, and their settlement in Kitchener County, Ontario.Author: Bertha Mabel DunhamPublisher: Benediction ClassicsPublished: 03/18/2011Pages: 206Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781789431940This title is not returnable
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J'Ai Le Coeur Rempli de BonheurQu'est-ce qui te remplit le coeur de bonheur ? Le soleil sur ton visage ? L'odeur de la banique qui cuit au four ? Tenir la main d'une personne que tu aimes ? Ce magnifique album cartonn , illustr par la talentueuse artiste Julie...
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GhostkeepersIt was a Nation exploding into civil war. In 1992, the collapse of the former Yugoslavia triggered an international armed conflict that would last more than 3 years and eventually see nearly 100,000 people killed. Canadians were thrown into what was declared a peacekeeping...
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Popular Day Hikes: WatertonPopular Day Hikes: Waterton covers 33 hikes in southern Alberta's beautiful Waterton Lakes National Park. From short, easy walks, to longer, full-day hikes, to easy scrambles, this book outlines mountain trips for all ages and all levels of difficulty. Some of the hikes included...
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Canada Central Map- Waterproof - Tear-Resistant - Travel MapNational Geographic's Canada Central Adventure Map provides global travelers with the perfect combination of detail and perspective in a highly functional travel tool. The map includes the locations of cities and towns with a user-friendly index, a clearly...
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Clatter Bash!: A Day of the Dead CelebrationGet ready for a colorfully entertaining Day of the Dead celebration! Graveyard skeletons shake, rattle, and roll as a Mexican family marks the annual Day of the Dead holiday.At dusk on the holiday known as Day of the Dead, a Mexican family has set...
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Looks Like Daylight: Voices of Indigenous KidsAuthor Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories. They come from all over the continent -- from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaii to North Carolina. Their stories are sometimes heartbreaking; more...
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The Distance Between Us: Young Readers EditionAward-winning author Reyna Grande shares her compelling experience of crossing borders and cultures in this middle grade adaptation of her "compelling...unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) memoir, The Distance Between Us. When her parents make the dangerous and illegal trek across the Mexican border in pursuit of...
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The Florentine Codex: An Encyclopedia of the Nahua World in Sixteenth-Century MexicoHonorable Mention, 2021 LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico SectionIn the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades of work on an extraordinary encyclopedic project titled General History...
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Gooseberries Have ThornsGooseberries Have Thorns chronicles everyday experiences, relationships, and major events in the lives of Maggie's ancestors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The narrative focuses primarily on Maggie and how she navigates various circumstances in racialized Nova Scotia in the early twentieth century. Maggie...
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Champlain's DreamWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain--soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France. Born on France's...
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Solimar: The Sword of the MonarchsAuthor: Pam Munoz RyanPublisher: Youth Large PrintPublished: 10/12/2022Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.58h x 5.51w x 0.71dISBN: 9798885781077Audience: Ages 9-12
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Framing Complexity in Formative MesoamericaA fresh examination of variable social and economic processes, Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica explores nascent social complexity during the Preclassic/Formative period in Mesoamerica and addresses broader social questions about egalitarian and transegalitarian prehispanic Mesoamerican cultural groups. Contributors present multiple lines of evidence demonstrating...
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La puerta secreta: The Secret DoorNiños y adultos disfrutarán de este libro de capítulos mágico con ilustraciones a todo color para leer en voz alta o para leer por su cuenta! Es un libro perfecto para familias y niños de 7 a 10 años.Rico, Diego y Araceli Martínez pensaron...
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Luca's Bridge/El Puente de Luca: The Future of Patterns✭Tejas Star Reading List, 2020-21✭ALSC Notable Children's Book 2020Luca has never lived outside the U.S., but when his parents receive a letter in the mail, the family must pack up and leave home for a strange land.Together in their car, Luca, his brother Paco,...
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The Harvest Birds / Los Pájaros de la CosechaBilingual English/Spanish. The zanate birds advise Juan to keep the weeds around his land and to plant beans, squash, and corn together.Juan Zanate used to sit under his favorite tree-with his only friends, the harvest birds-dreaming and planning his life. Juan had big dreams...
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