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The Devil Takes You HomeFrom Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Locus award-nominated author, Gabino Iglesias, comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family, even if it means a descent into violence--both supernatural and of our own terrifying world.Buried in debt due to...
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The Spirit of Pehdzeh KiMaintaining a sustainable lifestyle and following traditional values in the face of a barrage of mining and Canadian business interests is quite a challenge. This book is a comprehensive account of the history, lifestyle and values of a small Slavey Dene community in the...
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Memories - Short Stories of the OutdoorsMemories - Short Stories of the Outdoors is a diverse collection of real-life tales by a passionate outdoorsman. There are so many wonderful ways to experience nature. Paddling, fishing, hunting, skiing, traveling, or simply being outdoors doing not much at all, are just some...
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A Dog and His Boy: The Discovery of the AncientsWolf and John are in store for a very exciting summer. John graduates from 8th grade, is invited to his first formal affair, and gets a girlfriend all before heading to British Columbia for this summer's adventure.Southworth Mining is exploring an area north of...
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Robbie Visits Cape Race: Newfoundland AdventuresRobbie is about to go on an adventure with his mom to visit some of his favourite places along the Irish Loop in Newfoundland. He can barely sleep as he wonders what tomorrow will bring. Will Clifford the Lighthouse Keeper at Cape Race remember...
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The Two LightsThe tall red and white striped tower had stood on the headland for many years. Through fair and foul weather, it had successfully guided vessels into safe harbours. This, however, was a vicious storm. Could it once again bring frightened and weary mariners to...
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We Belong to the Drum / Mistikwaskihk KitipêyimikonawThe drum represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth. We all belong to the earth and we all belong to the drum. Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and the sounds of the drum. But when he...
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Tales From the Hollow: The Story of Hogg's Hollow and York MillsThis story begins some 13,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, before travelling thousands of years ahead to the early pioneers and the farms they established, and right up to the present day.Readers will learn how the local St. John's...
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The Blue CastleThe story is set during the 1920s in the fictional town of Deerwood, located in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. Deerwood is based on Bala, Ontario, which Montgomery visited in 1922. Maps of the two towns show similarities.This novel is considered one of...
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After Icebergs With a Painter: A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around NewfoundlandThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Tourism in Mexico: Mexico Travel Information: Traveling in Mexico.Mexico is a country with a rich history, delicious cuisine, and huge stretches of coastline. Whether you want to walk the grounds of ancient Mesoamerican monuments, rest on the white sands of the country's many resort beaches, or go snorkeling off the coast of...
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P Is for Pinata: A Mexico AlphabetFacts about Mexico and its people are introduced letter by letter.Author: Tony JohnstonPublisher: Sleeping Bear PressPublished: 09/23/2008Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 11.30h x 10.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9781585361441Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.8Point Value: 1Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 126905 / P Is for Pinata:...
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Aztecs: An InterpretationIn 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of...
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Before Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial MexicoThis book opens new dimensions on race in Latin America by examining the extreme caste groups of colonial Mexico. In tracing their experiences, a broader understanding of the connection between mestizaje (Latin America's modern ideology of racial mixture) and the colonial caste system is...
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The Red SashThe Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur trading post of Fort William, on Lake Superior, nearly 200 years ago. The Red Sash is the story of a young Metis boy who lives near the fur...
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A Salmon for SimonSimon has always longed to catch a salmon. But when his luck suddenly changes and an eagle accidentally drops one into a tidal pool, Simon is torn between sympathy for the fish and the desire to catch something of his own.All summer long, Simon,...
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The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915Sarah Carter provides a detailed description of marriage as a diverse social institution in nineteenth-century Western Canada, and the subsequent ascendancy of Christian, lifelong, heterosexual, monogamous marriage as an instrument to implement dominant British-Canadian values. It took work to impose the monogamous model of...
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From the Tundra to the Trenches"My name is Weetaltuk; Eddy Weetaltuk. My Eskimo tag name is E9-422." So begins From the "Tundra to the Trenches." Weetaltuk means "innocent eyes" in Inuktitut, but to the Canadian government, he was known as E9-422: E for Eskimo, 9 for his community, 422...
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Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870sIn the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted,...
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In Order to Live Untroubled: Inuit of the Central Artic 1550 to 1940Despite the long human history of the Canadian central arctic, there is still little historical writing on the Inuit peoples of this vast region. Although archaeologists and anthropologists have studied ancient and contemporary Inuit societies, the Inuit world in the crucial period from the...
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