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The Sonoran Dynasty in Mexico: Revolution, Reform, and RepressionTwo generals from the northwestern state of Sonora, Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles, dominated Mexico between 1920 and 1934, having risen to prominence in the course of the Mexican Revolution. Torn between popular demands for ending the privileges of wealthy foreign investors and...
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Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued MeRescued from a puppy mill in 2010, Freddie was a bright light in lives of his human companions and the ultimate muse for biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies to explore the human-animal bond in his books. As Grant helped Freddie overcome the fears and traumas of...
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Towards a Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada Volume 99In recent surveys, one in four Canadians say they have no religion. A century ago Canada was widely considered to be a Christian nation, and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some were determined to resist. In the 1920s...
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None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948Today, we think of Canada as a compassionate, open country to which refugees from other countries have always been welcome. However, between the years 1933 and 1948, when the Jews of Europe were looking for a place of refuge from Nazi persecution, Canada refused...
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Raven's FeastAfter the Raven (Yaahl) had finished creating the world; he realized that he was lonely. So he invited the whole world to join him in Haida Gwaii for the greatest feast you could ever imagine. At the end of the Feast each person, from...
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Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls Lib/EWhen a powerful desert spirit kidnaps her sister, Cece Rios must learn forbidden magic to get her back, in this own voices middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of The Storm Runner and Aru Shah and the End of Time. Living in the remote...
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Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River ValleyA small river in a big city, the Don River Valley is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto's growth. With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from...
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Monkey BoulevardAs displaced persons after World War II, the Piech Family chose not to return to their home in Poland, but continued from an army camp in Italy, to a Polish Dependents camp in England, finally immigrating to Canada. Despite the tragic losses suffered during...
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The Terror of the Coast: Land Alienation and Colonial War on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, 1849-1863On April 20, 1863, the British naval gunboat Forward attacked a Native village on Kuper Island. The naval officers believed that the village harboured individuals involved in two recent assaults against European transients in the Gulf Islands. The gunboat fired on the village and...
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A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to AlaskaA soul-searching personal account of a young man's 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavas, Alaska, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora, fauna, and landscapes. In 2014, twenty-four-year-old geography student David Norwell set off on a daunting kayak journey...
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We Lived In Danger: From True Prairie Boy to Royal Regina Rifleman: A Western Canadian's WWII Memoir"We Lived in Danger" is a deeply personal and enchanting story about a small-town Canadian boy from Saskatchewan, Victor Hepburn Small, that unveils a rare and fascinating slice-of-life vignette of the World War II era. "Vic's" formative years in Big Sky country, and his...
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Urban Indians in a Silver City: Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns,...
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Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the turbulent end of China's imperial system, violent revolutionary movements, and the fraught establishment of a republican government. During these decades of reform and revolution, millions of far-flung "overseas Chinese" remained connected to Chinese domestic movements....
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The Conquest of New SpainVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under...
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Puritans, Quakers and Witches: Five Hundred Years of the Haight FamilyAuthor: Nancy PenrosePublisher: Nextgen Story: Custom PublishingPublished: 10/03/2023Pages: 130Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35dISBN: 9781990543104
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Mexico's Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán: From Deserts to CloudsMexico's Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán: From Deserts to Clouds provides an accessible and photographic view of the culture, history, and environment of an extraordinary region of southern Mexico. The Valleys of Cuicatlán and Tehuacán are lauded by botanists for their spectacular plant life--they...
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Heroes of the Acadian Resistance: The Story of Joseph Beausoleil Broussard and Pierre II Surette 1702-1765Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of the young men who led an Acadian resistance in 18th century Nova Scotia. They fought valiantly in a guerilla campaign against the British to save their homes and families from destruction and...
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Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the KlondikeBetween 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more...
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El Corredor O Las Almas Que Lleva El Diablo / The Racer or the Bats Out of Hell«Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz condensa con gran acierto sus obsesiones literarias, las que lo ligan, ineludiblemente, a la más arriesgada y singular narrativa mexicana actual . -Emiliano Monge «El corredor es un alarido de metal y literatura cuya virtud primordial es llevar al lector a...
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DreamersAuthor: Graciela LimónPublisher: Page Vision PressPublished: 09/15/2023Pages: 196Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781960946225
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