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Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueenShortly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1886, two young sisters from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, took the train west to British Columbia. Jessie and Annie McQueen each intended to teach there for three years and then return home. In fact they...
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The Writings of David Thompson, Volume 2: The Travels, 1848 Version, and Associated TextsDavid Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life in the fur trade but an extended meditation on the land and Native peoples of western North America. The...
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The High RoadThis deeply funny satire continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth. Just when Daniel Addison thinks he can escape his job as a political aide, Angus McLintock, the no-hope candidate he helped...
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Despair and Other Stories of OttawaThese eight stories reveal a world that's both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams...
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Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of MexicoTony Cohan's On Mexican Time, his chronicle of discovering a new life in the small Mexican mountain town of San Miguel de Allende, has beguiled readers and become a travel classic. Now, in Mexican Days, point of arrival becomes point of departure as--faced with...
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The Girl Who Could Silence the WindSonia's entire village believes she has a gift, but it's only in leaving home that she finds out who she truly is. A compelling tale from a rich voice in young adult fiction. Sixteen-year-old Sonia Ocampo was born on the night of the worst...
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Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in MexicoA Year in Provence meets Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in this lively and entertaining account of a couple's year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for AARP magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees...
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East Saint JohnEast Saint John, affectionately called the East Side, became a part of the City of Saint John in 1967. For decades prior to its merger, the city and east side community of the Parish of Simonds cooperated in many areas of municipal service. East...
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Saint John: 1877-1980In its 225 years of existence, Saint John has undergone numerous transformations to become the city it is today. In 1783, an influx of American settlers resulted in upwards of 16,000 residents, andby 1867, the city was the fourth largest in Canada. The most...
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Saint John's North End: 1864-1975With Saint John's North End, we continue our journey into the past of this lively and beloved city. This new pictorial history combines a wealth of over two hundred photographs taken between 1864 and 1975 with insightful commentary. The images cover all areas of...
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Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous CommunitiesA revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through never-before-published archival photographs--a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. In 2015, writer and journalist Paul Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation...
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The Code of Kings: The Language of Seven Sacred Maya Temples and TombsThis unique and extraordinary guide to seven major sites of Maya civilization highlights the pioneering work of two great scholars of ancient America. For readers at every level -- from the casual tourist to the serious student -- The Code of Kings relies on...
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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of CanadaThe follow-up to the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness(TM) (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour). Will Ferguson spent a three-year period criss-crossing Canada and back again. In a helicopter above the barrenlands of the...
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Out of Darkness--Light: A History of Canadian Military IntelligenceCanada has a rich and interesting military intelligence history, one that continues to grow at a rapidly expanding rate. Intelligence is a key element of operations, enabling commanders to successfully plan and conduct operations. It enables them to win decisive battles and it helps...
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The View from Casa Chepitos: A Journey Beyond the BorderOn a ten-day a visit to San Miguel de Allende, Judith Gille falls in love...with a hot pink house on a rundown alleyway. Without consulting her husband or knowing how she's going to pay for it, she makes the owners a full price offer....
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The Road to YesterdayA collection of short stories--available for the first time in the U.S.--by the acclaimed creator of Anne of Green Gables. For Anne and Gilbert Blythe, life in a small village is never dull because of all the entertaining gossip and the odd and funny...
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Patrias: Cuatro Amigos, DOS Países Y El Destino de la Gran Migración Mexicana / Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great MexiDel premiado periodista y experto en inmigraci n Alfredo Corchado nos llega la extensa historia de la gran migraci n mexicana desde finales de los a os ochenta hasta la actualidad. Cuando Alfredo Corchado se traslada a Filadelfia en 1987 como corresponsal de The...
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Abrazando El Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the Us-Mexico Border Volume 40Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. As partners and family members were dispersed...
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Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican RevolutionIn this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president L zaro C rdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not govern.This...
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Canadian History for DummiesA wild ride through Canadian history, fully revised and updated This new edition of Canadian History For Dummies takes readers on a thrilling ride through Canadian history, from indigenous native cultures and early French and British settlements through Paul Martin's shaky minority government. This...
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