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Large Print Word Search Puzzle Book: You Were Born In 1940: Word Search Large Print Puzzle Book for Adults - Word Search For Adults Large PrintWord Search is also an excellent brain game. If you like your puzzles big and easy to see then Large Print Word Search Puzzles is the book for you. This is a large-format word search book with easy-to-read type. This Book Included- 85 PUZZLES...
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Ghosts in North AmericaIn South Carolina, a man dressed in grey walks along the beach. Is it someone going for a stroll? Or could it be a ghostly omen that warns residents of an oncoming storm? In this title, reluctant readers will explore ghost stories of North...
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Winnipeg Cycling: 30 Great Routes to Explore Winnipeg and BeyondMake Cycling an Adventure! Discover Winnipeg and beyond with 30 unique routes designed for all cyclists of all skill levels. With routes ranging from 26 to 50 kilometres, with shortcuts as short as 5 kilometres, anyone can hop on their bike and explore what...
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The Story of CanadaFrom the first Viking setting foot on what is now Canadian soil through to WWII this book brings to life major events from the history of the Dominion.The Story of Canada is the very definition of a living book. Stories are told in a...
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Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist Volume 14How the rhetoric of terrorism has been used against high-profile movements to justify the oppression and suppression of Indigenous activists. New Indigenous movements are gaining traction in North America: the Missing and Murdered Women and Idle No More movements in Canada, and the Native...
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Faces in the Crowd: The Jews of CanadaStarting with the first steps on Canadian soil in the eighteenth century to the present day, Faces in the Crowd introduces the reader to the people and personalities who made up the Canadian Jewish experience, from the Jewish roots of the NHL's Ross trophy...
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The Franciscans in Colonial MexicoGenerations of scholars have studied the multifaceted experiences of the Franciscans in Mexico and how the Franciscan order shaped New Spain and the early Mexican republic. Recent scholarship has given long-overdue attention to the evangelized natives. Most of these works focus on a specific...
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Storms of Controversy: The Secret Avro Arrow Files RevealedThe development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved...
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All the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold StoriesAll the Ship's Men: HMCS Athabaskan's Untold Stories" is a collection of personal stories of sailors on-board Canada's Tribal Class Destroyer, HMCS Athabaskan when it was sunk by enemy fire mere days before the Normandy Invasion. This revised edition includes seventeen new tales. Author:...
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The Light Streamed Beneath It: A Memoir of Grief and CelebrationA Publishers Weekly Notable Book49th Shelf Recommended Read A modern gay memoir exploring love, death, pain, and community that will resonate long after the last page. "This is an embodied story of love, loss, and recovery -- raw, candid, and filled with a sense...
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Spencer the Siksik Makes a New Friend: English EditionSpencer the siksik is excited for the first day of school! When he gets to class, the teacher introduces a new student: Gary the snow goose. Spencer doesn't want to let Gary play with him and his friends. He thinks Gary will just confuse...
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Politics of Command: Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton and the Canadian Army, 1939-1943In December 1943, Lieutenant-General A.G.L. McNaughton resigned from command of the 1st Canadian Army amidst criticism of his poor generalship and of his abrasive personality. Despite McNaughton's importance to the Canadian Army during the first four years of the Second World War, little has...
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The Great Stork DerbyIt's 1926 in Toronto, and Emm Benbow pressures his wife to have babies for cash.An ambitious Emm Benbow convinces his wife, Izora, to enter the Great Stork Derby, a contest which offers a sizable cash award to the woman who has the most babies...
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Kilmeny of the OrchardA single young man is visiting Prince Edward Island on a teaching assignment, and becomes captivated by a sweet, endearing mute woman called Kilmeny Gordon. The teacher becomes enchanted by her natural beauty and musical talent, leading him to fall hopelessly in love. Eric...
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Rum-Runners and Mobsters: Prohibition's 100th Anniversary in NewfoundlandProhibition in the United States created new opportunities for organized crime to make profits even they couldn't imagine. It did not take long for the mobsters to push out the independent bootleggers and take control of the whole operation inside the United States. Their...
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Newfoundland's Era of Corruption: Responsible Government 1855-1933In Newfoundland's Era of Corruption: Responsible Government 1855-1933 Jack Fitzgerald delves deep into the political records of the Responsible Government era in Newfoundland to reveal the widespread corruption and incompetence of Newfoundland politicians. In just forty-five years, Self-Government was handled so irresponsibly England considered...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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The Explorer's Guide to Algonquin ParkAlgonquin is a near-North paradise of 3,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers atop the rugged Canadian Shield. This idyllic haven from urban life is easily accessible from dozens of major U.S. and Canadian population centers. Michael Runtz has spent decades observing and...
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Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century MexicoDuring the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman...
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Codex Sierra: A Nahuatl-Mixtec Book of Accounts from Colonial MexicoOne of the earliest texts written in a Native American language, the Codex Sierra is a sixteenth-century book of accounts from Santa Catalina Texupan, a community in the Mixteca region of the modern state of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano's transcription and translation, the first in...
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