North America local history
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La Cristiada: The Mexican People's War for Religious LibertyIn a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fought on the shores of North America. Taking place in Mexico in the 1920s, La Cristiada--the Cristero War--was the result of...
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The DamselDonald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wrote twenty-four fast-paced, hardboiled novels featuring Parker, a shrewd career criminal with a talent for heists. Using the same nom de plume, Westlake also completed a separate...
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Great Escapes #1: Nazi Prison Camp EscapeAre you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, the first installment in a brand-new, edge-of-your-seat series based on real events In spring 1942, Royal Air Force pilot Bill Ash's plane...
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This Will Only Take a Minute: Volume 16Brevity is the soul of wit, as William Shakespeare wrote in one of his longer plays, Hamlet. Flash Fiction, brief stories, have become one of the most exciting sub-genres of contemporary fiction. In This Will Only Take a Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction, Guernica Editions...
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First Canadian Army: Victory in Europe 1944-45It's rare for a book to capture your attention from the very first sentence, but kudos to the authors of First Canadian Army for doing just that... I, too, feel that Canada's contributions to victory in both world wars have unfortunately been downplayed or...
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Treasure Hunt in the City"Ramona goes on her first big trip to Mexico City. She has to find a way to have fun with her cousins. Can she save her dream of becoming a successful world traveler?"--Author: Cynthia HarmonyPublisher: Teacher Created MaterialsPublished: 09/01/2022Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 6.05h...
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Falling HourTHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023All talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debut It's a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over...
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Live Nude Aliens and Other StoriesFrom a technological dystopia to small town Canada, this collection of short fiction explores themes of change, memory, and things hiding in the shadows. These tales, previously-published and new, take classic space opera, pest problems, and the recent past in new and fresh directions.Will...
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Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming"Our names - Atiqput - are very meaningful. They are our identification. They are our Spirits. We are named after what's in the sky for strength, what's in the water ... the land, body parts. Every name is attached to every part of our...
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Secret CryptOriginally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature. Elizondo's impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a small group of characters who are part...
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The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico CityWhen late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as guarda faroleros, or "lantern guards," maintained the streetlamps and attempted to...
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Myth of PterygiumThe story of a failed poet struggling with vision loss, personal crises, and what it means to be an arms dealer in a quasi-dystopian Mexico City. This debut novel is set in a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico City--endless traffic jams, relentless clouds...
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Insight Guides Explore Canada (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)Insight Guides Explore CanadaTravel made easy. Ask local experts.Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now with free eBook.Discover the best of Canada with this unique travel guide, packed full of insider information and stunning images. From making sure you don't...
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The DollA young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little...
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Blue and Wild: Amazing Marine Animals of Baja CaliforniaA fascinating journey to discover everything there is to know about the most important marine animals of Baja California. Thanks to this book, children will transform themselves into marine biologists and will meet so many amazing creatures: from the giant squid to the mysterious...
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The True History of the Conquest of New Spain: The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Unabridged Edition Vol.1-2The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Unabridged Edition (Vol.1-2).The author of this original and charming production, to which he justly gives the title of 'The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, ' was himself one of the Conquistadores; one...
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La Raza Cosmética: Beauty, Identity, and Settler Colonialism in Postrevolutionary MexicoIn the decades following the Mexican Revolution, nation builders, artists, and intellectuals manufactured ideologies that continue to give shape to popular understandings of indigeneity and mestizaje today. Postrevolutionary identity tropes emerged as part of broader efforts to reunify the nation and solve pressing social...
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La Travesía de Santiago (Santiago's Road Home)Cuando cruzaba la frontera de M xico con Estados Unidos un muchacho se detiene por ICE en esta novela actual e imp vida escrita por la autora galardonada Alexandra D az. La cama cruje bajo el peso del cuerpo tembloroso de Santiago. Dicen que...
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A New Hope for Mexico: Saying No to Corruption, Violence, and Trump's Wall"THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WE CAN'T ADDRESS . . . WHOEVER MAY OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE." "I'm not going to limit myself to condemning corruption and calling for its eradication; I also want to set out . . . a new politics, a different...
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A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug WarThe term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans...
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