North America local history
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Apprendre Avec Scholastic: Touche À Tout: Animaux Du CanadaSee below for English description.Les petites mains des enfants adoreront cajoler le doux tamia rayé et les autres animaux du Canada en touchant les zones texturées à l'intérieur de ce livre.Tout cartonné, ce livre robuste deviendra rapidement le préféré des petits, avec ses pages...
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The Gorilla Man Strangler Case: Serial Killer Earle NelsonThe hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in...
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Mexico Got Lucky: Updated EditionThe alarm of my Mercedes Benz went screaming into alert mode. I hustled back to the four door sedan to find no Lucky!!!What would you do if someone you truly loved was taken? To what lengths would you travel? How far into danger would...
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The Real-Life Murder Clubs: Citizens Solving True CrimesThe story behind real-life clubs of ordinary citizens who come together to solve true crime mysteries--including the sleuths behind Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer In 2019, Netflix had a hit with documentary series Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer....
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Patrick and Elizabeth Long: A Pioneer Family in the Long Point SettlementInspired by a short article on her family background and a deep passion for history, author Mae Long Pagdin spends thirty-five years haunting pioneer cemeteries, library archives, municipal records offices, and locales in Ireland, Pennsylvania, and Ontario to research her Long family ancestors, beginning...
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Day Trips from CalgaryCalgary lies at the heart of southern Alberta's most spectacular landscape, a landscape that includes the fantastically shaped hoodoos of Drumheller and the mountains of Kananaskis country. Now in full color, this completely updated and expanded edition of the regional bestseller Day Trips from...
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Sweeping the Way: Divine Transformation in the Aztec Festival of OchpaniztliIncorporating human sacrifice, flaying, and mock warfare, the pre-Columbian Mexican ceremony known as Ochpaniztli, or "Sweeping," has long attracted attention. Although among the best known of eighteen annual ceremonies, Ochpaniztli's significance has nevertheless been poorly understood. Ochpaniztli is known mainly from early colonial illustrated...
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Mary Manning: Grace Is Like New MusicCollaged photo-portraits of creative communities in New York and LondonA comprehensive monograph on New York-based photographer Mary Manning (born 1972), Grace Is Like New Music includes hundreds of images that span the last decade of their production and are arranged into multiphotographic compositions. Designed...
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Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous IdentityDistorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts...
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Native River: The Columbia RememberedIn images and narratives, Native River recreates the untamed Mid-Columbia--the river as it once was, before the building of seven major dams. Featuring a wealth of illustrations, maps, and photographs, many never before published, this finely crafted book focuses on the 350-mile reach of...
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Murder, She Wrote: Margaritas & MurderSan Miguel de Allende is a picturesque town in central Mexico's highlands that attracts artists, retirees, and those in need of some rest and relaxation. So when publisher Vaughan Buckley and his wife, Olga, invite Jessica to join them for a little R &...
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The Lawless RoadsIn the late 1930s, Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to report on how the inhabitants had reacted to the brutal anticlerical purges of President Calles. The Lawless Roads is his spellbinding record of that journey. Taking him through the tropical states of...
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Paradise d'Entremont Private InvestigatorParadise d'Entremont, intrepid private detective of Mavillette Beach and Hawaii, meets new challenges at home at at work in book four of this much-loved series by best-selling author Carol Ann Cole.What is the truth behind the story the coroner brings her? What's up with...
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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro: Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining TownThis is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro's operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of...
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Preston Street - Corso Italia: An Informal History of Italians in OttawaA written monument to the Italian Canadian community of Ottawa before that memory forever dissipates into the realm of youthful forgetfulness and disregard, this study explores the history of Preston Street along with its social groups, landmarks, and the evolution of its identity.Literary Nonfiction.Author:...
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Scratch & Sketch Canada: An Art Activity Book for Adventurous ArtistsAuthor: Talia LevyPublisher: Peter Pauper Press Inc.Published: 08/11/2022Pages: 64Binding Type: SpiralWeight: 0.80lbsISBN: 9781441339348
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Journey to the Hopewell Star★★★★★ GOLD MEDAL WINNER, 2021 READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (Young Adult - Sci-Fi)A mysterious star could bring stability to her world...or lead her to a blistering end. Quiet and introverted twelve-year-old Sam Sanderson is comfortable living a simple life on her family's peaceful...
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Stormy Passage: Mexico from Colony to Republic, 1750-1850In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and...
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Iain of New Scotland: with a foreword by Diana GabaldonThirteen-year-old Iain Robertson is homesick for the Highlands of Scotland. It's September 1773, and he has just arrived in Nova Scotia with his parents and little sister after the long, disastrous, Atlantic voyage of the ship Hector. They wanted a new life in New...
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Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Brain Feel DifferentNATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the...
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