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and away they went: a saskatchewan adventureJack lost his favourite balloon, but don't worry, Amelia will help him find it Follow Jack and Amelia on a journey of friendship and adventure through beautiful Saskatchewan in and away they went.Author: Krista McDivitt, Michael SlobodianPublisher: Tellwell TalentPublished: 04/12/2019Pages: 34Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.69lbsSize:...
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Nature Hikes: Near-Toronto Trails and AdventuresA great guide to visiting 39 Conservation Areas in the Toronto region with new full-color maps. Toronto residents and visitors can find it difficult to get far enough away from city noise and hustle to experience the restorative quiet of a natural setting. But...
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A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early AmericaControversy over the role of human activity in causing climate change is pervasive in contemporary society. But, as Anya Zilberstein shows in this work, debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of...
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Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History AliveFor many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters...
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Run: Puffin Classics EditionWinston MacDonald is in trouble. He's been suspended from school and he's run away from home. After the police pick him up, he is sent to spend time with his father--a newspaper columnist who hasn't been around much since the family split up a...
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Stones for IbarraWinner of the National Book Award for First Work of Fiction A very good novel indeed, with echoes of Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Katherine Anne Porter, and even Graham Greene.--The New York Times Richard and Sara Everton, just over and just under forty,...
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The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore IslandsComprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and...
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Citizens and Believers: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Jalisco, 1900-1930This book shows the centrality of religion to the making of the 1910 Mexican revolution. It goes beyond conventional studies of church-state conflict to focus on Catholics as political subjects whose religious identity became a fundamental aspect of citizenship during the first three decades...
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Dancing on the Sun Stone: Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio PazDancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women's lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who...
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Where Men Stand TallThis story is incredible. It describes the life style and working conditions Ed van Zeeland finds himself in, in a remote logging camp. He alternately is a tree planter, compass man, timber cruiser and road lay out man, and this thrilling, fascinating, heart-stopping narrative...
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Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830-1960Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change....
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Thirst!: A Story of Prohibition In OntarioProhibition was the law of the land in both Ontario and the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Yet because of the one key difference between Ontario's Temperance Act and America's Eighteenth Amendment, smugglers could make small fortunes transporting Ontario booze through the...
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Scandalous Conduct: Canadian Officer Courts Martial, 1914-45A critical perspective on the ideas of honor and dishonor in the Canadian military. Drunken disorderliness. Cowardice in battle. Sexual indecency. Following court-martials for disgraceful deeds, hundreds of Canadian officers lost their commissions during the First and Second World Wars. Scandalous Conduct investigates the...
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Building the Army's Backbone: Canadian Non-Commissioned Officers in the Second World WarThe remarkable story of how Canada built a corps of non-commissioned officers from scratch at the start of World War II. When Canada declared war on Germany in 1939, its military comprised only about 4,000 active and 50,000 reserve personnel. Unable to function without...
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River Meets the SeaA spellbinding, spirited tale of two men exploring masculinity, race, and belonging in a desperate search to feel at home in their own skins. An enthralling nautical epic, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of a white-passing Indigenous foster child in 1940s...
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Swindler: A.E. Dawson and The Canadian ProblemInsurance salesman. Farm hand. Bay Street elite. Writer. Grandfather. International criminal.A.E. Dawson was all these things--and more. Part family memoir, part criminal history and part adventure story, Swindler journeys from the bucolic English countryside to Toronto's high society and a fetid Mexican jail. All...
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Swindler: A.E. Dawson and The Canadian ProblemInsurance salesman. Farm hand. Bay Street elite. Writer. Grandfather. International criminal.A.E. Dawson was all these things--and more. Part family memoir, part criminal history and part adventure story, Swindler journeys from the bucolic English countryside to Toronto's high society and a fetid Mexican jail. All...
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The Blue CastleValancy Stirling is 29 and has never been in love. She's spent her entire life on a quiet little street in an ugly little house and never dared to contradict her domineering mother and her unforgiving aunt. But one day she receives a shocking,...
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1492-2020 Hispanic Heritage Timeline: Truth Versus Consequences We Did Not Cross the Border from Mexico, the Border Crossed USThe Hispanic heritage timeline from 1492 to 2020 evolved with Christopher Columbus and his famous discovery of America in 1492. The voyage for Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand and the Royal Crown of Old Castile, present-day Spain. The voyage was...
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Knitorious Murder Mysteries Books 1-3: A Knitorious Murder Mystery SeriesA small-town yarn store owner joins forces with her well-meaning and quirky family and friends to solve crimes. This charming cozy mystery series will entertain crafters, pet lovers, and foodies alike.If you like your cozy mysteries with a bit of humour, small town Canadian...
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