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The Dark History of American Presidents (Unabridged)
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The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory…
The office of the American President has evolved dramatically over the last 200 years, from George Washington's heroic posturing as leader of a renegade nation, to calculated cunning as commander of a nuclear superpower. This colourful inventory…
Unlikely Radicals - The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War (Unabridged)
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For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separat…
For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separat…
City of Incurable Women (Unabridged)
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In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored" City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria…
In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored" City of Incurable Women is a brilliant exploration of the type of female bodily and psychic pain once commonly diagnosed as hysteria…
The Tin Ring - A Remarkable Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust (unabridged)
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The Tin Ring by Zdenka Fantlova is read by Ann Rachlin. A unique and incredible story of love, human endurance, and willpower. How a 17-year-old girl survived the horrors of six Nazi concentration camps. The author, now 99 years old, is a compelling …
The Tin Ring by Zdenka Fantlova is read by Ann Rachlin. A unique and incredible story of love, human endurance, and willpower. How a 17-year-old girl survived the horrors of six Nazi concentration camps. The author, now 99 years old, is a compelling …
John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Charles Chaplin, Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Octavio Paz, Franklin Chang - A Short Biography Of Great People In History, Vol. 6 (Unabridged)
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Volume containing the biographies in English of the following characters: Francisco Morazán, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, Justo Arosemena, Simón Bolívar, Alberto Masferrer and Rubén Darío
Volume containing the biographies in English of the following characters: Francisco Morazán, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Márquez, Justo Arosemena, Simón Bolívar, Alberto Masferrer and Rubén Darío
The Ultimate Road Trip - All 89 Games with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ultimate Leafs Fan (Unabridged)
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&quot;If you like hockey and travel, you&apos;ll love this book." – Rick Vaive, Leafs captain and three-time 50-goal scorer <br/> The Ultimate Leafs Fan attended every Toronto Maple Leafs contest of the 2018-19 NHL season and in this lively account m…
&quot;If you like hockey and travel, you&apos;ll love this book." – Rick Vaive, Leafs captain and three-time 50-goal scorer <br/> The Ultimate Leafs Fan attended every Toronto Maple Leafs contest of the 2018-19 NHL season and in this lively account m…
My Body Is Distant - A Memoir (Unabridged)
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An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life – both virtual and IRL – as she explore…
An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging. In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life – both virtual and IRL – as she explore…
Outside In - A Political Memoir (Unabridged)
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Libby Davies has worked steadfastly for social justice both inside parliament and out on the streets for more than four decades. At nineteen, Davies became a community organizer in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She went on to serve in municipal and …
Libby Davies has worked steadfastly for social justice both inside parliament and out on the streets for more than four decades. At nineteen, Davies became a community organizer in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. She went on to serve in municipal and …
Call the Pharmacist (Abridged)
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Set in Glasgow, Elizabeth Roddick, an NHS award-winning pharmacist, gives a very personal account of her life in and out of her community pharmacy. Starting with her father&apos;s struggle as a chemist in 1938, she details the rich, humorous and some…
Set in Glasgow, Elizabeth Roddick, an NHS award-winning pharmacist, gives a very personal account of her life in and out of her community pharmacy. Starting with her father&apos;s struggle as a chemist in 1938, she details the rich, humorous and some…
And We Go On - A Memoir of the Great War (Unabridged)
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In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take h…
In the autumn of 1915 Will Bird was working on a farm in Saskatchewan when the ghost of his brother Stephen, killed by German mines in France, appeared before him in uniform. Rattled, Bird rushed home to Nova Scotia and enlisted in the army to take h…
I'm from Bouctouche, Me - Roots Matter (Unabridged)
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In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie to make impor…
In the 1950s most of Acadian society was poor, uneducated, isolated, and dominated by the Roman Catholic clergy. In the following decade two individuals, Pierre E. Trudeau and Louis J. Robichaud, pointed the way for Acadians like Savoie to make impor…
John Lennon - Life, Times and Assassination (Unabridged)
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In 1976 or 1977, «Lennon first started to dream about a stranger who asked for an album to be autographed then returned later, angry and with a loaded gun». Who really killed John Lennon? John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono moved to New York in 1971, i…
In 1976 or 1977, «Lennon first started to dream about a stranger who asked for an album to be autographed then returned later, angry and with a loaded gun». Who really killed John Lennon? John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono moved to New York in 1971, i…
Churchill - A History (Unabridged)
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Few statesmen have received so many honours as he did over the course of his career. Although several have received the Nobel Peace Prize, none save Churchill have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His was a career that had few parallels in Br…
Few statesmen have received so many honours as he did over the course of his career. Although several have received the Nobel Peace Prize, none save Churchill have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His was a career that had few parallels in Br…
Power, Prime Ministers and the Press - The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill (Unabridged)
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An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own. The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42 elections in the pas…
An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own. The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42 elections in the pas…
Aki-wayn-zih - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies - A Person as Worthy as the Earth, Book 102 (Unabridged)
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Members of Eli Baxter&amp;#39;s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story abou…
Members of Eli Baxter&amp;#39;s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story abou…
The Beatles - The Audiostory (English Version)
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Erleben sie die Erfolgsgeschichte der größten Band aller Zeiten als Hörbuch: Vom ersten Aufeinandertreffen John Lennons mit Paul McCartney bis zur Auflösung der Band 1970 wird die Karriere des Liverpooler Quartetts detailgetreu nachgezeichnet. «The B…
Erleben sie die Erfolgsgeschichte der größten Band aller Zeiten als Hörbuch: Vom ersten Aufeinandertreffen John Lennons mit Paul McCartney bis zur Auflösung der Band 1970 wird die Karriere des Liverpooler Quartetts detailgetreu nachgezeichnet. «The B…
Gently to Nagasaki (Unabridged)
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Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an acco…
Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it is also an acco…
The Red Kelly Story (Unabridged)
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The life and times of the eight-time Stanley Cup winner When Boston coach Lynn Patrick was asked who he’d pick between Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe he answered, “Neither! I’ll take Red Kelly!” The only player to have won eight Stanley Cups without p…
The life and times of the eight-time Stanley Cup winner When Boston coach Lynn Patrick was asked who he’d pick between Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe he answered, “Neither! I’ll take Red Kelly!” The only player to have won eight Stanley Cups without p…
Bloodroot - Tracing the Untelling of Motherloss (Unabridged)
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It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother&apos;s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother&apos…
It is rare for an author to re-enter one of her books published twenty years ago. In the first edition of Bloodroot, Warland traced how a mother&apos;s shared gender with her daughter can shape the very anatomy of narrative itself. In her mother&apos…
One Bead at a Time (Unabridged)
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One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transc…
One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transc…

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