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  • In Flanders Fields: 100 Years

    Writing on War, Loss and Remembrance

    Edited by Amanda Betts ...
    A beautifully designed collection of essays on war, loss and remembrance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the writing of Canada's most famous poem.In early 1915, the death of a young friend on the battlefields of Ypres inspired Canadian soldier, field surgeon and poet John McCrae to write "In Flanders Fields." Within months of the poem's December 1915 publication in the British magazine ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Cold White Fear

    A Meg Harris Mystery

    by R.J. Harlick ...
    Series Book 7 - A Meg Harris Mystery
    Stranded by a blizzard at her isolated cabin, Meg Harris, an escapee from a failed marriage into the remote wilderness, finds herself in a desperate and terrifying situation when two strangers arrive.As night approaches, a major blizzard has cut off road access to Meg Harris’s isolated wilderness home, Three Deer Point. She is alone with her young friend Adjidamo, preparing for Christmas, when a ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thank You for Your Service

    by David Finkel ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Soldiers comes "a panoramic view of postwar life. . . . A book that every American should read" (Jake Tapper, Los Angeles Times).No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Mountain City Girls

    The McGarrigle Family Album

    The first book and definitive family memoir from Anna and Jane McGarrigle, sisters to Kate McGarrigle and aunts of Rufus and Martha Wainwright. This book is truly a classic in the making.The McGarrigles are known around the world for their touching, insightful songs about love, loss and family. But where and how does a family so rich in musical luminaries take root? In Mountain City Girls, Anna ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mass Disruption

    Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution

    Drawing on his thirty years in newspapers, the former editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail examines the crisis of serious journalism in the digital era, and searches for ways the invaluable tradition can thrive in a radically changed future.John Stackhouse entered the newspaper business in a golden age: 1980s circulations were huge and wealthy companies lined up for the privilege of advertising ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hubris

    The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

    An "eminently provocative and readable" history examining six critical battles of the early twentieth century ( The Wall Street Journal).Sir Alistair Horne has been a close observer of war and history for more than fifty years and in this wise and masterly work, he revisits six battles of the past century and examines the strategies, leadership, preparation, and geopolitical goals of aggressors ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't Panic

    ISIS, Terror and Today's Middle East

    by Gwynne Dyer ...
    It took a quarter-century of bad strategy, including more than a dozen years of Western air attacks and invasions in the Middle East, to bring the so-called "Islamic State" into existence. Can we somehow manage to avoid the well-trodden path of overreacting to the provocations of Islamist extremists?With the rise of ISIS, a new style of terrorism that publicly gloats over acts of extreme cruelty ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hyena Road

    A Novel

    by Paul Gross ...
    Based on the new feature film starring Paul Gross, Rossif Sutherland and Allan HawcoReminiscent of American Sniper and the Academy Award–winning The Hurt Locker, Hyena Road plunges deep to the heart of the Afghanistan war zone. Three men stand at the intersection of modern warfare – a murky world of fluid morality where all is not as it seems. Thrown together are Pete, a veteran ISAF intelligence ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Canadian Women in the Sky

    100 Years of Flight

    How a few women fought to board planes, then fly them, and finally to break through earth’s atmosphere into space.The story of how women in Canada, from Newfoundland to British Columbia, struggled to win a place in the world of air travel, first as passengers, then as flight attendants and pilots, and, finally, as astronauts. Anecdotes, sometimes humourous and always amazing, trace these women’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canoe Country

    The Making of Canada

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes.From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Stranger Than We Can Imagine

    Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

    by John Higgs ...
    **“An illuminating work of massive insight” on the complex ideas and events that initiated the historical shift between the 19th and 20th centuries (Alan Moore, author of V for Vendetta and Watchmen).“An always-provocative view of an era that many people would just as soon forget . . . an absorbing tour of the 20th century.” —Kirkus Reviews**In Stranger Than We Can Imagine, John Higgs argues that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fight to the Finish

    Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-1945

    by Tim Cook ...
    Series Book 4 - Canadians Fighting
    **Winner of the 2016 Ottawa Book AwardThe magisterial second volume of Tim Cook's definitive account of Canadians fighting in the Second World War.**Historian Tim Cook displays his trademark storytelling ability in the second volume of his masterful account of Canadians in World War II. Cook combines an extraordinary grasp of military strategy with a deep empathy for the soldiers on the ground, at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD