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  • Alberta Originals

    Stories of Albertans Who Made a Difference

    by Brian Brennan ...
    William "Bible Bill" Aberhart is remembered as one of the oddest political leaders in Canadian history. During the Great Depression, he emerged from the obscurity of a religious sect he founded himself to preach a radical new economic doctrine. He fulfilled none of his pre-election promises during his eight years as premier. Yet the force of his personality was such that at the time of his death, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rogues and Rebels

    Unforgettable Characters from Canada's West

    by Brian Brennan ...
    Rogues and Rebels introduces us to dozens of larger-than-life Westerners--some infamous, some obscure--who dared to be different.Brian Brennan chronicles the mavericks, iconoclasts, and adventurers who threw away the rulebook, thumbed their noses at convention, and let their detractors howl. They never retracted, never explained, never apologized, and they got things done.Discover the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Boondoggles, Bonanzas, and Other Alberta Stories

    by Brian Brennan ...
    Canada's Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest after she had spent 62 days climbing the mountain, sometimes on all fours. "I reached deeper than ever before and still had something left," she said afterwards. "Makes you wonder what our limits really are."This is one of the memorable stories, plucked from the front-page headlines of the time, that best-selling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Love of One’s Country

    by Brian Brennan ...
    In Dublin, 1966, 23-year-old Jerry Burke quits his soul-destroying job in the Irish civil service to make a new life for himself in Canada and put behind him a dark secret from his republican past.At the same time, he undertakes to find out what happened to his ancestor, Diarmuid Burke, who came to Canada in 1847, the most devastating year of the Irish potato famines.Far as Jerry can discover, his ... Read more

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  • Scoundrels and Scallywags

    Characters from Alberta's Past

    by Brian Brennan ...
    A married Alberta premier, John Brownlee, lost his job after enticing a junior government clerk to have sex with him. He was fifty, she was twenty. After Canada's Supreme Court endorsed the trial jury's guilty verdict, Brownlee took the case to the British Privy Council, then the court of last resort for Canadians. He lost again. The courts awarded his accuser, Vivian MacMillan, $10,000 plus costs ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brief Encounters

    Conversations with Celebrities

    by Brian Brennan ...
    Famous actors, writers and singers invariably let their guard down when Brian Brennan interviewed them for the Calgary Herald and Toronto Star because they didn't think a Canadian journalist would be out to "get" them like the tabloid reporters in Britain and the U.S. As a result, Brennan learned little-known facts about their lives and careers that the stars had never revealed publicly before.For ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Incredible Tales of the Klondike Gold Rush

    by Rich Mole ...
    Series series Amazing Stories
    In 1897, tens of thousands of would-be prospectors flooded into the Yukon in search of instant wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush. In this historical tale of mayhem and obsession, characters like prospectors George Carmack and Skookum Jim, Skagway gangster Soapy Smith and Mountie Sam Steele come to life. Enduring savage weather, unforgiving terrain, violence and starvation, a lucky few made ... Read more

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  • Training Disciplined Soldiers for Christ

    The Influence of American Fundamentalism on Prairie Bible Institute (1922–1980)

    by Tim W. Callaway ...
    The comparative scarcity of academic attention given Prairie Bible Institute located at Three Hills, Alberta, Canada, serves as the primary motivation behind this book. This work should therefore be regarded as an attempt to contribute to and refine the very small amount of research available regarding how Prairie Bible Institutes first half-century should be understood and interpreted by students ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Up Ghost River

    A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History

    by Edmund Metatawabin, Alexandra Shimo ...
    A powerful, raw yet eloquent memoir from a residential school survivor and former First Nations Chief, Up Ghost River is a necessary step toward our collective healing.In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada’s worst residential schools. St. Anne’s, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that ... Read more

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  • Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times

    by Richard J. Gwyn ...
    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next ... Read more

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  • Lethal Marriage

    The Unspeakable Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

    by Nick Pron ...
    **What the press couldn't reveal—the full story of the monstrous sex slayings that shocked a nation . . .WARNING: This book contains graphic descriptions of violence.**Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo might look like the ideal couple, but they were a nation's most despicable killers. Karla began their depraved sex and murder spree by stealing drugs to knock out her little sister. While Paul raped ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Living With Puppies (storey 16 of 40)

    Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada

    by Dawn Kostelnik ...
    Series Book 16 - The White Girl
    Puppies, puppies everywhere! Sandy, my brother John’s blue and brown-eyed Siberian husky has given birth to five gorgeous pups. This is my Dad’s future dog team. They are beautiful blue-eyed Siberian Huskies. The runt of the litter is called Shorty; he is an exact duplicate of his father, our wheel dog named Tippy.Tippy is classic black with white accents and the startling blue eyes that are a ... Read more

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