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  • Dangerous Spirits

    The Windigo in Myth and History

    In the traditional Algonquian world, the windigo is the spirit of selfishness, which can transform a person into a murderous cannibal. Native peoples over a vast stretch of North America—from Virginia in the south to Labrador in the north, from Nova Scotia in the east to Minnesota in the west—believed in the windigo, not only as a myth told in the darkness of winter, but also as a real danger ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Bindy's Moon

    In a series of reflections focused on his hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the fear of dying (which arises during the rehearsal for a school Christmas concert), Lloyd Ratzlaff takes readers on a journey from youth to philosophical maturity. Combining elegy and joyful nostalgia in these poetic essays, Ratzlaff recounts his ... Read more

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  • Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide

    Early Ranching in BC and Alberta

    by Ken Mather ...
    Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south of the border, BC ranchers tended to adopt the California style whereas Alberta took its lead from Texas. But the different practices actually go back much further. ... Read more

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  • The Deaf House

    by Joanne Weber ...
    The Deaf House is Joanne Weber’s life story. It illustrates the work and passion of a woman who grew up deaf and became an advocate for the deaf. It is a story of pain, loss and defeat balanced with joy, gain, and victory. Joanne Weber’s creative memoir, shows how deafness can be a brutal oppression of the mind. Her torment of not knowing exactly where she belonged in Deaf culture is revealed with ... Read more

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  • Your Playlist Can Change Your Life

    10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization, Alertness and More

    Unlock the power of the songs in your pocketMaybe you blast the speakers when you need to get pumped up. If that's all you do, though, you're not taking full advantage of the way music can help you. Listen to a slower track first and the one-two punch of the playlist can push you even higher. Overflowing with easy-to-use tips like these, Your Playlist Can Change Your Life is the first book to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

    by Stephen Reid ...
    Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of torture, the miscarriages of justice, and witnessed the innocent souls whose childhood destinies doomed them to prison life. He has learned that everything is bearable, ... Read more

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  • The Executioners Bible

    "The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Species

    A Novel

    by Nino Ricci ...
    Winner of the 2008 Governor General’s Award for FictionMontreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are flaring over the recent codification of French as the official language of Quebec. Hiding out in a seedy apartment near campus, Alex ... Read more

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  • Boundless

    Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage

    In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter (Annabel) embarked on a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the North—where polar bears mates with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the ... Read more

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  • Imperial Woman

    The Story of the Last Empress of China

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth, the New York Times –bestselling biographical novel of the concubine who became China's last empress.In Imperial Woman, Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck brings to life the amazing story of Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine status to become the working head of the Qing Dynasty.Born from a humble background,... ... Read more

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  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    by Conrad Black ...
    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Ibn Saud

    The Desert Warrior Who Created the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Ibn Saud grew to manhood living the harsh traditional life of the desert nomad, a life that had changed little since the days of Abraham. Equipped with immense physical courage, he fought and won, often with weapons and tactics not unlike those employed by the ancient Assyrians, a series of astonishing military victories over a succession of enemies much more powerful than himself. Over the same ... Read more

    $14.99 USD