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  • The Devil's Breath

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    On a warm spring day in June of 1914, two hundred and thirty-five men went down into the depths of the Hillcrest mine found in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass. Only forty-six would make it out alive. The largest coal-mining disaster in Canadian history, the fateful tale of the Hillcrest Mine is finally captured in startling detail by Stephen Hanon.A deft examination of the coal mining industry in an ... Leer más

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  • Across Canada by Story

    A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

    Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played ... Leer más

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  • Pathologies

    A Life in Essays

    de Susan Olding ...
    In these fifteen searingly honest personal essays, debut author Susan Olding takes us on an unforgettable journey into the complex heart of being human. Each essay dissects an aspect of Olding’s life experience—from her vexed relationship with her father to her tricky dealings with her female peers; from her work as a counsellor and teacher to her persistent desire, despite struggles with ... Leer más

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  • Those Who Know

    20th Anniversary Edition

    de Dianne Meili ...
    WINNER of the 2013 Trade Non-Fiction Book Award at the Alberta Book Publishing Awards. The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices for the betterment of not just their people, but all humankind. First published in 1991, Dianne Meili’s book ... Leer más

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  • Waking the Frog

    Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis

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  • Ice Diaries

    An Antarctic Memoir

    de Jean McNeil ...
    What do we stand to lose in a world without ice?A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of ... Leer más

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  • The Teammates

    A Portrait of a Friendship

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times– bestselling journalist "has given [Williams, Pesky, DiMaggio, and Doerr] a glorious, flaming autumnal epilogue" ( Time ).More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country's most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his... ... Leer más

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  • St. John's and the Battle of the Atlantic

    de Bill Rompkey ...
    During World War II St. John’s, Newfoundland played a critical role in the fight against Nazi Germany. Seamen from all over the world sailed to and from the old seaport, chosen for duty because it was closest to Europe and because its people knew both the peril and glory of the North Atlantic. In his introduction to this absorbing collection of stories, Bill Rompkey examines the city’s service to ... Leer más

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  • Hudson's Bay Company Adventures: Tales of Canada's Fur Traders

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    The early history of the Hudson's Bay Company comes alive in these true tales of fur-trade wars, incredible wilderness journeys, hardships and danger. Founded by the extraordinary adventurers and renegades Radisson and des Groseilliers, the HBC attracted many memorable characters. Explorer Henry Kelsey was the first European to see the buffalo herds. James Knight met a mysterious fate on a frozen ... Leer más

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  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... Leer más

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  • The Killer Trail

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    When Vancouver psychiatric social worker Chris Ryder spots an abandoned cell phone during his afternoon jog, the innocent discovery drags him into the psychotic games of Ray Owens, a former patient at the centre of a high-profile kidnapping and murder case.As the violence increases, Owens’ intricate web of lies threatens to ensnare the lives of Ryder’s family and friends, including his old flame ... Leer más

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  • Black Rock

    Series Libro 1 - The Eddie Dougherty Mysteries
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