The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the...
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Author: Lee, Robert C.Summary:
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Author: Morrow, BradfordSummary:
New writings on our fear of-and fascination with-the "other" from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more.Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are "other."...
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Author: Mellor, LeeSummary:
A definitive compendium of Canada’s mass murderers and spree killers. Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine...
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Author: Altrows, Rona, Sedivy, Julie, Albert, Samantha, Butala, Sharon, Cawthorne, Jane, Chan, Weyman, Danos, Rebecca, Edgar, Patti, Greentree, Leslie, Graham-Pole, John, Anstey Hanen, Edythe Anstey, Hansen, Vivian, Harris, Jane, Harrison, Richard, Kvern, Lee, Haynes, Elizabeth, Lévesque, Anne, Macpherson, Margaret, Major, Alice, McGrath, Wendy, Ian McKay, Stuart Ian, Neilsen Glenn, Lorri, Olding, Susan, Rees, Roberta, Seifert, Kathy, Siré, Cora, Ross Smith, Steven Ross, Sorbie, Anne, Sorestad, Glen, S. Thompson, Kelly S., van Eck, Robin van, van Herk, ArithaSummary:
The verb esperar means to wait. It also means to hope.—“The Past Was a Small Notebook, Much Scribbled-Upon”, Cora Siré Waiting, that most human of experiences, saturates all of our lives. We...
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Author: Lilburn, TimSummary:
Like his contemporaries Robert Bringhurst, Ronald Wright, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing, and on how the two fit...
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Author: Flerlage, RaeburnSummary:
A stunning collection of photographs from Chicago’s foremost blues photographer. When Raeburn Flerlage was asked to take a picture of Memphis Slim in 1959, he began a career that would produce...
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The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have enthralled generations of readers--and writers. Now Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger have assembled a stellar group of contemporary...
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Author: Lee, JohnSummary:
With sharp, witty reviews of the best spots in town to slake your thirst, Drinking Vancouver: 100+ Great Bars in the City and Beyond is the pocket-sized booze bible for locals and visitors craving...
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Author: Isaacson, WalterSummary:
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard...
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Author: Goddard, JohnSummary:
Exploring Hamilton through its heritage museums. Inside Hamilton’s Museums helps to satisfy a growing curiosity about Canada’s steel capital as it evolves into a post-industrial city and cultural...
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Author: Kilpatrick, NancySummary:
Vampires: friend or foe? Either way, time is on their side, and they are more powerful than ever before! Meet the eternal predator that humanity never ceases to find both fascinating and...
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THE FUTURE IS OURSELVES The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the...
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Author: Fiamengo, JaniceSummary:
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a...
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Author: Molony, JohnSummary:
Historian John Molony here reveals the circumstance and details of the life and death of Ned Kelly, attempting to establish why Kelly became so important in the history of Australia. 'Mind you die...
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Author: Gismondi, Michael Anthony, Beckie, Mary, Connelly, Sean, Markey, SeanSummary:
When citizens take collaborative action to meet the needs of their community, they are participating in the social economy. Co-operatives, community-based social services, local non-profit...