Here in one big book is all the trivia and facts about Canada anyone needs to know. The Big Book is jam-packed with facts and stories. There are stories of important Canadian artifacts and history...
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Author: Kearney, Mark, Ray, RandySummary:
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Author: Berchem, F.R. (Hamish)Summary:
This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the...
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Author: Klinck, ToddSummary:
Winner, 3-Day Novel Contest Tacones is a hangout for a subculture of outlaws and rejects--crackhead murderers, transvestite prostitutes, biastogerontophiles, hustler boys, and addicts?all...
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Author: Goldman, DavidSummary:
Although 38 of my works survive today, I left no letters, and there is little known about my personal life. Many of my plays were staged at the courts of King James I and Elizabeth I, and are...
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Author: Ebert, RogerSummary:
"Roger Ebert's criticism shows a nearly unequaled grasp of film history and technique, and formidable intellectual range." —New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents...
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Author: Muench, Frederick, Nemec, GregorySummary:
"Cry over spilt milk. Remind them to always look happy in front of your friends. Nervously suggest they shouldn't go into the basement after dark and don't explain why. Attend parent-teacher night...
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Author: Tesh, JaneSummary:
David Randall used to be a lively, carefree fellow with a talent for finding things. But his perfect family life was derailed when he lost his little daughter Lindsey in a car crash. Thrown out by...
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Author: Collins, GarySummary:
Inspired by True Events
In 1934, North America lay stripped of its riches by a great depression. When the land refused to yield its bounty and the sea grew stingy, everyone in the Western...
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Author: Jarvis, DaleSummary:
From an encounter with a shrieking horror on Signal Hill, St. John’s, to the legend of the headless pirate of Red Bay, Labrador, folklorist Dale Jarvis conjures up stories of white horses, men in...
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Author: Nakamura, FuminoriSummary:
Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them...
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"Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly "Some...
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Author: Robertson, Ray.Summary:
"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified." - LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago,...
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Author: Kert, FayeSummary:
The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint...
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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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Author: Schwarcz, JoeSummary:
Joe Schwarcz tells it like it is. Whether he's plumbing the mysteries of chicken soup or tracing the development of polyethylene, Schwarcz takes a little history, adds a dash of chemistry, and...