
"A Great Lakes Treasury of Old Postcards" by Dr. Lorenzo and CArol Marcolin takes you on a nostalgic and exciting journey along the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes. You'll visit a world that was very different from today's hectic and turbulent place...
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Do you know how long it took to sail across the Atlantic Ocean? Was it faster from east to west or west to east? Imagine sailing to India...
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Lexie Malton is an average Vancouver teen with fairly typical issues. Her stepmother is far from her favourite person, she has a sister with special needs...
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Small things can often mean a great deal. For the past five years readers of the "Toronto Star"'s website have been telling each other that...
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Dewey Soper first travelled to the Arctic in 1923. During the next seven years he accepted three research postings on Baffin Island, each of which lasted between one and two years...
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Come and walk the offbeat world of Mike Strobel x2019;s popular column in the Toronto Sun. Meet the legendary panhandler Shaky Lady; the Weasel...
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From Atlantis to Nostradamus, Masons to Templars, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe have explored some of the greatest mysteries ever known in this world and beyond. Now...
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Ce sont les hommes qui ont dirige notre nation en temps de guerre et en temps de paix. Au cours des deux grandes guerres, ces hommes ont fait preuve d x2019;une force a toute epreuve...
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For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children from the bitter legacy of legal wrangling and winner-takes-all custody battles. Now...
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For more than thirty years, Toronto psychic medium Carolyn Molnar has been helping people whose friends and loved ones have crossed over. By bringing these people proof of spirit x2014; evidence that life continues past the transition we call death x2014; she has comforted thousands of clients by showing them that their loved ones are still with them...
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Avi Greenbaum is Jewish and lives in West Jerusalem. Moussa Shakir is Palestinian and lives in East Jerusalem. Both are 15 years old, live without their fathers...
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As open-minded as she is, private investigator Sasha Jackson feels out of place when her latest case plunges her into the world of commercial sex. A classy madam has hired Sasha to find a missing Mexican hooker...
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Advance Praise for Doing the Continental:
x201C;Everyone has opinions about the state of Canada-U.S. relations, but few have the knowledge to provide informed judgments. Professor Dyment happily falls into the latter category. While some of the prescriptions are controversial...
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Many family researchers with Ontario roots discover they have ancestors who were teachers. Those with no teachers in the family may have ancestors who were part of the Ontario education system as students. Today there are numerous varied resources available to find information on teachers...
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Feasting and Fasting is an introduction to the foods and beverages that were a central part of how our ancestors celebrated important events.
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Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792 x2013;1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert x2019;s Land and the Indian territories...
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Shrouded in the mists of history and legend, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a land of mysteries. Its waters are a graveyard for countless wrecked ships. Its lore is full of tales about treachery and murder. And it was once the haunt of pirates. Haunt...
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From 1906 to 1914, the "Empress of Ireland," one of the fastest and most elegant liners of the Edwardian era, graced the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Remembered primarily for sinking in only 14 minutes in the St. Lawrence River and for having a greater loss of passenger life than the "Titanic...
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As U.S. and Canadian automakers and dealers face bankruptcy and Toyota battles unprecedented quality-control problems, "Lemon-Aid" guides steer the confused and anxious buyer through the economic meltdown unlike any other car-andtruck books on the market.
Phil Edmonston...
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The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity...
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At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941. Written with his son...
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"A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John x2026;"
Absolutely nothing is going right for Max Green. His parents have just uprooted their family from Vancouver to the bleak suburbs of Toronto...
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Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Julie Payette, Robert Thirsk, Chris Hadfield, and more recently, Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque de Soleil...
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In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, "The Men of the Last Frontier," a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Canada...
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Fourteen-year-old Jake MacRae x2019;s life is spinning out of control. He x2019;s making all the wrong choices x2014; gambling, drinking, hanging around gang members x2014; and now he x2019;s been asked to make a x201C;special delivery. x201D; What should he do? Jake knows either way that his decision will seal his fate...
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Who committed Toronto's Silk Stocking Murder? Why did a quiet accountant in Guelph, Ontario, murder his wife and two daughters? When did police in Alberta hire a self-styled mind reader to solve a mass murder? How did an American confidence man from Arizona find himself facing a murder charge in Cape Breton...
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The first-ever comprehensive book written on early English immigration to Canada, "Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers" introduces a series of three titles on x201C;The English in Canada. x201D; Focusing on factors that brought the English to Atlantic Canada...
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Returning to Ontario's Muskoka region as an adult to bury his father, Ray Carrier is taken back not only to a tangled romance in that green paradise but also to the woods and lonesome swamps that haunted his teenage dreams. As a young man...
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In "Renny x2019;s Daughter," Adeline Whiteoak is voyaging overseas. It is now 1948, and she travels with her Uncle Finch and cousin Maurice to Ireland and then London. On the ship she meets a charming Irishman and falls in love. However...
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In "Return to Jalna," the Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers, Renny, and Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second World War. Finch has been off on a concert tour...
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"Royal Tours 1786 x2013;2010" is a penetrating look at the tours of 11 royals who were or would be monarchs, viceroys, and commanders-in-chief of Canada. Leaving California in 1983 to tour British Columbia...
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Ismail Boxwala made the worst mistake of his life one summer morning twenty years ago: he forgot his baby daughter in the back seat of his car. After his daughter x2019;s tragic death...
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"Stanley Barracks" begins with the construction in 1840-41 of the new facility that replaced the then decaying Fort York Barracks. The book recounts the background of the last facility operated by the British military in Toronto and how Canada's own Permanent Force was developed.
During the course of the stories told in this history...
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"The Actor's Survival Kit" is required reading in Canadian theatre schools and is a constant resource for its many readers across the country. This fifth edition gives actors fresh research from today's experience...
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Edward Mallandaine was there To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time...
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After the conclusion of "The Silver Anklet," Tara's triumphant return to Morni is short-lived. Tara's deceased former stepmother, Kali, seeks revenge through her daughter...
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Originally published in 1962, "The Silence on the Shore" is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garner's best, most ambitious novel. Truly...
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In "The Whiteoak Brothers," the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers...
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In today's busy world, we may fail to realize that our need for friendship is as vital and important as our basic needs for food, air, and water. However...
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Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy...
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Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the "Toronto Sunday Sun" not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16...
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The year was 1910 and signs of progress were in the air. That June, a new steam ferry for the Toronto Island Company was launched and christened the "Trillium." Only briefly mentioned in the local dailies at the time...
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Every hockey fan remembers certain goals scored that stand out from all others. But if one had to name just 20 as the greatest ever accomplished...
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Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every passing day trails grow colder and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward x2026; if one comes forward.
In "Unsolved...
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In "Variable Winds at Jalna," the immediate sequel to "Renny x2019;s Daughter," Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adeline x2019;s husband. Finch and Maurice also return...
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"Victor Feldbrill" is an account of the life and cultural contribution of one of Canada's most talented conductors. Born in 1924, he made his Toronto Symphony conducting debut at 18. He went on to become the artistic director of the Winnipeg Symphony...
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Jim Myers is a painfully shy kid living in Toronto's west end Bloorcourt Village. Rarely is he able to muster enough courage to say anything beyond "ya" or "dunno." After school he hangs around with his neighbour and only friend...
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