A Woman of No Importance
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERChosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis...
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Chasing Venus
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A “thrilling adventure story" (San Francisco Chronicle) that brings to life the astronomers who in the 1700s embarked upon a quest to calculate the size...
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In...
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First and Second Kings: The True Story of Eccentric Millionaires Who Lived Like Paupers
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The true story of eccentric millionaires who lived like paupers. A remarkable tale of a ranch wife's fifty year friendship with millionaire bachelor brothers who...
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Frontier Farewell
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"Gracefully written, fully and meticulously researched." -- Sharon Butala, author of The Perfection of the Morning"Frontier Farewell offers new perspectives on everything from the transfer of Rupert's...
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In Our Youth
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A fascinating, photo-rich exploration of early aviation in Canada, told through the backstories of pilots who flew, fought, and risked their lives in the First...
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Kootenai Brown: The Unknown Frontiersman
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Brown’s remarkably adventurous life in Canada began in BC in 1862 during the Cariboo gold rush. He later became a BC policeman, Pony Express rider,...
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Midnight in Chernobyl
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A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence WinnerFrom journalist Adam Higginbotham,...
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Muggins: The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero
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The unusual and moving tale of Muggins, a famed fundraising dog who became a mascot of the Canadian Red Cross during the First World War....
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Rough & Messy Justice
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Rough & Messy Justice vividly portrays Alberta's Crowsnest Pass of 1920, a rugged Rocky Mountain region shaped by its mining economy and diverse culture. An...
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Tales from the Highwood Cemetery: Lives and Legacies of High River and Beyond
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When the former Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta and respected history professor was quizzed by students looking for a good source of interesting stories, Dr. Grant MacEwan...
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
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A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal...
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The Last Viking
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"An intensely researched, thoroughly enjoyable life of one of history's best explorers...A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of...
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The Scandal of the Century
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‘A sweeping, scintillatingly original, exciting exploration of writer, spy, power player, lover Aphra Behn’ Kate Williams, historian and author of Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of...
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters
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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTHNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar...
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This Wild Spirit: Women
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In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures:“A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier,...
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When Trains Ruled the Rockies
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When Trains Ruled the Rockies is a personal history of the Banff train station from 1948 through 1962. Drawn from Terry Gainer’s personal memories and experiences...
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