Despite the two decades that have passed since Mark Greenside's snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. This book details Greenside's...
History and geography
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Author:Greenside, MarkSummary: - Author:Hughes, Aaron W.Summary:
Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political,...
- Author:Forster, MernaSummary:
100 Canadian Heroines profiles some remarkable women; from the adventurous Gudridur the Viking to murdered Mi'kmaq activist Anna Mae Aquash. You'll meet heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and...
- Author:Lucaci, DoricaSummary:
Aimés ou détestés, craints ou adorés, liés à la sorcellerie, à la magie, aux forces du mal, victimes de rituels sordides, les chats ont marqué l’Histoire. De l’Égypte des pharaons à la France de Richelieu, de Napoléon à de Gaulle, en...
- Author:Lucaci, DoricaSummary:
Le meilleur ami de l’homme n’aura jamais eu si bonne presse Amis fidèles, compagnons dévoués, jappeurs invétérés ou dépendants affectifs sans vergogne, les chiens habitent les souvenirs de tous. En plus d’être d’attachants animaux...
- Author:Forster, Merna, Payette, JulieSummary:
Following the bestselling 100 Canadian Heroines, Merna Forster presents 100 more stories of amazing women who changed our country. In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings...
- Author:Sawler, SarahSummary:
An interactive, photo-filled book for young readers featuring 100 fun facts about the East Coast. Did you know that you can walk on the ocean floor at the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick? Or that there was once a UFO sighting in PEI? Or...
- Author:Sawler, SarahSummary:
Did you know that the Halifax? Dartmouth ferry was once operated by a team of nine horses? Or that Babe Ruth used to visit Yarmouth regularly for hunting and fishing vacations? Enter journalist Sarah Sawler: your guide to discovering...
- Author:Fawcett, BillSummary:
Bill Fawcett offers a compendium of 101 all-new mammoth mistakes--from the ill-fated rule of Emperor Darius III to the equally ill-fated search for WMDs in Iraq--that will, unfortunately, never be forgotten by history.
- Author:Cline, Eric H.Summary:
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the...
- Author:Northup ,SolomonSummary:
12 Years a Slave is the harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth,...
- Author:Zuckoff, MitchellSummary:
13 Hours presents, for the first time, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, in Benghazi. This is the story, told in spine-tingling detail, of what happened on the ground, as told by the men who faced terrorism head-on--...
- Author:Barrett, David DeanSummary:
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.
- Author:Menzies, GavinSummary:
The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin...
- Author:Mann, Charles C.Summary:
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere...
- Author:Commission franco-québécoise sur les lieux de mémoire communsSummary:
Cet ouvrage sur les 150 ans du Consulat général de France à Québec constitue un recueil unique d’analyses, de points de vue et surtout de témoignages nouveaux sur ces relations transatlantiques devenues indispensables pour la France et...
- Author:Morton, AndrewSummary:
Tells the story of Edward VIII and his wife, Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled the duke in a German plot to use him as a puppet king. This damning correspondence could forever tarnish the reputation of...
- Author:Tétreault, DoraSummary:
Depuis près de 175 ans, les religieuses catholiques jouent un rôle de premier plan au Manitoba en matière d’éducation, de soins de santé et d’oeuvres de charité. Ces pionnières ont courageusement quitté leur province ou leur...
- Author:McCullough, DavidSummary:
America's beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation's birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the...
- Author:Tench, WatkinSummary:
Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Botany Bay with the First Fleet in January 1788. He was in his late twenties, a captain of the marines, and on the advanture of his life. Insatiably curious, with a natural genius for storytelling, Tench...
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