Peter R. Henriques, a leading scholar on George Washington and professor emeritus of history at George Mason University, produces a concise and vital volume on America's first president. Realistic...
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Author: Henriques, Peter R.Summary:
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Author: MacDonald, CherylSummary:
When Ezra Chipman brought fellow Canadian George Sternaman to board at his Buffalo home, he set in motion a nightmarish chain of events. Within months, Ezra was dead of a mysterious ailment. Then...
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Author: Ferguson, Julie H., Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Larsen, Wayne, Stewart, Sharon, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson...
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Author: Ferguson, Julie H., Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Larsen, Wayne, Stewart, Sharon, Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy DymondSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson...
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Author: Lahey, D. T., Henighan, Tom, Wilson, John, Shardlow, Tom, Bridge, Kathryn, Legaré, FrancineSummary:
Presenting six titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada is a vast land with many remote regions to be explored. Among the intrepid explorers...
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Author: Crile, GeorgeSummary:
The untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to...
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Author: Konieczny, Vladimir, Dunton, Darcy, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Rigelhof, T.F., Slade, Arthur, Plante, Raymond, Braid, Kate, Fitzgerald, Judith, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera...
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Author: Konieczny, Vladimir, Dunton, Darcy, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Rigelhof, T.F., Slade, Arthur, Plante, Raymond, Braid, Kate, Fitzgerald, Judith, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Macpherson, MargaretSummary:
Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: Emma Albani, a nineteenth century opera...
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Author: MacMillan, MargaretSummary:
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd...
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Author: MacMillan, MargaretSummary:
In this work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating...
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Author: Vidich, PaulSummary:
In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and...
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Author: Haldeman, JoeSummary:
Drawing on his own war experiences, Vietnam veteran Joe Haldeman creates stunning works of science fiction. Forever Peace is not a sequel to his previous award-winning work, The Forever War, but...
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Author: Saunders, GeorgeSummary:
The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting...
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith, Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle, Braid, Kate, Rigelhof, T.F., Plante, Raymond, Slade, Arthur, Wilson, John, Bridge, Kathryn, Stewart, Roderick, Stewart, Sharon, Macpherson, Margaret, goodall, lian, Paulin, Marguerite, Legaré, Francine, Evans, Gary, Cowley, Deborah, Shardlow, Tom, Kirk, Heather, Cimon, Anne, Vanasse, André, Larsen, Wayne, Henighan, Tom, Maes, Nicholas, Ferguson, Julie H., Knowles, Valerie, Lahey, D.T., Butts, Edward, Leavey, Peggy Dymond, Sadlier, Rosemary, Argyle, Ray, Tidridge, Nathan, Martin, GedSummary:
This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of...
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Author: Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
Brilliant, belligerent and bearded in equal measure, incapable of suffering fools, or journalists, gladly, the greatest scientific mind of his generation - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor...