Young Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Nazis, but then came the day he was shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his own Jewish ancestry. This is the story of his...
History and geography
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In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical...
- Author:Shepherd, RichardSummary:
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Unnatural Causes written and read by Dr Richard Shepherd. The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ... 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really...
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The traditional mythology of the West is dominated by male images: the fur trader, the Mountie, the missionary, the miner, the cowboy, the politician, the Chief. Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West claims to re-examine the West...
- Author:Fanthorpe, Lionel and PatriciaSummary:
Seas and oceans cover most of the Earth’s surface, yet we know less about what lies beneath them than we do about stars and planets millions of miles away. The seas are filled with intriguing mysteries: How were they formed? What gave...
- Author:Hoshowsky, Robert J.Summary:
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...
- Author:Weatherford, Carole BostonSummary:
Tracing the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district, this book chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no...
- Author:Guynn, WilliamSummary:
In Unspeakable Histories, William Guynn focuses on the sensation of encountering past events through film. Film is capable, he argues, of triggering moments of heightened awareness in which the barrier between the past and the present...
- Author:Clarke, NicSummary:
Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada’s first casualties of the Great War – men who tried to enlist but were deemed “unfit for service.” What impact did military exclusion have on these men? Nic Clarke looks for answers in...
- Author:Cleghorn, ElinorSummary:
Elinor Cleghorn became an unwell woman ten years ago. She was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after a long period of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy. As Elinor learned to live with...
- Author:Saunt, ClaudioSummary:
In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational,...
- Author:Washington, Booker T.Summary:
Booker T. Washington's classic memoir of enslavement, emancipation, and community advancement in the Reconstruction Era. Born into slavery on a tobacco farm in nineteenth-century Virginia, Booker T. Washington became one of the...
- Author:Metatawabin, Edmund, Shimo-Barry, Alex, Boyden, JosephSummary:
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northern Ontario, is an institution now notorious for the range of punishments that staff...
- Author:Walker, MelissaSummary:
Upcountry South Carolina Goes to War chronicles the lives and concerns of the Anderson, Brockman and Moore families of piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras through 124 letters dated 1853 to 1865. The...
- Author:Wall, Karen, Reichwein, PearlAnnSummary:
In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a...
- Author:Feltoe, RichardSummary:
Presenting all six installments of Richard Feltoe’s series on the War of 1812, gathered together in an ebook bundle. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotations...
- Author:Farrell, MarchelleSummary:
What is home? It's a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for career in psychiatry saw her leave behind the pristine beaches and emerald hills of Trinidad. Until, disillusioned, she uprooted...
- Author:Galeano, EduardoSummary:
In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Upside Down, takes us on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car,"...
- Author:Gilliland, C. HerbertSummary:
Today, the 20-gun sloop U.S.S. Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859, it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for...
- Author:Pelly, David F., Crockatt, Kim, Klengenberg, Elsie AnaginakSummary:
The story of Uvajuq (oo-va-yook) is rooted in a time when people and animals lived in such harmony and unity that they could speak to each other. For Inuit, as for people whose traditions include the story of the Garden of Eden, this...
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