Arthur Slade has gathered together fifteen scary critters, ranging from Dracula to Golem, from Frankenstein to Baba Yaga and even a zombie. He provides facts, real history, imagined history, and...
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Author: Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
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Author: Kingwell, MarkSummary:
Glenn Gould, one of the twentieth century’s most renowned classical musicians, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances...
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Author: Greer, DarrenSummary:
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness begets violence, violence begets despair. The only way to change fate, a...
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Author: Robinson, RogerSummary:
Robinson takes readers on a globe-trotting tour that combines a historian's insight with vivid personal memories going back to just after World War II. From experiencing the 1948 "Austerity...
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Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, Ho, VanSummary:
After the Vietnam War, a young girl is left behind in the care of her grandmother when the rest of her family flees the new communist regime by boat. Once settled in North America, her parents...
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Author: Stobie, Margaret R.Summary:
Stobie has woven a gripping history centred around the rebellion of 1885, together with the stories of Bremner, a farmer and fur trader, Poundmaker, Louis Riel, and General Middleton.