Biography & Autobiography
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The Man in Blue Pyjamas
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji...
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The Man Who Saved Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /How the city reporters of the 1950s must have loved Major Matthews. Eminently quotable, forthright and provocative in speech . . . his mere presenc...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Marshall Story, A Biography of General George C. Marshall
Brick Tower Press (UK)£24.95| /This is the story of the life and mind of George C. Marshall, soldier and statesman, as told by a distinguished writer whose own background makes h...
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The Messenger
Tughra Books (US)£12.95| /This book narrates the life of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, shedding light upon segments of his life that are either neglected or glossed o...
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The Metamorphosis
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Winner, Best Atlantic Published Book AwardShortlisted, Canadian Regional Design Awardmet-a-mor-pho-sis: a complete change of form, structure, or su...
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The Most Hated Man in Hockey
Overtime Books (CA)£14.99| /Since 1993, Gary Bettman has been the commissioner of the National Hockey League and he has taken the game to new and incredible heights. But despi...
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The Motherhood of Art
Schiffer£27.99| /Balance motherhood and creative pursuits! Women and new mothers are constantly encountering the message that they can never do anything for themsel...
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The Namesake, the Biography of Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Brick Tower Press£19.95| /"Except for Douglas MacArthur, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is the most decorated soldier in American history, having earned his Congressional Medal of ...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...
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The Ordinary Genius
University of Alberta Press (CA)£25.99| /The development of agriculture in Alberta owes much to Arnold W. Platt, who set out to plant a seed of positive change. Whether as a plant breeder,...
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The Power of Knowledge - HEMED
Dekel Publishing House£14.99| /Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jer...
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The Powerbroker
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...
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The Rag Boiler's Daughter
Interactive Press£23.99| /A sweeping account of Irish and Scottish families, this book portrays one woman's resolve to provide her children with a brighter future. This stor...
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The Rainbow Chasers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...
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The Ranch on the Cariboo
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...
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The Real James Bond
Schiffer£22.99| /Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything Ive had my James Bond do. -- Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and .....
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The Remarkable Chester Ronning
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Scholar and diplomat Brian L. Evans gives us the first English-language biography of Chester A. Ronning (1894-1984): diplomat, politician, educator...
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The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbrin...
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the sou...
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The Right Fight
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...
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The Rumrunners
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /The thirsty days of Prohibition in Alberta began at midnight on June 30, 1916, but many had been drinking so hard that the booze had long ago run o...
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The Sasquatch at Home
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. R...
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The Scent of Eucalyptus
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /The fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was cl...
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