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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 Resurrected Pirate
Schiffer Military History£27.99| /Experience the adventures of the pirate George Lowther and learn how he was "resurrected" as a Royal Navy officer, nearly 20 years after his allege...
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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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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like ...
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The Song and the Silence
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£9.99| /This is the story of the fascinating and challenging life of Stoney Chief Frank Kaquitts-Sitting Wind. It includes his time as an actor, when he pl...
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The Story of Lem Ward
Schiffer£31.99| /American wildfowl art owes its foundation to Lem Ward. This wood carver and painter (1896-1984) overcame severe illness to produce some of the best...
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The Story That Brought Me Here
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers. What pulls the...
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The Sugar Doctor
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /In 1838, Dr Alexander Skinner leaves Scotland for Australia to make his fortune. He had met Scots whose families owned sugar plantations in the Wes...
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The Sultan of Hearts (single volume)
Tughra Books (US)£29.95| /Offering a comprehensive narrative of one of the most fascinating life stories of human history, The Sultan of Hearts is an authoritative work on t...
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The Taming of Genghis
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£33.99| /The second book by acclaimed falconer Ronald Stevens, first published in 1956, is a fascinating, utterly absorbing story. Falconer Ronald Stevens' ...
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The Third Dive
Rocky Mountain Books£30.99| /Based on the provocative film documentary of the same name, The Third Dive investigates the shocking death of a world-renowned conservation activis...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Setting out to visit his friends in Woodstock, New Brunswick, and with all intentions to return to the United States to attend Columbia University ...
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The Travel Journals of Tappan Adney
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In 1887, at the tender age of eighteen, Tappan Adney embarked on his first trip to New Brunswick. He had plans to enrol at Columbia University in t...
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The Trouble with Lions
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /The trouble with lions is that while you are conducting a pregnancy test, you need to be equally, if not more, aware of what you can learn from the...
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The unconventional career of Dr Muriel Bell
Otago University Press (NZ)£18.99| /Whether or not you have heard of pioneering nutritionist Muriel Bell, she has had a profound effect on your health. Appointed New Zealands first s...
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The Unfinished Dollhouse
Cormorant Books£12.99| /No mother is prepared for the moment when a child comes out to her as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psych...
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The War Diaries of a Panzer Soldier
Schiffer Military£54.99| /This book is a unique personal account of the war on the Russian Front, written using the diaries and photos of Erich Hager who served in the 39th ...
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The War Diary of Hauptmann Helmut Lipfert
Schiffer Military£31.99| /Aerial combat over the Russian front from one who knew it first hand. Hauptmann Helmut Lipferts vivid portrayal of his experiences in JG 52 during ...
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The Wisdom of Israel Regardie
New Falcon Publications (US)£30.99| /Volume III is filled with both wisdom and knowledge from the mind the world famous occultist Israel Regardie. He was the personal secretary to Alei...
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The Wolves at Evelyn
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /At once a memoir, a work of philosophy, a story of European immigration to Canada's dark places of the earth, and an exploration of the roots and e...
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The Women of the American Revolution
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /When Elizabeth F Ellet compiled her history of "The Women of the Revolution," she could not have foreseen the deep interest in Colonial and Revolut...
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Their Example Showed Me the Way / kwayask ê-kî-pê-kiskinowâpahtihicik
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Emma Minde's portraits of the family into which she was given in marriage more than sixty years ago are instructive and touching. She offers rare i...
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Theo Schoon
Massey University Press£46.99| /Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultura...
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Theodor Herzl
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /You would think that everything there is to say about Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism, has already been written and published. In fact, the...
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They Called Me Otherwise
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£12.99| /The Scots conquered the world. They just forgot to tell anyone about it. This book remedies that situation. Packed with humour and wisdom, it is at...
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Thinking Black
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£21.99| /Most non-Indigenous Australians know of Charles Perkins. Many are familiar with a few other Aboriginal leaders. Yet few have heard of William Coope...
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This Medical Life
Clinical Press (UK)£12.99| /"Unparalleled in British medical history James Owen Drife charted his reactions to the medical world in which he worked and published them, initial...
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Those Who Know
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The elders in this book have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they ...
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Three Against the Wilderness
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£18.99| /Timeless tales about wilderness living. Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent home...
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Tiger in the Tank
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /This is an expanded English edition of the book 'Tiger in the Tank' that was first published in German in 2002. It is a compilation of interviews a...
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To a Distant Island
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing vi...
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To Love One's Enemies
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£48.99| /Emily Hobhouse, 1860-1926, was one of the first great women of the twentieth century. She was a feminist, a pacifist and an internationalist, and a...
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To See or Not to See
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£20.00| /"Inez De Florio, born blind, tells us the moving, fascinating, and true story of her recovery from blindness at the age of 48 and how she coped wit...
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To the Summit
Massey University Press£30.99| /This is the inspirational, motivational story of climber Nick Allen, who went from wheelchair-bound with multiple sclerosis to life in the mountain...
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Tore Olaus Engset, 1865-1943
Tapir Academic Press (N)£43.00| /Every curriculum in traffic or queuing theory presents Engset's formula. Published in 1918 this relatively simple, yet powerful piece of scientific...
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Touching History
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£30.99| /This gripping memoir tells the personal story of a man who has lived at the epicentre of the major events of modern Jewish history. From the ashes ...
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Towards a Distant Sea
Indra Publishing (AUS)£20.99| /Paul, a young Australian priest arrives in the Philippines in 1971 as Martial Law is proclaimed by President Marcos. His idealism exposes him to fi...
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Trail to the Interior
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Reliving the adventures of past explorers. Trail to the Interior is R. M. Patterson's rich account of exploration and personal adventure in the Cas...
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