Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia
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San Francisco's Lost Landmarks
Linden Publishing (US)£15.99| /With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim me...
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San Joaquin
Linden Publishing (US)£25.99| /While nearly all of America's major rivers have been compromised, few have been so misused as the San Joaquin. In its comparatively brief history, ...
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San Juan Bautista
Linden Publishing (US)£19.99| /A century ago, San Juan Bautista was the hub of Northern California, a crossroads where, over the years, you would have encountered gentle Mutsune ...
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Savannah Cemeteries
Schiffer£18.99| /The best selling novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has drawn hordes to the city, specifically to its best-known cemetery, Bonaventure. ...
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Site of Convergence
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /17 September 2011 will mark 10 years exactly since the formal opening of the Monash University Prato Centre, Monash Universitys teaching and resear...
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Slumach's Gold
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /Slumach's Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada's greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man's hanging for murder in...
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Sooner Or Later
Clear Light Publishers (US)£15.99| /This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, al...
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Stars of the New Jersey Shore
Schiffer£18.99| /In the pre-Hollywood era, theatrical stars flocked to the New Jersey coast to escape the eastern cities' sweltering heat. After performing from Sep...
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Strange Days
NeWest Press (CA)£16.99| /The 1920s were one of the wildest decades in Canada's history, a time of frivolous fads, shocking crimes, and political and social changes that def...
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Success Stories
Brash Publishing Corporation (CA)£23.99| /An amazing and inspiring collection of awesome success stories, including Tim Hortons coffee shops co-founder Ron Joyce and billionaire businessman...
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Takitimu
Oratia Books£61.99| /Takitimu is one of the great tribal histories in the New Zealand literary canon. It tells of the Ngati Kahungunu people tangata whenua of Hawkes...
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The Alberta Supreme Court at 100
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan re...
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The Best of Times on the Chesapeake Bay
Schiffer£18.99| /Today, the Chesapeake Bay watermen's way of life is under pressure to survive. Captain Larry Simns has worked as a commercial fisherman in the wate...
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The Calgary Stampede
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£25.99| /By 1912 the large-scale cowboy ranches of the Old West had been disappearing for years and the Calgary Stampede -- along with other exhibitions, li...
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The Columbia
Schiffer£13.99| /Books have been written about the highway that Samuel C. Lancaster built. This is the book that he wrote. Lancaster is known to all who have studie...
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The Haitian Revolution
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array ...
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The Lesser Known
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /"Manitobas history is one of being carved. Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug ...
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The Lost Lemon Mine
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The legend of the Lost Lemon Mine is one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Canadian West. In 1870, so the story goes, two prospectors ...
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The Prairie West: Historical Readings
University of Alberta Press (CA)£38.99| /The Prairie West presents thirty-five articles on key topics in the history of prairie Canada. The second edition, which includes new topics and re...
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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 Roaring '20s at the Jersey Shore
Schiffer£22.99| /Learn the history and look at emerging tourism during the 1920s in New Jersey, through 276 postcards, vintage photographs, and fascinating accounts...
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The University of Alberta Library
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£15.99| /Although its mission and centrality to teaching and research remain fundamentally unchanged, the University of Alberta Library of today bears scant...
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The Watermen of the Chesapeake Bay
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£31.99| /"I must have presented a strange and humorous sight to him as I carefully approached on the rickety pier, arms slightly extended for balance. Camer...
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These Hamptons
Schiffer£45.99| /In over 180 vivid color photos, this beautiful book provides a photographic exploration of the lifestyles and landscape of Long Island's famed East...
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Thousand Years of Russian History
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£190.99| /The mighty Russian Empire was not built in a day -- from a small beginning and by a number of different processes it has grown to its present dimen...
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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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Three Centuries in a Cape Cod Village
Schiffer£31.99| /Life has changed in this beautiful seaside village on the elbow of Cape Cod since pioneers William and Anne Busby Nickerson bought it from the Mono...
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Treasure Under the Tundra
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /It is said that the sparkle from Canadian diamonds mimics the awesome and seductive radiance of the northern lights. Yet until 1991, no one thought...
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True Tales of the American Southwest
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /Compiled here are the recollections of some remarkable men and women who experienced frontier life in the American Southwest during the latter part...
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Turkey Hill -- A Family Vision
Schiffer£15.99| /Have you ever wondered why a leading regional brand of ice cream and tea calls itself Turkey Hill? Recalling more simplistic times when local milkm...
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UBCM (Union of British Columbia Municipalities)
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£38.99| /This book provides readers with accessible and thought-provoking commentary, teamed with newspaper accounts and personal anecdotes. The book is amp...
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Vancouver Kids
Brindle & Glass (CA)£13.99| /Children and teenagers stroll between the skyscrapers in Vancouver and experience the city in a different way than adults do. They have helped Vanc...
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Vienna
Ariadne Press (US)£16.99| /The best access to Vienna is through its history. This chronologically organised survey of Vienna from its origins to the present does not presuppo...
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Voices of the Chesapeake Bay
DIST£18.99| /The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay radio show has featured hundreds of people who live, work, and play on the Chesapeake Bay. Now host Michael Buckle...
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Voices of the Chesapeake Bay
DIST£27.99| /The Voices of the Chesapeake Bay radio show has featured hundreds of people who live, work, and play on the Chesapeake Bay. Now host Michael Buckle...
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Weird U.S. Laws
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Curious about what you can and can't do across the continental U.S.? Don't even think about putting salt on a railroad track in Alabama; you could ...
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West Chester History
Schiffer£22.99| /Explore the county seat of Chester County, in the southeast corner of Pennsyvania. Its rich history and beautiful environs have made West Chester a...
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When Edmonton Was Young
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Edmonton, circa 1910, never thought of itself as small. The citizens were young, an unlikely concentration of resourceful individuals attracted fro...
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When the Great Spirit Died
Linden Publishing (US)£20.99| /The most persistent enemy of the native Californians was the firmly rooted white philosophy which preached that, one way or another, the Indian was...
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Will the Real Alberta Please Stand Up?
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy ster...
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Wisdom of Angels
Branden Publishing Co (US)£15.99| /The Abruzzese village was as one would expect -- replete with copper-coloured roofs, mountain pine trees, ageing edifices, and a host of onlookers ...
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Yi Fao: Speaking Through Memory
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Bravo to the New Westminster Museum and Archives for their groundbreaking research into the history of Yi Fao, and for their understanding that the...
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Yukon
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£19.99| /Joann Robertson's grandfather moved to the Yukon in 1897 to make his fortune. He did not succeed, but loved the North and decided to settle there. ...
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