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  • One Musician's War

    From Egypt to Italy with the RASC, 1941-45

    by Jean Perraton ...
    He had one of the more unglamorous jobs in the Second World War, but self-taught violinist George Warner's letters home from the North African and Italian campaigns - in which he served as a dispatch rider for the Royal Army Service Corps - provide an enthralling, humane account of Europe's darkest years. Writing home to 'Dearest Maudie' and his young daughters, who had been evacuated from ... Read more

    $16.69 CAD

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  • The Duff Cooper Diaries

    1915-1951

    by Lord John Julius Norwich ...
    The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the mid-20th century. He was also comically priapic, committing enough sexual indiscretions to fill a dozen diaries' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Fascinating for ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Our History of the 20th Century

    As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

    by Travis Elborough ...
    What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing events but also the domestic and personal moments of those who lived through it.The book draws on over one hundred diarists. They include the great and ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • 9000 Miles in a Knight

    The 1930 Travel Journal of Pearl Maybelle Hugunin Machenry Transcribed and Compiled by Nancy Pearl Cullen Trask Lang

    by Pearl Hugunin Machenry, Nancy Pearl Lang, Magdalena Bassett ...
    9000 Miles In A Knight relates the experience of Pearl MacHenry on her family's road trip across America in 1930. Pearl, her husband Rev. Ward MacHenry, and their four youngest children, ages 14 to 20, set off from Seattle, Washington, on May 18th in their Willys-Knight touring car. No heat, no radio, bad tires, 4000 miles of unpaved roads. Pearl recorded the routes and distance they traveled, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 491 Days

    Prisoner Number 1323/69

    by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ...
    Series series Modern African Writing
    On a freezing winter’s night, a few hours before dawn on May 12, 1969, South African security police stormed the Soweto home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, activist and wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and arrested her in the presence of her two young daughters, then aged nine and ten.Rounded up in a group of other antiapartheid activists under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, designed for the ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Book #3 God Equals Balance/ Day in the Learning Process

    The God Given Formula for Life/ Stay in the Learning Process!! Educational / Motivational / Self-Improvement!!

    by Alex Brown Jr. ...
    PART I 1 – GET YOUR REST 2 – GET UP EARLY 3 – WORK HARD 4 – TREAT PEOPLE RIGHT 5 – LEARN SOMETHING PART II 1 – READ 2 – THINK 3 – EXECUTE / ACTION ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • In a Quiet Voice

    by Wallace Collins ...
    In a Quiet Voice is a collection of essays, free verse and stories the writer presents retrospectively as writings he recorded over time. His essays are historical with short stories buttressed and heightened by free verse. The writer dedicates this Word Imagery to the reader as narrative that flows through the book like red wine into the readers ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Journal of my journey over the mountains

    by George Washington ...
    In the journal, Washington describes the challenges of traversing the Appalachian Mountains, including harsh weather conditions, difficult terrain, and the logistics of travel with a military contingent. His observations provide insight into the natural beauty and strategic importance of the landscape, highlighting Washington's growing understanding of military and political dynamics in the ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Constant Rider Omnibus

    Stories From the Public Transportation Front

    by Kate Lopresti ...
    Constant Rider's Kate Lopresti describes her zine as, "Comedy, adventure, melodrama, the occasional horror," saying, "I never have writer's block when writing about the bus." Here, collected in book form, are Constant Rider issues 1-7, Kate's personal history as a patron of public transport. Kate stuffs everything she's got into these stories—anecdotes and accounts, from humor to hard times. Says ... Read more

    $7.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Haiti Needs New Narratives

    A Post-Quake Chronicle

    by Gina Athena Ulysse ...
    Winner of the Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015)Mainstream news coverage of the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, reproduced longstanding narratives of Haiti and stereotypes of Haitians. Cognizant that this Haiti, as it exists in the public sphere, is a rhetorically and graphically incarcerated one, the feminist anthropologist and performance artist Gina ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD