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  • Useppa

    An Ongoing Journey

    by Ken, Pat Birt ...
    Useppa: An Ongoing Journey provides an in-depth account of the ten-thousand-year history of a magical island off the southwest coast of Florida.Useppa: An Ongoing Journey travels through ten thousand years of the islands inhabited history. The journey begins with the Calusa Indians, the islands first known inhabitants, and then moves on through the influence of the Spanish, Cuban fishing ranchos, ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • A Journey of Love and Miracles

    Traveling Through Cancer with the Patient and the Caregiver

    by Ken Birt, Pat Birt ...
    Ken and Pat were in their sixties when they discovered each other on an online dating site. Each was looking for a friend to spend some time with; they could not imagine the events they would come to experience together as they began their relationship. In A Journey of Love and Miracles, they tell the story of how they met and got engaged, and how Pats cancer diagnosis changed the course of their ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Call the Nurse

    True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse Series, Book One)

    by Mary J. MacLeod ...
    Series Book 1 - The Country Nurse
    Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • When Evil Came to Good Hart, 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Mardi Link ...
    In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical and present-day statements and interviews, in addition to exploring the impact of the case on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Leonardo da Vinci

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    **Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS!The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).**Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Deckhand

    Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes

    by Nelson Haydamacker, Alan D. Millar ...
    Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider's view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by deckhands on these ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Walking Free

    The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.

    by Munjed Al Muderis, Patrick Weaver ...
    One man's phenomenal tale of escaping a death sentence in Iraq, surviving the Australian Refugee system and becoming a pioneering surgeon at the forefront of Orthopaedic medicine.In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Great Day to Fight Fire

    Mann Gulch, 1949

    by Mark Matthews ...
    Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families robbed Maclean’s account of an essential personal dimension. Shifting the focus from the fire to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Gila Trail

    The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush

    by Richard Dillon, Benjamin Butler Harris ...
    The Texas Argonauts were on the march west as early as January, 1849 —a remarkable circumstance when it is recalled that the famous tea caddy of gold dust which set off the gold fever in the “States” did not reach Washington, D. C, until December 7, 1848. From Brownsville, Corpus Christi, and San Antonio, the dusty trails of the gold seekers crisscrossed through West Texas and northern Mexico. ... Read more

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  • Catching Babies

    A Midwife's Tale

    by Sheena Byrom ...
    A midwife's heartwarming and inspirational true storyCatching Babies is a moving account of an extraordinary career. It reveals the unique experiences that filled midwife Sheena Byrom's days as she looked after mums and dads and helped to bring their precious babies into the world.From her very first day as a nervous student nurse in Blackburn to the dedicated completion of her midwifery ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

    by J. Eric Oliver ...
    Local government is the hidden leviathan of American politics: it accounts for nearly a tenth of gross domestic product, it collects nearly as much in taxes as the federal government, and its decisions have an enormous impact on Americans' daily lives. Yet political scientists have few explanations for how people vote in local elections, particularly in the smaller cities, towns, and suburbs where ... Read more

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