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  • Is This Your First War?

    Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World

    by Michael Petrou ...
    Less than a year before 9/11, Michael Petrou trekked through al Qaeda's backyard in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. He was back in Central Asia within weeks of the attacks -- this time as a reporter, slipping into Afghanistan as rockets and tracer bullets lit up the night sky, carrying notebooks, stolen blankets, and a satellite phone.In the decade that followed, Petrou has returned repeatedly to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 29 No. 1, 2018

    by Ann Walton, Erin Millions, Michael Petrou, Sarah Dougherty, Erika Dyck, Jacqueline Holler, Christina Ramos, Luz María Hernández Sáenz, William E. French, Nora E. Jaffary, Lara Campbell, Carolyn Podruchny, Jesse Thistle, Elizabeth Jameson, Valerie J. Korinek, Sarah Carter ...
    Series Book 29 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The educational histories of mid-nineteenth century British-Métis students illuminate the transnational travels of British-Métis students and their roles in reifying and challenging British-imperial norms about race, class, and gender in the British Empire. In this paper, photographic and object-based artifacts are interwoven with family correspondence and other archival documents to explore the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • No One To Tell

    Breaking My Silence on Life in the RCMP

    by Janet Merlo ...
    A stunning personal account of Janet Merlo's twenty years of service in the RCMP, with an introduction by Linden MacIntyre. In 2012, Janet Merlo was among the first female RCMP officers to publicly allege she had experienced sexual harassment and gender discrimination while serving in Canada`s national police force. The women kept silent for so long, she says, because there was no one to tell. In ... Read more

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  • Tweaked

    by Katherine Holubitsky ...
    Sixteen-year-old Gordie Jessup is a good kid but he's living a nightmare. His eighteen-year-old brother Chase's two-year addiction to crystal meth has left their family emotionally and financially drained. And just when Gordie thinks he can no longer stand the manipulating, the lying and the stealing, things get even worse. Chase is arrested for aggravated assault, released on bail and sent home ... Read more

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  • Sometimes It Snows in America

    by Marisa Labozzetta ...
    Series Book 96 - Essential Prose Series
    Combining fable, story telling and the grubbiness of harsh reality, Marisa Labozzetta tells the story of Fatma, a young woman from a storied family in Somalia. Brought to the United States as part of an arranged marriage, Fatma must undergo losing her child, drug addiction, abuse and prison before coming out the other side. A tale of someone who never gives up, no matter how bleak her prospects. A ... Read more

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  • The View From Here

    Eureka, Colorado, #1

    by Cindi Myers ...
    Series Book 1 - Eureka, Colorado
    When the father she never knew dies and leaves her a gold mine, recently divorced Maggie Stevens heads for the remote community of Eureka, Colorado to claim her inheritance and to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when Maggie was only three days old.But the answers Maggie hopes to find aren't buried in her father's past or deep inside the mine. The real treasures in Eureka are ... Read more

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  • A Thousand Fiendish Angels

    Three Short Stories Inspired By Dante’s Inferno

    by J.F.Penn ...
    Three short stories inspired by Dante’s Inferno, linked by a book of human skin passed down through generations.Sins of the FleshWhen the tortured and mutilated corpse of a wealthy author is discovered, the police officer sent to investigate finds a curious diary amongst the occult objects at the scene. Will he uncover the author’s secret at the ruined chapel, and is he willing to pay the price ... Read more

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  • Inadmissible

    by El-Sayed ...
    Inadmissible chronicles the unlikely story of a young man who emigrated to the U.S. in pursuit of the American dream, and how one mistake landed him behind bars along with some of America's most notorious offenders. Against innumerable odds, he manages to survive prison, becoming an accomplished scientist, writer, and motivational speaker. Despite that, the separation from his American daughter ... Read more

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  • The Book of Fate

    by Parinoush Saniee ...
    Translated by Sara Khalili ...
    Selected as one of World Literature Today's 75 Notable Translations of 2013Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about learning. On her way ... Read more

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  • The Emperor's Edge Collection (Books 1, 2, and 3)

    An Epic Fantasy Adventure Series

    by Lindsay Buroker ...
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  • The Giver

    A Newbery Award Winner

    by Lois Lowry ...
    Series Book 1 - Giver Quartet
    In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned ... Read more

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