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Living and Dying in a Victorian City

by Sylvia M Barnard, Roy Porter ...

With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in the country. This study relates how the cemetery was started and run, and describes the developing feuds between denominations. The author draws upon newspaper articles, archive material and municipal ... Read more

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With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in the country. This study relates how the cemetery was started and run, and describes the developing feuds between denominations. The author draws upon newspaper articles, archive material and municipal
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Rhubarb, Strawberries, and Willows

by Sylvia Barnard ...

Hurtling up Highway 69 toward Sudbury in her VW bug, Kate Dumont Walker decides she’s going to keep her baby. After all, it’s the 1980s. That is, until she is unexpectedly plunged 100 years into the past, without her Amelia, to the early days of her Northern Ontario community. Unable to return to her own time, she eventually learns to stop living as a visitor and settles into life with Claude, the ... Read more

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Hurtling up Highway 69 toward Sudbury in her VW bug, Kate Dumont Walker decides she’s going to keep her baby. After all, it’s the 1980s. That is, until she is unexpectedly plunged 100 years into the past, without her Amelia, to the early days of her Northern Ontario community. Unable to return to her own time, she eventually learns to stop living as a visitor and settles into life with Claude, the
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A Hyphenated Life

by Sylvia Barnard, Maggy Morris ...

Caught between the pressure to be a good Canadian girl, her duty to her immigrant parents, and her own personal desires, Angelika Langer must learn to translate not just the three languages she speaks, but also her own inner voice. Her parents left Germany in the early 1950s for a new life after the war, settling first in Quebec then moving to northern Ontario when Angelika is eleven. She ... Read more

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Caught between the pressure to be a good Canadian girl, her duty to her immigrant parents, and her own personal desires, Angelika Langer must learn to translate not just the three languages she speaks, but also her own inner voice. Her parents left Germany in the early 1950s for a new life after the war, settling first in Quebec then moving to northern Ontario when Angelika is eleven. She
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The Pull of the Stars

A Novel

by Emma Donoghue ...

THENEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOMDublin,1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A smallworld of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling authorof The Wonder and Room.Inan Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at anunderstaffed hospital in the city centre, where e... ... Read more

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THENEW #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WONDER AND ROOMDublin,1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. A smallworld of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling authorof The Wonder and Room.Inan Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at anunderstaffed hospital in the city centre, where e...
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The Glass Hotel

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by Emily St. John Mandel ...

GILLER PRIZE FINALIST#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at seaVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the ... Read more

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GILLER PRIZE FINALIST#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at seaVincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the
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The Wonder

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Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heartbreaking and transcendent.” —The New York TimesFrom the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Room and the bestselling novel HavenIn 1850s Ireland a villag... ... Read more

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Now a major film from the makers of Normal People and Room, starring Florence Pugh and streaming on Netflix.SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE FINALIST#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Heartbreaking and transcendent.” —The New York TimesFrom the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Room and the bestselling novel HavenIn 1850s Ireland a villag...
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London's Forgotten Children

Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

by Gillian Pugh ...

In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and ... Read more

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In 1739, the London Foundling Hospital opened its doors to take in the abandoned children of the city. It was the culmination of seventeen years of campaigning by Captain Thomas Coram, driven by his horror at seeing children die in the streets. He was supported in his endeavours by a royal charter and by William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel. The Hospital would continue as both home and
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All the Light We Cannot See

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by Anthony Doerr ...

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to ... Read more

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to
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The Stories Behind London’s Streets (Part Two)

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The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of hope, happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there. Did you know for instance that when Great Scotland ... Read more

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The streets of London flourish like possibly no other city on earth, with stories from its rich history, stories of death - fire - disease, of riots, and grisly murders, but also of tales of hope, happiness, determination and success. Behind every story and every street however, are the people who lived, worked, played, and even murdered there. Did you know for instance that when Great Scotland
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The Victorian City

Everyday Life in Dickens' London

by Judith Flanders ...

From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles DickensThe 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town ... Read more

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From an acclaimed popular historian comes a masterly recreation of Victorian London, whose raucous streets and teeming denizens inspired and permeated the works of one of the world's greatest novelists: Charles DickensThe 19th century was a time of unprecedented transformation, and nowhere was this more apparent than on the streets of London. In only a few decades, London grew from a Regency town
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Hamnet

A novel

by Maggie O'Farrell ...

**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MULTI-AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS JESSIE BUCKLEYWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] exceptional winner. . . . It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring." —Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The ... Read more

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**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MULTI-AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS JESSIE BUCKLEYWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"[An] exceptional winner. . . . It expresses something profound about the human experience that seems both extraordinarily current and at the same time, enduring." —Martha Lane Fox, Chair of The
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How to Pronounce Knife

Stories

by Souvankham Thammavongsa ...

**WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed one of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020*,* and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2020 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, the PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD, and the DANUTA GLEED AWARD#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed one of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020*,* and featuring stories that have appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, this revelatory book of fiction
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