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  • What's in an English Place-name?

    A History of England in its Place-Names

    by William Lewis ...
    Series Book 2 - A History of English Names
    Wondering how British place-names came into existence? Discover the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages from the author of the bestselling ‘What’s in your Surname?’After spending decades researching and writing about the history of names, William Lewis turns his attention to English place-names, offering a comprehensive guide to the fascinating origins of such names as ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Death Valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history

    Enriched edition. Surviving Death Valley: Gold Rush Pioneers' True Adventure

    by William Lewis Manly, Blake Rees ...
    In "Death Valley in '49: An Important Chapter of California Pioneer History," William Lewis Manly delivers a poignant and dramatic account of the harrowing journey of a group of pioneers navigating the treacherous landscape of Death Valley during the California Gold Rush. Written with an engaging narrative style that combines vivid descriptive passages with firsthand observations, Manly's work ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What's in Your Surname?

    A History of English Surnames

    by William Lewis ...
    Series Book 1 - History of English Names
    Have you ever thought about your own surname? Wondered about the stories behind them, especially if they are unusual?This Amazon NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING BOOK (Genealogy) tells the engaging story of when our surnames first came into use, why they were necessary and how people acquired them.After spending decades writing and researching the history of names, William Lewis presents in ‘What’s in your ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death Valley in '49

    An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert

    by William Lewis Manly ...
    A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Genealogy Of The Lewis Family In America, From The Middle of The Seventeeth Century Down To The Present Time

    by William Terrell Lewis ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer Volume 7

    by Akito Narusawa ...
    Translated by Lewis Williams ...
    Series Book 7 - Finding Avalon: The Quest of a Chaosbringer
    Locked down. Isolated. Hunted. Such is the predicament in which Souta Narumi—Piggy—finds himself as the Holy Empire’s bold attack on Japanese soil rages on. In this so-called “game of death,” the unwitting guests at a swanky clan gala must rush to escape a Tokyo skyscraper before explosive magic goes off and reduces it to rubble at precisely eight o’clock. This won’t be an easy task, however, as ... Read more

    $11.40 CAD

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  • What's in Your First Name?

    Our Personal Names, their History and Evolution in Britain

    by William Lewis ...
    Series Book 3 - A History of English Names
    Ever wondered where your first name came from? Discover the history behind English first names and how they evolved . . .First names are steeped in history and culture revealing much about our ancestors, their lives and beliefs. The BESTSELLING AUTHOR WILLIAM LEWIS uncovers the origins and development of first names in the Western World in this highly entertaining book.Not only can parental choice ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The LOUDEST Silence

    Pennsylvania on Trial: A Field Manual for Survival / Endurance

    by William "Lewdo" Lewis Jr ...
    What happens when silence becomes louder than answers?A powerful examination of power, judicial systems, documentation, accountability, truth, and resilience through the lens of one Black conservator, Lewdo's, fight to preserve reality when institutions stop speaking.The Loudest Silence: Pennsylvania on Trial is a documentary memoir and civic field manual examining family court proceedings, ... Read more

    $18.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, 1851–1852

    by William Lewis Herndon ...
    An epic and intimate firsthand account of a true American hero's daring journey into the heart of the Amazon forest in the nineteenth century.Captain William Lewis Herndon was memorialized in Gary Kinder's bestselling book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea, which recounts Herndon's final acts of heroism as his ship foundered in a hurricane off the Carolina coast in 1857. Seven years before those ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Division of Empire

    The Reign of the Sons of Constantine

    by William Lewis ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
    Constantine the Great died on May 22nd in 337 AD, leaving behind three sons--Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans--to face the challenge of how to rule the Roman Empire. Division of Empire follows the lives of these brothers, beginning with the death of their father, and traces how they first shared the empire as a triarchy, until one by one the heirs of Constantine fell to the sword. ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • Erebus

    by Elizabeth Lewis Williams ...
    In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent.Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father's journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and artistic journeys, exploring communication across time and space, and experiments in scientific and poetic measure.Erebus transports us to an ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Jersey's Lost Piney Culture

    by William J Lewis ...
    Deep within the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Piney people have built a vibrant culture and industry from working the natural landscape around them. Foraging skills learned from the local Lenapes were passed down through generations of Piney families who gathered many of the same wild floral products that became staples of the Philadelphia and New York dried flower markets. Important ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus