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  • Courage and Grit

    The Legacy of Canada's Bomb Girls

    par Barbara Dickson ...
    Explore the lives of intrepid Canadians who served on the home front during the Second World War.On September 10, 1939, Canada declared war on Nazi Germany. From that moment, hundreds of thousands of war workers — predominantly women — forged a new culture within the nation’s labour, home, and political environs.Courage and Grit features dozens of amazing stories about these women — from farmers’ ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Bomb Girls

    Trading Aprons for Ammo

    par Barbara Dickson ...
    2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — NominatedAn account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War.What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the ... En savoir plus

    $8.09 CAD

  • Mountains for Maddi

    par Barbara Dickson ...
    Maddi Madigan, while on vacation, careens into Dr. Gregory Connor on a snowy ski slope. Entangled with Greg and buried in snow, her heart skitters, almost as far as her ski poles. She soaks up the magnificent Rocky Mountain atmosphere over the next few days while avoiding an entanglement of another kind—romance. She bears the scars from a broken engagement, and is convinced men and a diagnosis ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Shirt Box Full of Songs

    The Autobiography

    par Barbara Dickson ...
    From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother and loving parents, of moving to Edinburgh to find her place in the world and the stresses and strains of trying to make a living ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War

    par Shawna M. Quinn ...
    Collections Livre 15 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded soldiers. At the Casualty Clearing Houses, they worked at a feverish pace to give emergency care for bleeding gashes, broken and missing limbs, and the devastating injuries of war. Exploring the many ways ... En savoir plus

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  • The Hour of Peril

    The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

    "It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." — Harlan CobenDaniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL.In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, ... En savoir plus

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  • You're In Canada Now . . .

    A Memoir of Sorts

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  • The Rich Are With You Always

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  • The Bottom Line

    The Truth Behind Private Health Insurance in Canada

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  • Strangers on a Bridge

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