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Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-09-10
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Coloured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand - in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev - the life of the ordinary Russian. After his father, a paperhanger and upholsterer, died of cholera, five-year-old Gorky was taken to...
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Penguin
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1990-09-27
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When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history,...
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Penguin
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1989-06-29
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Winifred Fortescue was born in Suffolk in 1888. At the age of 17 she decided to help the family's ailing resources by taking a career on the stage, and starred in a number of productions. In 1914 she married John Fortescue, the King's Librarian and Archivist, and in...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-12-20
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A road trip through the prairies prompts acclaimed writer Sharon Butala to unearth the stories of the natural world around her, and at the same time revisit her own personal histories.After an isolating and demoralizing year during the COVID-19 pandemic, a friend...
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Freehand Books
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2025-09-08
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Steeped in mystery and raw beauty, McNabs Island—situated in the middle of Halifax Harbour—yearns to yield up its history. Decaying estate homes and weathered road signs are all that remain of the once-vibrant farms and businesses that populated the island.
Many things...
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Nimbus
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2025-06-24
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First published in 1930. A charming memoir of the high Victorian-into-Edwardian epoch. Benson writes from the perspective of the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, moving in elite circles since his adolescence, and also his successful career as a novelist. He aims to...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2025-02-01
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Everybody has a story, but most are never told. Sally Mackay decided in her early eighties that she wanted to tell the world her own life story. The resulting book is a moving, courageous, and often lighthearted account of growing up from the age of eight with...
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Harp People's Press
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2024-11-01
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Growing up in small-town North Dakota, Frank Kuntz led a typical, country life with lots of brothers and sisters, hard-working parents, and farm animals of every kind. He learned the value of a dollar, what it meant to show your worth, and how to care for the things and...
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Books We Love Ltd.
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2024-10-08
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Longlisted, First Nation Communities READi heard a crow before i was born. i heard tsó:ka’we before i was born. i heard a crow before i was born opens with a dream-memory that transforms into a stark, poetic reflection on the generational...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2024-10-01
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Dan Yashinsky's son Jacob died tragically in a car accident at the age of 26. Dan, Jacob and Jacob's best friend Effie were driving back to Toronto after a magical trip to Montreal whenDan fell asleep at the wheel and crashed.Dan and Effie survived, but Jacob did not....
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Signature Editions
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2024-08-22
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Iniziato il 6 ottobre 1935 durante i giorni del confino politico, "Il mestiere di vivere" sarà compagno perpetuo di Cesare Pavese sino a pochi giorni prima della morte. Un'opera, ma anche un luogo dell'anima in cui riporre riflessioni sul proprio universo di scrittore e...
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Cactus
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2024-07-20
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After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada.
A bestseller in...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2024-05-22
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Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2023-12-18
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A true story of family, heroism, and ultimate sacrifice.
Born on Silver Fox Island in 1914, Eliza Gill was working “in service” before she was eight years old. By the age of eleven, she was informed by her father she would be sailing on a fishing schooner to the...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
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2023-10-20
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Adrian Payne spent more than fifty years guiding and hunting on the Great Northern Peninsula. The Vikings, who came to the shores of Newfoundland in the 11th century, hunted caribou and trapped fur-bearing animals in this rugged, untamed wilderness. Generations later,...
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Flanker Press
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2023-09-08
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A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s
Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The...
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Freehand Books
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2023-09-01
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In this beautifully written biography penned by journalist Antoine Trépanier, the Honourable Michel Bastarache recounts his youth in Acadia and the various professional roles he occupied before becoming the first Acadian to accede to the Supreme Court of Canada.Written...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2023-05-09
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Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth-grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she sees a therapist to talk about the stress of her job as a 911 call-taker and police dispatcher, she surprises herself by suddenly bringing up the memory of the...
Editeur :
Signature Editions
Parution :
2022-12-15
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"We live our lives one hitch at a time. Along with that come tears of anxiety and stress when trying to hold it all together. But then there is the laughter and comfort when surrounded by the right people, the ones we have grown close to, who have become our family and...
Editeur :
Flanker Press
Parution :
2022-06-03
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