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An account of four generations of Mongol leaders, from Genghis Khan, through his sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. The book is arranged into a series of narratives, which are grouped dynastically and chronologically covering the span of the Thirteenth Century, and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-05-12
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One hundred years before the Hollywood film The Great Impostor, Alfred Thomas Wood roved through the momentous mid-19th century events, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to New England, Liberia, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Canada, the U.S. Mid-West and the South. He is...
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Baraka Books
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2022-05-02
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In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2022-04-27
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The story of Nova Scotia’s inland communities begins with the Mi’kmaq, who established traditional gathering places in the heart of Mi’kma’ki. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, European settlers, British Loyalists, and former soldiers were among those who...
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Nimbus
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2022-04-19
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The long-awaited narrative history of the women who volunteered in Nova Scotia during the Second World War by award-winning journalist and author of No Place to Go.
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Nimbus
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2022-03-08
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Beginning in 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was divided into opposing sections, one led by Vladimir Lenin, the other by Iulii Martov. Until 1917, both Lenin and Martov were equally prominent figures in Russian politics. Martov, an anti-war socialist...
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AU Press
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2022-02-28
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“My parents were slaves in New York State. My master’s sons-in-law … came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know...
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Goose Lane Editions
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2022-01-25
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As seventeen-year-old Sonia prepares to leave her childhood home in Tarnów, Poland, to study journalism in Paris, antisemitism is on the rise. It is the spring of 1939, and her father is leaving for Canada to set up a new life there for his family. Stranded in Canada...
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Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
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2022-01-15
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With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 1960s and 70s. Drawing on archival records, newspaper articles, police reports, and...
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AU Press
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2021-11-25
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These are the memoirs of the great mystic and teacher who inspired a generation of disciples and followers before, during and briefing after the Second World War. In Meetings With Remarkable Men Gurdjieff introduces us to some of the companions he encountered in his...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-10
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C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by pirates who snatched American merchant ships and...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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A renowned historian and Resistance fighter - later executed by the Nazis - analyzes at first hand why France fell in 1940. Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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Revolt in the Desert is Lawrence of Arabia's classic military memoir, an account of the experiences of one remarkable British officer's war from his own perspective, a war of lightning raids, of blown up railway tracks and trains, ambushes and open battles of Arabs...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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The author had enlisted in 1901 in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was a reservist when the First World War broke out. He rejoined his old, 2nd Battalion and landed in France with them on 11 August 1914. He went right through the war with the battalion, never missing a...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-06
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William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator eventually rising in rank to Vice Admiral. During his command of the "Bounty" in 1789, a notorious mutiny occurred.William Bligh and eighteen of his loyal seamen were...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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The Roman is a superb reconstruction of a time long ago, the Roman world in the time of the Emperors Claudius & Nero. It's the story of Minutus, of noble birth, who serves the government and travels widely through the Empire, from his home in Antioch to the seat of...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Samurai! is the personal story of Japan's greatest fighter pilot!
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Self Condemned tells the story of Professor Renarding who finds himself reduced to a position at a second-rate university in Canada after his resignation as an academic in London. He and his wife suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's conquest to World War II. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-05
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