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A Keen Soldier
Written by Andrew Clark

eBook | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography - Military; History - Military - World War II
ISBN: 978-0-307-36873-7 (0-307-36873-4)

November 13, 2012 | $15.99

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A Keen Soldier
Written by Andrew Clark

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368737
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When award-winning journalist Andrew Clark found the file on Harold Joseph Pringle, he uncovered a Canadian tragedy that had lain buried for fifty years. This extraordinary story of the last soldier to be executed by the Canadian military -- likely wrongfully -- gives life to the forgotten casualties of war and...

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Into the Silence
Written by Wade Davis

Trade Paperback | 688 pages | Vintage Canada | History - Great Britain; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers
ISBN: 978-0-676-97920-6 (0-676-97920-3)

October 2, 2012 | $22.95

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Into the Silence
Written by Wade Davis

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676979206
Our Price: $22.95
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A classic account of exploration and endurance from the bestselling author of The Wayfinders.
 
In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers'...



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Leonardo and the Last Supper
Written by Ross King

eBook | 432 pages | Bond Street Books | Art - History
ISBN: 978-0-307-37598-8 (0-307-37598-6)

September 25, 2012 | $14.99

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Leonardo and the Last Supper
Written by Ross King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307375988
Our Price: $14.99


Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art-The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at forty-three...



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Stolen Life
Written by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-307-36713-6 (0-307-36713-4)

July 31, 2012 | $17.99

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Stolen Life
Written by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367136
Our Price: $17.99


"Written with primal intensity, touched with redeeming compassion, Rudy Wiebe--has explored our history, our roots and the secrets of our hearts with moral seriousness and great feeling." - Governor General's Award for Fiction Citation, l994

A powerful, major work of non-fiction, beautifully written, with the impact of Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the...

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The Arctic Grail
Written by Pierre Berton

eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
ISBN: 978-0-385-67362-4 (0-385-67362-0)

June 19, 2012 | $18.99

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The Arctic Grail
Written by Pierre Berton

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673624
Our Price: $18.99


Scores of nineteenth-century expeditions battled savage cold, relentless ice and winter darkness in pursuit of two great prizes: the quest for the elusive Passage linking the Atlantic and the Pacific and the international race to reach the North Pole. Pierre Berton's #1 best-selling book brings to life the great explorers: the...

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The Measure of a Man
Written by JJ Lee

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Design - Fashion
ISBN: 978-0-7710-4648-3 (0-7710-4648-0)

May 15, 2012 | $22.00

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The Measure of a Man
Written by JJ Lee

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771046483
Our Price: $22.00
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FINALIST - Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012)
 
A son’s decision to alter his father’s last surviving suit for himself is the launching point...



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The Judgment of Paris
Written by Ross King

eBook | 464 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Historical
ISBN: 978-0-307-37496-7 (0-307-37496-3)

January 11, 2012 | $18.99

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The Judgment of Paris
Written by Ross King

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307374967
Our Price: $18.99


The fascinating new book by the author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade leading to the birth of Impressionism.

If there were two men who were absolutely central to artistic life in France in the second half of...

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Into the Silence
Written by Wade Davis

Hardcover | 672 pages | Knopf Canada | History - Great Britain; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers
ISBN: 978-0-676-97919-0 (0-676-97919-X)

September 27, 2011 | $35.00

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Into the Silence
Written by Wade Davis

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780676979190
Our Price: $35.00
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A magnificent work of history, biography and adventure.

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles, it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country and a people bled white by war...

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The Measure of a Man
Written by JJ Lee

Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; History - Social History; Design - Fashion
ISBN: 978-0-7710-4647-6 (0-7710-4647-2)

September 27, 2011 | $29.99

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The Measure of a Man
Written by JJ Lee

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771046476
Our Price: $29.99
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FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012)
 
A son’s decision to alter his father’s last surviving suit for himself is the launching point for this powerful book – part personal memoir, part social...



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Nation Maker
Written by Richard J. Gwyn

Hardcover | 688 pages | Random House Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Political
ISBN: 978-0-307-35644-4 (0-307-35644-2)

September 27, 2011 | $37.00

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Nation Maker
Written by Richard J. Gwyn

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307356444
Our Price: $37.00
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who...

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Nation Maker
Written by Richard J. Gwyn

eBook | pages | Random House Canada | History - Canada; Biography & Autobiography - Historical; Biography & Autobiography - Political
ISBN: 978-0-307-36687-0 (0-307-36687-1)

September 27, 2011 | $17.99

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Nation Maker
Written by Richard J. Gwyn

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366870
Our Price: $17.99


#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man Who Made Us, by well-known journalist and highly respected author Richard Gwyn.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who...

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Mordecai
Written by Charles Foran

Trade Paperback | 800 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 978-0-676-97965-7 (0-676-97965-3)

July 5, 2011 | $24.95

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Mordecai
Written by Charles Foran

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676979657
Our Price: $24.95
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Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century.

The first major biography with access to family letters and archives. Mordecai Richler was an...

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Klondike
Written by Pierre Berton

eBook | pages | Anchor Canada | History - Canada
ISBN: 978-0-385-67364-8 (0-385-67364-7)

February 11, 2011 | $16.99

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Klondike
Written by Pierre Berton

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385673648
Our Price: $16.99


With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater...

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Starlight Tour
Written by Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Social Science - Native American Studies; Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 978-0-307-36657-3 (0-307-36657-X)

November 5, 2010 | $14.99

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Starlight Tour
Written by Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366573
Our Price: $14.99


A teen’s suspicious death, a shocking police cover-up and a mother’s search for the truth.

In 1990, on a November night that hit –28 degrees Celsius, seventeen-year-old Neil Stonechild disappeared only blocks from his mother’s home. His frozen body was found three days later, eight kilometres from where he was last seen...

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28
Written by Stephanie Nolen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Political Science - Political Freedom & Security; Political Science; Social Science
ISBN: 978-0-307-36654-2 (0-307-36654-5)

October 22, 2010 | $18.99

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28
Written by Stephanie Nolen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366542
Our Price: $18.99


From one of our most widely read, award-winning journalists – comes the powerful, unputdownable story of the very human cost of a global pandemic of staggering scope and scale. It is essential reading for our times.

In 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face to...

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