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This entertaining volume provides a concise history of one of the world's premiere cities. Acclaimed author A.N. Wilson starts at the beginning, when London was founded by the Romans, and continues to contemporary times, hitting all the historical highlights along the way. London is the perfect starter book for anyone wishing to understand this great city a little better, and even seasoned London fans will find new information here.
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200 years of Canadian letters, including Sara Riel, writing to her brother Louis in 1871, expressing her belief in his divine destiny; Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1907 letter, sharing news of her literary breakthrough; and a young French-Canadian soldier describing the horror of watching his comrades die in the 1916 battle at the Somme. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2003.
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Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of Henry VIII's six wives, a subject of enduring fascination.
The six wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr - have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended.
But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's...
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Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, and yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied forces. D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada's 24 Hours of Destiny chronicles that momentous day hour-by-hour, through the words of the men themselves. With more than 300 illustrations,...
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A collection of original stories by twelve of Canada's most celebrated and best loved authors, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier, TImothy Findley, Antonine Maillet, Alberto Manguel and Michael Turner. When presented with the question What are the great events in Canadian history? they responded by travelling into the past to discover the moments that shaped our nation. 2001.
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When the great Library of Alexandria was sacked in A.D. 391, perhaps some of its fabulous art treasures and volumes from its library escaped the flames and were ferried across the Atlantic. This is the premise of a suspense caper that features green-eyed agent Dirk Pitt, a James Bond type whom "no woman could completely possess." Some strong language. Bestseller. Sequel to "Cyclops" (CC02744), followed by "Dragon" (CC08382). 1988. (Dirk Pitt novel...
9) Atonement
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From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has...
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has...
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In 1838, members of a clandestine American organization, the Patriot Hunters, launched a series of attacks across the border and occupied a stone windmill near Prescott, Ontario. After five days of heavy fighting, British regulars and Canadian militia captured the invaders and imprisoned them in Fort Henry at Kingston. This book traces the rise of the Patriot Hunters in the northern United States, describes their odyssey down the St. Lawrence and...
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With incomparable storytelling skill, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough brings Rome alive in all her majesty-and illuminates the world of those favored by the gods at birth.
In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. They were the chosen...and the cursed-blessed with wealth and privilege yet burdened by the dictates of destiny...
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This biography tells the story of a man seven hundred years ago who, without wealth or noble birth, rose to become Guardian of Scotland. William Wallace, with superb generalship and tactical genius, led a country with no previous warlike tradition to triumph gloriously over the much larger, better-armed and better-trained English forces. 1995.
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The story of a women in the Klondike, including First Nation woman Shaaw Tláa, whose experience and traditional skills were critical to the survival of her white prospector husband. The others who later joined the Klondike Stampede came from all walks of life, and include socialite Martha Black, who became a miner, mill manager, and politician, and Irish farm girl Belinda Mulrooney, who arrived in Dawson with only a quarter to her name.
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Analyzes the failure of the Versailles Peace Conference after World War I. Focuses on the nationalistic goals of American president Woodrow Wilson, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and British prime minister David Lloyd George--the author's great-grandfather--as they reorganized the defeated empires and created the League of Nations. Foreword by Richard Holbrooke. Bestseller. 2001.
16) Slammerkin
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Born to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for velvet and lace-a desire that leads her to a life of prostitution, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. In the end, it is clothes, their splendour and their deception, that bring Mary to the brink of disaster. Slammerkin is both a brilliant evocation of another era and a timeless tale of the rage of adolescence.
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Joanne Goodman lectures volume 1998
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Canadian military historian Terry Copp believes that "the evidence demonstrates that the achievement of the Allied and especially Canadian armies in Normandy has been greatly underrated - the defeat and near destruction of two German armies in just seventy-six days was one of the most remarkable military victories of the Second World War." To support these assertions, Copp examines in detail the individual actions of the Canadian battalions as they...
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Between 1899 and 1953, three generations of young Canadians marched off to distant battlefields to fight in four different wars. From the African veldt to the fields of Flanders, the beaches of Dieppe, and the Korean highlands. The half-century also saw Canada transformed from an agricultural nation beholden to the British Empire to an industrial powerhouse closely linked to the United States.
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from Northern Europe to decorate the walls of the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. Alessandra is drawn into the life of a city where the new freedoms of the mind rub shoulders with the old sins of the flesh. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.
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