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"A murderer with a twisted mission targets the most vulnerable on the cold streets of Montreal -- a howling snowstorm envelops the city, and the body of a young woman is discovered in its wake. The only clue to her identity: a photograph in her pocket with the scribbled phone number of Detective Inspector Romeo Leduc. Meanwhile, Marie Russell is trying to help a student at her college who is the victim of a terrible assault. As Romeo begins to think...
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide security for a visiting Professor of Statistics at the nearby university. It sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture. They refuse and accuse Gamache of censorship. Before long, Professor Abigail Robinson's views start seeping into conversation. Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights....
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McGill-Queen's University Press
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"Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster's 25-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that challenges what a garden is, or can be. A unique, personal memoir, this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the ideas of other people, to learning from them, to striking out on her own. Combining traditions from French and English eighteenth-century gardens with contemporary...
6) The saver
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Prospector Films
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In this gripping drama, 16-year old Fern sets out to fight for life on her own terms after her mother's sudden death. However, she soon learns that she needs community more than money to survive.
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Vincent Vallières traverse le pays, trimballant ses guitares et une paire d'espadrilles. De Natashquan à Victoria, de Magog à Yellowknife, il écoute le chant des femmes et des hommes qui, entre rêves et blessures, redonnent vie à la terre, transforment les usines abandonnées en théâtres. À mesure que la route lui rentre dedans, Vallières s'interroge sur son rle de père, d'amoureux, d'ami et de citoyen.
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This attractively priced, full-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Montreal in a short time, with bulleted maps leading the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Frommer's Montreal day by day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip.
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This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Montréal in a short time-with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Frommer's Montréal Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside...
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Selling for a lower price than any similar guidebook, and deliberately limited to a short 256 pages, this EasyGuide is an exercise in creating easily-absorbed travel information. It emphasizes the authentic experiences in each destination:the most important attractions, the classic method of approaching a particular destination; the best choices for accommodations and meals; the best ways to maximize the enjoyment of your stay. Because it is "quick...
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Between then, our three authors have either written or contributed to a dozen Frommer's travel guides to Quebec over the years. They have returned to these two colorful, pleasure capitals of Quebec for this 2015 edition, which reflects their most recent discoveries in attractions, lodgings, meals, cultural highlight, and shops. Using the Easy Guide approach, they limit themselves to the very best in all price ranges--truly, an "easy" guide to use...
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Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you're a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Québec Off the Beaten Path show you la belle province-the beautiful province-you never knew existed. Cheer on canines and human mushers in the annual dogsled race during Winter Carnival; sleep in a bedroom made of snow and ice in the Ice Hotel; or ride the rapids of the Ottawa River on a whitewater rafting trip. So, if you've “been there,...
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Between them, our three authors have either written or contributed to a dozen Frommer's travel guides to Quebec over the years. They have returned to these two, colorful, pleasure capitals of Quebec for this brand-new edition, which reflects their most recent discoveries in attractions, lodgings, meals, cultural highlights, and shops. Using the Easy Guide approach, they limit themselves to the very best in all price ranges--truly an "easy guide" to...
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Québec ist mit 1.667.712 Quadratkilometern die mit Abstand größte Provinz Kanadas. Québec bezeichnet jedoch auch die Hauptstadt mit Sitz der Provinzregierung. Um eine Vorstellung über die Ausdehnungen der einzigen französischsprachigen Provinz in Ostkanada zu bekommen: Deutschland würde bequem 4,3 Mal hineinpassen! Viel Raum also für Spektakuläres - besonders abseits der ausgetretenen Wege! Nein, dies ist wirklich kein gewöhnlicher Reiseführer....
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Lonely Planet's Montreal & Quebec City is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stroll the cobblestoned streets of Old Montreal, catch some summer jazz, and sip beer and watch the world go by in the Quartier Latin - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Montreal and Quebec City and begin your journey now! The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Montreal...
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It is said that there are more restaurants per capita in Montreal than in any other city in North America. If your time is limited, you are faced with a formidable challenge in making the most of your visit. Selecting the best of this remarkable city's wealth of festivals, culture, nightlife, and shopping opportunities, Montreal CityGuide offers specific guidance and advice to enable you to best take advantage of your stay.
18) Beans
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Mongrel Media
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In 1990, two Mohawk communities enter into a 78-day armed standoff with government forces to protect a burial ground from developers.
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In the fall of 1850 Henry Thoreau embarked upon an excursion into the French-Canadian province of Quebec, with stops in Montreal and Quebec City. His reactions to the foreign country are mixed and ambivalent: he is critical of Canada's Old World Catholicism, feudalism, and an alien British military presence while most of his references to America and Americans are favorable. But if one looks closely, positive reactions to Canadian society and negative...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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The first episode covers 1670 to 1755. In the late 1600s, New France's growing populace includes shopkeepers, artisans, farmers, and fur-trading expansionists. But fast-paced growth leads to conflicts that threaten the new society. The heartrending deportation of Acadians is emblematic of the struggle to possess North America, which enters its final, decisive phase in the 1750s.
The second episode covers 1754 to 1775. Two decades of the mid 1700s...
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