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The bestselling author of Good Girls Die First is back with an entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting new thriller. Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you to death! Have you got what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398808904Author David WoodroffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

In his first full-length work of journalism in a decade, the 'heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman' (Economist) brings his comics mastery to a story of indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE...

A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected.Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385694094Author Stephen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc

In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish...

The word "pirate" conjures up many Hollywood images, but Trimming Yankee Sails by Faye Kert paints a very different picture. Covering the Atlantic coast from Cape Breton Island, Halifax, and Saint John to the east coast of the United States down to the...

This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes - from Indigenous occupation, to French and British...

UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island, longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771069482Author Brian PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a country Canada is very successful, in part because it maintains national diversity through bilingualism, multiculturalism, and federalism. Alongside this...

From longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island explores the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of individuals who have tried and failed to unlock its secrets. An investigation...

Follow the evolution of the rail legacy of the Canadian Prairies from the arrival of the first engine on a barge to today's realities. Rails Across the Prairies traces the evolution of Canada's rail network, including the appearance of the first steam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544744513Author Zena HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398804616Author Tim DedopulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America,...

In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179880Author Jean BarmanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620390Author Barry GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 538g

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it was experienced, diagnosed, treated, and managed in the...

One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001.When...

Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300764Author Elizabeth McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 268g

Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canadas opportunities, led to a growing tide of...

In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives...

When the white settlers came to western Canada, Big Bear realized that the Cree Indians' way of life was threatened, and he fought to prevent his people from being reduced to poverty-stricken outcasts in their own land. Although his protests were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563864Author Robert BothwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781337165Author Chris BrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 44 weeks on the B.C. Bestsellers list in 2013 & 2014! 2014 (Canada) and George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature (2014), Winner 2014 (Canada)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869691Author Ernest TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint I.M.G.PublicationsPublisher Resistance Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968195505Author Graham WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Whitecap BooksPublisher Whitecap Books LimitedWeight(grams) 249g

The daughter of a Algonquin mother and an Iroquois father, Catherine/Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) has become known over the centuries as a Catholic convert so holy that, almost immediately upon her death, she became the object of a cult. Today she is...

One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Centuryseparated from his family, community, and languagefinding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born near the beginning of the 19th century on the northwestern coast of...

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993955860Author Hammerson PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Hammerson PetersPublisher Hammerson PetersWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Leah wants to use her gymnastics skills through joining the cheerleading squad. Leah is deaf, and she worries that this will make cheerleading difficult. She struggles to keep up with the count of the routine in the first practice. Then Leah meets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771056987Author Sid MartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

A National Bestseller!A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada's 150th birthday.Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517198718Author Peter VronskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...