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Wings over the Sahtu
The North-Wright Air Story
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Over 100 years ago, during aviation's dawn in the unforgiving Canadian Arctic, gutsy pilots and ingenious mechanics flew a pair of WWI-vintage airplanes further north than anyone before.They proved that the airplane would transform frontier life...
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The Soldier, the Spy, and the Orphan
Fragments of Poland's Wartime History
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Amid the upheaval of two world wars, three individuals found themselves at the heart of Poland’s struggle for survival. Their extraordinary stories, shaped by war, resistance, and resilience, offer a deeply personal perspective on Poland’s...
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The Old Oil Field of Humble and its Operation
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The first sign of oil in Humble was found by a man named Slaughter. He was eating his lunch by the San Jacinto River when he noticed bubbles coming out of the water’s edge. Slaughter discovered that it was natural gas by lighting a match to...
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From Ancient Gaul to Canada
A Trip Through the Enchanting History of French Canadians
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From the Celtic peoples of ancient Gaul to the French settlers of Québec, this is the epic tale of how we became Canadians. In 390 BC, the ancient ancestors of the French-speaking peoples lived in a huge region of western Europe known as Gaul....
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404 Years
An Auto/biography
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In the early seventeenth century, the sounds of the Atlantic whispering in her ears, Elizabeth Haney rides a ship bearing her from England to the burgeoning colony of Virginia, where she will join her husband, John. It is there that the two will...
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Rebel Dove Poems
Poet passenger pigeons taken over the Way of Horus notify their messages along the pharaonic line.
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Rebel doves in kite formation num’rous fly. Above Horus Way line, Thot’s envoys darken lunar tides. A flock of passenger pigeons transformed military messages into poems on what they saw between watchtowers on the Way of Horus and Tanis. Over the...
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Masters of Their Own Bodies
The Great Canadian Birth Control Trial
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Sex and the long arm of the Catholic Church. Eccentric millionaires and Canada's Eugenics Society. Poverty and intolerance trapping the working class. It’s 1936 during the Great Depression and the nation watches as a spectacular court case...
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Tracing Ma’di Roots and Connections
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This is an educational book about the Ma'di, from Africa. The book is of interest to any person of Ma’di descent or anyone interested in African history. The Ma'di were traced from where they originated; where they lived and traveled; how the...
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I am Saxon
A History of the Transylvanian Saxons
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I Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin of the Carpathian Mountains, the Saxons...
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Ruta's Closet
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Ruta’s Closet tells the compelling Holocaust story of a Jewish family, imprisoned in the tiny Shavl ghetto in Lithuania. The Kron family survived the horror of the Nazi regime, thanks to the resourcefulness of Meyer and Gita Kron and the bravery...
