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Little Big Boss
A Métis Man's Stories of Life in Canada's Arctic by Alex Gordon and Michel Lupien
Alex Gordon left his home in Caslan, Alberta in 1958 for a summer job in Wood Buffalo National Park to earn money for university in the fall. Little did he know this would lead to a 20-year adventure working and living in Canada’s high Arctic....
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Marlee Mallard Keeps Her Home
by M. A. Enniss-Trotman
Marlee the mallard duck is sitting on her eggs when she hears a strange noise: humans are cutting down the nearby trees. It’s only a matter of time before they reach her nest. Crane suggests she fight back, but Marlee is afraid. Peggy, her best...
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Society of Crows
by Robert W. Butler
The crows’ intelligence, sagacity, and penchant to interact with humans has captivated human imaginations for decades. Yet only a few people have had the opportunity or motivation to devote much of their life to trying to understand them. A...
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The Dorchesters
Four Generations and 100 Years in West Vancouver by Frank Robert Carleton Dorchester
Every family has a story, and this is the story of the last four generations of my family . . . So begins The Dorchesters—a remarkable story about a remarkable family. Told from the perspective of Frank, part of the third generation, it...
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Unlikely Hero
by Debra Hunt
After inheriting her grandmother's rural Pennsylvania home, Jesse Lehman thinks she's finally found safety—until a charming stranger shatters that illusion. When her partner Josh dies suddenly, Jesse is left grief-stricken and alone with Legend,...
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Flemingdon Park
No Mean Neighbourhood by Edward Brown
Since Eric Arthur’s 1964 publication of Toronto, No Mean City, no book has provided such deep insight into a community as Flemingdon Park, No Mean Neighbourhood. From prehistory to the arrival of Indigenous peoples, European settlers, the simple...
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Skyblue
Inception by Ignazio Borzellino
The future arrived quietly. The consequences did not. As global systems turn to artificial intelligence for control, security, and survival, from an impending threat a single breakthrough triggers a chain reaction that no one can contain....
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Guided by the Stars
by Holly Marie Stocking
In a peaceful kingdom by the sea, a gentle young princess is given the gift of healing. Princess Rὸs uses her magic only to help her people—until the day the King of the North dispatches a crew of pirates to kidnap her for his bride. Realizing...
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Sports Talk
How It Has Penetrated Our Everyday Language by Colin McNairn
It’s “game on” in uncovering the many sports-inspired terms, expressions and sayings that populate our everyday language! That’s the challenge that this book takes on, using a “playbook” for each sport. After “going for the fences” and “covering...
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My Father's War
by Ben de Boon
How an ordinary family survived extraordinary circumstances, while also helping others through a perilous period of modern Dutch history. With arrest and starvation, frequent hazards under the Nazi regime, lives could unexpectedly be changed or...
