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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw, Travels in Search of Canada  •  Will Ferguson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) dredges up odd characters and amusing icons of Canadian history on his erratic travels across Canada from the west coast, across prairies to Churchill and its famous polar bears, culminating with a visit to the Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows. (CND236, $14.95)
 
 
The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife  •  Christopher W. Leahy  •  Gordon Morrison   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
 
 
Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories  •  Robert Bothwell   • HISTORY  •  An in-depth look at Canada-Quebec relations through interviews with prominent Canadian figures. (CND69, $32.95)
 
 
Canada: A People's History, Volume 1  •  Don Gillmor  •  Pierre Turgeon   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective. (CND160, $60.00)
 
 
Canada: A People's History, Volume 2  •  Don Gillmor  •  Pierre Turgeon   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective. (CND161, $60.00)
 
 
City of Ice  •  John Farrow   • LITERATURE  •  A page-turning crime thriller involving a Montreal police officer. (CND65, $25.00)
 
 
Eastern Canada Map  •   Hildebrand   • CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE  •  A full-color map of Eastern Canada at a scale of 1:1,500,000, covering the entire St. Lawrence Seaway and the Atlantic coast. (CAN03, $12.95)
 
 
Eyewitness Top Ten Montreal & Quebec City  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Montreal and Quebec City. (CND205, $12.00)
 
 
Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City  •   Fodor's Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical, up-to-date guide in the popular series. (CND260, $16.95)
 
 
Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City  •  Leslie Brokaw   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN DECEMBER  •  A practical guide in the popular series, with plenty of practical information on where to go and stay. (CND316, $17.99)
 
 
How to be a Canadian, Even If You Already are One  •  Ian Ferguson  •  Will Ferguson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A tongue-in-cheek portrait of Canadian people and society, written by two native sons. Not entirely (but mostly) in jest, the book is an insightful look at the Canadian national character. (CND208, $19.95)
 
 
The Illustrated History of Canada  •  Craig Brown   • HISTORY  •  A good, nicely illustrated history of Canada, featuring contributions by six Canadian historians, along with hundreds of engravings, maps, photographs and illustrations. (CND19, $32.95)
 
 
Insight City Guide Montreal  •   Insight Guides   • FIELD GUIDE  •  (CND317, $16.95)
 
 
Insight Guide Canada  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An illustrated guide to Canada with essays on history, culture and nature. (CND42, $23.95)
 
 
Insight Pocket Guide Quebec Province  •   Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact guide to Quebec, with 16 suggested itineraries, including Quebec City, Montreal and the Gaspe Peninsula. With color photographs and excellent local maps, including a separate pull-out map with insets of Montreal and Quebec City. (CND38, $13.95)
 
 
Knopf Mapguide, Montreal  •   Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (CND268, $9.95)
 
 
Know Your Ships 2007: Guide to Boats and Boatwatching on the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Seaway  •  Roger LeLievre   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A field guide to the ships on the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes. The freighter fleets of all the shipping companies are listed, along with the vital statistics for each ship. (GLK12, $16.95)
 
 
Lake Champlain, Key to Liberty  •  Arthur Cohn  •  Ralph Nading Hill   • HISTORY  •  The history surrounding Lake Champlain, the gateway between Quebec and New York. (USE145, $24.95)
 
 
The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885  •  Pierre Berton   • HISTORY  •  Part two in Berton's exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. (CND179, $24.95)
 
 
Lullabies for Little Criminals  •  Heather O'Neill   • LITERATURE  •  O'Neill's tragicomedy of coming of age in Montreal in the 1980s was shorlisted for the Orange Prize. (CND314, $13.95)
 
 
Mammals of North America  •  Roland W. Kays  •  Don E. Wilson   • FIELD GUIDE  •  The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
 
 
The National Dream, The Great Railway, 1871 to 1881  •  Pierre Berton   • HISTORY  •  An exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. The first of two parts, this book follows the railway from idea to the beginning of construction. (CND178, $24.95)
 
 
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)
 
 
North Country, A Personal Journey  •  Howard Frank Mosher   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Novelist Mosher captures the spirit of the north in this wonderfully wrought portrait of borderland places and personalities. (CND02, $14.95)
 
 
Quebec Province Map  •   Cartotek Geo, Inc    •  A folded map of the entire province at a scale of 1:670,000. (CND198, $4.95)
 
 
Quebec Province Map  •   Carotek Geo Maps    •  A map of the entire province at a scale of 1:670,000. (CND199, $4.95)
 
 
Quebec, Ulysses Travel Guide  •  Ulysses Travel Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive, up-to-date guide to Quebec Province, including a brief overview of history, culture and nature along with travel information. (CND44, $27.95)
 
 
Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul  •  Scott Weidensaul   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
 
 
Rough Guide Montreal  •  John Shandy Watson  •  Arabella Bowen   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An opinionated, thorough travel guide to the history, culture and attractions of Montreal. (CND210, $17.99)
 
 
Sea of Slaughter, A Chronicle of the Destruction of Animal Life in the North Atlantic  •  Farley Mowat   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An examination of human exploitation of the marine resources of the North Atlantic, with sections on whaling, the Great Auk and cod. (OCE07, $16.95)
 
 
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America  •  David Sibley   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird with status, habitat, range, voice and identifying marks. (USE262, $19.95)
 
 
Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas  •  Ronald Wright   • HISTORY  •  A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account. (NAM20, $17.00)
 
 
Surfacing  •  Margaret Atwood   • LITERATURE  •  One of Atwood's earliest novels, a suspenseful yarn where a young woman becomes entangled in affairs, mysteries and the haunting draw of nature as she searches for her missing father on an island off the coast of northern Quebec. (CND224, $13.95)
 
 
The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War  •  Fred Anderson   • HISTORY  •  Anderson (Crucible of War) illuminates relations between the Indians, French and British in 18th-century North America. (USA157, $16.00)
 
 
Wolfe at Quebec, The Man Who Won the French and Indian War  •  Christopher Hibbert   • HISTORY  •  A history of British General James Wolfe's last year of life. Hibbert traces the neurotic general's life through diaries, letters, ships' logs and firsthand accounts for this portrait of the man who defeated General Montcalm at Quebec. (CND67, $15.95)
 
 
 




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