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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw
• Will Ferguson
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
• COMING IN
In these loosely connected travel essays, Ferguson (Why I Hate Canadians) writes of odd, amusing and characteristic touchstones of Canadian history from the west coast, across the prairies to Churchill and its famous polar bears and onto Viking ruins at L'Anse aux Meadows. In the opening chapters he skewers Victoria and its British pretensions, life in the remote north of Alberta, and the titular town of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where he reluctantly visits a health spa.
(CND236, $18.95) |
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The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife
• Christopher W. Leahy
• Gordon Morrison
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 1072 PAGES
A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. Published in cooperation with the American Birding Association.
(NAM21, $19.95) |
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Canada and Quebec: One Country, Two Histories
• Robert Bothwell
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 296 PAGES
An in-depth look at Canada-Quebec relations through interviews with prominent Canadian figures.
(CND69, $32.95) |
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Canada: A People's History, Volume 1
• Don Gillmor
• Pierre Turgeon
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective, soliciting expert accounts of seminal events. This, the first of two volumes, covers from early exploration to the dawn of the industrial age in the late 19th century. Volume 2 is also available (CND161).
(CND160, $23.95) |
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Canada: A People's History, Volume 2
• Don Gillmor
• Pierre Turgeon
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
An illustrated history of Canada from a distinctly Canadian perspective, soliciting expert accounts of seminal events. This, the second of two volumes, covers from the late 19th century to today. Volume 1 is also available (CND160).
(CND161, $23.95) |
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City of Ice
• John Farrow
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 480 PAGES
Set in bone-chilling Montreal, this is a page-turning crime thriller with a complex and imaginative plot. Police officer and local hero Emile Cinq-Mars must protect himself from the biker gangs, CIA informers, the Mafia and Russian gangsters that threaten the safety of his city.
(CND65, $25.00) |
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Eyewitness Top Ten Montreal & Quebec City
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
A compact, illustrated guide in the popular series, featuring favorite attractions in Montreal and Quebec City.
(CND205, $14.00) |
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Fodor's Montreal & Quebec City
• Fodor's Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 356 PAGES
A practical, up-to-date guide in the popular series.
(CND260, $18.99) |
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Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City
• Leslie Brokaw
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
A practical guide in the popular series, with plenty of practical information on where to go and stay.
(CND316, $17.99) |
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Frommer's Montreal Day by Day
• Andre Legaspi
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(CND339, $13.99) |
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Insight City Guide Montreal
• Insight Guides
FIELD GUIDE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Combines insightful writing and lavish full-color photography in a portable format with an emphasis on practical information.
(CND317, $16.95) |
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Insight Guide Canada
• Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its wonderful photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the history and culture of Canada.
(CND42, $24.95) |
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Knopf Mapguide Montreal
• Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 48 PAGES
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(CND268, $10.95) |
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Know Your Ships
• Roger LeLievre
FIELD GUIDE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 148 PAGES
The annual 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. With color photographs, funnel designs and a history of shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes. 51st edition!
(GLK12, $18.95) |
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The Last Spike, The Great Railway, 1881-1885
• Pierre Berton
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
Part two in Berton's exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. Berton, arguably the country's greatest historian, focuses on personalities and politics, drawing from a multitude of historical documents. The first volume is "The National Dream" (CND178).
(CND179, $24.95) |
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
• Heather O'Neill
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
O'Neill's tragicomedy of coming of age in Montreal in the 1980s was shorlisted for the Orange Prize.
(CND314, $13.99) |
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Mammals of North America
• Roland W. Kays
• Don E. Wilson
FIELD GUIDE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 248 PAGES
A comprehensive guide by two noted mammalogists and featuring 108 color plates, illustrating 442 species. Range maps and descriptive text on ecology, habitat and behavior complement the wonderful paintings.
(NAM11, $19.95) |
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Michelin Montreal, Must Sees
• Cynthia C Ochterbeck
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 128 PAGES
A compact guide to the sights of Montreal, organized thematically. With practical advice on what to do for fun, where to stay, where to eat and what to do with kids. More for visitors with an agenda than those who want to leisurely explore the city.
(CND374, $10.95) |
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Moon Handbooks Montreal & Quebec City
• Sacha Jackson
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 411 PAGES
Sacha Jackson guides travelers to the highlights of Montreal and Quebec City, from the trendy bars, restaurants, and festivals of Montreal to the original city walls and historic center of Quebec City.
(CND386, $17.99) |
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The National Dream, The Great Railway, 1871 to 1881
• Pierre Berton
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 456 PAGES
An exhilarating narrative of the boldest project in Canadian history, the building of the transcontinental railroad. Berton, arguably the country's greatest historian, focuses on personalities and politics, drawing from a multitude of historical documents. The first of two parts, this book follows the railway from idea to the beginning of construction. Part two, "The Last Spike" (CND179), is also available.
(CND178, $24.95) |
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Canadians, A Portrait of the Country and Its People
• Roy MacGregor
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2008 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• COMING IN
A journalist and popular author, MacGregor takes the full measure of Canadian life in this irreverent, entertaining portrait of a people.
(CND320, $18.00) |
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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America
• Jon Dunn
FIELD GUIDE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 576 PAGES
From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide published by the National Geographic Society, now in its sixth edition (with tabs!), is the one to carry. Practical to use in the field, it has maps, illustrations and descriptions of the birds on facing pages. The scale of the maps changes with the range of the bird, which means you get a more detailed regional map for those birds with a restricted range. This fully revised sixth edition, bigger and better than ever, includes 23 new species, 300 new illustrations, innovative migration and subspecies maps, and a handy quick-find visual index.
(FG09, $27.95) |
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North Country, A Personal Journey
• Howard Frank Mosher
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 260 PAGES
Journeying west along the border from Maine in celebration of his 50th birthday, novelist Mosher captures the spirit of the north in this wonderfully wrought portrait of borderland places and personalities.
(CND02, $14.95) |
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Pandora's Locks, The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway
• Jeff Alexander
HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 431 PAGES
When it opened in 1959, the $1 billion Lawrence Seaway project -- a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River -- opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry, linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas. But, as Alexander demonstrates in this readable history, it came at an extraordinarily high environmental price.
(CND390, $19.95) |
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Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
• Scott Weidensaul
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
Weidensaul follows in the footsteps conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher in this homage to their 1953 journey, modern travelogue and eye-opening report on wilderness in America.
(USA123, $16.00) |
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The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America
• David Sibley
FIELD GUIDE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
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. It includes 20 pages on the many and confusing species of wood warblers. This is the book we are now using. For birders living west of the Rockies, you'll want to use Sibley's "Birds of Western North America" (USW418).
(USE262, $19.95) |
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Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas
• Ronald Wright
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 464 PAGES
A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright's illuminating account, told largely from the point of view of the losers, details the rapid collapse of cultures and societies in the Americas following the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account, originally published in 1993. Wright is also the author of Time Among the Maya.
(NAM20, $24.95) |
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Surfacing
• Margaret Atwood
LITERATURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
One of Atwood's early 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, $14.00) |
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A Taste of Quebec
• Julian Armstrong
FOOD •
2001 •
PAPER
• 200 PAGES
• COMING IN
Featuring new recipes as well as traditional favorites, this survey of food in Quebec makes for a nice cookbook. It also incorporates history, culture and folklore to distinguish the culinary diversity found throughout the province.
(CND181, $19.95) |
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The War That Made America, A Short History of the French and Indian War
• Fred Anderson
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
The companion volume to the January 2006 PBS documentary, this popular history, distilled from Anderson's magesterial Crucible of War, illuminates relations between the Indians, French and British in 18th-century North America.
(USA157, $17.00) |
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Wolfe at Quebec, The Man Who Won the French and Indian War
• Christopher Hibbert
HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
A history of British General James Wolfe's last year of life by the entertaining and informative author of "The Story of England." Hibbert traces the neurotic general's life through diaries, letters, ships' logs and firsthand accounts, painting an interesting portrait of the man who defeated French General Montcalm at Quebec.
(CND67, $15.95) |
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