Queen Elizabeth II by Sarah Papworth (Illustrator); Sally Morgan
$10.49 CAD
Category: Biography, Autobiography, Memoir | Series: A\Life Story Ser.
Discover the life story of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, the iconic queen who served her people for 70 years. Read all about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom's longest-reigning monarch. From her childhood years in London, to training as a mechanic in the Second World War and beco ...Show more
Rails Across the Prairies - The Railway Heritage of Canada's Prairie Provinces by Ron Brown
$34.95 CAD
Category: Canadian History
Canada's rail lines were pivotal in establishing the icons that mark today's landscape: massive bridges, sentinel-like grain elevators, pattern-book wayside stations. Odd and unusual place names dot the lines, while countless ghost towns and stories abound like the ''''ghost train'''' of St. Louis and t ...Show more
Empire of the Scalpel - The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow
$28.35 CAD
Category: History
From an eminent surgeon and historian comes the "by turns fascinating and ghastly" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice) story of surgery's development--from the Stone Age to the present day--blending meticulous medical research with vivid storytelling. There are not many life events that ca ...Show more
Heard amid the Guns - True Stories from the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Jacqueline Larson Carmichael
$28.30 CAD
Category: War
Carmichael captures the anguish and the wonder of war in flashes of colour, humour, and gems of human detail mined from letters, diaries, interviews, and] her own family history. --Halifax Chronicle Herald A rich and varied tapestry of the First World War, highlighting the personal stories of over 150 ...Show more
Jet Girl - My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/a-18 Super Hornet by Caroline Johnson; Hof Williams
$25.73 CAD
Category: War
A fresh, unique insider's view of what it's like to be a woman aviator in today's US Navy--from pedicures to parachutes, friendship to firefights. Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into fashion or filmmaking, an ...Show more
Olya and Olena Escape the Invaders by Olya Illichov; Diana Bezukh (Illustrator); Maddy Shyba
$31.45 CAD
Category: Picture Storybooks | Series: Every River Lit Ser.
Publisher donations from sales of the book go toward HOME IN OUR HEARTS donation program to help Ukrainian newcomers settle into their new homes.Thank you so much! This is truly kind of you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."--Yuliya Gorbach, St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Evacuee Welc ...Show more
Settling Saskatchewan by Alan B. Anderson
$44.34 CAD
Category: Canadian History
Who knew that Blacks settled in Saskatchewan before the First World War? That people of Lebanese and Syrian origins immigrated to the southern part of the province in the early 1900s? That Welsh settlers arrived following years of misadventure in South America? That a small band of Lakota Sioux, descend ...Show more
Tales from the Homestead - A History of Prairie Pioneers, 1867-1914 by Sandra Rollings-Magnusson
$31.45 CAD
Category: History
A compilation of thirty-six personal homesteader stories, providing unique insight into the daily life of prairie pioneers. Highlighting the voices and personal stories of early immigrants who arrived in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Tales fro ...Show more
That Lucky Son: Rediscovering My Father Through His World War II Bomber Command and Pow Experiences by Mark Cote
$27.29 CAD
Category: War
A moving work of autobiographical creative nonfiction, That Lucky Old Son takes readers on a journey of adventure, danger, and self-discovery as the author weaves his own memories with his father’s experiences in Bomber Command with No. 158 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Writing from a child’ ...Show more
Banned Books - The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present by DK
$25.19 CAD
Category: Elementary & Middle-Grade Chapter Books | Series: DK Secret Histories Ser.
Immerse yourself in the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published!Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is deemed "acceptable" in published works have shifted over the centuries, and from culture to culture.Ba ...Show more
Black Ghost of Empire - The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
$26.25 CAD
Category: History
If the 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which life in the United States has been shaped by the existence of slavery, this "historical, literary masterpiece" (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy) focuses on emancipation and how its afterlife further codified the racial caste system--instead of obliterating ...Show more
Canadian Firsts - Inventions, Sports, Medicine, Space, Women's Rights, Explorers, Science, Research, Arts, World Affairs by Lisa Wojna
$19.90 CAD
Category: Canadian History
Canadians don't spend a lot of time bragging, but as this collection shows, our citizens have a lot to be proud of--the many amazing firsts that have come from this country and its people and their impact on our culture and the world: * Alexander MacKenzie was the first recorded explorer to complete the ...Show more