Gary Wayne Zeman

Brenda Zeman

Tommy A. Graham

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

History of Hockey in Alberta from 1893-1986

Alberta on Ice

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Janette Oke

Yellowing of pages. Otherwise excellent. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Canadian West Book 3

The sequel to When Comes the Spring. Elizabeth and Wynn are challenged by a crushing disappointment.

When Breaks the Dawn

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Charlotte MacLeod

California

The Withdrawing Room (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries)

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The Convivial Codfish (Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries)

#fiction #youngadult #ya #youngadultfiction #hardcover #abbymcdonald #adventure #romance #contemporary #canada 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Boys, Bears, and a Serious Pair of Hiking Boots

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Kim Fu

From award-winning author Kim Fu ("an unflinching observer . . . who writes with a pen as sharp and precise as a lancet"*), a gripping novel about a group of girls at a remote camp--and the night that will shape their lives for decades to come. * PEN/Hemingway Award citation

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

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#paperback #racial #canada #sociology #currentissues
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Illinois

A History of Blacks and Racial Segregation in the Promised Land

Winner of the 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction!
The Miramichi Reader's best non-fiction book of 2016

In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon.
Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond's act of resistance occurred nine years earlier. However, many Canadians are still unaware of Desmond's story or that racial segregation existed throughout many parts of Canada during most of the twentieth century. On the subject of race, Canadians seem to exhibit a form of collective amnesia.
Viola Desmond's Canada is a groundbreaking book that provides a concise overview of the narrative of the Black experience in Canada. Reynolds traces this narrative from slavery under French and British rule in the eighteenth century to the practice of racial segregation and the fight for racial equality in the twentieth century. Included are personal recollections by Wanda Robson, Viola Desmond's youngest sister, together with important but previously unpublished documents and other primary sources in the history of Blacks in Canada.

NEW: Teaching Guide Available Here

Viola Desmond's Canada

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Kate Robb

A Novel

“A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical friends-to-lovers debut. What if one little wish changed everything? When Gemma gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she reacts the way any reasonable twenty-eight-year-old would: by getting drunk with her sister, kooky aunt, and best friend, Dax. After one too many margaritas, they decide to perform a love- cleansing spell, which promises to erase Gemma’s ex from her memory. They follow all the instructions, including a platonic kiss from Dax to seal the deal. When Gemma wakes up, she realizes that this silly spell has worked. Not only does it seem that she never dated her ex, but the rest of her life is completely unrecognizable. The worst part: Dax has no idea who she is. To reverse the spell and get back to her old life, Gemma must convince her once-best-friend-now-near-stranger to kiss her. But as she carries out her plans, she finds herself falling for him—hard. Soon, Gemma begins to wonder whether she even wants to go back to the way things once were. What if Dax was The One all along?

This Spells Love

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Joanna Goodman

Maryland

The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken - Inspired by True Events

Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’. Elodie is raised in Quebec’s impoverished orphanage system. It’s a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns’ hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world. Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.

The Home for Unwanted Girls

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Susanna Kearsley

Virginia

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters--sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"-- DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Outlander "The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren't such easy things to keep." It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined. Legend has it that the forbidden love between Jean-Philippe and Lydia ended tragically, but centuries later, the clues they left behind slowly unveil the true story. Part history, part romance, and all kinds of magic, Susanna Kearsley's latest masterpiece will draw you in and never let you go, even long after you've closed the last page. Praise for A Desperate Fortune: "Susanna Kearsley just keeps getting better and better!" --Lauren Willig, New York Timesbestselling author "Susanna Kearsley deftly conjures both historical intrigue and a contemporary heroine as unique as she is memorable." --Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling author "Enchanting! Beguiling! Gorgeously romantic! A truly brilliant book." --Kate Forsyth, award-winning author Praise for The Firebird: "A lovely and memorable novel." --Booklist, STARRED Review "A glittering, bewitching tale." --Kirkus "The present and past come together as Kearsley masterfully merges paranormal elements with a wonderful dual story and a fascinating historical setting."--RT Book Reviews, TOP PICK 41⁄2 Stars

Bellewether

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Arkansas

Louise Penny

A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sãuretâe du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.

Still Life

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#hardcover #fiction #family #relationships #miriamtoews #contemporary #canada #adult 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Follow the Troutmans as they learn about themselves and each other through chaos as diverse as their personalities, while embarking on a journey across the United States weathering sleazy motel rooms, car repairs, and bizarre people.

The Flying Troutmans

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Former library copy (which is all that seems to be available for this book); fun nitche little book. #Canada #maplesyrup #hardcover #RDLawrence 

Maple Syrup

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#hardcover #newfoundland #orphanage #race #friendship #1960s #Canada #redemption #poignant #resilience this book is in near new condition except for the tear in the dust jacket.  See photos. Price reflects.

Minnesota

 From a hill above town, the Mount Kildare Orphanage for Boys looks down on the small city of St. John’s, Newfoundland. The year is 1960.  The orphanage is always cold, there is never enough to eat, and the Catholic Brothers who run the home are heavy-handed in their religious discourses and harsh in their discipline.  Here, a group of boys manages to look out for each other and live by their own set of rules.By day the boys are obedient students, but when the sun goes down the Dare Klub rules the night: raiding the bakery; stealing sacramental wine; and talking endlessly about girls, sex, and the merits of Floyd Patterson versus Willie Mays. Above all, they help each other through the waves of loneliness and sadness that they all experience. Their secret society is their law and their family. But when the Brothers discover the wine is missing, they go on a manhunt, offering payoffs and bribes to any boy who will rat out the culprits.To buck up the frightened boys’ courage, the Dare Klub’s leader, Blackie, creates a program of secret training for the annual St. John's marathon. The boys sneak out at night for running sessions in the hours before morning prayers, devising elaborate rituals to protect their secrecy. Leo Furey has created a classic coming-of-age story of dazzling scope and powerful insight, leavened with razor-sharp wit.

The Long Run

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Ohio

My Story

The daytime talk show hostess recounts her early stints as a rock-and-roll drummer, stand-up comedienne, and successful singer, and presents her view of a 1995 show that led to a guest's murder.

Jenny Jones

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No dust jacket. Slight puncture on front of book. Several pages of black and white photos in the middle of the book, but first photo page has come loose. #hardcover #sports #nonfiction #larryrobinson #icehockey #canada 

Robinson For The Defence

Desmond Morton

Has some highlighting up to page 44, clean and tight, Canadian history 1994 revised edition, a joy to read

Updated edition of a narrative history of Canada from European settlement to the 1990s.

A Short History of Canada

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Gregory Hughes

North Dakota

Winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize and a finalist for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a starred review Kirkus Review praised Unhooking the Moon as a "rousing adventure on the not-so-mean streets, with heart aplenty."

When an adventurous sister-and-brother duo become orphans, a funny and heartbreaking roadtrip to New York ensues, as the pair searches for their long-lost uncle.

Meet the Rat: A dancing, soccer-loving, fearless ten-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Meet her older brother, Bob: Protector of the Rat, though more often than not her faithful follower, Bob is determined to build a new and better life for him and his sister in America. Of particular concern for him are his sister's mysterious fits, which keep getting more and more severe.

On their adventures traveling alone from the flatlands of Winnipeg, southward across the border into America, Bob and the Rat make friends with a host of unlikely characters, including a hilarious con man and a famous rap star. As they struggle to survive in the big city, they realize that finding your uncle in New York is incredibly difficult if you have almost no information about him--even if he is rumored to be one of the city's biggest drug dealers.

Unhooking the Moon

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Roméo A. Dallaire

Ishmael Beah

Maine

The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers

Traces the proliferation of child-soldier use throughout the world as well as international efforts to end the practice.

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

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Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff

Comes with a brand new Montreal City Map tucked into a back pocket of the book

New York

The Ultimate Guide to The City  2nd Edition

· A great two-in-one travel resource--an indispensable guide plus a full-size map--that will give you an immediate handle on everything you need to know and everywhere you want to go in Montreal.· Packaged in a handy plastic wallet.· Includes a very detailed city map and a concise guidebook that has just the information you need to experience the best of Montreal:· The city's top attractions and the must-see sights at each; itineraries for walks and excursions; the best museums, churches, squares, architecture, old buildings, and more--the author's top picks; offbeat sights even locals don't know; restaurants, hotels, shopping, and nightlife--an unabashedly opinionated selection, with pithy descriptions of each recommendation; best festivals and events; travel facts and tips on getting the most from your visit.· Written by Tim Jepson, who has written several books on Canada.

Montreal

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Maureen Jennings

A Murdoch Mystery

A woman's evil stepchildren plot to lock her away in a sanitarium for the insane in order to steal her husband's estate, in an atmospheric mystery set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Toronto. By the author of Except the Dying.

Poor Tom Is Cold

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Delaware

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet. And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here. A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back. Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.

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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

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