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    "LUT"
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    "LUT"

    A collection of letters discovered by chance in an old trunk, accompanied by cartoons and news clippings: the great historical interest of this collection gradually became apparent. The letters provide a vivid, first-hand account of life in the office of...
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  • Three Famous Mysteries
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    Three Famous Mysteries

    Age range 9 to 11These three short mystery tales from a collection of the greatest literary minds of all time Conan Doyle, Poe, and Maupassant make for an enjoyable yet spine chilling read. This volume includes Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of...
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    Moonage Daydream
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    Moonage Daydream

    'The closest we'll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography - but who'd ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?' Rolling StoneIn 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy...
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    Another Day In The Life
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    Another Day In The Life

    'This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it.' -...
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    Napoleon at Peace
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    Napoleon at Peace

    The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized...
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    Being Bond
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    Being Bond

    The official retrospective book for Daniel Craig's 5 James Bond 007 films, Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, No Time To Die.Daniel Craig started his tenure as James Bond with Casino Royale, the long-awaited film adaptation of Ian...
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    The Kneeling Man
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    The Kneeling Man

    In the famous photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, one man kneels beside him, trying to staunch the blood: an undercover Memphis police officer embedded with the Invaders, a militant Black group in talks with King. This spy, the kneeling...
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    Proving Ground
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    Proving Ground

    A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing.As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War II,...
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    Royalty Revealed
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    Royalty Revealed

    They're not like us, the royal family. Or are they? We simply don't know and we're all desperate to find out.This A-Z of royalty is the practical miscellany of the royal family that everyone's been waiting for. Did the Queen Mum really give all her...
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    The Diary That Changed The World
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    The Diary That Changed The World

    To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first pages, he discovered a side to his daughter...
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    The King Who Had To Go
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    The King Who Had To Go

    How does the machinery of government respond when a King steps out of line?The relationship between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson created a constitutional crisis that has fascinated the public for decades. Unwilling to accept the idea of the...
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    Watch My Smoke
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    Watch My Smoke

    His style was iconic, and vintage '80s: aviator goggles, Jheri curls, neck roll, boxy pads.For the first time, Dickerson is telling his story. And he's not holding anything back.Eric Dickerson is the greatest player in Los Angeles Rams history and the...
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    Little Girl Blue

    Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar. Karen was the instantly recognizable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act...
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    Robespierre
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    Robespierre

    How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy.Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other...
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    James Hutton
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    James Hutton

    Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars.Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed and...
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    William Burrell
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    William Burrell

    In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and...
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    The Founder's Tale
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    The Founder's Tale

    This is the story of how one man, with a bit of help from his friends, created a revolution in the hitherto staid world of Scotch Whisky. But by creating the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, he gave whisky drinkers access to the finest distilled liquor on the...
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  • Isolation Shepherd
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    Isolation Shepherd

    In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was...
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    William Faulkner
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    William Faulkner

    At various stages of his life, the celebrated American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962) presented himself as a literary dandy, a shabby bohemian, a wounded war veteran, a humble farmer, a courtly lover, and a genteel but aloof Southerner. In private...
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    Mark Twain
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    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, born on 30 November 1835 in Monroe County, Missouri, was never one to let the facts get in the way of a good story. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Twain freely adapted the incidents of his life and the stories he heard as a...
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    Leonard Bernstein
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    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein (19181990) was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognisable figures. In a career spanning five decades he conducted many of the world's leading orchestras, and composed scores for landmark musicals such as Candide...
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    Ernest Hemingway
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    Ernest Hemingway

    Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961) enjoyed a life of literary triumph set against a backdrop of some of the grandest landscapes in the world. Verna Kale's new, narrative portrait of Hemingway challenges some of the long-held assumptions...
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    Paul Cezanne
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    Paul Cezanne

    Few artists have exerted such an influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne (19 January 1839 - 22 October 1906). Picasso, Braque and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his painting. This reassessment of Cezanne's life and art discusses the key...
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    Antonin Artaud
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    Antonin Artaud

    In this biography of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers, David A. Shafer takes readers on a chronological voyage through Artaud's life. Yet, as Artaud navigated through the...
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    James Watt
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    James Watt

    Traditional biographies of Watt have concentrated on the steam engine, but in this book Ben Russell tells a richer story, exploring the processes by which ephemeral ideas were transformed into tangible artefacts and the multifaceted world of production...
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    Yukio Mishima
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    Yukio Mishima

    Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century: prodigiously talented, dazzlingly prolific and a prime candidate for the Nobel Prize. Yet in 1970 Mishima shocked the world with a bizarre attempt at a coup...
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    Tegan and Sara
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    Tegan and Sara

    A guide to the music and multifaceted career of Canadian artists and songwriters Tegan and Sara.Through interviews with Tegan and Sara, their collaborators, journalists, and fans, this book explores the multifaceted career of one of music's most...
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    Kwndr
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    Kwndr

    Indigenous Voices Award winner Cole Pauls returns with a robust collection of stories that celebrate the cultural practices and experiences of Dene and Arctic peoplesGathering Pauls's comics from magazines, comic festivals and zine making workshops,...
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    Weegee: Serial Photographer

    Weegee was a street photographer for New York's popular press in the 1940s. He was infamous for adjusting the position of dead bodies at crime scenes to make his photographs more pleasing to the eye. Wauter Mannaert and Max de Radigus have succeeded...
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  • On Failure
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    On Failure

    Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to...
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    Big Men Fear Me
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    Big Men Fear Me

    Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Ottawa Book Award in English Nonfiction Longlisted for the 2023 National Business Book Award The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most...
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    A Factotum in the Book Trade
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    A Factotum in the Book Trade

    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release...
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    The Kingdom of Redonda
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    The Kingdom of Redonda

    Shortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bishop from their home in the Caribbean out to the nearby...
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    Reaching Mithymna

    Reaching Mithymna describes the Syrian refugee crisis from a Canadian volunteer's perspective. Secondary theme of the search for identity, familial and ethnic or cultural: Heighton's mother emigrated from Greece.Will appeal to politically-minded readers...
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    The Weight of Sand

    A radiant, unforgettable memoir of one woman's 450 days spent in captivity, and her defiant refusal to have her humanity stripped away.When Edith meets Luca in a small Northern town, the two connect instantly. Under the Northern Lights, they develop a...
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    The Rise of Wolf 8

    "The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone's greatest and most famous wolves."-Washington Post"[The Rise of Wolf 8] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings...
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    The Ocean's Whistleblower
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    The Ocean's Whistleblower

    "[Daniel Pauly] is an iconoclastic fisheries scientist ... who is so decidedly global in his life and outlook that he is nearly a man without a country."-NEW YORK TIMES"Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years."-TED DANSONDaniel...
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    The Incredible Voyage
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    The Incredible Voyage

    'Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping...readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.' BOOKLISTA man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no...
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    A Year in the Woods
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    A Year in the Woods

    From the acclaimed author of In Praise of Paths comes a humorous and modest Walden for modern times.As nature becomes ever more precious, we all want to spend more time appreciating it. But time is often hard to come by. And how do we appreciate nature...
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    The Boy and the Mountain
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    The Boy and the Mountain

    In this engrossing book, a father and son ascend a mountain together, retracing the steps of a boy who went missing there a century earlier - a quest that spawns a tender meditation on nature, family, and the joy of discovery.Six-year-old Hans Torske...
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    Voice of Rebellion

    The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of women's rights.Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about...
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    Buffy Sainte-Marie
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    Buffy Sainte-Marie

    A powerful, intimate look at the life of a beloved folk icon and activist.Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie's first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea...
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    Ron Thom, Architect
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    Ron Thom, Architect

    A definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect-and a social portraitof the midcentury design world he lived in.Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the...
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    How to Lose Everything
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    How to Lose Everything

    Disability, death and divorce are part of a string of losses that leave this award-winning musician fundamentally changed as she learns to navigate her grief and find a way forward.Christa Couture lost a piece of herself-in more ways than one. She lost a...
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    Chasing Africa
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    Chasing Africa

    Chasing Africa delicately explores the loss of identity, the gift of health and adventure, and the courage to put oneself first despite guilt, fear, and the pull of family.As a teenager, Lisa couldn't wait to escape suburbia and travel the world. Years...
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    A Time of Light and Shadow
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    A Time of Light and Shadow

    An inspiring travel adventure memoir that explores a young woman's quest to live life on the front lines, chasing adventure, and confronting the harsh realities of crisis work in Asia and Africa.In 1975, a time of new freedom for women, Ella Harvey lived...
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    The Art of Misadventure

    Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.Join Canadian photographer, explorer, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, father, and writer...
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    Lights to Guide Me Home
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    Lights to Guide Me Home

    This debut memoir is at once a captivating travelogue and an introspective look at what it takes to navigate the unfamiliar and find your way back home.Meghan J. Ward was 21 years old when she journeyed across the country for a summer job in the Canadian...
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