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This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories

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This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool…

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Thirteen Reasons why

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"Everything affects everything," declares Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks ago. After her death, Clay Jensen--who had a crush on Hannah--finds seven cassette tapes in a brown paper package on his doorstep. Listening to the tapes, Hannah…

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Things that Go Bump in the Flight: For Us White-knuckle Fliers, There's No Replacing Propellers and Open Cockpit Doors

London, Ontario

Desbarats discusses his odd preference for smaller, more cramped propeller planes a opposed to larger passenger jets. He believed that smaller, propeller planes were “more human,” and that he felt more connected to his fellow…

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They Tunnelled to Freedom in Wartime Canada: When the Germans Broke out of Camp X - First of Three Parts

St. John's, Nfld.

Desbarats describes an escape attempt made by several German prisoners from a Canadian prisoner of war camp in Angler, Ontario, near Neys Provicial Park in Ontario. Prisoners were very well prepared. They had many rucksacks full…

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They Tunnelled to Freedom in Wartime Canada: An Incredible Venture Almost Succeeds - Second of Three Parts

Desbarats series about a daring escape made by German prisoners from Angler Prisoner of War Camp continues with further details about what happened to those who escaped. Specifically, he profiles the journey of Karl-Heinz Grund and Horst Liebeck, the…

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Their Friendship Survived: A Polish couple and the Jewish family they hid during World War II renew old memories

The story of a Polish-Jewish family whom a Polish-Christian family hid for several years during World War II. The story outlines their journey from Warsaw to their later settlement in Montreal. The cause to tell this story was the reunion of the two…

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The Works of the English Poets [original]

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Binding: fair to good ; paper covered boards ; some spotting ; bumped corners ; some wear on edges ; front cover loose

Spine: poor ; covered removed ; exposed sewing

Textblock: good to very good

Contents: The Poems of Edmund Smith ; The…

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The Whole World's Crazy (Amelia Rules!)

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"Jimmy Gownley's "Amelia Rules!" series is a delightful entry for lovers of comics and realistic fiction. After her parents' divorce, Amelia and her mother have to leave the city and move in with her cool Aunt Tanner. With witty dialogue and…

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The War On Sideburns Is Over

Peter Desbarats had sideburns before they became a socially acceptable style of facial hair. He recalls some of the difficult barbers he encountered and the unhappiness expressed by many of his colleagues and CBC viewers.

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The War Measures Act didn't help Quebec separatism after all

Ottawa, Ontario

Desbarats argues that separatist sentiments in Quebec, in the wake of the October Crisis, had not increased despite the argument put forward in a recently published book by Walter Stewart entitled “Shrug-Trudeau in Power.”

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