Provincial justice upper canadian legal portraits

In the formative years of Ontario's history, the law loomed large, as a profession, a preoccupation of legislators, a subject...

No fixed address life in the foreign service

The wife of the Canadian ambassador to Hungary draws on her 25 years of experience, hundreds of interviews, and her...

In the dream house a memoir

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House...

The backwoods of canada

The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life...

The riverbones stumbling after eden in the jungles of suriname

A young man uncovers myth, history, and murder while searching for the soul of an unknown and magical place. Andrew...

Why socrates died dispelling the myths

A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization — one with great resonance for modern...

Houseboat chronicles notes from a life in shield country

This is the story of Jake MacDonald’s discovery of some of the last wild places in North America. The Precambrian...

Hunting humans the rise of the multiple murderer

In this classic study, Elliott Leyton challenges the conventional idea of serial murderers as deranged madmen. He explores the twisted...

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Debrett's queen elizabeth the queen mother

Book in brand new condition. Book cover has very tiny small rip (bend) on it.

Revenge a story of hope

Laura Blumenfeld's father was shot in Jerusalem in 1986 by a member of a rebel faction of the PLO responsible...

Vladimir nabokov the american years

The story of Nabokov's life continues with his arrival in the United States in 1940. He found that supporting himself...

General james longstreet the confederacy's most controversial soldier a biography

The author of Mosby's Rangers shatters traditional views of the Gettysburg defeat in a revealing examination of the commander of...

An interrupted life

So many miracles

H is for hawk

Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk. As a child...

Piece by piece stories about fitting into canada

This new anthology features stories by some of Canada's finest authors who were born in another country and who went...

Throwing rocks at houses my life in and out of curling

Curling legend Colleen Jones opens up about her extraordinary career and life Curling is possibly the most beloved sport across...

Wintering the power of rest and retreat in difficult times

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON NPR MORNING EDITION AND ON BEING WITH KRISTA TIPPETT “Katherine...

Save me the plums my gourmet memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.”—Vanity Fair In this...

Facing the mountain a true story of japanese american heroes in world war ii

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award...

Judgment in jerusalem chief justice simon agranat and the zionist century

Simon Agranat (1906-1992) was the third chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court and a founding father of Israeli law....

Illus ency of jazz p

pp. 224, color and b/w illustrations

Chronicle of the roman emperors

These portraits of the emperors form the building blocks of an invaluable and highly readable popular history of Imperial Rome,...