Journey to Munich —Winspear, Jacqueline, 1955- author.

Spring 1937. On a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't yet ready to return. Just days after disembarking in dangerous Gibraltar, she becomes entangled in a murder case and is pulled deeper into political int...

Now you know Canada 150 years of fascinating facts —Lennox, Doug, author.

Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday is this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins, geography, and everything in between. In these pages, y...

The Wars of the Roses —Weir, Alison.

In this companion to "The Princes in the Tower" (DC41835) Weir recounts the events that plunged fifteenth-century medieval Britain into a bloody struggle for the crown. The House of Lancaster, led by the inept King Henry...

A dangerous inheritance [a novel of Tudor rivals and the secret of the Tower] —Weir, Alison, 1951-

The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone...

Being Chinese in Canada the struggle for identity, redress and belonging —Dere, William Ging Wee, 1948- author.

After the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1885 - construction of the western stretch was largely built by Chinese workers - the Canadian government imposed a punitive head tax to deter Chinese citizens from com...

Warlords Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada's world wars —Cook, Tim, 1971-

Two portraits flank the doors leading into Canadas House of Commons: Sir Robert Borden to the left and W.L.M. King to the right. While each man appears flatteringly stern, wise, and charismatic, it is the portrait plaque...

Three weeks in Quebec City the meeting that made Canada —Moore, Christopher, 1950- author.

In 1864, thirty-three delegates from five provincial legislatures came to Quebec City to pursue the idea of uniting all the provinces of British North America. The American Civil War, not yet over, encouraged the small a...

Canada since 1960 a people's history : a left perspective on 50 years of politics, economics and culture

Offers an account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the sixties until today, as seen and interpreted by leftist scholars and writers. Each chapter reviews a major theme, such as Canada's relatio...

Anything for you —Higgins, Kristan, author.

When Connor O'Rourke proposes to his long-time on-again, off-again secret girlfriend, Jessica Dunn, and she says no, he gives her an ultimatum - marry him or their relationship is over. 2016

Viola Desmond's Canada a history of blacks and racial segregation in the promised land —Reynolds, Graham, 1944- author.

In 1946, a Black Halifax businesswoman, Viola Desmond, was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a white's-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, sixty-four years later, the Nova Scotia govern...

A number of things stories of Canada told through fifty objects —Urquhart, Jane.

For Canada's 150th birthday, Urquhart chooses 50 Canadian objects and weaves a rich and surprising narrative that speaks to our collective experience as a nation. The fifty artifacts range from a Nobel Peace Prize medal,...

All of me —Murray, Anne, 1945-

Documents the life of singer Anne Murray, from her humble origins in the tragedy-plagued coal-mining town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, to her arrival on the world stage. Anne recounts her battles with her record companies...

The Mitford sisters —Lovell, Mary S., author.

The lives and times of six aristocratic British sisters, exploring family relationships, artistic successes, scandals, and tragedies. Traces their involvements in clashing political ideologies between the World Wars. One...

Full-time a soccer story —Twigg, Alan, 1952-, author.

Describes how a soccer team of grey-haired underdogs in their fifties and sixties (and one player aged seventy) set off to challenge former European professionals in Spain. Their quixotic quest for glory culminated in a ...

Marching as to war Canada's turbulent years, 1899-1953 —Berton, Pierre, 1920-2004.

Between 1899 and 1953, three generations of young Canadians marched off to distant battlefields to fight in four different wars. From the African veldt to the fields of Flanders, the beaches of Dieppe, and the Korean hig...

Shock troops Canadians fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 —Cook, Tim, 1971-

Follows the Canadian fighting forces during the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, Passchendaele, and the Hundred Days campaign, through the eyes of the soldiers who fought and died in the trenches, and based on newly uncov...

At the sharp end Canadians fighting the Great War, 1914-1916 —Cook, Tim, 1971-

Covers the harrowing early battles of World War One, when tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, died, before the generals and soldiers found ways to break the terrible stalemate of the front. It provides both an...

Eminent Canadians candid tales of then and now —Fraser, John, 1944-

Fraser examines the lives of Reverend John Strachan, Reverend Terence Finlay, George Brown, William Thorsell, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Jean Chretien, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, all eminent Canadians in his opinion, ...

The Canada chronicles a four-year hitchhiking odyssey —Jackson, Matt.

In 1997, Matt Jackson quit his job, strode to the edge of the Trans-Canada Highway near Lake Louise, and began his journey. His plan was to hitchhike across Canada, expecting the trip to take three months - but didn't ar...

The madman and the butcher the sensational wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Currie —Cook, Tim, 1971-

Sir Sam Hughes - Minister of Militia and Defence from 1911 until his dismissal in 1916 - is remembered as abrasive and unstable, while Sir Arthur Currie, a part-time soldier who rose to command the Canadian Corps in Fran...