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View book details for The Joy of Camping

For Those Who Love the Great Outdoors
Phoebe Smith
For as long as I stay here, I know I will have to also get to the wild places. Robert Macfarlane This pocket-sized miscellany, packed with tips on equipment, food, surviving bad weather and finding the right campsite, and with …
Jennifer Kavanagh
In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On …
Katherine Poulton
'I think we are all so increasingly obsessed and addicted to the new...that there's a danger of us forgetting to look back, appreciate and hold onto the amazing things, values, skills and traditions that previous generations and the past offer …

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Love, Loose Pants, and the Quest for a Baby
Mark Cossey
Here again, Mr Cossey? asked the young Spanish embryologist, shooting me a welcoming smile as I followed him down the corridor. He had recognised me by sight and that wasnt good. I was now the one thing you dont want …

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Book 2 in the thrilling YA fantasy trilogy set on the high seas
Bex Hogan
Power, politics and pirates collide in the second book in the Isles of Storm and Sorrow trilogy.Marianne has never wanted to be a fighter, but with unrest and discord threatening the Twelve Islands, she will have to battle threats both …
Edgar Allan Poe
HarperCollins Canada
The Ultimate Edgar Allan Poe: Short Stories, Poems and Essays is a celebration of Edgar Allan Poes extraordinary literary legacy. Spanning poems from his earliest days to his macabre and mysterious short stories to scholarly essays on such diverse topics …
Edgar Allan Poe
HarperCollins Canada
On Sullivans Island in Charleston Harbor, William Legrand isliterally and figurativelybitten by a gold bug and, thereafter, he becomes fixated on the idea of lost treasure. With his servant, Jupiter, a mysterious cipher, and the gold bug itself tied to …
Edgar Allan Poe
HarperCollins Canada
When the mutilated bodies of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter are found in the rue Morgue, detective C. Auguste Dupin is faced with the most puzzling case of his career as witness accounts contradict each other and key evidence from …
Richard O'Neill, Michele Lewis
Cambridge University Press
Prism Reading Level 1 eBook with Digital Pack helps you develop vocabulary, academic reading, and critical thinking skills. You'll experience topics through fascinating readings in a wide variety of genres and formats to become familiar with material you might face …
Karl Subban, Maggie Zeng
It was almost the first day of winter, and PK still has no skates to wear.This time, PK waited impatiently for one more week before his skates arrived in the mail.With a knock, knock, knock on the door, the mailman …
Joan Larkin
In this sixth collection from a beloved American poet, the reader is asked to reflect on the stranger within othersand ourselves. The speaker in Old Stranger: Poems begs to be seen and known, even when faced with her aging and …
Ingo Bauernfeind
"As usual in Casemate publications, the book uses high quality pictures and diagrams extensively to illustrate and amplify the points in the text... it would be difficult to find a book as well-illustrated, accessible, and affordable as this fine offering." …

View book details for I Was a Spy!

The Classic Account of Behind-the-Lines Espionage in the First World War
Marthe McKenna, Winston Churchill
The Greatest War Story of All Takes rank with All Quiet on the Western Front. She fulfilled in every respect the conditions which made the terrible profession of a spy dignified and honourable. Dwelling behind the German line within sound …

View book details for The Eagles of Bastogne

The Untold Story of the Heroic Defense of a City Under Siege
Martin King, Michael Collins, Patrick Seeling, Ronald Stassen
... those wanting a deep dive into the specific role played by the 101st Airborne Division will find this book perfect for that purpose. - The Journal of America's Military PastThere are few names in the annals of military history …
Peter Greene
The book describes what a fully loaded Huey was comprised of, the role of each of the four crew members, and most of Greenes missions. There is great honesty in the book and, if Greene doesnt recall the details of …

View book details for The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual

The official field-manuals for spycraft, espionage and counter-intelligence
Philip Parker
"Some twenty-five years after its conclusion, yet with its echoes resonating once more in contemporary East-West relations, the rigors and detail of many aspects of the Cold War are becoming increasingly of interest. Furthermore, at the very same time many …

View book details for Fury and Ice

Greenland, the United States and Germany in World War II
Peter Harmsen
Harmsen makes a convincing argument that the occupation of Greenland fits within the broader narrative of the war, and is just as important to remember and understand as bigger events that overshadow it... recommended for readers of all levels, scholarly …

View book details for My Toughest Battle

A Soldier's Lifelong Struggle with Polio
William Matz, James Livingston
"This heartfelt, lively story of courage and faithful service to family, country and the traditional American values of liberty, patriotism and religion is sure to inspire, encourage and reassure readers of all ages and persuasions. Americans searching for an 'uplifting' …
James "Jack" Webb
A reference work providing brief, scholarly biographical summaries for senior officers of the Third Reich, covering surnames HO.This second volume of a three-volume set offers concise biographical information for generals and admirals of the Third Reich with surnames between H …

View book details for Going Up the Country

Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s
Marina Bokelman, David Evans, Stephen Wade
At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While …

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Stories of Pain and Pleasure in Southern Cookbooks
Carrie Helms Tippen
The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, the cookbook tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative of the region is often one …
David A. Vallado
Microcosm Astronautics Books
The increased power of microcomputers has changed the study of perturbations perhaps more than any other subfield of astrodynamics, but students and practitioners still need a compendium of well-documented algorithms to use that power. Vallado's book is just such a …

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The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs
Heather L. Montgomery, Lindsey Leigh
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionAlabama Authors Awards Children's Books Winner* "A pathologically good time." -Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewFollow the scientists studying animals and the germs that infect them in this full-color nonfiction book packed with comic-style art.When a …

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Support, Skepticism, and Science [2 volumes]
James H. Fallon, Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
Scholars from around the world collaborate to explain the history of parapsychology, the study of extrasensory perception (ESP), and the arguments of skeptics and supporters in this fascinating collection.This two-volume set introduces ESPalso known as anomalous cognitionand psychokinesis, addressing the …
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