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  • Dropping The Habit

    by Marion dante ...
    Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was her mother’s ‘‘sin offering’’, pledged to God even before her birth. So, at the age of fourteen, she entered a convent.Ten years later, she was wrestling with doubts and misery. Shunned by the nuns, her only ‘‘family’’, she set out on the long road to freedom.But freedom was a terrifying prospect. Like a caged bird she clung to her prison bars ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

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    The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation."[Larson] succeeds in providing a well-rounded portrait of a woman who, until now, has never been viewed in full."—The Boston Globe“A biography that chronicles her life with fresh details . . . By making ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Saving Grace

    by Jennifer Banks ...
    Life may have its ups and downs, but journalist Jennifer Banks has had more than most. Having survived childhood verbal bullying, 17 years with a eating disorder and six years trapped in a violent marriage in a foreign country, Jennifer has now been diagnosed with the debilitating illness Multiple Sclerosis.After a childhood bully tormented her for being overweight, Jennifer became bulimic and ... Read more

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  • Return To Tyringham Park

    by Rosemary McLoughlin ...
    An admirable doctor in charge of a small, isolated hospital in outback Australia swaps his wife’s second stillborn baby for an identical twin born to an impoverished farmer’s wife who already has seven other children. Both mothers are unaware of the deception. Only one person, apart from the doctor, knows what happened, but no one believes him as he is considered to be mentally deficient. The ... Read more

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  • Crime Seen

    From Patrol Cop to Profiler, My Stories from Behind the Yellow Tape

    by Kate Lines ...
    A criminal profiler, trained at Quantico, former Chief Superintendent of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Kate Lines recounts her remarkable story using pivotal cases she worked on in the course of her career.How does a farm girl from Ennismore enter a male-dominated field and become a top criminal profiler and groundbreaking leader? For Kate Lines, it started humbly, patrolling highways. She ... Read more

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  • Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

    A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s

    by Martha Long ...
    Series Book 1 - Memoirs of Dublin
    With a foreword by Alice WalkerWhen Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only thing keeping food on the table. Jackser is a master of paranoid anger and outburst, ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Station X

    How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war

    by Michael Smith ...
    The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of ... Read more

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  • Tyringham Park

    by Rosemary McLoughlin ...
    Tyringham Park is the Blackshaws’ magnificent country house in the south of Ireland. It is a haven of wealth and privilege until its peace is shattered by a devastating event which reveals the chaos of jealousy and deceit beneath its surface.Charlotte Blackshaw is only eight years old when her little sister Victoria goes missing from the estate. Charlotte is left to struggle with her loss without ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana

    Confessions of a Cuban Boy

    by Carlos Eire ...
    “Have mercy on me, Lord, I am Cuban.” In 1962, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Havana—exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by Fidel Castro’s revolution. Winner of the National Book Award, this stunning memoir is a vibrant and evocative look at Latin America from a child’s unforgettable experience.Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Aftershock

    The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey

    by Janet Maybee ...
    One of the greatest maritime disasters in history is reexamined in light of new evidence in this revealing chronicle of the 1917 Halifax explosion.On December 6, 1917, harbor pilot Francis Mackey was guiding the SS Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, into Bedford Basin to join a convoy across the Atlantic when it was rammed by the Belgian Relief vessel SS Imo. The resulting massive explosion ... Read more

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  • Around Africa On My Bicycle

    by Riaan Manser ...
    In a world first, almost incredibly, Riaan Manser rode a bicycle right around the continent of Africa. It took him two years, two months and fifteen days. He rode 36 500 kilometres through 34 different countries. In Around Africa on my Bicycle, Manser tells the story of this epic journey. It is a story of blood, sweat, toil and tears. It is a story of triumph and occassional disaster. Of nights ... Read more

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  • Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy

    A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of the 1960s

    by Martha Long ...
    Series Book 2 - Memoirs of Dublin
    After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent are steady, predictable, safe--everything that her life had not been prior to being sent away. But as ... Read more

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