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  • Oregon Surfing

    Central Coast

    by Scott Blackman, Sandy Blackman ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Surfing came to the central Oregon coast in the early 1960s. Mostly young boys from Newport and the Agate Beach area took to the waves, without wetsuits or leashes, and taught themselves how to surf in the forbidding cold waters. Eventually forming the Agate Beach Surf Club, they discovered other surfing communities along the Oregon coast. With no modern-day technology to help them, they traveled ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oregon Surfing

    North Coast

    by Scott Blackman, Sandy Blackman ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Surfing culture began in Portland, Seaside, Cannon Beach, and Pacific City in the early 1960s. Influenced by surf music and a few California surfers, a handful of skin divers and adolescent boys yearned to engage in the sport. In the beginning, surfing was illegal along the beachfronts of Seaside and Cannon Beach. Answering the siren call, locals took to the beaches, while others from around ... Read more

    $17.96 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

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  • Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

    The Invention of the Modern Middle East

    by Shareen Blair Brysac, Karl E. Meyer ...
    A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States.Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some ... Read more

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  • Stronger Together

    by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Tim Kaine ...
    For more than a year, Hillary Clinton has laid out an ambitious agenda to improve the lives of the American people and make our country stronger and safer. Stronger Together presents that agenda in full, relating stories from the American people and outlining the Clinton/Kaine campaign’s plans on everything from apprenticeships to the Zika virus, including:-Building an economy that works for ... Read more

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  • Advance Australia...Where?

    by Hugh Mackay ...
    Many years ago, Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia that analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening to our society. Now, in Advance Australia…Where? he takes another long, hard look at us.While we enjoy unprecedented levels of prosperity and the promise of more to come, we are still battling an epidemic of depression, taking on record levels of debt, and yearning for a ... Read more

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  • The Presidency of George W. Bush

    A First Historical Assessment

    Edited by Julian E. Zelizer ...
    An in-depth look at Bush’s presidency by some of America’s top historiansThe Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high—conservatives steadfastly defend its achievements, liberals call it a disgrace. This book ... Read more

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  • Assault From the Sky

    The History of Airborne Warfare 1939–1980s

    by John Weeks ...
    A key look at the history of airborne forces from the Second World War to the 1980s, studying their training and equipment as well as their actions in battle.The introduction of Airborne forces revolutionised military tactics and thinking throughout the twentieth century. In this exciting edition, ex-paratrooper John Weeks presents a history of the Airborne forces across the globe, studying the ... Read more

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  • Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume I

    Montana History Series, #1

    by Greg Strandberg ...
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    Montana's history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated volume.See how Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger blazed trails and made their names under the Big Sky. Read about the day John Colter ran naked for his life, Blackfeet Indians fast on his heels.Watch as Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly before being left to die alone by his 'friends.' Have a toast with rowdy Mike ... Read more

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  • The Silent Sixtieth 100 Years On

    The Story of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force In the Great War

    by Reginald A. Gervais ...
    The Silent Sixtieth, is the story of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion, in World War One. Originally begun simply as research into the author’s ancestry, The Silent Sixtieth evolved into a history of the 60th Canadian Overseas Battalion in World War One. The book details the forming of the battalion in Montreal in the summer of 1915, follows it through training and into France, where it fought ... Read more

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  • Scandal Nation

    Key Events that Shook and Shaped Ireland

    by Mick Clifford, Shane Coleman ...
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  • The Backbone of the World

    A Portrait of a Vanishing Way of Life Along the Continental Divide

    by Frank Clifford ...
    In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an arresting exploration of America’s longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and ... Read more

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