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  • Olive Odyssey

    Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit that Seduced the World

    de Julie Angus ...
    This Mediterranean travel memoir offers "an engaging mix of history, food travelogue, and botany lesson . . . There is much to enjoy here" ( Library Journal).Inspired by her Syrian forebears' intimate relationship with the olive, Julie Angus embarks on a voyage around the Mediterranean to unlock the secrets of the fruit that meant so much to them. Accompanied by her husband and their ten-month-old ... Leer más

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  • Rowboat in a Hurricane

    My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean

    de Julie Angus ...
    An intrepid scientist and her fiancé— National Geographic's 2007 Adventurers of the Year—observe the changing ocean while rowing across the Atlantic.In 2005-06, Julie Angus and her fiancé Colin rowed 10,000 kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean—from Lisbon to Costa Rica—making Angus the first woman in the world to travel from mainland to mainland in a rowboat. The 145-day journey gave Angus, a ... Leer más

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    The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Struggle for Democracy

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    One of the Boston Globe's Best Sports Books of the Year: "Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny" (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world's most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary ... Leer más

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  • The Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

    An Illustrated History of Railway Stations in Canada

    de Ron Brown ...
    Brown celebrates the survival of our railway heritage in stations that have been saved or remain in use.Despite the "green" benefits of rail travel, Canada has lost much of its railway heritage. Across the country stations have been bulldozed and rails ripped up. Once the heart of communities large and small, stations and tracks have left little more than a gaping hole in Canada’s landscapes. This ... Leer más

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  • The Unsolved Oak Island Mystery 3-Book Bundle

    The Oak Island Mystery / Oak Island Family / Oak Island Obsession

    This special three-book bundle tells the story of the mystery of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where in 1795 three boys discovered the top of an ancient shaft. Two hundred years of courage, back-breaking effort, ingenuity, and engineering skills have failed to retrieve what is concealed there. Theories of what the treasure could be include Captain Kidd’s bloodstained pirate gold, an army payroll left ... Leer más

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  • Paddle Your Own Canoe

    One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

    de Nick Offerman ...
    Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book.Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in ... Leer más

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  • My Life in Middlemarch

    A Memoir

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    A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining ... Leer más

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  • Before Ontario

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    Edición de Marit Munson, Susan Jamieson ...
    Series Libro 72 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, ... Leer más

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  • An Unnecessary Woman

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    A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a "beautiful and absorbing" novel of late-life crisis ( The New York Times).Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she ... Leer más

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  • Shadows in the Vineyard

    The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine

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  • The Redemption of Oscar Wolf

    In the early 1930s, Oscar Wolf, a 13-year-old Native from the Chippewas of Rama Indian Reserve, sets fire to the business section of his village north of Toronto in a fit of misguided rage against white society, inadvertently killing his grandfather and a young maid. Tortured by guilt and fearful of divine retribution, Oscar sets out on a lifetime quest for redemption.His journey takes him to ... Leer más

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