Author: A.J. MacKenzie
Publisher: Canelo
ISBN: 1788633059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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No one is safe. Everyone is a suspect. The thrilling new historical epic from bestsellers A.J. Mackenzie. Fresh from his success at the Battle of Queenston, war hero John MacLea is thrown straight back into the maelstrom of tactical espionage. American master spy Polaris has so far evaded capture, and the longer he remains at large the more dangerous he becomes to the allied British and Canadian forces. John travels to York, capital of Upper Canada, deep into a sinister world of treachery, where secrets and lies are an everyday currency. He must discover the identity of Polaris, for a deadly plot is brewing, one that may signal total defeat for the allied troops. Failure is not an option... The jaw-dropping sequel to The Ballad of John Maclea, full to the brim with scintillating action, nail-biting suspense and meticulously detailed historical research, perfect for fans of Adrian Goldsworthy, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.
Author: Jayanne Sindt
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 198221502X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Ursula knew that she needed to stay healthy enough to make the swim, build a den, and prepare for her cubs. She needed to store as much energy as possible, as it would be up to five months of fasting in the den, then nursing her young for a few months after. She sometimes envied the male polar bears. Their only concern was themselves. The Arctic adventure continues as Ursula the polar bear embarks on her journey to becoming a mother with the love and support of her brother Mato. We learn more about the Arctic region as we observe the adventures of her first born. This includes navigating the changing climate, hunting, human encounters, and making new friends. Even polar bears must determine his or her heart’s desires, which isn’t easy. As the bears face challenges and learn how to maintain good relationships, readers will simultaneously learn about the importance of perseverance and the value of family. Despite difficulties, polar bears show us how to follow our “true north” with the guidance of our hearts.
Author: John Firth
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 103919432X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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“He was a man who had a purpose when he came among our people. He was very gentle with his purpose. He had a vision. He saw we had something that nobody else did. He gave us gifts which we remember to this day and still use. He changed us. He changed us for the better.” —Raymond Yakeleya, residential school survivor, filmmaker, Dene Elder Alone one winter night in a log cabin in the late 1940s, Jean-Marie Mouchet was waiting for his water to boil and started thinking about why he was there and how he could make a difference that mattered. He was a Catholic missionary in Canada’s North and could see the negative effect the Europeans were having on the Indigenous population. Wanting to do something about it, he resolved to help Indigenous youth reconnect with the land and their traditional values yet provide them with a means to adapt to the social and cultural change that was on the horizon. He started something simple – a skiing program. The individual and snow in harmony. Jean-Marie’s Territorial Experimental Ski Training (TEST) program yielded multiple Olympians, made cross-country skiing the fastest-growing winter sport in Canada, and placed both Northern and Canadian skiers on the cross-country skiing world stage. Over the next 60 years it also produced many leaders who helped guide Northern First Nations into the 21st Century and is credited with saving the lives of many residential school survivors. Firth paints a comprehensive and grounded portrait of the man behind the legacy, all upon a backdrop of a Northern landscape in the midst of transition that will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian and Indigenous history.
Author: Julian Sher
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 1039000312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
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FINALIST FOR THE MAVIS GALLANT PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE • A riveting account of the years, months and days leading up to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the unexpected ways Canadians were involved in every aspect of the American Civil War. Canadians have long taken pride in being on the “good side” of the American Civil War, serving as a haven for 30,000 escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. But dwelling in history's shadow is the much darker role Canada played in supporting the slave South and in fomenting the many plots against Lincoln. The North Star weaves together the different strands of several Canadians and a handful of Confederate agents in Canada as they all made their separate, fateful journeys into history. The book shines a spotlight on the stories of such intrepid figures as Anderson Abbott, Canada’s first Black doctor, who joined the Union Army; Emma Edmonds, the New Brunswick woman who disguised herself as a man to enlist as a Union nurse; and Edward P. Doherty, the Quebec man who led the hunt to track down Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. At the same time, the Canadian political and business elite were aiding the slave states. Toronto aristocrat George Taylor Denison III bankrolled Confederate operations and opened his mansion to their agents. The Catholic Church helped one of Booth’s accused accomplices hide out for months in the Quebec countryside. A leading financier in Montreal let Confederates launder money through his bank. Sher creates vivid portraits of places we thought we knew. Montreal was a sort of nineteenth-century Casablanca of the North: a hub for assassins, money-men, mercenaries and soldiers on the run. Toronto was a headquarters for Confederate plotters and gun-runners. The two largest hotels in the country became nests of Confederate spies. Meticulously researched and richly illustrated, The North Star is a sweeping tale that makes long-ago events leap off the page with a relevance to the present day.
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 1250165865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 609
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Two Skye's West novels by Spur Award-winner and legendary Western writer Richard S. Wheeler in one volume. The Canyon of Bones Mountain man Barnaby Skye takes work guiding wealthy Englishman Graves Mercer on an exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri River valleys. Mercer has come to the American wilderness seeking thrilling, preferably salacious, material for British tabloids. He takes an ancient bone that's sacred among certain tribes—and the act may cost the party their lives. North Star Barnaby Skye faces radical change as the wilderness vanishes, buffalo are slaughtered, and the government puts the tribes on reservation land. His family's struggle to adapt takes them from Montana to Wyoming, wrestling with the tide of settlers and the new settlements that dot the western plains and mountains.
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
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Author: Milton C. Sernett
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815629153
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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North Star Country is the story of the remarkable transformation of Upstate New York's famous 'Burned over District;' where the flames of religious revival sparked an abolitionist movement that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett details the regional presence of African Americans from the pre-Revolutionary War era through the Civil War, both as champions of liberty and as beneficiaries of a humanitarian spirit generated from evangelical impulses. He includes in his narrative the struggles of great abolitionists—among them Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Beriah Green, Jermain Loguen, and Samuel May—and of many lesser-known characters who rescued fugitives from slave hunters, maintained safe houses along the Underground Railroad, and otherwise furthered the cause of freedom both regionally and in the nation as a whole. Sernett concludes with a compelling examination of the moral choices made during the Civil War by upstate New Yorkers—both black and white—and of the post-Appomattox campaign to secure freedom for the newly emancipated.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765322013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Wheeler delivers the latest installment in the long-running and much-loved Skye's West series, featuring mountain man Barnaby Skye.
Author: R. C. Lane
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 164701932X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Melody, a strong-willed young woman, falls in love with a merchant's son, who has dreams of traveling the Oregon Trail to set up his own shipping and mercantile store. Melody's father, the bishop of the biggest church in Boston, disapproves of John Turner and his family of merchants. The bishop gives into the marriage but would have never agreed to John and Melody's plan to cross the Oregon Trail to start their life and business together. John decides to go Oregon first to set up shop and promises to send for Melody later. Melody cannot wait, and against her family's wishes, she buys passage on a trail wagon to reunite with the love of her life. The wagon train faces challenges and Indian attacks, which sends Melody on to a new path and way of life when she is rescued by North Star, a kind medicine man and spiritual leader of the Cree nation. God sets into motion the birth and rise of Spirit Walker, who is the son of John Turner but adopted as the son of North Star and the Cree nation. Spirit Walker grows up to be a Cree warrior, a healer, and a man of God, who in a vision is told by God of the path he must follow and the need to find the man in black.
