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The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada, 1900-1954
By David Dilks. 2005
Winston Churchill's connection with Canada ("the Great Dominion", as he called it) spanned more than half a century: at Winnipeg…
he heard the news of Queen Victoria's death, in Ottawa in the dark days of 1941 he proclaimed his confidence in victory, and in 1952 had to concede that the result of victory had been far less satisfying than he had wished. No other Commonwealth country sparked such detailed knowledge or lifelong interest. 2005.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/6b1/small/2424985.jpg)
The great code: the Bible and literature
By Northrop Frye. 1982
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The Gospel of Thomas: the hidden sayings of Jesus
By Harold Bloom, Marvin W Meyer. 1992
An English translation of 114 wise sayings attributed to Jesus as collected in the Coptic text found near Nag Hammadi…
in Upper Egypt. Discusses the history of the writings. Explanatory notes follow. Includes an interpretive essay by Harold Bloom. c1992.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/957/small/2424580.jpg)
The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust's shadow
By Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger. 2008
In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing extermination, a group of…
Polish Jews sought refuge in the city's sewer system. The last surviving member this group, Krystyna Chiger, provides a first-person account of those fourteen months with her family. Also describes Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic and former thief, who risked his life to help Chiger's underground family survive, bringing them food and supplies. 2009, c2008.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/b5c/small/2424366.jpg)
The frock-coated communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
By Tristram Hunt. 2009
Friedrich Engels was a textile magnate and fox-hunter, a raffish, high-living, heavy drinking devotee of the good things in life.…
But Engels was also the man behind Karl Marx who for forty years funded him, looked after his children, soothed his furies, and provided one-half of history's most celebrated ideological partnership. He was co-author of The Manifesto of the Communist Party and co-founder of what would come to be known as Marxism. Interpreted and misinterpreted, quoted and misquoted, Friedrich Engels became one of the central architects of modern global socialism. 2009.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/dc4/small/2424174.jpg)
The far land
By Eva MacLean. 1993
Eva MacLean left her settled, Presbyterian Ontario life behind to accompany her young minister-veternarian husband to the "wilds" of northwestern…
B.C. in the early 1900s, during times of mining rushes and railroad-building. 1993.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/34f/small/2423925.jpg)
The endless steppe
By Esther Rudomin Hautzig. 1995
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by…
the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe. Grades 5-8. 1995, c1968.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/cde/small/2425800.jpg)
The Hitler I knew: the memoirs of the Third Reich's press chief
By Otto Dietrich. 2010
When Otto Dietrich was invited in 1933 to become Adolf Hitler's press chief, he accepted with the simple uncritical conviction…
that Adolf Hitler was a great man, dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. At the end of the war, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write what he had seen and heard in twelve years of the closest association with Hitler. c2010. Uniform title: 12 Jahre mit Hitler.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/01e/small/2425787.jpg)
The handkerchief drawer: an autobiography in three parts
By Thelma Ruck Keene. 2002
The author relives an extraordinary life, often at odds with the fog of convention surrounding religion, class distinctions, sex and…
war. During WWII she freelances her secretarial skill from the Balkans to the Middle East and Sicily. In 1966, she and her young son emigrate to Canada. Book reflects Thelma's curiosity, wit, and independent streak. 2002.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/c2b/small/2425768.jpg)
Tells the story of how three scholars and one ambitious freshman crossed paths in the early sixties at a Harvard-sponsored…
psychedelic-drug research project, transforming their lives and American culture and launching the mind/body/spirit movement that inspired the explosion of yoga classes, organic produce, and alternative medicine. 2017.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/06f/small/2425658.jpg)
The Hebrew bible (The modern scholar)
By Lawrence H Schiffman. 2008
The Hebrew Bible, known to Jews as the Tanakh and to Christians as the Old Testament, is the basis of…
our tradition of monotheism as well as the main avenue by which the ethics and teachings of the Hebrew spirit entered Western civilization. In these lectures, eminent scholar Lawrence H. Schiffman discusses how that collection came into being and how it was passed down and interpreted throughout the ages. He provides details on how this tradition developed into the basis of Judaism and Christianity and how it continues to mold our society and culture today. 2008.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/d63/small/2425486.jpg)
The hiding place
By Elizabeth Sherrill, Corrie Ten Boom, John L Sherrill. 1972
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The hidden Jesus: a new life
By Donald Spoto. 1998
The author, a former Catholic monk and a theologian, examines Jesus in the context of the Holy Bible, other ancient…
texts, and discoveries in biblical scholarship. In a series of meditations, Spoto offers his views on the significance of Jesus' life from his conception to his resurrection. 1998.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/635/small/2425442.jpg)
The hemlock cup: Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life
By Bettany Hughes. 2010
Award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster examines the life and times of Athenian philosopher Socrates (469-399 B.C.E.). Explores the world Socrates…
inhabited, the ideas he espoused, and his seminal influence on Western thought. 2010.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/8ae/small/2425403.jpg)
1734. Marie-Joseph Angélique is a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montréal. On…
appeal, her punishment of death was modified to torture, to encourage her to name an accomplice, a white man, Angélique's sometime lover. A narrative of a rebellious Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her indentured lot. Explicit descriptions of violence. c2006![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/7ef/small/2423531.jpg)
The education of Henry Adams
By Henry Adams. 2003
Adams was a brilliant observer of the world and its politics. Here he tells not just his own story, but…
also the story of an America divided by civil war and grappling with the rapid growth of industry and technology. 2003.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/16e/small/2423312.jpg)
The dollar princesses: sagas of upward nobility, 1870-1914
By Ruth Brandon. 1980
A witty social history of the parade of American heiresses who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, captured…
aristocratic European husbands by their fortunes and their charms. Includes such foster princesses as Consuelo Vanderbilt, Nancy Shaw, Anna Gould, Winnaretta Singer, and many others. 1980.![](https://d1lp72kdku3ux1.cloudfront.net/title_instance/d9b/small/2423055.jpg)
The Dead Sea scrolls deception: The Explosive Contents Of The Dead Sea Scrolls And How The Church Conspired To Suppress Them
By Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh. 1991
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The complete book of Bible trivia
By J. Stephen Lang. 1988
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A battlefield guide to the Battle of Cambrai and the Canal du Nord of September 1918, the last major battle…
fought by the Canadians in World War I. Include a history of the battle, biographies of soldiers, and information about the town of Arras. 1997.