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Canadian West series volume 1
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Nothing in her cultured East Coast upbringing prepared Elizabeth for a teaching post on the Canadian frontier. Yet, despite the constant hardship, she loves the children in her care. She is also surprised to find her heart softening toward a certain member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
4) Hatchet
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
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Canadian West series volume 3
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Having survived the harshness of their first year
in the far Northwest, Elizabeth and Wynn, her Royal
Canadian Mountie, now face new challenges, make new
friends, start a new school and are presented with a
new posting. Will their love for each other, hope
fro the future and their faith in God carry them
through a crushing disappointment?.
6) Canada
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In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their father's small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dell's parents decided to rob the bank. They weren't reckless people. In the days following the arrest,...
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Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 18
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 18
Three Pines mystery volume 18
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 18
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
8) Canada
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"Simple text and full-color photographs illustrate the land, animals, and people of Canada"--Provided by publisher.
10) Brian's hunt
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1180L
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Two years after surviving a plane crash into the Canadian wilderness, Brian Robeson returns to the wild, where he befriends a wounded dog and is forced to hunt a rogue bear.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 24
Pub. Date
c1972
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Frank and Joe pick up a coded message from industrial spies, consisting of names of wild animals, on their ham radio. Are the spies involved in the hijacking of collection of stuffed animals which the boys are investigating?
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"A bold and profound work by Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a personal and critical meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America. In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight and understanding...
13) Canada
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c2007
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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, nature, people, and culture of Mexico.
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Cornish trilogy (Robertson Davies) volume 2
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To most people, Francis was the eccentric, artistic son of a wealthy family. Others knew him as an art expert, a secret intelligence agent, and a wealthy man shrouded in mystery.
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In a run-down Montreal apartment, Tempe finds heartbreaking evidence of three innocent lives ended. The landlord says Alma Rogers lives there--is she the same woman who checked into a city hospital as Amy Roberts, then fled before doctors could treat her uncontrolled bleeding? Is she Alva Rodriguez, sought by a man who appeared at the crime scene? Heading up an investigation crackling with the sexual tension of past intimacies, Tempe leads homicide...
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"Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of...
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At the age of fifty, the author set off on a journey following America's northern border from coast to coast. In the course, among other things, he flies the Maine border with a bush pilot, learns about the past and present hardships in the mines of the Mesabi Range, crosses into Manitoba to reach the sliver of U.S. territory called the Northwest Angle, and fishes for trout in northern Idaho.
19) White Fang
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970L
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White Fang is part dog, part wolf--and the only one of five tiny cubs to survive. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North--kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who buys him and turns him into a vicious killer--a pit dog forced to fight for money. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master or will he die a fierce killer?
20) Bones to ashes
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 10
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to Acadia when the body of a young girl is found, and as she investigates the case, Temperance uncovers a startling link between the victim and her childhood friend, Evangeline, who disappeared more than twenty years earlier.
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