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Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history.

An exploration of the "enemy alien" experience in Canada during the Great War.

Stories from a Canadian fish and wildlife officer. 

The Stump Farm, by Robert J. Adams, follows the trials of Bobby during the time Canada brought its soldiers back from the Second World War.

On the 2nd of September, 1998, near the small fishing village of Peggys Cove, N.S., a Swissair passenger jet carrying 229 people crashed into the ocean with a complete loss of life.

Beyond the Blue Mountains details Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials.

Written in response to the horrors he experienced and witnessed during the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl’s landmark book, Man’s Search for Meaning, has sold millions of copies and been translated into t

Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and

When Terri Raines was twenty-seven years old, she took a vacation that changed her life.

Born and raised in Fort McMurray, Damian Asher was a fifteen year veteran and captain in the city's fire department.

When the Nazis invaded Hungary on March 19, 1944, elementary school teacher Helena Jockel could only think about how to save "her" children.

Helpers and heroes shine brightest in darkness.

Felix Opatowski is only fifteen years old when he takes on the perilous job of smuggling goods out of the Lodz ghetto in exchange for food for his starving family.

For nearly a quarter century, How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend has been the standard against which all other dog-training books have been measured.

They are just some of the 1,421 Nova Scotia place names whose origins, where they are known, are explained in this book.