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  • Canadian Performing Arts Bundle Emma Albani / John Grierson / Mary Pickford
    Author:

    Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle

    ,

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    ,

    Evans, Gary

    Summary:

    Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada's history.

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 21–30 Louis Riel / James Wilson Morrice / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Robertson Davies / James Douglas / William C. Van Horne / George Simpson / Tom Thomson / Simon Girty / Mary Pickford
    Author:

    Ferguson, Julie H.

    ,

    Henighan, Tom

    ,

    Maes, Nicholas

    ,

    Larsen, Wayne

    ,

    Stewart, Sharon

    ,

    Knowles, Valerie

    ,

    Lahey, D.T.

    ,

    Butts, Edward

    ,

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    Summary:

    Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

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  • Dundurn Vietnam War Library Bundle Guerrilla Nation / Indochina Now and Then / Cross-Border Warriors
    Author:

    Maclear, Michael

    ,

    Fetherling, George

    ,

    Gaffen, Fred

    Summary:

    The Vietnam War was a regional conflict that turned into an epic confrontation between ideologies, leaving deep scars on the psyches of nations that fought and long-lasting physical damage to Vietn

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  • Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 31–35 Harriet Tubman / Laura Secord / Joey Smallwood / Prince Edward, Duke of Kent / John A. Macdonald
    Author:

    Sadlier, Rosemary

    ,

    Tidridge, Nathan

    ,

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    ,

    Argyle, Ray

    ,

    Martin, Ged

    ,

    Grant, J.J.

    Summary:

    Presenting five titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history.

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  • Quest Biography 35-Book Bundle Marshall McLuhan, Nellie McClung, René Lévesque and Many More
    Author:

    Fitzgerald, Judith

    ,

    Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle

    ,

    Braid, Kate

    ,

    Rigelhof, T.F.

    ,

    Plante, Raymond

    ,

    Slade, Arthur

    ,

    Wilson, John

    ,

    Bridge, Kathryn

    ,

    Stewart, Roderick

    ,

    Stewart, Sharon

    ,

    Macpherson, Margaret

    ,

    Goodall, Lian

    ,

    Paulin, Marguerite

    ,

    Legaré, Francine

    ,

    Evans, Gary

    ,

    Cowley, Deborah

    ,

    Shardlow, Tom

    ,

    Kirk, Heather

    ,

    Cimon, Anne

    ,

    Vanasse, André

    ,

    Larsen, Wayne

    ,

    Henighan, Tom

    ,

    Maes, Nicholas

    ,

    Ferguson, Julie H.

    ,

    Knowles, Valerie

    ,

    Lahey, D.T.

    ,

    Butts, Edward

    ,

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    ,

    Sadlier, Rosemary

    ,

    Argyle, Ray

    ,

    Tidridge, Nathan

    ,

    Martin, Ged

    Summary:

    This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world.

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  • George Fetherling's Travel Memoirs 3-Book Bundle One Russia, Two Chinas / Running Away to Sea / Indochina Now and Then
    Author:

    Fetherling, George

    Summary:

    The travel writing of celebrated writer George Fetherling is filled with vivid prose and bizarre characters.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Travel writing

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  • One Russia, Two Chinas
    Author:

    Fetherling, George

    Summary:

    A travel narrative written over the course of ten years, One Russia, Two Chinas is about change and resistance to change in the postmodern world.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Travel writing

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  • Plans Deranged by Time The Poetry of George Fetherling
    Author:

    Fetherling, George

    ,

    Moritz, A.F.

    Summary:

    The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies.

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  • Indochina Now and Then
    Author:

    Fetherling, George

    Summary:

    Follow George Fetherling as he travels through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia looking for any remaining traces of the Indochina that was.

    Genre: History and geography, Travel writing

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  • Mary Pickford Canada's Silent Siren, America's Sweetheart
    Author:

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    Summary:

    Mary Pickford’s ambition, passion, innate talent, and savvy business acumen sent her career into the stratosphere and set the blueprint for the modern movie star.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, Film, television and performing arts

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  • Running Away to Sea Round the World on a Tramp Freighter
    Author:

    Fetherling, George

    Summary:

    At a turning point in his life, George Fetherling embarked on an adventure to sail round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters.

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Travel writing

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  • The Silence on the Shore
    Author:

    Garner, Hugh

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    Fetherling, George

    Summary:

    Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction

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  • Growing Up Ivy
    Author:

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    Summary:

    Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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  • Laura Secord Heroine of the War of 1812
    Author:

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    Summary:

    2013 Speaker’s Book Award — Shortlisted Laura Secord is now famous for her singular feat of bravery during the War of 1812, but did she warn the British and help defeat the American invaders as

    Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Canadian nonfiction, History and geography

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  • The Deep End Gang
    Author:

    Leavey, Peggy Dymond

    Summary:

    Twelve-year-old Martin Jessup, teller of tall tales and other untruths, cannot understand his sister’s objections to the family’s move from Winnipeg to small-town Ontario.

    Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction

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