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  Pioneers in Canada - The Opening...

  Harry Johnston

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  The opening of Canada from Cartier to the fur brigades and the overland parties that reached the Pacific, told in one volume by a man who had led expeditions himself. Johnston illustrated his own books and had an administrator's eye for what a river crossing actually costs. This edition adds 54 bound plates of painting from 1830 to 1903, among them Bierstadt, Church, Moran and Remington.

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  Giver of All Good - God as the...

  Chase R. Kuhn

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  Where do our ethics come from? Are they based on unchanging realities or subject to revision as human culture develops and changes? What distinguishes Christian ethics from other moral claims? In Giver of All Good, Chase R. Kuhn argues that Christian morality begins with the character of God; only by knowing the Creator can we see ourselves and our world properly. 
  Recognizing that what we believe informs how we live, Kuhn asserts that our theology guides our ethics. By beginning at the beginning, with God as he reveals himself in the Bible, we can best make sense of life. In this fascinating book, Kuhn walks us through a triune basis for Christian ethics, as we encounter the Father's gift of his Son to meet our deepest moral need, and experience true freedom through the life his Spirit brings. 
  Far from mere philosophizing, Giver of All Good shows that when we begin with God in forming our ethics rather than with ourselves, we can be confident in our daily decision-making and our interactions with other people.

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  Life With Jefferson - A...

  Paul Bennet, Penny Leclair

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  The inside story of the working life of an extraordinary guide dog. 
  Guide dogs are carefully bred and trained to help their handlers live safely and independently. But what makes one dog truly exceptional? 
  Life With Jefferson tells the true story of the remarkable partnership between Jefferson and Penny Leclair, a deafblind woman whose independence depended on finding the right guide dog. After two years of searching, Jefferson was chosen for his unique intelligence, sensitivity, and ability to meet Penny’s specific needs. His training continued with special considerations that shaped him into more than a working dog, he became a trusted partner and beloved family member. 
  Through heartfelt and often humorous stories, readers come to know Jefferson’s personality, devotion, and deep desire to communicate and protect. As he aged, his wisdom grew, and his dedication never wavered. 
  This moving nonfiction account offers an intimate look into the bond between a guide dog and the humans who depend on him, a story of trust, love, and partnership that will stay with you long after the final page.

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  When the United States Invaded...

  Carl J Richard

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   “An intriguing and carefully argued entry into a small and often overlooked discussion of American political maneuvering at the end of World War I.” —Library Journal   In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central Powers. But Wilson continued the intervention for a year and a half after the armistice in order to overthrow the Bolsheviks and to prevent the Japanese from absorbing eastern Siberia. As Wilson and the Allies failed to formulate a successful Russian policy at the Paris Peace Conference, American doughboys suffered great hardships on the bleak plains of Siberia.   Richard argues that Wilson’s Siberian intervention ironically strengthened the Bolshevik regime it was intended to topple. Its tragic legacy can be found in the seeds of World War II—which began with an alliance between Germany and the Soviet Union, the two nations most aggrieved by Allied treatment after World War I—and in the Cold War, a forty-five year period in which the world held its collective breath over the possibility of nuclear annihilation.   One of the earliest U.S. counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, the Siberian intervention was a harbinger of policies to come. Richard notes that it teaches invaluable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in interventions and about the absolute need to secure widespread support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success, knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam and have later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  Tragedy in the North Woods - The...

  Trudy Irene Scee

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  The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods. 
   
   
   
  Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. Each woman had a relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering them, dismembering their bodies, and burying the remains alongside rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their story. 
   
   
   
  Author Trudy Irene Scee follows Hicks from the North Woods to west Texas, detailing three decades of evasion, investigation, and prosecution. She interviews police officers and victims' families—and meets Hicks at the state prison in Thomaston, where he remains remorseless as he lives out his days behind bars. Thoroughly researched and carefully documented, Tragedy in the North Woods is the definitive history of one of Maine's most ruthless killers.

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  Being Black in America's Schools...

  Brian Rashad Fuller

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  In a polarizing and racially divided America, what do children of color learn about themselves before they even go to school? How do they see themselves and is that image only exacerbated by spending twelve years in a public education system that perpetuates negative stereotypes? Brian Rashad Fuller personally knows that the impact of low expectations can be devastating. He aims to make a difference in this humanizing and very personal portrayal of what it means to be Black in America's schools. 
   
   
   
  As a Black man who has spent his life as a student and an educator, Brian shares his own story of navigating the world, overcoming his family struggles, and eventually entering an educational system that he believes is inherently racist, damaging, and disserving. He exposes the challenges Black students face and offers a firsthand account of the emotional and psychological impact made by teachers, administrators, policies, practices, lessons, and student interactions. Most Americans are looking for answers on how to improve our education system—as illustrated by the critical race theory debate—but have not fully understood the lived Black experience, until now. With powerful insight into a thoroughly American institution, Brian offers present-day solutions, and liberating hope, for a centuries-long issue, as well as a galvanizing and radical step forward.

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