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  Chronicles of Canada Volume 04 -...

  Thomas Guthrie Marquis

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  These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world. (Summary by Esther)

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  Travels with Barley - A Journey...

  Ken Wells

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  Do beer yeast rustlers really exist? Who patented the Beer Goddess? How can you tell a Beer Geek from a Beer Nazi? Where exactly is Beervana? Does Big Beer hate Little Beer?  Ken Wells, a novelist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and longtime Wall Street Journal writer, answers these questions and more by bringing a keen eye and prodigious reportage to the people and passions that have propelled beer into America's favorite alcoholic beverage and the beer industry into a $75 billion commercial juggernaut, not to mention a potent force in American culture. Travels with Barley is a lively, literate tour through the precincts of the beer makers, sellers, drinkers, and thinkers who collectively drive the mighty River of Beer onward. The heart of the book is a journey along the Mississippi River, from Minnesota to Louisiana, in a quixotic search for the Perfect Beer Joint -- a journey that turns out to be the perfect pretext for viewing America through the prism of a beer glass. Along the river, you'll visit the beer bar once owned by the brewer Al Capone, glide by The World's Largest Six Pack, and check into Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel to plumb the surprisingly controversial question of whether Elvis actually drank beer. But the trip also includes numerous detours up quirky tributaries, among them: a visit to an Extreme Beer maker in Delaware with ambitions to make 50-proof brew, a look at the murky world of beer yeast rustlers in California, and a journey to the portals of ultimate beer power at the Anheuser-Busch plant in St. Louis, where making the grade as a Clydesdale draft horse is harder than you might imagine. Entertaining, enlightening, and written with Wells's trademark verve, Travels with Barley is a perfect gift -- not just for America's 84 million beer enthusiasts, but for all discerning readers of flavorful nonfiction.

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  Get Quilting with Angela & Cloe...

  Angela Walters, Cloe Walters

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  The author of Quilting is My Therapy teams up with her daughter in this beginner’s guide featuring 14 kid-friendly quilting projects. 
   
  Angela Walters loves to quilt—and so does her daughter, Cloe. Now they teach the basics of quiltmaking to preteens and teens in Get Quilting with Angela & Cloe. The dynamic mother-daughter duo guides kids step by step through their very first quilt from prepping and planning to finishing touches.  
   
  Readers can choose from 14 projects to keep or give as gifts, including stylish bedroom decor, such as pillow covers, rugs, and T-shirt quilts. Angela's eye for design and her approachable teaching style are the perfect complement to Cloe's kid-approved fabric choices and projects. With skill-builders and plenty of how-to photos, your kids can finally bring their imaginative creations to life!

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  Abbott and Costello: Missing Script

  Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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  Guests Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton (as Blondie and Dagwood) help Abbott and Costello find their missing radio script. Costello misreads his lines twice. Blondie and Dagwood join Abbott and Costello in their version of, The Seven Dwarfs Sat On The Wagon.

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  Canada Weird Strange and True

  Lisa Wojna

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  This book takes you deep inside the weirdest and most peculiar aspects of our country:
  		 
  Yes, there is a lighthouse in Saskatchewan!! Climb 153 steps to the top.
  		 
  The Diefenbunker is a relic of the Cold War that was built just outside Ottawa to house essential government and military personnel in the event of a nuclear attack; it is now a museum.
  		 
  The Brussel Sprouts Festival is held yearly in the village of Rogersville, NB.
  		 
  Lake Okanagan’s Ogopogo is one of Canada’s most well known monsters, but the weird thing is that at least 14 other unknown, cryptid lake creatures are said to swim this country’s waters.
  		 
  The Old Sow tidal whirlpool, located in Passamaquoddy Bay, is the largest in the Western Hemisphere at 75 metres in diameter with a current speed of 28 kilometres an hour.
  		 
  Over seven years 14 severed feet have washed up on the Pacific Coastline; some have been identified through DNA testing but the identity of most, and the reason for their find, remains a mystery.
  		 
  The largest beaver dam in the world is 850 metres wide and is located in a remote corner of Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta.
  		 
  The Hôtel de Glace in Québec City is sculpted from 500 tonnes of ice and 15,000 tonnes of snow.
  		 
  Now, that’s just weird!
  		 
  And there are hundreds more strange things about our country that you will learn about in Canada Weird, Strange and True!

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  The Dinner

  Dave Warner

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  A short story with a dash of humour, contemporary, set in inner-Sydney. It’s raining cats and dogs and Rick is being jabbed by the hot needle of panic.  He’s running late now after dashing out to get last minute dessert for the crucial dinner party tonight where Rick and wife Vanessa are entertaining Vanessa’s boss and his wife.  Rick carefully wheels his pride-and-joy, his almost-new Audi, around the block looking for a parking space. He’d had everything set, the Audi tucked away in a nearby street so that Vanessa’s boss and wife could park in Rick’s little private space at the back of the house. Friday night and in this fashionable inner-city suburb it’s easier for a straight white male to win a Premier’s arts prize than it is to find a free space. But it’s okay, as a last resort Rick can park across his own driveway blocking in the boss’ car.  Except that he can’t, can he?  Some selfish bastard has already parked there. Enraged, Rick mangles the windscreen wipers of the offending car, only to learn when he joins the dinner party, that the boss and his wife brought two vehicles.  Can Rick make good before the stroke of doom?

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