King: William Lyon Mackenzie King-A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
By: Allan Levine
3.90
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was …
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1. Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917-1918 Volume 2
By: Tim Cook
4.55
Format: 727 pages, Hardcover
Shock Troops follows the Canadian fighting forces during the titanic battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70… read more
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2. John A: The Man Who Made Us (The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald - Volume One: 1815-1867)
By: Richard Gwyn
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our bes… read more
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3. The Fat Years
By: Chan Koonchung
4.00
Format: None pages, ebook
TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from offi… read more
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. Running in the Family
By: Michael Ondaatje
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey th… read more
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6. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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7. Alexander Hamilton
By: Ron Chernow
3.77
Format: 32 pages,
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more
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8. The Korean War
By: Max Hastings
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met… read more
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9. The Brothers Karamazov
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky
4.37
Format: 796 pages, Paperback
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
10. Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times
By: Richard Gwyn
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biograph… read more
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11. Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
By: None
3.99
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, clima… read more
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12. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
By: Daron Acemoğlu
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
'A must-read. Acemoglu and Robinson are intellectual heavyweights of the first rank . . . erudite a… read more
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"The only way of achieving durable liberty is to . . . forge the balance necessary for building a Shackled Leviathan. True liberty can flourish neither without a state nor under the yoke of a Despotic…"-Daron Acemoğlu, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
13. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
14. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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15. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
16. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
17. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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18. The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
By: Kati Marton
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The “captivating” ( The New York Times ), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, … read more
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"This also serves as a clever way of neutralizing potential opponents. “Angela is very skilled at appropriating any issue as soon as it gains traction,"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Both Merkel and Obama read Yuval Harari’s somewhat ponderous Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind for pleasure. And though their tastes are widely different, both find escape and relaxation in music."-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
"Her description of a perfect day sounds perfectly ordinary: “I will sleep long, have a relaxed breakfast. Then I’ll go out for some fresh air, chat with my husband or with friends. I might go to the …"-Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
19. Talking to Canadians
By: Rick Mercer
4.28
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more
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20. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
By: Max Hastings
4.30
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bes… read more
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"The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the …"-Max Hastings, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
21. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
By: James B. Stewart
3.76
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibilli… read more
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22. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
By: Jeremy D. Popkin
4.21
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern wo… read more
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23. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
By: Helen Rappaport
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more
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"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
24. James Monroe: A Life
By: Tim McGrath
4.20
Format: 738 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary life of James Monroe: soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to… read more
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25. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative ” history ( The New York Times ) of seventeenth-centur… read more
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26. The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
By: Adam Smyth
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books t… read more
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27. The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada
By: John Ibbitson
4.34
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between … read more
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28. King: William Lyon Mackenzie King-A Life Guided by the Hand of Destiny
By: Allan Levine
3.90
Format: 552 pages, Hardcover
William Lyon Mackenzie King, twice former Prime Minister of Canada, was a brilliant tactician, was … read more
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29. Extraordinary Canadians Wilfrid Laurier
By: André Pratte
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows that Wilfrid Laurier was a great prime minister, an astonishing speaker, and a survi… read more
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30. Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
By: Caroline Moorehead
3.75
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influ… read more
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31. The Third Man: Churchill, Roosevelt, Mackenzie King, and the Untold Friendships that Won WWII
By: Neville Thompson
4.14
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
The relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt was among the most momentous - an… read more
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