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KICK: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister, and the Heir to Chatsworth

By Byrne

The Man Who Ate His Boots: Sir John Franklin and the Tragic History of the Northwest Passage

By Brandt, Anthony

The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

By Morris, Larry E

And No Birds Sang

By Mowat, Farley

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

By Mezlekia, Nega

Samuel de Champlain: Founder of New France: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback))

By Champlain, Samuel De, Brunelle, Gayle

A Leaf in the Bitter Wind

By Ye, Ting-xing

Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now

By Wong, Jan

Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World's Fastest Growing Press Empire

By Siklos, Richard

Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General

By Williams, Jeffery

The Noose of Laurels: Robert E. Peary and the Race to the North Pole

By Herbert, Wally

The Last Days of Richard III and the Fate of his DNA: The Book that Inspired the Dig

By Ashdown-Hill

Wheat and Woman (Heritage)

By Binnie-Clark, Georgina, Carter, Sarah A.

Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew

By Richard Davenport-Hines

The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau

By Nisbet, Jack

The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Micmac History, 1500-1950 (McGraw-Hill Ryerson Series in)

By Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Harold Griffith: Evolution of Modern Anaesthesis (Canadian Medical Lives S.)

By Bodman, Richard, Gillies, Deirdre

Between Five Eyes: Fifty Years Inside the Intelligence Community

By Wells, Anthony R

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Mexican Border

By Cantú, Francisco

Something Fierce: A Memoir of a Revolutionary Daughter

By Aguirre, Carmen

The Spitfire Smiths: A Unique Story of Brothers in Arms

By Rod Smith, Christopher Shores

The Last Colonial: Curious Adventures & Stories from a Vanishing World

By Christopher Ondaatje

The Tears of My Soul: The Story of a Boy Who Survived the Cambodian Killing Fields

By Himm, Sokreaksa S, Greenough, Jan

Shot Down and on the Run: The RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Who Got Home from Behind Enemy Lines, 1940-1945

By Pitchfork, Air Commodore Graham, Hodges, Sir Lewis

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

By Black Elk, Neihardt, John G.

Once in a House on Fire

By Ashworth, Andrea, Andrea Ashworth