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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER The masterful narration of a daughter's decades-long quest to understand her extraordinary mother, who was born in Lenin's Soviet Union, served as a combat soldier in the Red Army, and endured three years of Nazi captivity—but never revealed her darkest secrets. As a child, Roxana Spicer would sometimes wake to the sound of the Red Army choir. She would tip-toe downstairs to find her mother, cigarette in one hand and Black Russian in the other, singing along. Roxana would keep her company, and wonder.... Everyone in their village knew Agnes Spicer was Russian, that she had been a captive of the Nazis. And that was all they knew, because Agnes kept her secrets cl...
Eating fat to lose weight—that doesn’t make sense! Or does it? This book lays out the basics of low-carb high-fat diets and busts the myths surrounding them, like their effect on cholesterol and heart disease. You’ll also find a treasure trove of easy, palate-pleasing recipes and tips and tricks for success. Losing weight never tasted so good!
Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy.
This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas. Although schools of this kind have existed for more than a century, very little has been written about the alternative school movement. These alternatives focus more on child-centered instruction, give many students (and teachers) opportunities to organize the school differently, provide a greater voice for teachers, students, and parents, and engage students far more with experiential learning. When traditional school structures are failing to meet the needs of many children and youth, there is a rapidly growing need for information and discussion about alternatives that will encourage their talents and serve their needs. This book draws attention to the issue of alternative schooling to help make it more accessible to a wider audience.
Nothing is what it seems in NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly’s “riveting, twisty tale” (Hallie Ephron, author of Night Night, Sleep Tight), in which a woman discovers a decades-old bullet at the base of her neck. Caroline Cashion is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no scar. When she confronts her parents, she learns the truth: she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered in cold blood. Caroline had been there the night of the attack, and she’d been hit by a single gunshot to the neck. Buried too deep among vital nerves and blood vessels, the...
Canadian heroes and the odd villain continue to come to life in the History Television series Canadians: Biographies of a Nation, hosted by the enormously talented Patrick Watson. Now all three volumes of the companion book to the series are collected together for the first time in one beautiful omnibus edition. These biographies help us understand our own history while at the same time telling immediate and compelling personal stories. The commonplace which holds that Canadians are both dull and uninterested in their own stories is no longer true, if indeed it ever was. Book jacket.
This source covers the civilization and culture of the indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada--both historic and contemporary. Included are signed essays, annotated directories, excerpts and biographies. Each chapter contains a subject-specific bibliography, photographs, maps and charts (400 illustrations in all). This 2nd edition also includes a new chapter, "Women and Gender Relations."
Ce livre vous offre des explications claires sur les grands principes de l’alimentation faible en glucides et à haute teneur en bons gras naturels, incluant tous les mythes qui l’entourent, tels les impacts sur le cholestérol et les maladies cardiovasculaires. Il vous propose une foule de recettes savoureuses faciles à cuisiner ainsi que plusieurs trucs et astuces pour bien réussir votre changement d’alimentation. Perdre du poids n’aura jamais eu si bon goût !
A debut international thriller about a Pakistani terrorist's nuclear threat to blow up the White House.