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1) Mr. Jones
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Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction
Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)
Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has written can prepare you for Mr. Jones.
Emmett Jones is adrift. Having firebombed civilians as a pilot during World War II, Emmett searches for something to cling to when life loses focus.
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In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal P�tain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war,...
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Press baron, entrepreneur, art collector, and wartime minister in Churchill's cabinet, Max Aitken was a colonial Canadian extraordinaire. Rising from a hardscrabble childhood in New Brunswick, he became a millionaire at age 25, earned the title of Lord Beaverbrook at 38, and by age 40 was the most influential newspaperman in the world. Fiercely loyal to the British Empire, he was nonetheless patronized by London's upper class, whose country he worked...
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Thomas Penn tells the story of the transformation of Prince Henry into the aggressive teenager who would become Henry VII, and of Catherine of Aragon, his future queen. At its heart is Henry VII - controlling, paranoid, avaricious, with a Machiavellian charm and will to power. It is the story of the birth of Tudor England.
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No matter where we come from, we all find ourselves at some point in our lives with an innate drive to return. We may have grown up in a country, or in a culture, or as descendants of a culture from outside of our now native country, but we all find our lives painted with the colours of our past, of our ancestry, of our culture. Even if someone has escaped a refugee camp in the land they have long called home and has found great fortune in a new,...
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