Galdós: Fortunata and Jacinta
 The best Spanish novel after "Don Quijote": Don Benito Perez Galdos is the most important novelist of the Spanish language, right after Cervantes. This is his masterpiece. Galdos has many great works, but this one has all the ingredients that [... more]
CDN$25.95
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Daniel Boone: Season 3
DANIEL STILL ROCKS THE MOUNTAIN: It's a common fact that historical series age better than contemporary stuff.I had purchased season 2 and i had enjoyed it very much,so i wanted to continue the life in the woods with season 3.At first,i feel at lost [... more]
CDN$52.99
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Pearl Harbor Murders
Interesting setting, so-so mystery: Setting a murder mystery in Pearl Harbor, just prior to the Japanese attack makes this an interesting read. The bits of history are fascinating and compensate for the rather pedestrian plot. Combining fictional and [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Fortune Like the Moon
Not Strong on History or Mystery: While I was reading this book I kept a piece of paper beside me and tore off a slip to mark every page that I had a question about a historical fact or internal logic. By the time I had finished the top of the book was a [... more]
CDN$34.52
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A Name of Her Own
Historical Treat: "A Name of Her Own" by Jane Kirkpatrick is a saga of one woman's strength and courage as she journeys from St Louis with her often abusive husband, her two sons and a band of adventurers in search of a direct route to the [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Penguin Classics Fortunata And Jacinta
The best Spanish novel after "Don Quijote": Don Benito Perez Galdos is the most important novelist of the Spanish language, right after Cervantes. This is his masterpiece. Galdos has many great works, but this one has all the ingredients that [... more]
CDN$25.00
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1944-1953 Live Recordings
Chronique amazon.fr: Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Schubert, Richard Strauss... composent ce portrait en 6CD de l'un des mythes de la direction d'orchestre du 20e siècle. Nous sommes en terre conquise tant ce répertoire germanique appartient [... more]
CDN$54.99
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Bounty Unabridged Ca
From Amazon.co.uk: Few episodes in the history of British sea-faring are as gripping and sensational as The Bounty--an account of a mutiny of 1789. While the French were having a revolution in Paris, in the South Pacific a very English coup took place [... more]
CDN$75.00
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Face Down Upon an Herbal
not as good as the first entry in this historical series: Lord Glenelg is an odious man. He is also a traitor. Now, a guest in Lord and Lady Madderly's castle, he has been murdered, though no one seems terribly upset about his loss. Enter Susanna, Lady [... more]
CDN$19.01
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer!: A ...
you wouldn't want to buy this book!: This historical fiction picture book is meant to be humorous but fails miserably. Instead, it offers tired and racist stereotypes of native americans, complete with insulting illustrations of native americans with [... more]
CDN$11.95
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The First World War, Vol. 1: The Eastern Front 1914-1918
The Unabashed English View of the War - Part Two: Peter Simkins, a former senior historian at the Imperial War Museum, picks up in this volume of Osprey's Essential Histories series where he left off at the end of 1916. As in the first volume, Simkins' [... more]
CDN$72.93
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Diamond Dust
From Amazon.com: Combative and curmudgeonly, Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has never been a favorite with his fellow cops. However, this head of the Bath, England, murder squad could always count on the loyalty and affection of his wife, [... more]
CDN$13.54
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