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"This is a fantastic book for boomers and others of course. I grew up in Ottawa and this book allows me to look back fondly at the Ottawa I knew. It also includes comments from the Facebook site from which a lot of the photos are drawn. I attend..."
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When she is dismissed from her job without explanation, Jordan Bingham, researcher for the reclusive book collector Vera Van Alst, must save her former employer from a mysterious new visitor who has designs on her money, property and Nero Wolfe...
"I enjoyed this book : well written, informative and challenging. It was interesting to compare it with Farley Mowatt's `environmental' writings about wolves in the 1960s/1970s, not much changes in terms of how we persecute certain groups of animals."
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Association of Canadian PublishersOttawa, Canada, 1934. Seventeen-year old Frances McFadden is plucked from the tedium of school routine and the control of a domineering mother to work for the new Bank of Canada. Like many hard-working women of...