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Tommy Dick

"Nineteen-year-old Tommy Dick is killed, only to resurface. Born into a Hungarian family who had converted to Judaism, Tommy soon finds out that in the eyes of the Nazis, he's still a Jew, still a target for murder. On the run and in disguise, Tommy is chased by death as much as he is by luck. 'Getting Out Alive' is a vivid and gripping account of how the courageous acts of others, unshakeable friendships and Tommy's own extraordinary quick-wit conspired to save the life of an adventurous and determined young man in the cruelist of times."--Publ. website.

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Grant MacEwan

Long considered the dean of prairie history, Grant MacEwan more than any other writer has explored the colourful personalities and important issues that give the Canadian prairies their unique character.Grant McEwan's Fifty Mighty Men is a compelling collection of sotries about men whose vigour, vision and courage shaped an emerging Western Canada. Missionaries, politicians, cowboys, doctors, chiefs and many more all had a share in building the West in their own way. Experience the excitement of Western Canada's history through Grant MacEwan's humourous, fast-paced and entertaining writing.

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[by] Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker

The true story of John Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feuds one man against a whole tribe in American history."

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James D. Watson

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work. - Back cover.