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Christian Books & Bibles

MacLean, Don

Gidney, Chris

Christian Living

Zondervan

As presenter of Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday, Don Maclean attracts a regular audience of over two million listeners a week. However, he came to the public's attention long before Good Morning Sunday, and his autobiography is full of anecdotes of his early years on BBC classics like The Black and White Minstrel Show and Crackerjack. This story explores the exploits of one of our most popular entertainers and reveals the personal beliefs behind this larger than life personality.

Flying High: My Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton

A celebrity roster of America's most powerful gangland figures-from Frank Abbandando and Al Capone to Seph Valachi and Abner Zwillman.  Filled with little-known facts, this comprehensive alphabet of original crime includes some explosive news about the white-washed world of American business, police, and politics.   Who was the lord high executioner What gangster had a government deal to keep the docks free of sabotage? And much more.  Organized Crime, Mafia, Capone, Bugs Moran, Mob, Legs Diamond, etcThe Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid 19th century in Sicily. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct. Each group, known as a "family", "clan", or "cosca", claims sovereignty over a territory in which it operates its rackets - usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city.Offshoots of the Mafia emerged in the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Italian emigration (see American Mafia) as well as in Canada and Australia. The term "Mafia" is also employed to name Mafia-type organizations operating under a similar structure, whether Sicilian or not; such as the Camorra (from Campania), the 'Ndrangheta (from Calabria), the Stidda (Southern Sicily) or the Sacra Corona Unita (from Apulia), as well as foreign organized crime groups.However, Giovanni Falcone, the anti-Mafia judge who was killed by the Mafia, objected to the inflation of the use of "Mafia" to organized crime in general: "While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word 'Mafia,' ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ... I am no longer willing to accept the habit of speaking of the Mafia in descriptive and all-inclusive terms that make it possible to stack up phenomena that are indeed related to the field of organized crime but that have little or nothing in common with the Mafia."

Pictorial history of the Mafia

Pyramid Books

Don Maclean's Pictorial History of the Mafia

Galahad Books

Not a how-to, this book gathers profiles of Canada's most famous fly tiers and traces the development of fly tying from its origin with British military officers to the present.

A Little Thing I Tied Myself

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Nimbus Publishing

In the age of big box stores and mass production, there are still artists and crafts people who make beautiful things by hand. Colourful quilts, hooked rugs, and stained glass. Resilient dories and snowshoes. Whimsical whirligigs. In this book, Don MacLean explores the traditional crafts of Atlantic Canada, visiting dozens of creators in their workshops, galleries, and homes, giving insight into their process and inspiration. MacLean interviews Dora Gloade about Mi'kmaw bead- and leatherwork. He talks to Yvette Muise about preserving the Chéticamp hooked rug tradition. He speaks to a luthier and a jeweller. There is an irresistible allure to items that are carefully, lovingly, made by hand, whether they are carved from wood or painted on canvas, and MacLean's book explores that. This book contains over two dozen photos.

With These Hands: Traditional Arts, Crafts, and Trades of Atlantic Canada

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

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