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The Day The World Came To Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

by Jim Defede
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Avon (2003-08-07)
ISBN: 0060559713
Binding/Media: Paperback - 256 pages
Edition: Reprint
SKU: 0707230003
Condition: New
Comments: Brand New Book with remainder mark. Will ship to Canada, U.S. and Internationally.

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The events of September 11 have seemingly been covered, analyzed, and discussed from every angle imaginable. So the subject matter alone of Jim DeFede's The Day the World Came to Town makes it noteworthy. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 38 commercial airliners carrying over 6,000 passengers were forced, as a precautionary measure, to land in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. Due to the ongoing closure of U.S. airspace, the passengers spent four days in this isolated town of 10,000 before being allowed to continue on their way. In that time, Gander's residents rallied together to extend a kind of hospitality that seems too expansive for the word hospitality. Townspeople not only opened schools and legion halls for use as emergency shelters, they invited the passengers into their homes for showers, meals, and warm beds while local businesses simply gave toiletries and clothing to passengers stuck without luggage. Despite the grim consequences that led to the situation, DeFede finds humor: two flight attendants are offered a car for sightseeing by a local woman who happened to be driving by; the stranded chairman of Hugo Boss finds himself shopping for men's underwear at the local Wal-Mart. But the real message of the book is how, even in times of great turmoil and conflict, people can and must look to one another for comfort, help, and hope. --John Moe

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The Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China: Official and Authentic Introduction and Catalogue

by Royal Ontario Museum
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Royal Ontario Museum (1974)
ISBN: B002NCZVGQ
Binding/Media: Paperback - 36 pages
Edition: 1st Edition
SKU: 0912270003
Condition: Collectible: Acceptable
Comments: Included with This Rare Find is a Corrigenda and a Key to numbers of the Catalogue. The Book has tanning cover and pages. The book was published with stapled soft cover binding - it is tight and all pages are intact and unmarked. Will ship to Canada, U.S. and Internationally.

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The Exhibition of Archaeological finds of the People's Republic of China: Official and authentic introduction and catalogue. Edited by the Organization Committee of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China.

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The Inupiat & Arctic Alaska

by Norman A. Chance
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Harcourt (1997-11)
ISBN: 003032419X
Binding/Media: Paperback - 241 pages
Edition: 2nd
SKU: 0607220013
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: This book has shelf wear, tanning pages. Will ship to Canada, U.S. and Internationally.

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The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present

by James Lydon
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (1998-07-23)
ISBN: 0415013488
Binding/Media: Paperback - 440 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 0609230005
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: This book has highlighting on pages 345-368. Very clean copy in excellent condition. Will ship to Canada, U.S. and Internationally.

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by J. E Johnson
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Stoddart (2000)
ISBN: 0773732403
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 320 pages
SKU: 1204220001
Condition: New
Comments: Will ship to Canada, U.S. and Internationally.

Our Price:	CAN$65.99

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In Wing Leader, Johnnie Johnson recounts his glorious days as a Spitfire pilot, when he was the top-scoring Allied fighter pilot of World War II. From his initial operations in August 1940 to his 38th and final victory in September 1944, Johnson was a hero of the great aerial fighter actions of the war over Europe: Johnson takes us on a thrilling ride into World War II Europe's dangerous skies.

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