Mr. Hobbs makes a garden
Thomas Hobbs, Vancouver's bad boy of gardening, talks about inspiration, finding beauty in the details of the natural world, and a grass that looks like a Tina Turner fright wig. No sooner were extra chairs found than they were snapped up as The ... [... more]
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Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly ...
 From Amazon.com: Hooray for Captain Underpants! Everybody's favorite waistband warrior is back, ready to fight for Truth, Justice, and all that is Pre-Shrunk and Cottony. If you've read Dav Pilkey's first two comic epics, The Adventures of Captain [... more]
CDN$6.99
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The Scream
The Scream - Siouxsie & the Banshees: This is one of the most frightening albums of punk or any other genre... it's like a halloween rape spree in its sheer mindless evil. Stomping boogie like 'metal postcard', Horrible cries of angst like 'pure'... [... more]
CDN$10.99
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April
From Amazon.co.uk: Swiss-Dutch singer Susanne Abbuehl's April is a striking debut for a label which, over the years, has recorded such comparably coolly arresting vocalists as Norma Winstone, Karin Krog and Annette Peacock. Backed by a beautifully [... more]
CDN$19.99
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The Goblin Wood
excellent!: This is easily one of t he best books I've ever read. Hilari Bell creates an entire world of magic, superstition and war. It takes place in the Realm of the Bright Gods, and the main characters are Makenna, a hedgewitch, and Tobin a knight. [... more]
CDN$7.50
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Strictly for My N.I.G.G.a.Z.
From Amazon.com: The late Tupac Shakur's second album recalls the densely sampled sonic strengths of Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet, except here the bass lines are cranked and the sly samples tend to the gentler touches of Motown and Curtis [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Reef of Death
From Amazon.com: Some say that the reason teens are so addicted to horror stories is because disgusting monsters, ghouls, and tentacled amphibians psychologically and creatively personify a teen's innermost angst. Proving that there is more than a grain [... more]
CDN$7.99
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Madden NFL '08
Features: Customizable stats summaries - New intuitive mouse and keyboard controls - Control the lead blocker on running plays - Throw the perfect block to create a running lane, then take control of the tailback and rip off the big gain. NFL 08: NFL 08 [... more]
CDN$29.99
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Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
Luckily, it will not be reprinted: Roger Scruton's book on Spinoza is a waste of time. As a professor of philosophy Scruton should surely have come up with something better than this. It does not serve to explain Spinoza's thought, and it betrays the [... more]
CDN$9.95
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Special Forces: War on Terrorism in Afghanistan
Riddled with errors: Well in addition to getting most of the operational details incorrect in this book many of the photos (of the US SOF at least) seem to be randomly attributed to different units operating on the line. His section on Delta Force and [... more]
CDN$62.46
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Grant's Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg
Well pshaw: I almost always purchase anything on Grant or by Steve Wodworth so of course I snapped up this slim volume. Unfortunately it's not in the same league as its model, LEE'S LIEUTENANTS. The essays seem a bit short and superficial, and, for the [... more]
CDN$30.05
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Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor: A Covert-0ne Novel
From Amazon.com: With an unbroken string of bestsellers dating from the early '70s (beginning with 1971's The Scarlatti Inheritance) and over 200 million books sold, Robert Ludlum is an acknowledged superstar of the political thriller. Gayle Lynds, who [... more]
CDN$19.95
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