Elizabeth Mckenzie
From the start of Elizabeth McKenzie's beguiling fiction debut, we are drawn into the offbeat worldview of sharp-eyed, intrepid Ann Ransom. Stop That Girl chronicles Ann's colorful coming-of-age travails, from her childhood in a disjointed family ... [... more]
Random House |
Cat Who Blew The Whistle
 It grows on you: Under normal circumstances I hate anything that can be described as "cute." That includes people, sculpture, movies, books, etc. "Cute" means stupid, shallow, superficial, and self-consciously pretty. At first glance, [... more]
CDN$7.99
Amazon CA |
The Discoverers (IMAX Large Format)
From Amazon.com: Originally filmed in IMAX format, The Discoverers features some astoundingly spectacular footage all centering around the act of discovery. The story of the great navigator Magellan's search for a passage to the Pacific is presented with [... more]
CDN$29.99
Amazon CA |
Food Chemistry
Suitable only for reference: If I were a professional food chemist looking for a reference book to remind me of all the food-related chemical reactions I'd learned in college, I might give this book 5 stars. I'm not a food chemist, though, and I was [... more]
CDN$86.78
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Visions Of Gerard
Un bel hommage: In this novel, written between ON THE ROAD and DHARMA BUMS, Thomas Wolfe's influence on Kerouac's style is keenly felt. Haunting elaborations on scene and setting, branching off into Beat perfect interior monologues are all arrows [... more]
CDN$15.50
Amazon CA |
The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places
From Amazon.com: Readers for whom the word travel ordinarily conjures images of white-sand beaches or Tuscan hill towns might wonder what person of above-average intelligence leaves home in hopes of face-to-face contact with Afghan rebels, Malaysian [... more]
CDN$28.00
Amazon CA |
Homesick
Amazon.ca: Although Homesick won Guy Vanderhaeghe the Toronto Book Award, given to honour books "evocative of Toronto," it is really a very orthodox Prairie novel. Set in the tiny Saskatchewan town of Connaught, Homesick sympathetically [... more]
CDN$17.99
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The Postman
From Amazon.com: Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a " [... more]
CDN$10.99
Amazon CA |
Information Anxiety 2
From Amazon.co.uk: Information might want to be free, but why should we free it? We've got enough troubles keeping track of all the petabits running around untethered already, and we risk a computer counterrevolution if we let the situation get much [... more]
CDN$44.95
Amazon CA |
Face The Fire (Cd) (Unabr.)
From Amazon.com: Setting: Three Sisters Island Sensuality: 7 A stunningly beautiful, powerful witch who possesses the gift of Fire, Mia Devlin locked her heart away when Sam Logan rejected her youthful love and left Three Sisters Island. Eleven years [... more]
CDN$43.95
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Extremely close: Sometimes an author has a theme running through all of his writing -- in the case of Jonathan Safran Foer, it seems to be a quest of the soul. His follow-up to the cult hit "Everything Is Illuminated" is the poignant, quirky, [... more]
CDN$27.95
Amazon CA |
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish
From Amazon.com: Gould's Book of Fish, an extraordinary work of fact-based fiction by Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan (Death of a River Guide) is a journey through the fringe madness of Down Under colonialism. Set during the 1830s in a hellish island [... more]
CDN$20.95
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