Taslima Nasrin
This groundbreaking book throws open a window on a world unknown to most Westerners. Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years - from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen - in a small rural village ... [... more]
Random House |
Choosing Auspicious Chinese Names
 Outdated for 2001 babies: Good book overall, but for some sections where there are recommendations for names or elements, the book stops at the year 2000, so it's useless for people like me who's trying to find names for new baby born in 2001. New [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Hao Yu Zhang
Through the ages, the dragon has been an important symbol for the Chinese. A time of Golden Dragons is the most auspicious possible. In fascinating text and beautiful paintings, Song Nan and Hao Yu Zhang trace the dragon's history. Perhaps ... [... more]
Random House |
Keiichiro Ryu
This Naoki Prize-nominated historical thriller marked the auspicious debut of late-blooming author Keichiro Ryu, who in five years made a name for himself as a master of period novels. In The Blade of the Courtesans, a young samurai by the name ... [... more]
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Blackouts
An Avro Part Choir: With Blackouts, Craig Boyko has not found his voice: he's found thirty - each distinct, rich, and resonant. As one of the other fourteen people who've read Canadian literary journals with any regularity, I've run into Boyko's prose [... more]
CDN$29.99
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Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty
Untterly breathtaking book: This is an untterly breathtaking book, a tribute to men whose lives have been transformed by their own courage, as our lives will be transformed by what we learn of them. The tales of their heroism are great, more, almost, [... more]
CDN$51.95
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Changing Pitches: A Novel of Love and Baseball
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW, "CHANGING PITCHES": CHANGING PITCHES. By Steve Kluger. The backdrop for Steve Kluger's first novel is the world of major league baseball. The book is written in the form of a journal, which, while satirizing sportswriting, [... more]
CDN$17.01
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Simply Irresistible
From Amazon.com: In this saucy romance, charm-school graduate Georgeanne Howard has only two real talents: cooking and talking. Her Mae West-like body, though, is what attracts Virgil Duffy, a man old enough to be her grandfather but richer than Croesus. [... more]
CDN$10.00
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Near Death and Out-Of-Body Experiences (Auspicious ...
Author: Marilynn Hughes Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 133 EAN: 9781411619166 ISBN: 1411619161 Number Of Pages: 212 Publication Date: 2005-01 [... more]
CDN$15.00
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Auspicious Wisdom: The Texts and Traditions of Srividya ...
Author: Douglas Renfrew Brooks Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 294.5514 EAN: 9780791411469 ISBN: 079141146X Number Of Pages: 324 Publication Date: 1992-09 [... more]
CDN$20.02
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Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
Intelligent and colorful memoirs: The American market has been flooded with memoirs from the Mao era that present this time, especially the Cultural Revolution years, as a purely dark, depraved, and tragic age with nothing but victims and victimizers, [... more]
CDN$28.00
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Picture Bible (Deluxe Hard Cover)
A comic book collection of bible stories--in order; must buy: The "Picture Bible", written and illustrated by Iva Hoth & Andre Le Blanc respectively, is more than a worthwhile book to read, unprecedented & as well an auspicious find. [... more]
CDN$21.99
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