Denis Donoghue
Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American [... more]
Random House |
Unmistakably French
 gorgeous book, great ideas: At first glance just picking up the book and looking through it makes you want to run out and redesign you home. I don't have a french style in my house, more modern, but I picked up a lot of ideas from just frist glance. The [... more]
CDN$43.95
Amazon CA |
The Prone Gunman
Top Notch Noir: I had previously read Manchette's other translated book, Three to Kill, and gave it a four star review. As The Prone Gunman is even better still, it warrants the full five stars. This is what noir is all about - a lean plot and lots of [... more]
CDN$14.50
Amazon CA |
Side By Side
From Amazon.co.uk: Of all the huge number of Ellington recordings, very few feature his unique piano work at any length, and those that do are usually unpopulated with front-line horns. By contrast, the three tracks here that involve him (and those on [... more]
CDN$14.99
Amazon CA |
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
Tip of the iceberg: Frances Yates was first recommended to me more than a decade ago and I'm sorry that I waited so long to read her. THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE challenged many things I thought I knew about the Renaissance and [... more]
CDN$20.79
Amazon CA |
Vanity Project, the
From Amazon.com: With The Vanity Project Barenaked Ladies' co-founder Steven Page makes a noble attempt to disassociate himself from the word "cheeky," and almost manages to pull it off. Where it works, it works spectacularly. The first single & [... more]
CDN$21.99
Amazon CA |
At the Blackhawk
my most listened-to Monk record: Of about twenty Monk records in my collection, this is the one I listen to most often. In fact, out of hundreds or thousands of recordings across many genres, this is one of those I listen to again and again. It hasn't [... more]
CDN$12.99
Amazon CA |
Biography: Greatest Hits
From Amazon.co.uk: Having sold over 13 million albums, Lisa Stansfield can lay claim to being the UK's top female vocalist of the last 15 years. Biography, this 17-track compilation, would certainly back up her argument. Including her breakthrough as [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
Shalom Jerusalem
awesome: All of Paul Wilbur's music is the most inspirational and beautiful music I have ever heard. This is my favorite CD of all of Paul's CDs. Without even trying, I've also found that I've learned quite a bit of scripture just by listening and [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Sport Fury
From Amazon.co.uk: Beachbuggy's debut album, Sport Fury, is every bit as exuberant and ramshackle as the vehicle they've named themselves after. This is surf-rock boiled down to its basest elements: brutally rudimentary drums and bass, guitars that sound [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, ...
From Amazon.com: In Eating Well for Optimum Health, one of Amazon's bestselling health books of 2000, alternative-medicine maverick Andrew Weil revealed his version of the ideal diet (and backed it up with scientific proof): a variety of unprocessed, or & [... more]
CDN$37.95
Amazon CA |
SOM Evolutions: Recent Work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
From Amazon.com: In the smart Q & A roundtable that opens this stylish monograph of new and in-progress projects from the long-established megafirm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of the principals notes, with mixed sentiments, "We have been [... more]
CDN$88.56
Amazon CA |
