Simon Bartram
Gravely Humorous Verses Reader, if I had more time I'd say au revoir in rhyme, Sayonara, ciao in verse - But I have to catch a hearse. Peek inside ONCE UPON A TOMB... Once Upon A Tomb J. Patrick Lewis Simon Bartram [... more]
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
 Amazon.ca: It's hard to imagine a scenario more terrifying than being trapped in a gaseous, crumbling coal mine two miles beneath the earth's surface in utter darkness, without food or water, while your gravely injured colleagues howl in agony all around [... more]
CDN$30.09
Amazon CA |
Kingfisher
For the victims of Babi Yar: First published in 1977, KINGFISHER is perhaps dated. But it's still surpasses most of the genre. David, Moses, Rebecca and Isaac are young Jewish activists in Kiev in the former Soviet Union. David, the group's idealistic [... more]
CDN$12.01
Amazon CA |
Orangutan odyssey
From Amazon.com: In the 1960s, the legendary paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey encouraged a trio of remarkable woman scientists--Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas--to study the world's great primates. In her memoir Reflections of Eden, [... more]
CDN$60.00
Amazon CA |
Hilary and Jackie (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: It earned Oscar nods, yet this cinematic look at a genius--that of English cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who enraptured audiences with her bold, emblazoned, and wholly unconventional playing style, and who died at age 42--was [... more]
CDN$8.99
Amazon CA |
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side ...
At grade 9 level: Hi: I found the book interesting and easy to read. However, it was a bit condescending. It was written at a grade 8 or 9 level. I guess that helps a books popularity. The book had some interesting stories and facts but nothing I could [... more]
CDN$34.95
Amazon CA |
1994 Legend O/T Invisible Cit
From Amazon.com: Thanks to Valery Gergiev's efforts--including his accounts of The Tsar's Bride and Kashchey the Immortal--Rimsky-Korsakov operas are no longer a mystery, but that doesn't mean there's any clearer consensus on their quality. This opera [... more]
CDN$57.99
Amazon CA |
Blackfunk
WHOA????: The title and the cover grabbed me. It's slow in the beginning I guess it's the introduction. OH MY BLACKFUNK???? The meaning is WHOA???? This book has you asking yourself is this for real? The typos are so perturbing, it's hard to get lost in [... more]
CDN$12.03
Amazon CA |
Wild Moose Country
Buy it for the photographs, ONLY.: I bought this book because the photographs were beautiful and I wanted to learn more about this incredable animal. I was gravely disappointed for I not only found the captions didn't describe the photo but they were [... more]
CDN$55.00
Amazon CA |
The Roaring Silence
A late 70's classic, long-awaited on CD: I consider this a great album, well beyond the popular cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light." The music is a unusual mix of rock, synthesizers and gravely vocals. The overall effect might [... more]
CDN$14.99
Amazon CA |
Firestorm
From Amazon.com: A raging fire in a national park seems an unlikely setting for a murder, but that's exactly the circumstances that crime-fighting park ranger and medic Anna Pigeon confronts in this mystery thriller. A suspicious fire breaks loose in [... more]
CDN$17.61
Amazon CA |
Hickox Conducts Vaughan Willia
From Amazon.co.uk: This slimline British Composers double-pack from EMI offers stunning value for money, cramming the contents of nearly three Vaughan Williams anthologies from the mid-1980s onto two extremely well-filled CDs--and all at mid-price, too. [... more]
CDN$13.99
Amazon CA |
