Ann Patchett from HarperCollins Publishers
Ann Patchett, PEN/Faulkner Award and Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto, Run, What now?, and Truth & Beauty. [... more]
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
 Why criticize a writer's choices?: Why is Ann Patchett being criticized for wanting to make money out of her friendship with the late Lucy Grealy? It isn't hard to believe that Lucy had a lot of secrets, she hinted as much in her own autobiography, and [... more]
CDN$18.95
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A Room With a View [Blu-ray]
Amazon.com essential video: The prestigious filmmaking trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was released in 1985, but it was this [... more]
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This Old Road
From Amazon.com: Though Kris Kristofferson has long seemed ageless, the approach of his 70th birthday plainly has the songwriter looking back, taking stock and coming to terms with his legacy and his mortality. The result is his most consistently [... more]
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Dreams of Rescue: A Novel
a STUNNER! I PULLED AN ALL NIGHTER TO READ IT!: WONDROUS ACCOUNT OF BATTERED BRIDE/MOVIE STAR WHO FIGHTS BACK. SMART AND CLEVERLY WRITTEN --ANY WOMAN WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THIS WILL RECOGNIZE THE ACCURACY OF THE MIND GAMES, THE DANGERS OF LOVING THE WRONG [... more]
CDN$21.00
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The Great Man: A Novel
"I've read too many novels. I haven't lived enough of life": Christensen's The Great Man begins with a newspaper obituary on the self absorbed, narcissistic and totally egotistical, artist Oscar Feldman. Driven by painting the various [... more]
CDN$29.95
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De Anima
Aristotle's Psychology in a Broader Context: Aristotle's short but profoundly influential work, De Anima, is set within a rich supporting text authored by Hugh Lawson-Tancred, the Penquin edition's translator and editor, that absorbs almost three-fourths [... more]
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Ain't Misbehavin - Live at the
From Amazon.com: Not that it should come as any surprise that Marian McPartland--the longtime host of NPR's Piano Jazz and a leading figure in jazz piano for over four decades running--has released another fine album of piano duets, but this one is even [... more]
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Why criticize a writer's choices?: Why is Ann Patchett being criticized for wanting to make money out of her friendship with the late Lucy Grealy? It isn't hard to believe that Lucy had a lot of secrets, she hinted as much in her own autobiography, and [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
Dreams and essays are made of these: Let me admit at the outset that I read the collection of lectures quite some time back. However, I remember with amazing clarity how much the lectures moved me. Chandrasekhar is not a man who draws superficial [... more]
CDN$22.07
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Dharma Bums
From Amazon.com: One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of [... more]
CDN$29.05
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The Promise of Immortality: The True Teaching of the ...
Recommended reading for students of Comparative Religion: Ably written J. Donald Walters who, as Swami Kriyananda, founded the Ananda network of spiritual communities, The Promise Of Immortality: The True Teaching Of The Bible And The Bhagavad Gita is an [... more]
CDN$24.95
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