Erica Jong
Erica Jong is the author of eight novels including Fear of Flying; Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones; Shylock's Daughter; Inventing Memory, a Novel of Mothers and Daughters; and Sappho's Leap. Several of her ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
True History Of Chocolate
 From Amazon.com: The Coes, both anthropologists with a culinary bent, delve deeply into the history of their mouth-watering subject. The material on ancient cultures is particularly fascinating--did you know that the Maya used unsweetened liquid [... more]
CDN$28.00
Amazon CA |
Bendigo Shafter
Thomas Neal's Bendigo Shafter Review: The book was very good.The characters sounded so lifelike. I thought that it would drag but it didn't.There is no doubt that it is a good book.The book was based on an old western tale.Bendigo Shafter is the main [... more]
CDN$7.99
Amazon CA |
The First Princess of Wales: A Novel
Historical Inaccuracies: Karen Harper is a fairly good writer. I have read her other historical fiction as well as this book. However if you are a true history buff like myself you would notice some inaccuracies. They are not major things but if you know [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Medieval Military Costume: Recreated in Colour Photographs
amazing! a must!: This books is rather thin - only 96 pages - but there is not page crammed with gorgeous illustrations or colour pics ( generally two or three large ones on every page!!) that show military costumes in Medieval times. He covers all [... more]
CDN$25.03
Amazon CA |
Gould's Book of Fish
From Amazon.co.uk: With a title such as Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan's Commonwealth Prize-winning third novel, expect something wonderfully slippery and self-conscious from one of the finest talents to have emerged from Australia since Peter [... more]
CDN$34.06
Amazon CA |
The Funk Box
From Amazon.co.uk: Of course The Funk Box is kick-ass party music--put "Sex Machine", "Brick House", "One Nation Under A Groove" and "Hollywood Swinging" in the same set, and that pretty much goes without saying. [... more]
CDN$62.49
Amazon CA |
Little Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership ...
Too one-sided: As another reviewer said, this book makes some good points, but ultimately is too one-sided. Phil Sheridan's image may be more untarnished than it should be, but if the author wanted to bring it into proper perspective, he could've [... more]
CDN$18.95
Amazon CA |
The True History of the Elephant Man
Undeniably human, Unquestioningly Heroic: Joseph Merrick is a personal hero of mine. I picked up this book around ten years ago when I was diagnosed with what was thought to be an inoperable spinal tumour and I was told I had Neurofibromatosis, what was [... more]
CDN$12.50
Amazon CA |
True History of the Kelly Gang
From Amazon.com: "What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disraeli? Might not we find someone better to admire than a horse- [... more]
CDN$22.00
Amazon CA |
Bodie's Gold: Tall Tales and True History from a ...
Excellent Chronicle of Life In A Mining Town: This account is educational, to be sure, but it's also a hoot to read about all of the colorful characters. I've been to Bodie (located in the Eastern Sierras -- one of the most underrated and beautiful [... more]
CDN$22.87
Amazon CA |
The Long March: The True History of Communist China's ...
Author: Sun Shuyun Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 951.042 EAN: 9780385520249 ISBN: 0385520247 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 2007-06-12 Release Date: 2007-06-12 [... more]
CDN$34.00
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