A Springtime Supper
An invitation to a celebration of Spring! Recipes for Creamed Sorrel Soup, Springtime Salad, and Dandelion Quiche. Walking past our community garden, I see the first daffodils blooming. Violets are just starting to unfurl their heart-shaped ... [... more]
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Saw (Full Screen)
 From Amazon.com: Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes up in a dank room across from Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and the body of a guy who has blown his own brains out. Not a happy place, obviously, and it gets worse when both men realize that they've been [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Berlin Dance of Death
disappointing and chaotic: Imagine if you were a 17 year old male and knew nothing about armies, weapons, or how to be a soldier, and yet were told to put on a uniform, not given any weapons initially, (the author had to scrounge for a gun from the [... more]
CDN$30.05
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The House in Morocco
A timely and engaging book: Clearly Rosalind Brackenbury knows her subject well: Moroccan Arab life as seen through the eyes of an American woman. At a time when we all are wondering what makes Arabs tick, Ms Brackenbury places us in their sandals. [... more]
CDN$20.02
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Boston (Rm)
From Amazon.com: "Better music through science" was the Epic Records-coined slogan that Boston leader Tom Scholz hated, but this masterwork of studio-happy, high-school-parking-lot music earned it. Scholz fine-tuned his overdubbed guitar [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Leaving Winter
A Perfect Little Heartwarmer: Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. The winter of the characters' isolation fades to the warmth of spring when Cordelia, overweight and painfully shy, meets Frank, who is severely scarred from a [... more]
CDN$12.01
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Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan ...
The Story Behind the Story: This book is for everyone whose appreciation for Oaxacan woodcarvings goes beyond the sinewy shapes and pretty colors. If you have ever wished you could go to Oaxaca to meet the carvers in person, this book is for you. If you [... more]
CDN$28.95
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Penguin Classics Laxdaela Saga
One of the finer ones!: As a lover of the Icelandic sagas, I can say I've had the opportunity to read quite a few. But this one, the tale of Gudrun Osvif's Daughter who marries four times, while bringing about the death of one of the most remarkable men [... more]
CDN$22.00
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Ives: Country Band March; 4 R
This is a must have: The Ragtime pieces in the beginning are really *very* good and imaginative. I realized while listening that the composer that wrote for the early Loonie Tunes cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny *must* have been thinking of this music when [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Allah O Akbar
Reinforcing negative stereotypes.: The apparent contempt that the author has for his subject, Islam and the Muslim world, makes this an unfortunately one-dimensional book, lacking in both insight and sensitivity. Through his highly subjective choice of [... more]
CDN$59.95
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Music from the Coffee Lands
From Amazon.com: The artists gathered together here hail from nations and cultures noted for the growing and export of coffee. As with this CD's companion release, Music from the Tea Lands, one senses the possibility of lucrative product tie-ins, but [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Hitlers Pope
From Amazon.com: This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly [... more]
CDN$23.00
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