Old Man in a Baseball Cap: A Memoir of World War II
Rewrite this book and tell us the *real* story!: The author is a funny guy and tells a riotous story. However, this book is a bit brash and irreverant for my taste. There are some things in life, such as friendship and death, that I find somewhat [... more]
CDN$26.50
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Night Driving
From Amazon.com: The luminous pencil drawings of Peter McCarty that illustrate Night Driving capture the simple, memorable story of a young boy's nighttime car ride with Dad. Cruising rural highways, watching the stars, and listening to a ball game on [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
Written in classic Berg style: In 'Talk Before Sleep' Elizabeth Berg displays the dynamics of the female friendship in such a moving and realistic way that this could be a true story, only it's not. Berg explains that she wrote the story to help sort out [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Catch And Release
Amazon.ca: Anglers everywhere wince at the titular promise to glean existential truths from casting a few lines on the water, but with Kingwell we can relax. Insightful he is. Insipid he's not. Besides, as he makes clear from the beginning, "This is [... more]
CDN$30.00
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Ain't Life Amazing
If you like it loud, you'll be happy: I interviewed Kim, just as this CD was coming out, for my newspaper. Here's the story: While he hasn't exactly fallen off the radar screen, it seemed veteran Canadian pop rocker Kim Mitchell?s days as a serious [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Traffic And Weather
From Amazon.com: Punctuated by 2005's sprawling compilation of B-sides and outtakes (Out-of-State Plates), a nearly four-year interval between fresh recordings has done nothing to tarnish Fountain of Wayne's pop-drenched songwriting tandem of Chris [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Escape From Kathmandu
Offbeat and Charming: I've read most of Robinson's science fiction novels, and have enjoyed most of them. However, this book is a whole different kettle of fish! A series of stories about the misadventures of two jaded American climbers in the Himalayas, [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Tales of the South Pacific
"Dispatches" it ain't: I picked this up used last summer and, in light of ongoing world events, it seems as appropriate as any war story to read now. Indeed it may be more useful than most, since it is based on a point of view shared by many [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Emerson Encores (W/2 New Tracks)
Color of sounds: This disks offers those who are beggining to hear music through this difficult medium (the string quartett), a very varied selection of some of the best music written for this medium, some recommendations would be the Beethoven, the [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Kit's Home Run
Eh...: Kit's Home Run was not quite what I expected it to be. It seemed like a run down of the books, spending too much quality time going over the facts about what happened to Kit. Then Pleasant Company decided to recycle some of the graphics from " [... more]
CDN$7.95
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Skeleton Hiccups
From Amazon.com: Skeletons are a little less scary when they have the hiccups. This particular skeleton can't seem to shake them--not in the shower (nice fuzzy bat slippers!), not while brushing his teeth (woops! there goes the bottom jaw!), not while [... more]
CDN$15.90
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Reverence (Rm) (Expanded)
Artist: Faithless Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886970282727 Format: Original recording remastered Original Release Date: 2007-01-02 Release Date: 2007-01-16 UPC: 886970282727 Tracks: Reverence Don't Love Salva Mea If Lovin You Is Wrong Angeline Insomnia [... more]
CDN$10.99
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