Book Of Rowing
 Good, basic overview of the sport: This is a classic overview of a classic sport, written from a ground-up perspective for the complete novice as well as experienced rowers looking for a good history. Churbuck takes the reader from the basic and [... more]
CDN$34.50
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Wit And Wisdom Of Freddy
a good book: If you like freddy the pig,you have to get this book Quotations from best children's book series ever: This book was clearly a labor of love, both from Overlook Press and from the many Friends of Freddy (members of an organization devoted [... more]
CDN$33.99
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Dog Of The South
From Amazon.com: Charles Portis may be the sneakiest comedian in American letters, not to mention one of the funniest. And there's no better specimen of his double-edged art than The Dog of the South, which Overlook Press has recently rescued from a long, [... more]
CDN$20.00
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Psmith In The City
Funny, but somewhat lacking.: "Psmith in the City" was first published in 1910, which makes it one of his earlier works. This particular printing is from The Collector's Wodehouse series being released by The Overlook Press (in the U.K. it is [... more]
CDN$18.01
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Dog Of The South
From Amazon.com: Charles Portis may be the sneakiest comedian in American letters, not to mention one of the funniest. And there's no better specimen of his double-edged art than The Dog of the South, which Overlook Press has recently rescued from a long, [... more]
CDN$20.05
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No Angel
From Amazon.co.uk: Penny Vincenzi's No Angel is probably her most accomplished yet, and draws on many elements of the author's own life in journalism and publishing. Since inaugurating her writing career with Old Sins, Vincenzi has developed into one of [... more]
CDN$16.62
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Damsel In Distress
Screwball Comedy Wodehouse Style: Just today I was making a list of the best-written bits in Wodehouse, and Damsel in Distress topped the list. Gracie Allen of Burns and Allen fame starred in an old black-and-white film based from this book and cast in [... more]
CDN$18.01
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Freddy And The Popinjay
The Popinjay Goeth Before the Fall: This book was written just as Walter R. Brooks was hitting his stride as a writer, and is one of the better Freddy books. A robin friend of Freddy's needs glasses, and from there the story gets wilder. The book is [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Freddy Goes To Florida
From Amazon.com: Birds migrate south for the winter--why shouldn't farm animals? In Walter R. Brooks's Freddy Goes to Florida, that's precisely what the thoughtful beasts of Mr. Bean's upstate New York farm decide to do. Not wanting to leave the [... more]
CDN$35.00
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Laughing Gas
You don't need laughing gas to laugh with this one!: The super-hero kid, and the troubled young man, and the switch of 'souls' and identities! Only Wodehouse could have made this improbable plot seem larger than life, and as funny as the gas under whose [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Freddy And The Dragon
The Fire Breathing Pig!!: I am beginning to realize that I was severely deprived as a young child. The little corner library where I got my first library card actually had a pretty poor selection of books for young readers. As a result, I grew up [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Goat
one of his best: Edward Albee is without question the finest American playwright we've yet had, and all through The Goat, particularly in the second and third acts, he's in top form. Structurally, it's as perfect a tragedy as anything penned by [... more]
CDN$16.50
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