Derek Landy
Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a little thriller in which everybody dies. As a blackbelt in Kenpo Karate, he has ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jennifer Jay Myers
Read by Oliver Wyman, Rick Adamson and Jennifer Jay Myers, Edited by William Irwin In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is ... [... more]
Random House |
William Poundstone
This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is ... [... more]
Random House |
Benjamin Cavell
Benjamin Cavell attended Harvard College, where he was a boxer and an editor for The Harvard Crimson. In this widely acclaimed literary debut, Benjamin Cavell stalks the male ego, unleashing a ferocious volley of nine sharply written and deeply ... [... more]
Random House |
Julia Wilcox Rathkey
When Julia Wilcox Rathkey lost her husband, her three children lost their father. Within hours, it became sharply clear that each child--a twelve-year-old daughter and twin ten-year-old sons--would grieve the loss in a radically different way. ... [... more]
Random House |
Mein Kampf
 From Amazon.com: The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's [... more]
CDN$25.08
Amazon CA |
Women and Christianity, Vol. 1: The First Thousand Years
History with a purpose: This text by Mary Malone is the first volume in a series on women in Christianity; the first volume covers the first thousand years of Christendom, and the second from the year 1000 to the Reformation. This volume covers the [... more]
CDN$24.95
Amazon CA |
All-American Ads 40s
From Amazon.com: Like a pop-cultural walk through time, All-American Ads of the 40s covers the breadth of print ads from the World War II era. As one might expect, the ads look very different from ads today. Most are illustrated, and even the selling of [... more]
CDN$11.99
Amazon CA |
Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Pretty good history, but biased conclusions: I enjoyed reading this book, and it's history help me a lot to understand the evolution of temple ordinances. I'm LDS and don't understand why someone said LDS would feel embarassed by the book. If it wasn't [... more]
CDN$22.87
Amazon CA |
Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source
From Amazon.com: Is it a backhanded compliment to recommend a book more for its introduction than for the main text itself? Not if the introduction turns out to be twice the length of the text, as it is in Lau and Ames's collaboration Yuan Dao. The first [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Variety Lights (Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Federico Fellini codirected this film from his own story about a romance between an ambitious young dancer and the aging manager of a variety theater in Rome. It's a sharply realized first effort, showing that Fellini could work his [... more]
CDN$49.99
Amazon CA |
Secret Confesns/Applewd.Pta (Mp3) (Unab)
LISA KUDROW SHINES IN THIS NARRATION: Instead of the usual bake sales or auctions to raise money for a new stadium, it begins to look as if the Applewood PTA has struck it rich - a movie company has scouted their school and thinks it might be the perfect [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
