Neal Bowers
A distraught Davis Banks arrives home for his mother's funeral. Davis teaches poetry at a small college. He loves words - but not himself. His father had died some years before, and now Davis discovers a lot of little things in his mother's house ... [... more]
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Crime and Punishment
 From Amazon.com: Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of [... more]
CDN$38.08
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Charles Bock
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. As the boy's distraught parents navigate the mystery of what's become of their son, the circumstances surrounding Newell's vanishing and ... [... more]
Random House |
A Closed Eye
Another depressing yet quite irresistable Brookner voyage...: The first half of the book contains, as do almost all Brookner books, a compelling word-picture of a girl, growing to maturity in a social landcape of seemingly appalling emptiness. Her rather [... more]
CDN$18.00
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The Maltese Falcon
From Amazon.com: Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels ( [... more]
CDN$31.20
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Phantom (Cd) (Abr.)
Oh Terence - More Filler than a Hillman Imp Restoration Job: I've read each book in the Sword of Truth series and loved them all but this is by far the worst example of how Authors give in to pressure from the publishers to turn one story into two, [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
Amazon.ca: It's hard to imagine a scenario more terrifying than being trapped in a gaseous, crumbling coal mine two miles beneath the earth's surface in utter darkness, without food or water, while your gravely injured colleagues howl in agony all around [... more]
CDN$30.09
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Amazon.com Essential Video: With dizzying cinematic tricks and astonishing performances, Francis Coppola's 1992 version of the oft-filmed Dracula story is one of the most exuberant, extravagant films of the 1990s. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, as the [... more]
CDN$20.77
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Eifelheim
One of the best books of 2006: I feel sorry for genre writers. Great novels can be lost to snobbery. Perhaps I should clarify. Great novels may be lost to me because of my snobbery. I am speaking specifically of Science Fiction. Perhaps it's the metallic [... more]
CDN$17.25
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Bunnicula: 25th Anniversary Edition
From Amazon.com: This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Mouse Hunt [DTS] (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: What might have been a one-note family comedy becomes something more thanks to the comic brilliance of costars Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, as well as the distinctive, dark-fable look given the film by a little-known director named Gore [... more]
CDN$17.98
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Keeping the World Away
"The memory of it floating in her mind, the image of it, the atmosphere, the spell it had cast over her.": The novel Keeping the Word Away is based upon a painting by Welsh artist, Gwen John (1876- 1939). John was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, [... more]
CDN$42.50
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