Versatile, Flexible Ferns
Ferns provide a versatile array of textures in your garden and thrive in containers. What do you think of when someone says ferns? Do you conjure up visions of languid Victorian sunrooms complete with overhead fans and lush, tropical plants? Or ... [... more]
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& Harold Budd - After The Night Falls
 From Amazon.com: It's been more than 20 years since pianist Harold Budd's first full collaboration with guitarist Robin Guthrie's former group, the Cocteau Twins, on The Moon and the Melodies. Primed by their atmospheric collaboration on the score to [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Not Too Late
From Amazon.com: Although the music of Norah Jones continues to blend pop, soul, folk, and country with a seasoning of jazz, her third album for Blue Note is the first where she's written (or collaborated on) all the material. Beneath the smooth surface [... more]
CDN$21.99
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The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in ...
irreverent but informed: The previous review is a bit unfair and so I am moved to add a few words. Yes, if you are drawn to an environmentalism that is underwritten by spiritual or mystical motivations, then you probably will be irritated by Phillips' [... more]
CDN$39.50
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American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving
From Amazon.com: American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving by sociologist Christian Smith tells a very different story about evangelicals from the one most people believe. Most of us know that evangelical churches are growing fast. Many pundits [... more]
CDN$18.75
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Sunseed
Amazon.ca: With the laissez-faire voice of Edie Brickell (circa "What I Am") and the light-jazz affectations reminiscent of Norah Jones, Hayley Sales's major label debut Sunseed is cloaked in familiarity, comfortable like an old cotton T-shirt. [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Moral Disorder
Overworked and dull: This collection of dull short stories has been so over-edited in a subtractive way, that any literary contents within have been pulverized. It appears to be an exercize in control and anal retentiveness, relying on facile shifts of [... more]
CDN$35.07
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Money, Money, Money: A Novel of the 87th Precint
From Amazon.com: Steve Carella, Meyer Meyer, and Fat Ollie Weeks having been working the 87th Precinct for more than 40 years, but they're still the top dicks in town for devotees of Ed McBain's absorbing police procedurals. When a pretty, red-haired, ex- [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Whats Going On
Amazon.com essential recording: Sly & The Family Stone might have psychedelicized soul music, but Marvin Gaye personalized it. Although the powers-that-were Motown didn't even want to release the record, the unexpected success of What's Going On, [... more]
CDN$11.99
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All Heaven Broke Loose
More "Jazz" for the Progressive Philistine: As I've already attempted for Earthwork's later "A Part and Yet Apart", this review is intended to help the fan of Bruford's progressive music to decide if it'd be interesting to them. " [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Slowly Slowly Slowly Said The Sloth
From Amazon.com: The three-toed sloth of the Amazon rain forest is very, very slow. "Why are you so slow?" the howler monkey asks. But the sloth doesn't answer. He doesn't respond when the caiman asks why he's so quiet, either--or when the [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Tomorrow
"The future right now is simply tomorrow": A middle-aged woman narrates this deeply reflective novel as she lies in bed by her husband one rainy and stormy night, restlessly writing a eulogy to her two teenage children about her life and her [... more]
CDN$32.95
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