Plum Wine
 Taste The Wine: Plum Wine is a novel that left me in a daze. It did this by drawing me into a dreamy world called Japan. And it drew me into a dreamy character called Barbara and her life. The way this author creates her world is something worth [... more]
CDN$16.00
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Apple Farmer Annie
charming book for young child: We read this book over and over. My just-turned-two year old likes me to talk about the pictures with her, and has fun identifying the objects and finding Annie's dog (who appears on every page). My three year old enjoys [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Murder In Grub Street
Pretty Good: "Murder in Grub Street", the second installment in Bruce Alexander's "Bow Street Runners" series is more carefully crafted than the first book, but still has weaknesses. It is a period mystery set in 18th-century London. [... more]
CDN$9.99
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When the Bough Breaks
Sort of like Shag Carpet: It's really sort of a trip back in time reading this book...so much of it probably worked pretty well in 1985 when this was written but the translation in 2004 doesn't quite make it. Trendy young Dr. Delaware, age 33, drives a [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Tuesday
From Amazon.com: "Tuesday evening, around eight"--a deceptively mundane beginning for what proves to be a thrilling, miraculous, and surreal amphibian journey. Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a [... more]
CDN$17.03
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Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to ...
definitely disappointed: I chose this book because it was listed on a couple of Early Onset Bipolar websites. I read The Bipolar Child first, and then thought I would read this personal account as it seems to have been so highly recommended. One always [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Tuesday
From Amazon.com: "Tuesday evening, around eight"--a deceptively mundane beginning for what proves to be a thrilling, miraculous, and surreal amphibian journey. Slowly and quietly on this particular Tuesday, a few fat frogs begin hovering over a [... more]
CDN$7.95
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat
This book made me see my own life as a novel.: After reading Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honorable Defeat, I had the oddest sensation of imagining what my own life would look like in her hands. I find this story of two marriages, tinkered with by an [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Greatest Hits (W/1 Bonus Track
From a Father: Tom T. Hall may be the Story Teller, but Jimmy Dean has to be a close second. In fact, while Hall's story's most often make you laugh, Dean is the one who really gets to the "heart" of the matter. As the father of two little [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Touch Magic
Thoughtful essays: Yolen and August House share a newly expanded version of this wonderful book including six new essays. In the book, Yolen offers her insights into children's literature, fairy tales, folklore, and storytelling. Her book is a must-read [... more]
CDN$12.45
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The Little Mermaid: A Read-Aloud Storybook
true under the sea story: My kids love this story and so do I. It tells every important detail in a short description. Each page has beautiful pictures with only a few paragraphs so the kids get to turn the pages often. The language comes straight from [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Elegy
From Amazon.com: Larry Levis was an outstanding poet, and a student and colleague of Philip Levine. Levine, who edited this posthumous manuscript, writes that Levis's "early death is a staggering loss for our poetry, but what he left is a major [... more]
CDN$14.05
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