Passiflora
These large, woody rapid growing vines cling to their supports with long tendrils and bear one-half inch to six inch wide flowers in a variety of colors. The majority of these plants are native to tropical, subtropical, and warmer temperate ... [... more]
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Gulliver's Travels
 Gulliver's travels: Who would have expected that I would come away from this book liking it so very much? Trying to read it on my own, I failed, but reading it in class helped me to see it in context, and appreciate it as a funny, thoughtful, and [... more]
CDN$111.00
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Little Grrl Lost
Courtesy of Teens Read Too: Charles de Lint once said, "The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them." Magical Folk are very particular who they appear to and not every Tom, Dick, or Mary can see them. [... more]
CDN$21.50
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The Borrowers
From Amazon.com: Anyone who has ever entertained the notion of "little people" living furtively among us will adore this artfully spun classic. The Borrowers--a Carnegie Medal winner, a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book, and an ALA Distinguished [... more]
CDN$35.07
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Sixpence House
Pie-in-the-Sky-on-Wye: I was sure I would be disappointed in Sixpence House. Yes, I love books and visiting Hay-on-Wye has been a goal of mine for some twenty years. But writing about one's love of books is a tricky thing. It's like writing about your [... more]
CDN$26.50
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Junkyard
Very urgent, frantic: I saw Nick Cave and the Birthday Party twice - once at the Hammersmith Odeon and about six months later at St Albans. The first time I was amazed by the contrast between the performer and the man himself. I spoke to him briefly [... more]
CDN$18.99
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Volume 1 ...
Guilty: Once upon a time, before the Anita Blake series became cheap porn with well-endowed vampires and werethingies, there was "Guilty Pleasures." And like many a successful fantasy/horror novel before it, Laurell K. Hamilton's breakout story [... more]
CDN$21.99
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All Creatures Great and Small: New Work
From Amazon.com: American artist Kiki Smith first received international attention in the 1980s with her sculptures and drawings of the human body. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, she has expanded her visual vocabulary to include works that [... more]
CDN$35.07
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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Volume 1 ...
Guilty: Once upon a time, before the Anita Blake series became cheap porn with well-endowed vampires and werethingies, there was "Guilty Pleasures." And like many a successful fantasy/horror novel before it, Laurell K. Hamilton's breakout story [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Traveling Route 66
The big little book of Route 66.: It's small but its got it all. Rather than turn out another normal size book on Route 66 the publishers had the great idea of making it pocket size, four by six inches, landscape and with FOUR-HUNDRED all-color pages. I [... more]
CDN$17.66
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1000 Chairs
From Amazon.com: Sleek, stuffed, buttoned, or bent, in the den or the dining room, the chair is an indicator of its owner's identity. Chairs make up much of the interior landscape of our homes and workplaces, and a comfortable chair is considered a great [... more]
CDN$39.99
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Christmas Houses
Maybe you can see them from space: As more and more folk decorate their homes with Chrissy lights publishers are there to capture the event. This book has a go but I thought it was fatally flawed in several editorial areas: * The book is too small. At [... more]
CDN$24.95
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