Jurian Hughes
In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, ... [... more]
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The Throes
 Artist: Two Gallants Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0095081007222 Format: Import Format: Compilation Format: Enhanced MPN: 72 Original Release Date: 2006-12-12 Release Date: 2008-01-25 UPC: 095081007222 Tracks: You Losin' Out Two Days Short Tomorrow Nothing to [... more]
CDN$18.99
Amazon CA |
Letters to Myself on Dying
From Amazon.com: After six years of remission, Mirth Vos was hopeful that she had finally licked the cancer that struck her twice. But just as she was preparing to renovate her home for retirement, she learned of her final incurable malignancy. Within [... more]
CDN$14.50
Amazon CA |
Lets Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye
From Amazon.co.uk: Vince Gill is deeply in love. It's hard to imagine an adolescent in the throes of first crush sounding any giddier than Gill does on this mash note of an album to new wife Amy Grant (who returns the devotion with a duet on "When I [... more]
CDN$11.99
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S A Novel About The Balkans
You won't soon forget...: It is difficult to put into words how this book affected me. As a woman, it touches me to my very core. Slavenka Drakulic's honest portrayal of what some women suffered during the collapse of Yugoslavia is precise. At times it [... more]
CDN$15.63
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Preston Falls: A Novel
very, very disappointing: I struggled with this one. I found it very difficult to sympathise with either Willis or his wife Jean. By the end of the book I really couldn't have cared less what happened to either of them. Win some, lose some. a unique [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Afraid of the Dark
hair-raising: Every so often a movie comes around that is different that the usual sludge that passes through our VCRs. More often than not, these films are foriegn. "Afraid of the Dark" is no exception... it is a mystery from the word "Go& [... more]
CDN$10.41
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Shalimar
Not her best.: Since the story is a mixture of espionage and romance, a lot of names are revealed. I had to reread the passages in order to keep track of them. So this is not something you'd want to read in bed. Damien and Emma are the faint [... more]
CDN$13.95
Amazon CA |
Wonder Boys
Wonderful "Boys": Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon deftly avoided the sophomore slump with "Wonder Boys," a followup to the unique "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." A wickedly funny and weirdly satirical novel, this is the [... more]
CDN$18.34
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Owl Babies
A very fun book to read with one's children: I bought this book over two years ago, when my daughter was around 14 months and was just starting to visibly enjoy being read to. Two years later she still pulls it off the shelf sometimes and asks me to read [... more]
CDN$3.99
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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, ...
An Honest Look at Love: As I biologist, I am constantly frustrated by the unscientific (and often ultra-philisophical) interpretation that goes on when considering humanity, and particularly love. This book took the extreme interest that exists about [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
On Broadway, Vol. 2
EEEEEEEZENNNNNNNNNSHALLLLLLLL: It's back. May this essential recording never disappear again. Motian and his merry 'melodians' dig deep into their bags of skilled trickeries to make rousing renditions out of seemingly stale show tunes. Fine jazz should [... more]
CDN$19.99
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