Yard Art - A Seriously Tacky Garden
Susan Ray is serious about her tacky yard art - and that is not a contradiction in terms. What initially horrified the neighbors has since become a joint neighborhood project, complete with donor plaques. The first is the truly tacky. You know ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Robyn Harding
Kerry Spence is unfulfilled by her soulless career in advertising, disappointed by her dysfunctional relationship, and horrified by the ever-increasing size of her ass. Ever since her gorgeous, self-absorbed boyfriend Sam demoted her to late ... [... more]
Random House |
Betty Layman Receveur
Sixteen-year-old Kitty Gentry and her family came to Fort Boonesborough to farm the rich land. But when fierce Shawnee attacked the white settlers, the horrified young Kitty was forced to seek refuge within the walls of the fort. There her real ... [... more]
Random House |
Marianne Brandis
Flames are bright against the night sky. Thirteen-year-old Emma watches with horrified fascination as they consume the family's log cabin, leaving her and her younger brother orphaned. These three books are set in the early 1830s. Emma's grief ... [... more]
Random House |
Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape
 O'Neill Plays Stimulate The Mind With Identifiable Theme: This edition provides three original plays by Eugene O'Neill, about men at war with themselves and society. In "The Emperor Jones" Brutus Jones is a black man who has escaped the law in [... more]
CDN$17.95
Amazon CA |
Cant Stop the Music
IT'S SO BAD IT'S... BAD.: The producers of this megaflop have been trying to recoup their losses ever since, by periodically repackaging it and trying to promote it as a "camp classic". Perhaps there are people who actually believe that it is [... more]
CDN$9.99
Amazon CA |
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
Amazon CA |
Maxims
The 'Maxims' as a Classic of 'Crooked Wisdom.': The famous Indian classic, Kautilya's 'Arthasastra,' a treatise which deals with the attainment of worldly ends, distinguishes between two kinds of wisdom - Straight and Crooked. To the former belong (to [... more]
CDN$19.06
Amazon CA |
Dr. David Reuben's Quick Weight-Gain Program (tm): Safe, ...
or how to be a glutton: For years I've been keeping an eye out for a book like this. This book explains the minimum basics in terminology that seems to be directed a Third Graders which I found a little insulting, and then goes on to explain how to [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War ...
From Amazon.com: The Bataan Death March was just the beginning of the woes American soldiers captured by the Japanese army in the Philippines had to endure. The survivors of the march faced not only their captors' regular brutality (having surrendered, [... more]
CDN$42.00
Amazon CA |
Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast ...
Triumph of the human spirit: A brilliant, highly accessible account of the history of the POWs in Southeast Asia. The text is very readable and concisely written. The photographs alone speak volumes and the maps provide a nice illustrative point of [... more]
CDN$36.41
Amazon CA |
Dylan Thomas
A work of substance & solid scholarship: Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. This was the first poem by Dylan Thomas I read while in college, and its words [... more]
CDN$35.12
Amazon CA |
