The Secret of NIMH (Widescreen Special Edition)
 From Amazon.com: In his book, Robert C. O'Brien called his brave widow mouse "Mrs. Frisby," but Disney escapee animator Don Bluth must have thought kids would laugh the wrong way at that. They renamed her "Mrs. Brisby" for NIMH. That [... more]
CDN$25.98
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Barn Dance!
LET YOUR HAIR DOWN AND ENJOY THE HOE-DOWN!: I've come to realize that Ted Rand is an absolutely wonderful illustrator. Coupled with the most rhythmic and lyrical text you'll ever see, this book has become my son's new favorite. Pictures are full and [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Under Milk Wood
From Amazon.com: Under Milk Wood is an imaginative, cinematic rendering of Dylan Thomas's famous "play for voices," typically read on stage by a handful of actors expressing the dialogue of more than 50 characters living in a small, Welsh [... more]
CDN$15.61
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The Ways of Grace
wonderful family drama: One day Grace Colebrook felt she owned the world, but that feeling ends rather quickly when she finds her fiancé sleeping with another woman just prior to the ceremony. On the professional front, a peer steals her work [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Keep the River on Your Right
doesn't work for me as fantasy, either: i had to buy this for a course in mesoamerican religion. there wasn't any in it, nor any anthropology either. just a lot of lame existentialist homosexual fantasy. probably when it was published in 1969 (and when [... more]
CDN$13.50
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First Off The Tee
the real deal: This book is superb and here's why: Because no matter what the form -- novel, poetry, essays, history -- a successful piece of writing must tell you something new. As an avid reader of history and presidential biography, I subconsciously [... more]
CDN$22.50
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5 (W/1+ Prev Unrel Tracks)
Best of Early Baez: This is Baez at her best, and the folk revival at it's best. The variety of songs and the performances are the first peak of a long career. It is woth it alone for the Villa Lobos interpretation. A lament for the last of the old [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Uncle Fred An Omnibus
My All-Time Favorite Book: This is my very favorite book, and I have been reading it about once a year for the past 15 years or so. I still laugh out loud at every reading. The very complex plot deals with Pongo Twistleton and his Uncle Fred, who visit [... more]
CDN$22.03
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Fears Unnamed
Small Package Greatness: Fears unnamed collects four novellas by Tim Lebbon, an author who no longer needs an introduction for anyone who has followed the small press industry. These four novellas - one new and three previously published - demonstrate [... more]
CDN$8.99
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Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour
"Don't be scared, it's just the wind.": Eve Bunting carefully chooses her words, emphasizing the soundsa child hears at night after the power goes out. Young Jacob awakensto the "Woooo" of the wind outside his window, only todiscover [... more]
CDN$8.95
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Deadeye Dick
One of my favourite books ever!: The first Vonnegut book I ever read, and the strangest I feel. The kid shoots some guy from a tower and his whole life falls apart due to that one event. He writes an atrociously parochial play that gets laughed at in the [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Free Fall
Picture Book Review: Free Fall By: David Wiesner David Wiesner sends the reader on a magical journey through a young boy's dream to a far off land in his creative picture book titled, Free Fall. He does this by using only detailed pictures. Free Fall is [... more]
CDN$18.89
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