Siobhan Adcock
You're old enough to own property and have a family, but can you safely open a bottle of champagne? Or change a flat tire? 30 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do Before Turning... The dive bars, the vintage duds? Competence. Now in convenient ... [... more]
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The Sea Wolf
 So he wasn't Lucifer afterall....: This is not a book that one easily forgets. True, you can read it as a simple adventure story of life on a turn-of-the-century seal-hunting schooner, but it is far more than this. It is essentially the story of Wolf [... more]
CDN$5.99
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The Girlfriend
suspense at its finest: Scotty Singleton is living the dream life. The highschool senior stud has a more than steady girlfriend, a nice car, the no. 1 spot on the football team and an acceptance to Princeton University. He absolutely loves hsi grilfriend [... more]
CDN$8.99
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The Museum Guard
From Amazon.com: On September 5, 1938, DeFoe Russet helps hang a new show at a tiny Nova Scotia museum. He doesn't even pay much attention to the eight new paintings from Holland; he'll have time enough to take them in later on. After all, the buttoned- [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Puffin Classics Sea Wolf
So he wasn't Lucifer afterall....: This is not a book that one easily forgets. True, you can read it as a simple adventure story of life on a turn-of-the-century seal-hunting schooner, but it is far more than this. It is essentially the story of Wolf [... more]
CDN$6.24
Amazon CA |
Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
Amazon.ca: Beyond Remembering spans the best years of Al Purdy's long and prolific career, from 1959's The Crafte So Long to Lerne onwards. It is a bulky and rambling volume that seems to address every subject a Canadian poet could care to address: [... more]
CDN$44.95
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Doce Cuentos Peregrinos
Easy to read, difficult to forget: In twelve short stories, Garcia Marquez proves that he is not only capable of writing deeply, he is capable of writing concisely. The stories in this book are extremely thought provoking, relating to the human spirit [... more]
CDN$18.02
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The Mercy: Poems
From Amazon.com: Over the last four decades, Philip Levine has earned a reputation as America's consummate blue-collar bard--a kind of postindustrial Walt Whitman, albeit one with a taste for surrealism and bebop. To a degree, of course, this is an [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Burridge Unbound
Amazon.ca: Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Night Driving
From Amazon.com: The luminous pencil drawings of Peter McCarty that illustrate Night Driving capture the simple, memorable story of a young boy's nighttime car ride with Dad. Cruising rural highways, watching the stars, and listening to a ball game on [... more]
CDN$23.95
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I Wanna Get Funky
Albert King's Last Intentional Album For Stax: This album appeared one year after "Ill Play The Blues For You". It became his last LP for the Stax label. His next, now released as "The Blues Don't Change", became a compilation of [... more]
CDN$12.99
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Where's Dad Now That I Need Him?: Surviving Away from Home
good book, but...: FYI - 145 pages of this book are dedicated to recipes. And in a book that's only 311 pages, 145 pages is nearly half the content. If you can't cook, the recipes are practical, easy to make, tasty dishes. If you can cook (that's me), [... more]
CDN$25.99
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