Peggy Parish
Each summer Lisa, Bill, and Jed visit their grandparents, and they hear the story of the sketches hung above the mantel. The sketches are clues to a hidden treasure, and no one has been able to figure them out for a century. There is a missing ... [... more]
Random House |
Birds
 Amazon.ca: More personal reminiscence ("my life with birds") than scientific study à la Audubon or Roger Tory Peterson, Birds features the favourite artistic subject of internationally-renowned wildlife artist and naturalist Robert [... more]
CDN$20.02
Amazon CA |
Secret Pilgrim
The Right People Lost The Cold War, The Wrong People Won It: Ned, the narrator, is nearing retirement from the British Intelligence, or "The Circus" as it is known. The book opens on the occasion of the traditional informal dinner that [... more]
CDN$16.02
Amazon CA |
Blood And Ivory: A Tapestry
Usual Superb writing, just not about Jaime and her brother: I was oh-so-excited when the book finally became available and I was able to purchase it. When I received the book I discovered that maybe half of the short stories contained within involved [... more]
CDN$40.08
Amazon CA |
Bob & Ray:A Night Of Two Stars Recorded Live At Carnegie ...
Bob and Ray's swan song: If you do not already know who Bob and Ray were, I would be hard-put to sum them up briefly. They were a brilliant comedy team who came of age in the golden age of radio and whose sketches endlessly satirized radio braodcasting [... more]
CDN$46.09
Amazon CA |
Roy Lichtenstein: Interiors
Blends social commentary with caricatures: Roy Lichtenstein has a distinctive pop art style which blends social commentary with caricatures: Interiors profiles many of his drawings of structures and space, with occasional people included in the sketches. [... more]
CDN$45.00
Amazon CA |
French Provincial Cooking
La Bonne Vrai Cuisine de France: This book is unequaled, engrossing, superlative. It remains, despite the four decades since its publication, the finest book on authentic French cooking in the English language. To that extent, it is uncompromising - a [... more]
CDN$36.41
Amazon CA |
La Caverna
Not Saramago's Best: I had the honor of meeting José Saramago at a book-signing in Lisbon's Chiado district shortly after he won the Nobel Prize in 1998. At the time, I wondered if receiving the prize would cause my favorite novelist to sit back [... more]
CDN$31.30
Amazon CA |
La Caverna (the Cave)
Not Saramago's Best: I had the honor of meeting José Saramago at a book-signing in Lisbon's Chiado district shortly after he won the Nobel Prize in 1998. At the time, I wondered if receiving the prize would cause my favorite novelist to sit back [... more]
CDN$25.03
Amazon CA |
Bvlgari
This is a First Rate Book: By far the best book on the art and science of jewelry design and marketing I have ever read. The photographs are beautifully presented, and the text is excellent. Produced with cooperation of the Bulgari family, it tells the [... more]
CDN$95.00
Amazon CA |
Sym 10/Other Unfinished Syms
From Amazon.com: Schubert almost composed three symphonies (aside from the official "Unfinished" symphony) that exist in varying stages of completion. Many musicologists have had a hand in arranging them for performances, and this fine disc [... more]
CDN$21.99
Amazon CA |
Chi Kung
one of the best qi gong books I've ever read: This book includes two basic forms of qi gong: standing-still qigong and moving qigong. Excellent explanation about the very detailed points of a standing-still qigong "embracing the tree." Also [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
