By Night in Chile
 A wondrous reverie - rich and strange......... Roberto Bolano, alas, died this year. BY NIGHT IN CHILE is his only work translated into English (very sensuously and beautifully by Chris Andrews) despite the fact that he wrote nine novels, short stories ... [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
Birds along the path to heaven. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver, demonstrates that in a world of "leaves and feathers, and comfort, and instruction" (p. 3), paying attention "is our endless and proper work" (p. 27). With a ... [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Playmaker
The Playmaker, by first-time novelist J.B. Cheaney, is a lively historical fiction of Shakespearean proportions. The year is 1597. Young Richard Malory has come to the rough streets of London to seek his missing father, who abandoned the family long ago. ... [... more]
CDN$9.99
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English Journey: Or, the Road to Milton Keynes
In 1983 Beryl Bainbridge and crew embarked on a BBC-sponsored tour from Southampton up through Manchester, then on to Milton Keynes, mirroring the route taken by J.B. Priestley in his 1933 classic, English Journey. Bainbridge pegs the British people just ... [... more]
CDN$14.95
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The Backyard Bird Feeder's Bible: The A-to-Z Guide to ...
Worth every penny. Back in the glory days of The Tonight Show, Johnny would read from a list or a book and then Ed would say, "Everything you could ever want to know about....... is in that book." Of course Ed would always get shot down for ... [... more]
CDN$24.95
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Gate of Angels
Penelope Fitzgerald wanted to call her 1990 novel Mistakes Made by Scientists. On the other hand, she laughingly likened it to a Harlequin doctor-nurse romance. The truth about The Gate of Angels is somewhere in between. The doctor, Fred Fairly, is ... [... more]
CDN$15.50
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Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays
Birds along the path to heaven. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver, demonstrates that in a world of "leaves and feathers, and comfort, and instruction" (p. 3), paying attention "is our endless and proper work" (p. 27). With a ... [... more]
CDN$29.95
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By Night In Chile
A wondrous reverie - rich and strange......... Roberto Bolano, alas, died this year. BY NIGHT IN CHILE is his only work translated into English (very sensuously and beautifully by Chris Andrews) despite the fact that he wrote nine novels, short stories ... [... more]
CDN$14.00
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Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the ...
What's the use? My criticism can be boiled down to a single line, this one. I read this kind of books hoping to find useful ideas for my business. Here I can't find any. Maybe I should look for the purely intellectual interest, I don't know. My best ... [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Stone Raft
Misleading A gold sticker on this book's cover reads "WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE." Don't be mislead. The sticker must refer to the author not the book. While he no doubt received the prize, after wading through the work I can't ... [... more]
CDN$16.00
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The Fruit of Stone
Mark Spragg, author of the widely praised memoir Where Rivers Change Direction, sets off his first novel, The Fruit of Stone, with a cacophony of twittering birds. Starlings, sparrows, and magpies punctuate Barnum McEban's glorious morning-after with his ... [... more]
CDN$13.87
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Cladistic Biogeography
The Peculiar Science of Cladistic Biogeography Scattered throughout the western United States, I have a handful of cousins: one in Oregon, two in Wyoming, and two in Arizona (along with an aunt and uncle in the latter state). Including myself as a ... [... more]
CDN$119.95
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