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433 Squadron Historyby CanadaISBN 0920497047 (0-920497-04-7)
Hardcover, Hangar Books
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After Many Daysby L.M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0771061692 (0-7710-6169-2)
Hardcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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After Many Days: Tales of Time Passedby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 055329184X (0-553-29184-X)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Many Days : Tales of Time Passed'Book summary:L.M. Montgomery is beloved by millions of readers around the wrold as the creator of the irresistible Anne Of Green Gables books.Now, in this collection of eighteen rediscovered short stories, L.M. Montgomery explores the theme of postponement and the poignancy of "time passed." Many characters in these fine stories at last have a chance "after many days," to reconcile with an estranged relative, repay a kindness, or even wreak long-plotted revenge. Others discover how true love can survive great distances and long separation.
Devoted fans as well as new readers are sure to find thst these sympathetic and humorous tales come vividly to life. [via]More editions of After Many Days: Tales of Time Passed:
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Among the Shadowsby L. M. MontgomeryISBN 0553289594 (0-553-28959-4)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Among the Shadows'Book summary:These nineteen fascinating stories are unlike any others L.M. Montgomery ever wrote. Filled with strange and supernatural occurrences, they are peopled with drunkards, embezzlers, and thieves: A woman confesses to murder after she has passed away. . . . A righteous deacon gets a taste of his own bitter medicine. . . . An amateur photographer records a dark deed. . . . The ghost of a woman's sweetheart comes to bid her good-bye. . . . Somber, dark, and brooding, these intriguing stories suggest that love really can last beyond death and that poetic justice does exist. Each of these wonderful tales is full of the strength of Montgomery's own inner resources. [via]
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And No Birds Sangby Farley MowatISBN 0770422373 (0-7704-2237-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And No Birds Sang'Book summary:War is hell, the adage goes. "So awful," Farley Mowat adds in this memoir of World War II frontline service, "that through three decades I kept the deeper agonies of it wrapped in the cotton-wool of protective forgetfulness, and would have been well content to leave them buried so forever." Turned away from the Royal Canadian Air Force for his apparent youth and frailness (though, he writes, he had been living off the Saskatchewan countryside and was in fine shape), Mowat joined the infantry in 1940. The baby-faced second lieutenant quickly earned the trust of the soldiers under his command, especially when, as he gleefully recounts, he bent army rules to suit such exigencies of the field as securing a stout drink and finding warm, if non-regulation, clothing. Somewhat happy-go-lucky at the outset, Mowat and his colleagues soon adopted a darker view of the war after engaging elite German forces in the mountains of Sicily.
Ever the naturalist, Mowat recalls that he learned to identify German weapons by their sounds, "a discovery which excited me almost as much as if I had stumbled on a batch of new bird species." But the war was no game, and Mowat's memoir grows ever more sombre as friends and compatriots fall, one by one, to enemy fire and illness. His book, a graceful work of personal history, does his fellow warriors honour even as it protests the madness and destruction of war. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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- And No Birds Sang: ISBN 0811731456 (0-8117-3145-6)
Softcover, Stackpole Books - And No Birds Sang: ISBN 0316586951 (0-316-58695-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co - And No Birds Sang: ISBN 0891908218 (0-89190-821-8)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - And No Birds Sang: ISBN 0770422373 (0-7704-2237-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
- And No Birds Sang: ISBN 0811731456 (0-8117-3145-6)
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Awayby Jane UrquhartISBN 0140249265 (0-14-024926-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Away'Book summary:An evocative chronicle of the lives, loves, and passions of four generations of women begins near Lake Ontario as Esther O'Malley Robertson reminisces about her family's past, from its origin in Ireland where her great-grandmother had a demon lover. 15,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Bonheur d Occasionby Gabrielle RoyISBN 0885660838 (0-88566-083-8)
Softcover, Adp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bonheur d Occasion'Book summary:Sur fond de guerre, Rose-Anna et Florentine, la mère et la fille, tentent de survivre dans un quartier pauvre de Montréal. On ne compte plus les rééditions de Bonheur doccasion, le grand roman réaliste de Gabrielle Roy, fresque sociale traduite en une quinzaine de langues qui a fait entrer la métropole québécoise dans la littérature mondiale. [via]
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A Brief History of Canadaby Roger E. RiendeauISBN 1550415557 (1-55041-555-7)
Softcover, Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd
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Caesars of the Wildernessby Peter Charles NewmanISBN 0670819360 (0-670-81936-0)
Hardcover, Viking
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Caesars of the Wilderness: Company of Adventurersby Peter C. NewmanISBN 0140114564 (0-14-011456-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caesars of the Wilderness: Company of Adventurers'Book summary:Newman chronicles the Hudson's Bay Company's rapid expansion from 1770 to 1870 across most of Canada and the Northwestern United States, as it became the world's largest commercial empire. [via]
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Canadian Democracy: An Introductionby Stephen BrooksISBN 0195412052 (0-19-541205-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Company of Adventurersby Peter C. NewmanISBN 0140067205 (0-14-006720-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Padby Minister FaustISBN 0345466357 (0-345-46635-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Deadly Decisionsby Kathleen J. ReichsISBN 0671028367 (0-671-02836-7)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadly Decisions'Book summary:Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist with one of the longest commutes in fiction--from North Carolina to Montreal. She works in both places, and in this third outing (after Déjà Dead and Death du Jour) she manages to make a riveting (if a bit too coincidental) connection between a skull in Montreal and the partial skeleton of a teenager--dead since 1984--in North Carolina. Linking them is a 9-year-old girl shot on a Montreal street, the victim of a war among members of an outlaw motorcycle gang in eastern Canada. Another piece of the puzzle is provided by Tempe's visiting nephew, who is fascinated by the biker culture and is drawn into the mystery Tempe's trying to solve:
"Know anything about Slick?" asked Kit.
The science is as accurate as the author can make it. Kathy Reichs's own background--as forensic anthropologist for the chief medical officer of North Carolina and director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec--ensures verisimilitude of place and procedure and creates a believable milieu. Fans of Patricia Cornwall will enjoy this solidly written suspense thriller, while those of a less scientific bent, who don't mind a somewhat lagging pace, will skip the details and concentrate on Reichs's fluid writing. All readers will enjoy the way Tempe puts the pieces of the puzzle, as well as the bodies, together. --Jane Adams [via]"He doesn't look like the pick of the litter."
"Yeah, even from that motley litter." He flipped the picture. "Heck, this guy croaked when I was 3 years old."
There were two more photos of Slick's funeral, both taken from a distance, one at the cemetery, the other on the church steps. Many of the mourners wore caps riding their eyebrows, and bandannas stretched to cover their mouths.
"The one you've got must be from a private collection." I handed Kit the other pictures. "I think these two are police surveillance photos. Seems the bereaved weren't anxious to show their faces."
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Deadly Decisions: A Novelby Kathy ReichsISBN 0684859718 (0-684-85971-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deadly Decisions: A Novel'Book summary:Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist with one of the longest commutes in fiction--from North Carolina to Montreal. She works in both places, and in this third outing (after Déjà Dead and Death du Jour) she manages to make a riveting (if a bit too coincidental) connection between a skull in Montreal and the partial skeleton of a teenager--dead since 1984--in North Carolina. Linking them is a 9-year-old girl shot on a Montreal street, the victim of a war among members of an outlaw motorcycle gang in eastern Canada. Another piece of the puzzle is provided by Tempe's visiting nephew, who is fascinated by the biker culture and is drawn into the mystery Tempe's trying to solve:
"Know anything about Slick?" asked Kit.
The science is as accurate as the author can make it. Kathy Reichs's own background--as forensic anthropologist for the chief medical officer of North Carolina and director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec--ensures verisimilitude of place and procedure and creates a believable milieu. Fans of Patricia Cornwall will enjoy this solidly written suspense thriller, while those of a less scientific bent, who don't mind a somewhat lagging pace, will skip the details and concentrate on Reichs's fluid writing. All readers will enjoy the way Tempe puts the pieces of the puzzle, as well as the bodies, together. --Jane Adams [via]"He doesn't look like the pick of the litter."
"Yeah, even from that motley litter." He flipped the picture. "Heck, this guy croaked when I was 3 years old."
There were two more photos of Slick's funeral, both taken from a distance, one at the cemetery, the other on the church steps. Many of the mourners wore caps riding their eyebrows, and bandannas stretched to cover their mouths.
"The one you've got must be from a private collection." I handed Kit the other pictures. "I think these two are police surveillance photos. Seems the bereaved weren't anxious to show their faces."
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Eleanor Rigbyby Douglas CouplandISBN 0679313370 (0-679-31337-0)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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Fathers and Crowsby William T. VollmannISBN 014016717X (0-14-016717-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fathers and Crows'Book summary:The second volume of a saga that chronicles the relations between native Americans and their colonizers begins four hundred years ago in the Great Lakes region, where Jesuit priests martyr themselves to save the disease-ridden villages of the Huron. [via]
The Favorite Game: A Novelby CohenISBN 1400033624 (1-4000-3362-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Favorite Game: A Novel'Book summary:Leonard Cohen's fame as a songwriter and poet has long eclipsed his reputation as a novelist. He abandoned fiction after only two novels--1963's The Favourite Game and 1966's Beautiful Losers--but these were enough to reveal Cohen as a deft and vivid storyteller, equally comfortable with poetry and prose. Their frank sexuality and unapologetic social satire made them controversial (and wildly popular) on their first publication, but they are easily as substantial as any of Cohen's collections of verse.
Like so many first novels, The Favourite Game is semi-autobiographical, a coming-of-age novel that tells the story of Lawrence Breavman, a Montreal Jewish boy who matures into a promising poet. In order to create his art, Breavman feels compelled to live destructively, divesting himself of his lovers, friends, and family, keeping them only in his memory and his writing. Cohen moves carefully between cruelty and sentimentality, and none of his characters--including Breavman himself--escape his satiric venom.
Though unmistakably a poet's novel, The Favourite Game does not include the experimentation or unrestrained lyricism of Beautiful Losers. Instead, in a remarkably compressed story, Cohen is able to render powerful narrative episodes in the space of a couple of pages or skewer a character in a single sentence. This lends Cohen's narrative voice a slightly disengaged feel, letting the novel maintain a tense atmosphere of ironic intimacy--the passions it presents are tangible, but they are forever unreachable, held tightly in Breavman's memory and Cohen's art. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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Fugitive Piecesby Anne MichaelsISBN 0679776591 (0-679-77659-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fugitive Pieces'Book summary:Anne Michaels, an accomplished poet, has already published two collections of poetry in her native Canada. She turns her hand to fiction in an impressive debut novel, Fugitive Pieces. This is the story of Jakob Beer, a Polish Jew, translator, and poet who, as a child, witnessed his family's slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. Beer himself was found and smuggled out of Poland by Athos Roussos, a Greek archaeologist who carried him back to Greece and kept him there in precarious safety. After the war they emigrated together to Canada. Jakob's story is told through diaries discovered by Ben, a young man whose parents are Holocaust survivors and who is a vessel for their memories just as Jakob is the bearer of his own.
Fugitive Pieces is a book about memory and forgetting. How is it possible to love the living when our hearts are still with the dead? What is the difference between what historical fact tells us and what we remember? More than that, the novel is a meditation on the power of language to free our souls and allow us to find our own destinies. [via]
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- Fugitive Pieces: ISBN 0771058837 (0-7710-5883-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd - Fugitive Pieces: ISBN 067945439X (0-679-45439-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Fugitive Pieces: ISBN 0754010570 (0-7540-1057-0)
Hardcover, Chivers North Amer - Fugitive Pieces: ISBN 0679776591 (0-679-77659-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Fugitive Pieces: ISBN 0771058837 (0-7710-5883-7)
Golden Spruceby John VaillantISBN 067697645X (0-676-97645-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, And Greedby John VaillantISBN 0393328643 (0-393-32864-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Great Depression 1929 1939by Pierre BertonISBN 0385658435 (0-385-65843-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Grey Seas Underby F. MowatISBN 0770423337 (0-7704-2333-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grey Seas Under'Book summary:One of the great storytellers of our century writes passionately of the courage of men and of a small, ocean-going salvage tug, Foundation Franklin. The captain and the crew were mostly Newfounders; the sea was in their blood. Battered by towering waves, dwarfed by the ships she towed, blasted by gale-force winds and frozen by squalls of snow and rain, the stout ship and her brave crew saved hundreds of vessels and thousands of lives as they battled their ancient enemy, the North Atlantic. [via]
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Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Beeby Alisa Craig, Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380703378 (0-380-70337-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee'Book summary:Back cover has a sticker sign and a small top corner crease. Front cover has a bottom corner crease and a light crease on top edge. Some age browning. No marks, clean and tight. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully! [via]
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High Spiritsby Robertson DaviesISBN 0670371548 (0-670-37154-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Spirits'Book summary:Robertson Davies first hit upon the notion of writing ghost stories when he joined the University of Toronto's Massey College as a Master. Wishing to provide entertainment at the College's Gaudy Night, the annual Christmas party, Professor Davies created a "spooky story," which he read aloud to the gathering. That story, "Revelation from a Smoky Fire," is the first in this wonderful, haunting collection. A tradition quickly became established and, for eighteen years, Davies delighted and amused the Gaudy Night guests with his tales of the supernatural. Here, gathered together in one volume, are those eighteen stories, just as Davies first read them. [via]
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High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Storiesby Robertson DaviesISBN 0142002461 (0-14-200246-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories'Book summary:This collection of "spooky" stories was written for and read at the annual gaudy night each year at Massey College, where the author was master for many years. The ghost stories parody, in an affectionate manner, the usual high-flown gothic language in which most ghost stories are told. [via]
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Hominidsby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0765345005 (0-7653-4500-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hominids'Book summary:Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids introduces a new world, a parallel historical universe in which Neanderthals, not Homo sapiens, survived to explore the world and build a civilization. It also tells the story of a man from his own world and the people who try to understand and help him. Ponter Boddit is a Neanderthal physicist working on quantum computing. While running an experiment, he suddenly disappears from his own universe, leaving a puddle of heavy water behind him. Just as suddenly, he appears in our universe, in a container of heavy water at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Trying to understand how a Neanderthal arrived in the laboratory, and how to introduce him to human culture, poses a major problem for Louise Benoit, a physics student, and Mary Vaughan, a geneticist with expertise on Neanderthal DNA.
A parallel story of the Neanderthal world follows Adikor Huld and his attempt to explain why he should not be charged with murder in the disappearance of his partner Ponter. The book nicely contrasts Neanderthal society with our own: Ponter's descriptions of a society where violence is almost unknown and pollution non-existent paint an idyllic picture of his home universe. But Adikor's experiences show a more balanced view: Neanderthals sin, too. The first volume in Sawyer's new Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Hominids is a self-contained story that combines fully drawn characters in both worlds with provocative ideas about physics, history, and evolution. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
The Language of Signsby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0679412468 (0-679-41246-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Maple Leaf Rag: Travels Across Canadaby Stephen BrookISBN 0394758331 (0-394-75833-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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- Maple Leaf Rag: Travels Across Canada: ISBN 0241120705 (0-241-12070-5)
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- Maple Leaf Rag: Travels Across Canada: ISBN 0241120705 (0-241-12070-5)
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Memoirsby Pierre Elliott TrudeauISBN 0771085885 (0-7710-8588-5)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs'Book summary:Charismatic, bicultural, and intellectual, Pierre Trudeau was the towering figure of the Canadian 20th century. For a complete picture of his legacy one can look to his influential early political essays and to the excellent biographies by Richard Gwyn as well as Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson, but the first place to turn is Trudeau's own account, in his 1993 Memoirs. [via]
Memoirsby Pierre TrudeauISBN 0771085877 (0-7710-8587-7)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Mike: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Lester B. Pearsonby Lester B. PearsonISBN 0802019137 (0-8020-1913-7)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Monkey Beachby Eden RobinsonISBN 0618219056 (0-618-21905-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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My Country: The Remarkable Pastby Pierre BertonISBN 0385659288 (0-385-65928-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Northern Lightsby Howard NormanISBN 0312283377 (0-312-28337-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Northern Lights'Book summary:Here is that special first novel that touches the heart, that gets "discovered" by one person and passed on from friend to friend. ". . . an original, entertaining account of a boy's coming of age . . . an impossible novel to dislike."--The Washington Post. [via]
The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadiansby Richard J. Gwyn, Sandra GwynISBN 0771037325 (0-7710-3732-5)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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On the Take: Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Yearsby Stevie CameronISBN 0770427081 (0-7704-2708-1)
Hardcover, Seal Books
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Open Secretsby Alice MunroISBN 0679755624 (0-679-75562-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Open Secrets'Book summary:Open Secrets may be Alice Munro's strangest book. These original, eccentric stories skirt their own secrets, resolving their plots but leaving everything else open. The stories are all connected (often very tenuously) to Carstairs, Ontario, a tiny, fictitious town hidden somewhere north of Georgian Bay, but they also ramble as far afield as rural Albania, wartime France, and Australia.
The title story concerns the disappearance of a young girl from a Canadian Girls in Training camping trip. While the characters speculate whether the incident was a simple drowning, an assignation with a secret lover, or a murder, Munro sits, enigmatically, on the outside of resolution:
Heather Bell will not be found. No body, no trace. She has blown away like ashes. Her displayed photograph will fade in public places. Its tight-lipped smile, bitten in at one corner as if suppressing a disrespectful laugh, will seem to be connected with her disappearance rather than her mockery of the school photographer. There will always be a tiny suggestion, in that, of her free will.
Elsewhere, Munro takes conventional beginnings and turns them into extraordinary, expansive tales. The opening story, "Carried Away," features the Carstairs librarian, who falls in love with a soldier who begins writing to her from the trenches of the First World War, even though they have never formally met. When he comes home, however, he does not introduce himself to her, but marries his old fiancé. Most writers would be content to leave the story there, but for Munro this is merely an introduction. As she does in so many of her stories of mundane but utterly extraordinary women, she takes this piece in surprising and refreshing directions. --Jack Illingworth [via] -
A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0345361792 (0-345-36179-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Hardcover, Bt Bound - A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0679642595 (0-679-64259-5)
Hardcover, Modern Library - A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0792481976 (0-7924-8197-6)
Hardcover, World Pubns - A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0688077080 (0-688-07708-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0688087604 (0-688-08760-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0345361792 (0-345-36179-2)
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- A Prayer for Owen Meany: ISBN 0345417976 (0-345-41797-6)
Renegade In Powerby P. C. NewmanISBN 0771067461 (0-7710-6746-1)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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The Secret Mulroney Tapesby Peter C. NewmanISBN 0679313516 (0-679-31351-6)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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The Serpent's Coilby Farley MowatISBN 0770423132 (0-7704-2313-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
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The Sky Is Fallingby Kit PearsonISBN 0140376526 (0-14-037652-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Straight From The Heartby Jean ChretienISBN 0919493742 (0-919493-74-2)
Hardcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great Warby Sandra GuynISBN 0788151568 (0-7881-5156-8)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hallby Gordon KormanISBN 0590442139 (0-590-44213-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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The Tin Fluteby Gabrielle Roy, Alan BrownISBN 077109860X (0-7710-9860-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Underpainterby Jane UrquhartISBN 0140269738 (0-14-026973-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Warsby Timothy FindleyISBN 0140050116 (0-14-005011-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wars'Book summary:Timothy Findley's slim, dense novel The Wars offers nothing short of an explanation of human violence. However alien or mad Findley's World War I events become, war itself is repeatedly depicted as damnably quotidian. A front-line nurse confesses, "the passions involved were as ordinary as me and my sister fighting over who's going to cook the dinner. And who won't." Bringing Dostoyevsky's moral palette to the trenches of the Great War, The Wars seems compelled to reveal how the same men who save one another's lives will also torture trench rats or stray cats for sport.
Written in surgically precise prose and studded with unforgettable scenes and memorable characters, The Wars is Findley at his best. In Cambridgeshire are "towns with names like Camden Lights and Grantchester--roads that wind past canals and over bridges--whirl you round a hundred village greens, scattering geese and waving at children--whip you past the naked swimmers in the ponds and deposit you at inn yards where the smell of ale and apples makes you drunk before you've passed the gate." Informed, compassionate, and insightful, The Wars is uniquely sensitive to the causes of social division and union. --Darryl Whetter [via]
White and the Goldby Thomas B. CostainISBN 0385045263 (0-385-04526-3)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Wild Frontier: More Tales from the Remarkable Pastby Pierre BertonISBN 0771013604 (0-7710-1360-4)
Hardcover, McClelland and Stewart
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