| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “Canada”
books tagged “Canada”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812by John Robert EltingISBN 0306806533 (0-306-80653-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812'More editions of Amateurs, to Arms!: A Military History of the War of 1812:
-
Arctic Dreamsby Barry Holstun LopezISBN 0375727485 (0-375-72748-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
More editions of Arctic Dreams:
The Art of Emily Carrby Doris ShadboltISBN 0295966955 (0-295-96695-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Emily Carr'More editions of The Art of Emily Carr:
Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Makingby James K. Hiller, Margaret R. ConradISBN 0195410440 (0-19-541044-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making'More editions of Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making:
Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfastby Bill RichardsonISBN 0312171838 (0-312-17183-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfast'More editions of Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfast:
The Blacks in Canada: A Historyby Robin W. WinksISBN 0300013612 (0-300-01361-2)
Hardcover, McGill-Queen's University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Blacks in Canada: A History'More editions of The Blacks in Canada: A History:
-
Bloodletting and Miraculous Curesby Vincent LamISBN 0385661444 (0-385-66144-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures'Book summary:Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize, Lam has assembled a collection of short stories that follows four characters from their student days, through medical school and into their careers as doctors. Ming is a perfectionist with a dark past and overbearing traditional parents. When she starts dating Fitz, she must keep it a secret from her family. Meanwhile, Chen and Sri, their closest colleagues, join them in cutting up cadavers as they learn the fragile mysteries of the human body. Lams prose reads as smoothly as a scalpel slicing flesh (despite a plethora of technical jargon) as he reveals the realities of operating and emergency rooms, air ambulance flights and maternity wards. Lam is capable of fine descriptions (the "melon color" of afternoon light) as well as striking awkwardness ("Entering the exam hall&from the whipping chaos of the snowstorm was to be faced with a void.") The power of these stories is his ability to allow the reader to empathize with both victim and healer. Although a few of the stories feel like scenes from ER, several work extremely well. A harrowing story about the SARS epidemic ("Contact Tracing"), set in a Toronto hospital, gives the reader an intimate, inside view, while a story that explores the mind of a psychotic ("Winston") can leave the reader feeling unnerved and groundless. --Mark Frutkin [via]
More editions of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures:
-
Bodily Harmby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0385491077 (0-385-49107-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodily Harm'Book summary:A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm is ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both sexual and political, and the need for compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
Margaret Atwood is the author of over twenty-five books, including fiction, poetry, and essays. Among her most recent works are the bestselling novels Alias Grace and The Robber Bride and the collections Wilderness Tips and Good Bones and Simple Murders. She lives in Toronto. [via]More editions of Bodily Harm:
The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallelby James LaxerISBN 0385659814 (0-385-65981-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel'More editions of The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the 49th Parallel:
The Broken Bladeby William DurbinISBN 0385322240 (0-385-32224-0)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Broken Blade'More editions of The Broken Blade:
Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Timesby Olive Patricia DickasonISBN 019541652X (0-19-541652-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times'More editions of Canada's First Nations: A History of Founding Peoples from Earliest Times:
Canadian Cities in Transitionby Trudi Bunting, Pierre FilionISBN 0195422198 (0-19-542219-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canadian Cities in Transition: Local Through Global Perspectives'
Canadian Cities in Transition: The Twenty-First Centuryby Pierre Filion, Trudi BuntingISBN 0195412885 (0-19-541288-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Canadian Cities in Transition: The Twenty-First Century'More editions of Canadian Cities in Transition: The Twenty-First Century:
Cape Breton Roadby D.R. MacDonaldISBN 015601324X (0-15-601324-X)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cape Breton Road'More editions of Cape Breton Road:
Cereus Blooms at Nightby Shani MootooISBN 0380731991 (0-380-73199-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cereus Blooms at Night'More editions of Cereus Blooms at Night:
Christmas with Anne : And Other Holiday Storiesby L. M. Montgomery, Rea WilmshurstISBN 0385322887 (0-385-32288-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Christmas with Anne : And Other Holiday Stories'More editions of Christmas with Anne : And Other Holiday Stories:
Coming Through Slaughterby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0393087654 (0-393-08765-4)
Hardcover, Norton
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Coming Through Slaughter'More editions of Coming Through Slaughter:
-
A Concise History of Canadian Paintingby Dennis ReidISBN 019540663X (0-19-540663-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Concise History of Canadian Painting'Book summary:First published in 1973, this book quickly became an indispensable short history of Canadian painting. This new edition has been extensively revised and expanded to reflect new information and new interpretations. The first edition studied Canadian painting through 1965, masterfully combining visual description, anecdotes, and aesthetic evaluation with full accounts of the careers of most of the leading Canadian painters, beginning in the French colonial period. The second edition covers events through 1980, with a new long chapter covering the crucial intervening fifteen years that saw developing in Canada a tremendous interest in other art forms, and an apparent waning of interest in painting. Reid contends that this was not so, and traces the contributions of established artists who produced steadily in the period as well as new arrivals on the scene who have since joined the ranks of leading Canadian artists. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 illustrations, 36 of them in color, this edition is simply the most wide-ranging and authoritative handbook on its subject available and will be of interest to anyone involved in art and art history. [via]
More editions of A Concise History of Canadian Painting:
- A Concise History of Canadian Painting: ISBN 0195402065 (0-19-540206-5)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - A Concise History of Canadian Painting: ISBN 0195402073 (0-19-540207-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - A Concise History of Canadian Painting: ISBN 0195406648 (0-19-540664-8)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - A Concise History of Canadian Painting: ISBN 019540663X (0-19-540663-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- A Concise History of Canadian Painting: ISBN 0195402065 (0-19-540206-5)
-
The Custodian of Paradiseby Wayne JohnstonISBN 0393064913 (0-393-06491-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Custodian of Paradise'Book summary:A Book-of-the-Month Club "Best Novel of 2007."
In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. But she soon comes to suspect another presence: that of a man known only as her Provider, who has shadowed her for twenty years. Against the backdrop of Newfoundland's history and landscape, Fielding is a compelling figure. Taller than most men and striking in spite of her crippled leg, she is both eloquent and subversively funny. Her newspaper columns exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of her native city, St. John's, have made many powerful enemies for her, chief among them the man who fathered her childrentwinswhen she was fourteen. Only her Provider, however, knows all of Fielding's secrets. Reading group guide included. [via]More editions of The Custodian of Paradise:
Death on the Iceby Cassie BrownISBN 0385251793 (0-385-25179-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books of Canada Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Death on the Ice'
The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodramaby Pierre BertonISBN 039307529X (0-393-07529-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama'More editions of The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama:
Dustby Arthur G. SladeISBN 0385730047 (0-385-73004-7)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust'
The Electrical Fieldby Kerri SakamotoISBN 0393320480 (0-393-32048-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Electrical Field'
Emily Carr: A Biography.by Maria TippettISBN 0195403142 (0-19-540314-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Carr: A Biography.'More editions of Emily Carr: A Biography.:
The Engagementby Kate BridgesISBN 0373293046 (0-373-29304-6)
Softcover, Harlequin Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Engagement'More editions of The Engagement:
Essential Vancouver and British Columbiaby Carol BakerISBN 0316250155 (0-316-25015-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Vancouver and British Columbia'More editions of Essential Vancouver and British Columbia:
Except the Dyingby Maureen JenningsISBN 0312168292 (0-312-16829-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Except the Dying'More editions of Except the Dying:
-
Far Northby Will HobbsISBN 0380725363 (0-380-72536-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Far North'Book summary:Gabe Rogers is a kid ripped in two. His parents are divorced and he has lived with his mom ever since. But now he wants to meet his dad and get to know him better. The only problem is, he and his mom live in Texas and his dad lives in Canada. Finally plans are made and a bush plane is hired to take Gabe to Canada and his dad. On the bush plane, Gabe becomes quick friends with the pilot, Clint. Meanwhile, Gabe goes to school as usual in Canada. A new life can also mean new friends, as he and his roomate, Raymond Providence , become quick friends. Soon Gabe and Clint begin seeing each other more and soon Clint invites Gabe to do some Canadian sightseeing from a plane! It turns out Clint also had plans to take Raymond home. But the sightseeing comes first. While landing on the Nahanni River, the Virginia Falls takes their plane and Clint's life! Now it's just Raymond and Gabe and their little supply of food, water, and ammunition. Can these to young boys live through a harsh Canadian winter, and if so , how long? [via]
More editions of Far North:
Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canadaby Will KymlickaISBN 0195413148 (0-19-541314-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada'More editions of Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada:
-
A Fine Balance : A Novelby Rohinton MistryISBN 0375414819 (0-375-41481-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fine Balance : A Novel'Book summary:With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state. [via]More editions of A Fine Balance : A Novel:
The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americansby Mason WadeISBN 0313234965 (0-313-23496-5)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans'More editions of The French-Canadian Outlook: A Brief Account of the Unknown North Americans:
A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homelandby John MacK FaragherISBN 0393328279 (0-393-32827-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland'More editions of A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland:
- A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland: ISBN 0393051358 (0-393-05135-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland: ISBN 0393328279 (0-393-32827-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- A Great And Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland: ISBN 0393051358 (0-393-05135-8)
-
The Great Code: The Bible and Literatureby Northrop FryeISBN 0156027801 (0-15-602780-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Code: The Bible and Literature'Book summary:The subject of Northrop Frye's The Great Code is "a huge, sprawling, tactless book inscrutably in the middle of our cultural heritage": the Bible. And though literary critic Frye insists on approaching this monumental book only as a "unified structure of narrative and imagery," he acknowledges that the Bible is somehow "more" than a work of literature. The Great Code tries to track down that sense of "more." The Bible, according to Frye, is at the centre of our mythical universe, establishing "the imaginative framework within which Western Literature has operated down to the eighteenth century and is to a large extent still operating."
Arranged in two parts, the first setting forth critical principles under the headings of "language," "myth," "metaphor" and "typology," and the second focusing primarily on the application of those principles, The Great Code adopts the "double mirror" structure of the Bible's Old and New Testaments. The book grew out of a course Frye taught at the University of Toronto for half a century, and so, he insists, it addresses not the Biblical or even the literary scholar so much as the general reader, including those without much prior knowledge of the Bible or any particular religious faith. With its successor, Words with Power, The Great Code forms perhaps the most ambitious and most personal project of this great literary man's career. Though he was himself ordained in the United Church of Canada in his early 20s, Frye decided to leave the religious for the academic life; what he took with him was a fierce fascination with this sacred text and a deep sense of its literary and cultural importance. It is the one book that, Frye says, "all my critical work has revolved" around. --Russell Prather [via]
More editions of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature:
Group Politics and Public Policyby Paul A ProssISBN 0195405420 (0-19-540542-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Group Politics and Public Policy'More editions of Group Politics and Public Policy:
The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Pokeby Alisa Craig, Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380755386 (0-380-75538-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Poke'More editions of The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch a Poke:
The Grub-And-Stakers Spin a Yarnby Charlotte MacLeodISBN 0380755408 (0-380-75540-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grub-And-Stakers Spin a Yarn'More editions of The Grub-And-Stakers Spin a Yarn:
Guide to Canadian English Usageby Janice McAlpine, Margery FeeISBN 0195408411 (0-19-540841-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Canadian English Usage'More editions of Guide to Canadian English Usage:
Guide to Canadian English Usageby Margery Fee, Janice McAlpineISBN 0195416198 (0-19-541619-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Canadian English Usage'More editions of Guide to Canadian English Usage:
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progressby Jan MorrisISBN 0156027747 (0-15-602774-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress'Book summary:The opening volume of Morriss Pax Britannica Trilogy, this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress:
A History of the Canadian Peoplesby Jack BumstedISBN 0195416880 (0-19-541688-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Canadian Peoples'More editions of A History of the Canadian Peoples:
Hold Fastby Kevin MajorISBN 0385283989 (0-385-28398-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hold Fast'More editions of Hold Fast:
The Holdingby Merilyn SimondsISBN 0393060616 (0-393-06061-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holding'More editions of The Holding:
-
Humansby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0312876912 (0-312-87691-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Humans'Book summary:The background to Humans has Ponter Boddit happy to be back in his own world of Neanderthals. He has reunited with friends and family and returned to his life as a physicist. Yet he can't help but feel that there remains unfinished business from his trip to the parallel world inhabited by the strange, possibly dangerous people who call themselves homo sapiens. And he would like to see Mary Vaughan again.
Humans, the second volume in Robert J Sawyer's Parallax trilogy, tells the story of Ponter's second trip to our world and the opening of the portal between worlds to a few other travellers. It is for the most part a quiet story of the deepening relationship between Ponter and Mary as Ponter continues his investigation of the human world and develops a growing interest in the preoccupation of its residents with religion. Meanwhile, intercut scenes of Ponter in therapy on his homeworld contribute to a growing tension in the story, as the reason for Ponter's feelings of guilt is slowly revealed. At the same time, scientists are beginning to notice that there is something odd happening with the magnetic fields of both Earths.
Although it's the middle volume of a trilogy that began with Hominids, the main story in Humans stands alone. Sawyer's enjoyable prose is sprinkled with sly comments on the mutual foibles of Canadians and Americans and Ponter in particular is given several good lines. Set firmly in our present, Humans relies on hard science for its set-up, but the heart of the novel is Mary and Ponter's acceptance of their love for each other. It's a hard-science-fiction romance and Sawyer tells this story of love across boundaries very well. --Greg L. Johnson, Amazon.ca [via]
More editions of Humans:
Illustrated Guide Gardeningby Carrol C. CalkinsISBN 0394217071 (0-394-21707-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Guide Gardening'More editions of Illustrated Guide Gardening:
-
Incident at Hawk's Hillby Allan W. Eckert, John SchoenherrISBN 0316209481 (0-316-20948-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Incident at Hawk's Hill'Book summary:Six-year-old Ben is very small for his age, and gets along better with animals than people. One June day in 1870, Ben wanders away from his home on Hawk's Hill and disappears into the waving prairie grass. This is the story of how a shy, lonely boy survives for months in the wilds and forges a bond with a female badger. ALA Notable Book. Newbery Honor Book. [via]
-
The Ivory and the Hornby Charles De LintISBN 0312855737 (0-312-85573-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ivory and the Horn'Book summary:A collection of tales focuses on the magical city of Newford and includes ""Our Lady of the Harbour,"" a retelling of ""The Little Mermaid,"" and ""Winter Was Hard,"" which describes androgynous, pixie-like creatures known as gemmin. [via]
More editions of The Ivory and the Horn:
Journeyby James A. MichenerISBN 0394578260 (0-394-57826-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey'More editions of Journey:
Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mine Disasterby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 015602957X (0-15-602957-X)
Softcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster'More editions of Last Man Out : The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster:
A Little History of Canadaby H.V. NellesISBN 0195418379 (0-19-541837-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little History of Canada'More editions of A Little History of Canada:
-
The Mainby TrevanianISBN 0151555494 (0-15-155549-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Main'Book summary:The Main is Montreals teeming underworld, where the dark streets echo with cries in a dozen languages, with the quick footsteps of thieves and the whispers of prostitutes. It is a world where violence and brutality are a way of life. To the people of the Main, police lieutenant Claude LaPointe is judge and jury, father confessor and avenging angel. Montreals police force has changed over time, but LaPointe has not. His commitment to justice is total, as is his devotion to the Main and its underworld community. But when a cold-blooded murderer invades LaPointes territory, he is forced to examine his long-held beliefs and secrets and to confront his own loneliness and mortality. With a cast of unforgettable supporting characters and an unusual and remarkable hero, The Main is another gripping tale of death and danger, of action and mystery, by the incomparable Trevanian.
Look for these other Trevanian classics from Three Rivers Press: The Eiger Sanction, The Loo Sanction, Shibumi, and The Summer of Katya.
[via]More editions of The Main:
Maps and Dreamsby Hugh BrodyISBN 0394748719 (0-394-74871-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Maps and Dreams'More editions of Maps and Dreams:
-
Moonlight and Vinesby Charles De LintISBN 031286518X (0-312-86518-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Moonlight and Vines'Book summary:Imagine a city--cold, hard, concrete jungle on the surface, but, down that dark alley or disused cemetery, magic has begun to unravel the gray fabric of realism. Charles de Lint succumbs to his fascination with the outsider in all of us, and writes of lonesome goth kids, newbie lesbians, strippers, Gypsies, angels of death and mercy, and even vampires and ghosts in a style that is remarkably refreshing after so much sword-and-bodice formula fantasy. Moonlight and Vines is a medley of fairy tales for the alternative crowd, with most of his city grrrls and boys sporting combat boots and wounded souls. De Lint crafts his stories with soft edges but indelible images:
I can feel a foreign vibe in my apartment, a quivering in the air from Teresa having been there.... My furniture, the posters and prints on my walls, my knickknacks, all seemed subtly changed, a little stiff from the awareness of her looking at them. It takes a while for the room to settle down into its familiar habits. The fridge muttering to itself in the kitchen. The pictures in their frames letting out their stomachs and hanging slightly askew once more.
Hardcore horror/fantasy enthusiasts might find the author's habit of imbuing each protagonist with a sense of wonder and self-discovery slightly saccharine and hackneyed after the umpteenth happy ending, but longtime de Lint fans will be delighted. --Jhana Bach [via]More editions of Moonlight and Vines:
-
The Navigator of New York : A Novelby Wayne JohnstonISBN 0385507674 (0-385-50767-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Navigator of New York : A Novel'Book summary:Wayne Johnstons breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadnt found such an exciting author since he discovered Don DeLillo. Johnston, who has been writing fiction for two decades, launched his next and sixth novel across the English-speaking world to great anticipation.
The Navigator of New York is set against the background of the tumultuous rivalry between Lieutenant Peary and Dr. Cook to get to the North Pole at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also the story of a young mans quest for his origins, from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to the bustling streets of New York, and the remotest regions of the Arctic.
Devlin Steads father, an Arctic explorer, stops returning home at the end of his voyages and announces he is moving to New York, as New York is to explorers what Paris is to artists ; eventually he is declared missing from an expedition. His mother meets an untimely death by drowning shortly after. Young Devlin, who barely remembers either of them, lives contently in the care of his affectionate aunt and indifferent uncle, until taunts from a bullying fellow schoolboy reveal dark truths underlying the bare facts he knows about his family. A rhyme circulated around St. Johns further isolates Devlin, always seen as an odd child who had inherited his parents madness and would likely meet a similar fate.
Devlin, who has always learned about his father through newspaper reports, now finds other peoples accounts of his parents are continually altering his view of his parents. Then strange secret letters start to arrive, exciting his imagination with the unanticipated notion that his life might contain the possibility of adventure. Nothing is what it once seemed. Suddenly a chance to take his own place in the world is offered, giving him courage and a newfound zest for discovery. It was life as I would live it unless I went exploring that I dreaded.
Caught up in the mystery of who his parents really were, and anxious to leave behind the image of the Stead boy, at the age of twenty Devlin sails, carrying only a doctors bag, to a New York that is bursting with frenzied energy and about to become the capital city of the globe; where every day inventors file for new patents and three thousand new strangers enter the city, a city that already looks ancient although taller buildings are constructed constantly. There he will become protégé to Dr. Cook, who is restlessly preparing for his next expedition, be introduced into the society that makes such ventures possible, and eventually accompany Cook on his epic race to reach the Pole before the arch-rival Peary. This trip will plunge Devlin into worldwide controversy -- and decide his fate.
Wayne Johnston has harnessed the scope, energy and inventiveness of the nineteenth century novel and encapsulated it in the haunting and eloquent voice of his hero. His descriptions of place, whether of the frozen Arctic wastes or the superabundant and teeming New York, have extraordinary physicality and conviction, recreating a time when the wide world seemed to be there for the taking. An extraordinary achievement that seamlessly weaves fact and fabrication, it continues the masterful reinvention of the historical novel Wayne Johnston began with The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. [via]More editions of The Navigator of New York : A Novel:
New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in Englishby Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Robert WeaverISBN 0195412206 (0-19-541220-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English'More editions of New Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English:
The Other Side of the Bridgeby Mary LawsonISBN 0385340370 (0-385-34037-0)
Hardcover, Dial Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Side of the Bridge'More editions of The Other Side of the Bridge:
The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North Americaby Jancis Robinson, Bruce CassISBN 019860114X (0-19-860114-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America'More editions of The Oxford Companion to the Wines of North America:
-
The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914: Memories of Settlers Who Opened the Westby Barry BroadfootISBN 0385099835 (0-385-09983-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914: Memories of Settlers Who Opened the West'More editions of The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914: Memories of Settlers Who Opened the West:
Prized Possessionsby L.R. WrightISBN 0385254164 (0-385-25416-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Prized Possessions'More editions of Prized Possessions:
-
Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914by Pierre BertonISBN 0385659296 (0-385-65929-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914'More editions of Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914:
Raymond And Hannahby Stephen MarcheISBN 0156032570 (0-15-603257-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Raymond And Hannah'
The Romanticby Barbara GowdyISBN 0312423241 (0-312-42324-1)
Softcover, Picador USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romantic'More editions of The Romantic:
-
Rush Home Roadby Lori LansensISBN 0316069027 (0-316-06902-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rush Home Road'Book summary:Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. She reminisces about her family, her first love, and the painful experience that drove her away from home. Brilliantly structured-and achingly lyrical, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever. [via]
More editions of Rush Home Road:
Selected Poems: 1965-1975by Margaret Eleanor AtwoodISBN 0195402510 (0-19-540251-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems: 1965-1975'More editions of Selected Poems: 1965-1975:
Shakedown : How the New Economy Is Changing Our Livesby Angus ReidISBN 0385256108 (0-385-25610-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakedown : How the New Economy Is Changing Our Lives'More editions of Shakedown : How the New Economy Is Changing Our Lives:
Six War Years 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroadby Barry BroadfootISBN 0385058144 (0-385-05814-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Six War Years 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad'More editions of Six War Years 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad:
Snow Walkerby Farley MowatISBN 0316586935 (0-316-58693-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Walker'More editions of Snow Walker:
Spirit Wrestlerby James A. HoustonISBN 015184755X (0-15-184755-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Spirit Wrestler'More editions of Spirit Wrestler:
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literatureby Margaret AtwoodISBN 0198119763 (0-19-811976-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature'More editions of Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature:
Streeters: Rants & Raves from This Hour Has 22 Minutesby Rick MercerISBN 0385257171 (0-385-25717-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Streeters: Rants & Raves from This Hour Has 22 Minutes'More editions of Streeters: Rants & Raves from This Hour Has 22 Minutes:
Sweet Agonyby Nancy HustonISBN 0375713662 (0-375-71366-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Agony'More editions of Sweet Agony:
Ten Lost Years:1929-1939;: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depressionby Barry BroadfootISBN 0385044097 (0-385-04409-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Lost Years:1929-1939;: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression'More editions of Ten Lost Years:1929-1939;: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression:
-
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Timeby Clark BlaiseISBN 0375727523 (0-375-72752-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time'Book summary:In the 1880s, a businessman traveling by train from New York to Boston needed, on arrival, to adjust his clock, moving it ahead by 12 minutes. The strange increment, writes Clark Blaise, was a matter of local interpretation, some enterprising Bostonian having determined that the rising sun touched the shore of Massachusetts a dozen minutes before warming Manhattan.
Such local interpretations of time made the job of establishing railroad schedules a matter of guesswork and hope, as the Canadian entrepreneur Sandford Fleming discovered when he missed a train in the west of Ireland in 1876. Frustrated, Fleming realized that a new system of universal time would need to be created if railroad travel were ever to realize its full potential. As Blaise writes, "the adoption of standard time for the world was as necessary for commercial advancement as the invention of the elevator was for modern urban development," and nations such as England that had a system of standard time in place owed much of their economic superiority to the predictability and reliability such a system put in place.
Fleming discovered that getting the world onto the same schedule required years of negotiating and browbeating, a nightmare that Blaise ably recounts. Fleming's efforts eventually paid off, and as Blaise writes, "Of all the inventions of the Industrial Age, standard time has endured, virtually unchanged, the longest." His entertaining account of how that came to be will be of appeal to readers who enjoyed Dava Sobel's Longitude, Henry Petroski's The Pencil, and other popular works in the history of technology. --Gregory McNamee [via]
More editions of Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time:
- Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: ISBN 029784136X (0-297-84136-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Time Lord : Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: ISBN 0375401768 (0-375-40176-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: ISBN 0375727523 (0-375-72752-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time: ISBN 029784136X (0-297-84136-X)
The Town That Forgot How to Breatheby Kenneth J. HarveyISBN 0312424809 (0-312-42480-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Town That Forgot How to Breathe'More editions of The Town That Forgot How to Breathe:
Under the Dragon's Tail: A Detective Murdoch Mysteryby Maureen JenningsISBN 0312193483 (0-312-19348-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Dragon's Tail: A Detective Murdoch Mystery'More editions of Under the Dragon's Tail: A Detective Murdoch Mystery:
Whiteoaks of Jalnaby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180149 (0-316-18014-9)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Whiteoaks of Jalna'More editions of Whiteoaks of Jalna:
The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing, 1900-1970by Carl BergerISBN 0195402529 (0-19-540252-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing, 1900-1970'More editions of The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing, 1900-1970:
-
Yarrowby Charles De LintISBN 0312863934 (0-312-86393-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Yarrow'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of Moonheart and Memory and Dream[via]
Cat Midhir had made a reputation as the author of popular fantasy novels. But the secret that her fans didn't know was that her Otherworld was no fantasy. Then, one night, a thief stole her dreams. Since then, she's been trapped in the everyday. And the Others are coming to find her...
YarrowMore editions of Yarrow:
Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War IIby Barry BroadfootISBN 038512550X (0-385-12550-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II'More editions of Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}