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And No Birds Sangby Farley MowatISBN 0316586951 (0-316-58695-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Angel of Darknessby Charles De Lint, Samuel M. KeyISBN 0312874006 (0-312-87400-6)
Softcover, Orb Books
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The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitzby Rohinton MistryISBN 037570342X (0-375-70342-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz'Book summary:Set in bombay in the mid-1990s, family matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman vakeel, the patriarch of a small discordant family, is beset by parkinson's and haunted by memories of his past. He lives with his two middle-aged stepchildren, coomy, bitter and domineering, and her brother, jal, mild-mannered and acquiescent. But the burden of the illness worsens the already strained family relationships. Soon, their sweet-tempered half-sister, roxana, is forced to assume sole responsibility for her bedridden father. And roxana's husband, besieged by financial worries, devises a scheme of deception involving his eccentric employer at a sporting goods store, setting in motion a series of events that leads to the narrative's moving outcome. Family matters has all the richness, the gentle humour, and the narrative sweep that have earned mistry the highest of accolades around the world [via]
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Bachelor Brother's Bed & Breakfastby Bill RichardsonISBN 0312171838 (0-312-17183-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Blood at the Rootby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380794764 (0-380-79476-4)
Softcover, Twilight
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The Book of Secretsby M. G. VassanjiISBN 0312150687 (0-312-15068-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Secrets'Book summary:Winner of the first Giller Prize for Canadian fiction in 1994, The Book of Secrets is an outstanding historical novel set in East Africa. The best of M.G. Vassanji's early novels, it transforms the history of South Asians in Kenya and Tanzania from 1913 to 1988 into an elegantly written and totally absorbing narrative that is part love story, part war story, part mystery, part national history, and part journey of self-discovery.
When retired history teacher Pius Fernandes finds the 1913 diary of Alfred Corbin, a British colonial officer, he vows to tell the story of the slim, brittle book and its owners over the years. Pius vividly recreates the colonial world of the inexperienced Corbin and the fragile Indian-African community under his rule. In atmospheric prose rich in local colour, Vassanji imagines a cast of varied and convincing characters, from the tough-talking spy Maynard and the spiritual leader Jamali to the mysterious and tragic beauty Mariamu and the jet-setting movie-star look-alikes Ali and Rita. At the heart of the story are the feisty shopkeeper Pipa and his son Aku (whose true father is the central secret in The Book of Secrets). Pius's research eventually leads him to tell his own story of immigration and longing, and finally to a re-evaluation of who he is. Straddling the colonial and the post-independence eras, The Book of Secrets compassionately explores the ambiguous identities of Indian and British migrants in East Africa. In the process it puts a very human face on a little-known side of Africa's tempestuous past, as well as asking searching questions about the ways in which history is gathered and told and to whom history's stories really belong. --John C. Ball [via]
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Building of Jalnaby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316179965 (0-316-17996-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Child of the Morningby Pauline GedgeISBN 0354042769 (0-354-04276-9)
Hardcover, Raven Books
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Cold Eyeby Giles BluntISBN 0380708760 (0-380-70876-0)
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Cold Is the Graveby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380809354 (0-380-80935-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cold Is the Grave'Book summary:The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl's father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are typical circumstances, for the runaway is the daughter of a man who's determined to destroy the dedicated Yorkshire policeman's career and good name. Still it is a case that strikes painfully home, one that Banksa father himselfdares not ignore as he follows it's squalid trail into teeming London, and into a world of drugs, sex, and crime. But murder follows soon aftergruesome ,sensational, and, more than oncepulling Banks in a direction that he dearly does not wish to go: into the past and private world of his most powerful enemy, Chief Constable Jimmy Riddle.
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The Cutting Edgeby Dave DuncanISBN 034538167X (0-345-38167-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Dead Rightby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380975807 (0-380-97580-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Right'Book summary:There's a deliberate lack of excessive angst and glamour in Peter Robinson's books about Inspector Alan Banks and his fellow Yorkshire coppers, so first-time readers might think them bland. But under the books' placid surfaces, whole worlds of crime and justice are being worked out. In this ninth book in his increasingly popular series, Robinson gives Banks some serious problems of a personal and professional nature: a neglected wife and a ruthlessly ambitious superior. He also drops Banks into a frighteningly realistic neo-Nazi group called the Albion League, whose activities include drug dealing and murder. Other books in the series available in paperback include Innocent Graves, Final Account, Gallow's View, and Hanging Valley. [via]
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The Doctor's Wifeby Brian MooreISBN 0374140960 (0-374-14096-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Elizabeth and Afterby Matt CohenISBN 0312276958 (0-312-27695-8)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debateby Naomi Klein, Debra Ann LevyISBN 0312307993 (0-312-30799-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate'Book summary:Naomi Kleins No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.[via]
Named one of Ms Magazines Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world, in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a birds-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the anti-globalization movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; free trade; or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.More editions of Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate:
FINCH'S FORTUNEby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0333099664 (0-333-09966-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan & co., limited
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The Fire-Dwellersby Margaret LaurenceISBN 0333101049 (0-333-10104-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire-Dwellers'Book summary:Convinced that life has more to offer than the tedious routine of her days, Stacey MacAindra yearns to recover some of the passion of her early romance. In this extraordinary novel, Margaret Laurence has given us yet another unforgettable heroine: smart, witty, but overwhelmed by the responsibilities of raising four children and trying to love her overworked husband. The Fire Dwellers helps us to rediscover all the richness of the commonplace, as well as the pain, beautyand humorof being alive.[via]
"Stacey's state of mind is revealed in a swift-flowing stream of dialogue, reaction, reproach, and nostalgia. . . . [Laurence] is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."AtlanticMore editions of The Fire-Dwellers:
Flint and Feather: The Complete Poems of E. Pauline Johnsonby Emily Pauline JohnsonISBN 0340125098 (0-340-12509-8)
Hardcover, Book Service of Canada
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The Gilded Chainby Dave DuncanISBN 0380791269 (0-380-79126-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Girls: A Novelby Lori LansensISBN 0316066346 (0-316-06634-6)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Girls: A Novel'Book summary:Rarely has the experience of being a sister been so poignantly and memorably captured as in Lori Lansens's triumphant novel. The Girls celebrates life's fundamental joys and trials as it presents Rose and Ruby, sisters destined to live inseparably but blessed with distinct sensibilities that enrich and complicate their shared experiences-of growing up, of finding their way in the world, of saying good-bye.Readers who encounter the girls will find it hard to resist falling under their spell. [via]
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Storiesby Alice MunroISBN 0375727434 (0-375-72743-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories'Book summary:Readers know what they are going to get when they pick up an unfamiliar Alice Munro collection, and yet almost every page carries a bounty of unexpected action, feeling, language, and detail. Her stories are always unique, blazing an invigorating originality out of her seemingly commonplace subjects. Each collection develops her oeuvre in increments, subtly expanding her range.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is, of course, no exception. It is a fairly conservative collection of nine stories, none of which move far beyond Munro's favored settings: the tiny towns and burgeoning cities of southern Ontario and British Columbia. There are glimpses of youth here--in the title story, an epistolary prank by two teenage girls leads to a one-sided cross country elopement and, seemingly, a happy marriage, and in "Nettles," disrupted childhood affection fleetingly returns through a chance meeting--but most of these pieces are stories of aging women and men, confronting the twin travails of death and late love. As is always the case with Munro, their plots are too elegantly elaborate to summarize, and their unsentimental power is a given; baroque praise would be futile. Read these stories--it is the only way to really understand the miracles that Munro so regularly performs. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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The Hero's Walk: A Novelby Anita Rau BadamiISBN 0345450922 (0-345-45092-2)
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High Towersby Thomas B. CostainISBN 0385041942 (0-385-04194-2)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Hominidsby Robert J. SawyerISBN 0312876920 (0-312-87692-0)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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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]
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Hope : Adventures of a Diamondby Marian FowlerISBN 0345444868 (0-345-44486-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Hunters' Hauntby David J. DuncanISBN 0345384598 (0-345-38459-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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I Heard the Owl Call My Nameby Margaret CravenISBN 037010935X (0-370-10935-X)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Heard the Owl Call My Name'Book summary:Mark Brian, a young Anglican priest who has not long to live, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in the wilds of British Columbia. While sharing the hunting and fishing, the festivals and funerals, the joys and sorrows of a once-proud tribe, Mark learns enough of life to be ready to die. On a cold winter evening when he hears the owl call his name, Mark understands what is to come ...An outstanding and much-acclaimed first novel. The author's perception, wisdom and insight give her unique story the quality of a legend or fable. A rare clarity and simplicity. It is a long time since I was so moved by a story, touching in its dignity and wise in its folklore' Daily Telegraph [via]
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In a Glass Houseby Nino RicciISBN 0312186916 (0-312-18691-6)
Softcover, Picador
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The Living Godby Dave DuncanISBN 034538878X (0-345-38878-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Living God'Book summary:The sorcerer Zinixo had declared himself the Almighty. Now goblin hordes ravish the Impire. Dragons incinerate entire legions. And the slave-sorcerers of the Covin practice whatever barbarities Zinixo requires. It is only a matter of time before the mad Zinixo is almighty in fact as well as name -- unless Rap of Krasnegar can conjure up a miracle . . . [via]
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Mabel Murpleby Sheree FitchISBN 0385254806 (0-385-25480-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Mable Murpleby Maryann Kovalski, Sheree FitchISBN 0385256345 (0-385-25634-5)
Softcover, Delacorte Pr
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A Man Called Intrepidby William StevensonISBN 0345310233 (0-345-31023-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mary Wakefieldby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180017 (0-316-18001-7)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Master Of Jalnaby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180025 (0-316-18002-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Miss Wyomingby Douglas CouplandISBN 0375707239 (0-375-70723-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Miss Wyoming'Book summary:The eponymous heroine of Miss Wyoming is one Susan Colgate, a teen beauty queen and low-rent soap actress. Dragooned into show business by her demonically pushy, hillbilly mother, Susan has hit rock bottom by the time Douglas Coupland's seventh book begins. But when she finds herself the sole survivor of an airplane crash, this "low-grade onboard celebrity" takes the opportunity to start all over again:
She felt like a ghost. She tried to find her bodily remains there in the wreckage and was unable to do so.... Then she was lost in a crowd of local onlookers and trucks, parping sirens and ambulances. She picked her way out of the melee and found a newly paved suburban road that she followed away from the wreck into the folds of a housing development. She had survived, and now she needed sanctuary and silence.
She's not, of course, the only Hollywood burnout who'd like to vanish into thin air. Her opposite number, a producer of big-budget, no-brainer action flicks named John Johnson, stages a similar disappearing act. After a near-death experience, in the course of which he is treated to a vision of Susan's face, he roams the western badlands. And even after his return to L.A., Johnson is determined to unravel the mystery of this woman's fate.Throughout, Coupland displays his usual gift for capturing the absurdities of modern existence. The distinctive minutiae of our age--junk mail and fast food, sitcoms and Singapore slings, and the "shop fronts bigger and brighter and more powerful than they needed to be"--come to vivid, funny life in this author's hands. And while Susan and John occupy center stage, Coupland is just as generous with his peripheral characters. A scriptwriter and his supernaturally intelligent girlfriend, a recluse who spends his evening generating Internet rumours--all manage to be blessed and cursed, numbed by their pointless existences but full of humanity when put to the test. Picture Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut collaborating on a Tinseltown version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and you come halfway to grasping Coupland's brand of thoughtful, supremely funny storytelling. --Matthew Baylis [via]
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No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobsby Naomi KleinISBN 0312421435 (0-312-42143-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Logo: No Space No Choice No Jobs'Book summary:With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing-and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating, inspiring, and altogether pioneering work of cultural criticism that investigates money, marketing, and the anti-corporate movement. As global corporations compete for the hearts and wallets of consumers who not only buy their products but willingly advertise them from head to toe-witness today's schoolbooks, superstores, sporting arenas, and brand-name synergy-a new generation has begun to battle consumerism with its own best weapons. In this provocative, well-written study, a front-line report on that battle, we learn how the Nike swoosh has changed from an athletic status-symbol to a metaphor for sweatshop labor, how teenaged McDonald's workers are risking their jobs to join the Teamsters, and how "culture jammers" utilize spray paint, computer-hacking acumen, and anti-propagandist wordplay to undercut the slogans and meanings of billboard ads (as in "Joe Chemo" for "Joe Camel"). No Logo will challenge and enlighten students of sociology, economics, popular culture, international affairs, and marketing. "This book is not another account of the power of the select group of corporate Goliaths that have gathered to form our de facto global government. Rather, it is an attempt to analyze and document the forces opposing corporate rule, and to lay out the particular set of cultural and economic conditions that made the emergence of that opposition inevitable."-Naomi Klein, from her Introduction [via]
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bulliesby Naomi KleinISBN 0312271921 (0-312-27192-1)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'Book summary:We live in an era where image is nearly everything, where the proliferation of brand-name culture has created, to take one hyperbolic example from Naomi Klein's No Logo, "walking, talking, life-sized Tommy [Hilfiger] dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds." Brand identities are even flourishing online, she notes--and for some retailers, perhaps best of all online: "Liberated from the real-world burdens of stores and product manufacturing, these brands are free to soar, less as the disseminators of goods or services than as collective hallucinations."
In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well. (The controversy over advertiser-sponsored Channel One may be old hat, but many readers will be surprised to learn about ads in school lavatories and exclusive concessions in school cafeterias.) The global companies claim to support diversity, but their version of "corporate multiculturalism" is merely intended to create more buying options for consumers. When Klein talks about how easy it is for retailers like Wal-Mart and Blockbuster to "censor" the contents of videotapes and albums, she also considers the role corporate conglomeration plays in the process. How much would one expect Paramount Pictures, for example, to protest against Blockbuster's policies, given that they're both divisions of Viacom?
Klein also looks at the workers who keep these companies running, most of whom never share in any of the great rewards. The president of Borders, when asked whether the bookstore chain could pay its clerks a "living wage," wrote that "while the concept is romantically appealing, it ignores the practicalities and realities of our business environment." Those clerks should probably just be grateful they're not stuck in an Asian sweatshop, making pennies an hour to produce Nike sneakers or other must-have fashion items. Klein also discusses at some length the tactic of hiring "permatemps" who can do most of the work and receive few, if any, benefits like health care, paid vacations, or stock options. While many workers are glad to be part of the "Free Agent Nation," observers note that, particularly in the high-tech industry, such policies make it increasingly difficult to organize workers and advocate for change.
But resistance is growing, and the backlash against the brands has set in. Street-level education programs have taught kids in the inner cities, for example, not only about Nike's abusive labor practices but about the astronomical markup in their prices. Boycotts have commenced: as one urban teen put it, "Nike, we made you. We can break you." But there's more to the revolution, as Klein optimistically recounts: "Ethical shareholders, culture jammers, street reclaimers, McUnion organizers, human-rights hacktivists, school-logo fighters and Internet corporate watchdogs are at the early stages of demanding a citizen-centered alternative to the international rule of the brands ... as global, and as capable of coordinated action, as the multinational corporations it seeks to subvert." No Logo is a comprehensive account of what the global economy has wrought and the actions taking place to thwart it. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Onion Girlby Charles De LintISBN 0312873972 (0-312-87397-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Onion Girl'Book summary:In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.[via]
At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the hidden beings that dwell in the city's shadows. Now, at last, de Lint tells Jilly's own story...for behind the painter's fey charm lies a dark secret and a past she's labored to forget. And that past is coming to claim her now.
"I'm the onion girl," Jilly Coppercorn says. "Pull back the layers of my life, and you won't find anything at the core. Just a broken child. A hollow girl." She's very, very good at running. But life has just forced Jilly to stop.More editions of The Onion Girl:
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Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the Worldby Margaret MacMillan, Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375508260 (0-375-50826-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World'Book summary:Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is a colourful, epic history of the momentous days after World War I that saw U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and the other Allied leaders reshape the world. Wilson arrived in France to referee the Paris Peace Conference only a month after the war's end, sailing into a French port past an avenue of British, U.S., and French battleships. The world, horrified by the millions of war deaths, was desperate for peace and embraced Wilson's call for a League of Nations and self-determination for all peoples. Enthusiastic European crowds greeted the U.S. president and posters bearing his face lined the streets.
It was a conference unlike any other in history: attendees redrew borders, rewrote international relations, and tried--unsuccessfully--to contain German militarism. It unfolded in the midst of massive social upheaval as Europeans awoke to widespread hunger and the inequalities of their age. In the pressure cooker of Paris, this bubbling stew of social and political forces boiled over, and many of Wilson's dreams were dashed. The world lives with the legacy of these few months. Not only did the conference produce a new map of Europe and the Middle East, it led to the infamous Versailles Treaty, often blamed for provoking World War II. MacMillan, a University of Toronto history professor, argues that the Allied leaders did their best, and to blame World War II on them is to absolve Hitler and his appeasers. MacMillan could perhaps be accused of bias: her great-grandfather was British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, one of the main political players in 1919. However, her book has been acclaimed by historians and has won Britain's richest nonfiction award. Complete with backroom intrigue, personal drama, and vivid characters, Paris 1919 is a vital contribution to our understanding of the last century and the current one. --Alex Roslin [via]
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the Worldby Margaret Olwen Macmillan, Richard HolbrookeISBN 0375760520 (0-375-76052-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World'Book summary:University of Toronto historian Margaret MacMillan failed at first to find a Canadian publisher for her account of the pivotal peace conference that followed the First World War and, some have said, laid the groundwork for the second, but when Paris 1919 won the Samuel Johnson Prize in the U.K., it returned home a bestseller and remained so for years. MacMillan, great-granddaughter of one of the conference's principals, David Lloyd George, has written a definitive history--authoritative, colourful, and engrossing--of the peace that failed. [via]
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Past Reason Hatedby Peter RobinsonISBN 0380733285 (0-380-73328-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Pelagie: The Return to Acadieby Antonine MailletISBN 0385171331 (0-385-17133-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Prized Possessionsby L.R. WrightISBN 0385254164 (0-385-25416-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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The Progress of Loveby Alice MunroISBN 0375724702 (0-375-72470-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Reaver Roadby David J. DuncanISBN 0345374819 (0-345-37481-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Red China Bluesby Jan WongISBN 0385254903 (0-385-25490-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Reflections of Eden: My Years With the Orangutans of Borneoby Birute M. F. GaldikasISBN 0316301868 (0-316-30186-8)
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The Rules of Engagementby Catherine BushISBN 0374528705 (0-374-52870-5)
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Running on Instinctby N. M. LuikenISBN 0312873441 (0-312-87344-1)
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See Jane Runby Joy FieldingISBN 0380711524 (0-380-71152-4)
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Shoeless Joeby W. P. KinsellaISBN 0345309219 (0-345-30921-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shoeless Joe'Book summary:W. P. Kinsella plays with both myth and fantasy in his lyrical novel, which was adapted into the enormously popular movie, Field of Dreams. It begins with the magic of a godlike voice in a cornfield, and ends with the magic of a son playing catch with the ghost of his father. In Kinsella's hands, it's all about as simple, and complex, as the object of baseball itself: coming home. Like Ring Lardner and Bernard Malamud before him, Kinsella spins baseball as backdrop and metaphor, and, like his predecessors, uses the game to tell us a little something more about who we are and what we need. [via]
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The Silver Chaliceby Thomas Bertram CostainISBN 0385044291 (0-385-04429-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Silver Chalice'Book summary:[via]"An outstanding historical novel. New York Times
This novel makes real . . . the whole world of the New Testament. Chicago Tribune
His theme is presented with an assurance and sweetness that is refreshing
The colorful, passionate world of early Christianity comes to vivid life in this story of Basil of Antioch. Basil, a sensitive artisan, is purchased from slavery and commissioned to create a decorative casing for the Chalice that Jesus used at the Last Supper. Basil travels to Jerusalem, Greece, and Rome, meets the apostles, braves the perils of persecution, and finally makes a fateful choice that allows him to see Jesus. The dramatic plot, compelling characters, and spiritual depth of The Silver Chalice made it one of the most popular historical novels of the twentieth century.
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Six War Years 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroadby Barry BroadfootISBN 0385058144 (0-385-05814-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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Snow Walkerby Farley MowatISBN 0316586935 (0-316-58693-5)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Someplace to Be Flyingby Charles De LintISBN 0312858493 (0-312-85849-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Someplace to Be Flying'Book summary:Nobody does urban fantasy better than Charles de Lint. He has a gift for creating engaging, fully realized characters, totally believable dialogue, and a feeling that magic is just around the corner.
Someplace to Be Flying is set in Newford, a town familiar to readers of de Lint. (He set two prior novels (Memory and Dream and Trader) and two anthologies (Dreams Underfoot and The Ivory and the Horn) in Newford.) One late night, as Hank drives his gypsy cab, his reliable though perilous city is transformed. He encounters the mythical "animal people," and the experience leaves him--and the reader--questioning accepted reality.
"Hank just wanted away from here. He'd sampled some hallucinogens when he was a kid and the feeling he had now was a lot like coming down from an acid high. Everything slightly askew, illogical things that somehow made sense, everything too sharp and clear when you looked at it but fading fast in your peripheral vision, blurred, like it didn't really exist." Fans of Emma Bull and Terri Windling (as both an editor and an author) will enjoy de Lint. He can make you believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Nona Vero [via]
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Streeters: Rants & Raves from This Hour Has 22 Minutesby Rick MercerISBN 0385257171 (0-385-25717-1)
Hardcover, Doubleday Canada
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The Stricken Fieldby Dave DuncanISBN 0345388747 (0-345-38874-7)
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Tamarind Womanby Anita Rau BadamiISBN 034546494X (0-345-46494-X)
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Tapping the Dream Treeby Charles De LintISBN 0312868405 (0-312-86840-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tapping the Dream Tree'Book summary:Tapping the Dream Tree collects 18 stories by bestselling contemporary fantasy master Charles de Lint. One story, "The Witching Hour," is original to this volume, with a few others taken from limited-edition chapbooks; the remaining tales have been drawn from an impressive diversity of magazines and anthologies. The stories are set in and around de Lint's mythic, haunted American city of Newford, and fans will recognize several characters from de Lint's popular series.
The powerful story "Ten for The Devil" is a superb choice for an opener: it showcases de Lint's literary strengths and treats of his recurring themes of magic, music, creativity, and human worth. Musician Staley Cross's grandmother has always warned her to be careful when she plays her blue fiddle. But Staley never quite believed that her music could rouse dangerous magic... until one night, playing in a faraway field, she discovers the Devil doesn't only go down to Georgia. First published before the filming of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, "Ten for the Devil" draws upon the same crossroads myth as does the movie, but takes a very different road as it follows Staley's search for her only hope of soul survival: a mysterious bluesman known as Robert. --Cynthia Ward [via]
Three Edwardsby Thomas B. CostainISBN 0385052391 (0-385-05239-1)
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A Time for Judasby Morley CallaghanISBN 0312805136 (0-312-80513-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.by Jeremy MercerISBN 0312347405 (0-312-34740-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.'Book summary:Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down watering holes of the shop's makeshift staff. Time Was Soft There is the story of a journey down a literary rabbit hole in the shadow of Notre Dame, to a place where a hidden bohemia still thrives.[via]More editions of Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.:
The Town That Forgot How to Breatheby Kenneth J. HarveyISBN 0312424809 (0-312-42480-9)
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Traderby Charles De LintISBN 0312858477 (0-312-85847-7)
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The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call For Reform In Her Faithby Irshad ManjiISBN 0312327005 (0-312-32700-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call For Reform In Her Faith'Book summary:This "call for reform" reads like an open letter to the Muslim world. Irshad Manji, a Toronto-based television journalist, was born to Muslim parents in South Africa. Her family eventually fled to Canada when she was two years old. Manji shares her life experiences growing up in a Western Muslim household and ask some compelling questions from her feminist-lesbian-journalist perspective. It is interesting to note that Manji has been lambasted for being too personal and not scholarly enough to have a worthwhile opinion. Yet her lack of pretense and her intimate narrative are the strengths of this book. For Muslims to dismiss her opinions as not worthy to bring to the table is not only elitist; it underscores why she feels compelled to speak out critically. Intolerance for dissent, especially women's dissent, is one of her main complaints about Islam. Clearly, her goal was not to write a scholarly critique, but rather to speak from her heartfelt concern about Islam. To her fellow Muslims she writes:
I hear from a Saudi friend that his country's religious police arrest women for wearing red on Valentines Day, and I think, Since when does a merciful God outlaw joyor fun? I read about victims of rape being stoned for "adultery" and I wonder how a critical mass of us can stay stone silent.
She asks tough questions: "What's with the stubborn streak of anti-Semitism in Islam? Who is the real colonizer of the Muslims-America or Arabia? Why are we squandering the talents of women, fully half of God's creation?" This is not an anti-Muslim rant. Manji also speaks with passionate love and hope for Islam, believing that democracy is compatible with its purest doctrine. Sure, she's biased and opinionated. But all religions, from Christianity to Buddhism to Islam should be accountable for how their leadership and national allegiances personally affect their followers. One would hope that this honest voice be met with a little more self-scrutiny and a little less anti-personal, anti-feminine, and anti-Western rhetoric. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Under the Dragon's Tail: A Detective Murdoch Mysteryby Maureen JenningsISBN 0312193483 (0-312-19348-3)
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Upland Outlawsby Dave DuncanISBN 0345378970 (0-345-37897-0)
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Upland Outlaws : A Handful of Menby Dave DuncanISBN 0345384776 (0-345-38477-6)
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Variable Winds at Jalnaby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180092 (0-316-18009-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Variable Winds at Jalna'Book summary:[via]First published in 1954, in Variable Winds at Jalna, the immediate sequel to Rennys Daughter, Maitland Fitzturgis and his sister, Sylvia Fleming, travel from Ireland for his official acceptance by the family as Adelines husband. Finch and Maurice also return, and Maurice brings with him his own problematic affairs of the heart. It quickly becomes one of the most fateful years that Jalna has known, and the story ends with more than one peal of the wedding bells. This is book 15 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Centenary at Jalna.
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Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothicby Bill Richardson, Bill PechetISBN 0312318685 (0-312-31868-5)
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Wakefield's Courseby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180106 (0-316-18010-6)
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The Way She Looks Tonight: Five Women of Styleby Marian FowlerISBN 0312147570 (0-312-14757-0)
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Where She Has Goneby Nino RicciISBN 031220681X (0-312-20681-X)
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Whiteoaks of Jalnaby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180149 (0-316-18014-9)
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Young Rennyby Mazo De LA RocheISBN 0316180157 (0-316-18015-7)
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