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Accordion Crimesby E. Annie ProulxISBN 0684831546 (0-684-83154-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accordion Crimes'Book summary:The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News', 'Accordion Crimes' spans generations, continents and a century and confirms the hallucinatory power of Proulx's writing. 'Accordion Crimes' is a masterpiece of story-telling that spans a century and a continent. It opens in 1890 in Sicily, when an accordion-maker and his son, carrying little more than his finest button accordion, begin their voyage to the teeming, violent port of New Orleans. Within a year, the accordion-maker is murdered by an anti-Italian lynch mob, but his instrument carries the novel into another community of immigrants: German-Americans founding a new town in South Dakota. Moving from South Dakota to Texas, from Montana to Maine, the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation, descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Germans, Irish, Scots and Franco-Canadians. Through the music of the accordion they express their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. [via]
Bass Saxophoneby Josef SkvoreckyISBN 0671556819 (0-671-55681-9)
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Bearby Marian EngelISBN 0689107609 (0-689-10760-9)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Belongingby Isabel HugganISBN 0676975380 (0-676-97538-0)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart Ltd
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Belonging: Home Away from Homeby Isabel HugganISBN 0676975364 (0-676-97536-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada
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Caesars of the Wildernessby Peter Charles NewmanISBN 0670819360 (0-670-81936-0)
Hardcover, Viking
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Circusby Linda GranfieldISBN 0613284461 (0-613-28446-1)
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Cocksure: A Novelby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0671139614 (0-671-13961-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Coke Machine Glowby Gord DownieISBN 0676974015 (0-676-97401-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Company of Adventurersby Peter C. NewmanISBN 0670803790 (0-670-80379-0)
Hardcover, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: '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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The Cremation Of Sam Mcgeeby Robert W. Service, Ted HarrisonISBN 0688069037 (0-688-06903-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee'Book summary:Glorious illustrations bring to life this classic poem epitomizing the glory days of the Gold Rush. [via]
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David, We're Pregnantby Lynn JohnstonISBN 0671760181 (0-671-76018-1)
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Dead and Buriedby Howard EngelISBN 0670831166 (0-670-83116-6)
Hardcover, Viking
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Deadly Decisionsby Kathleen J. ReichsISBN 0671028367 (0-671-02836-7)
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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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Death Du Jourby Kathy ReichsISBN 0671011375 (0-671-01137-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death Du Jour'Book summary:"In Quebec, winters can be slow for the forensic anthropologist. The temperature rarely rises above freezing. The rivers and lakes ice over, the ground turns rock hard, and snow buries everything. Bugs disappear, and many scavengers go underground. The result: Corpses do not putrefy in the great outdoors. Floaters are not pulled from the St. Lawrence... and some of last season's dead are not found until the spring melt."
Readers of Kathy Reichs's cool and clever first forensic thriller Déjà Dead will recognize the ironic voice of Tempe (short for Temperance) Brennan, the North Carolina-born scientist who winds up working at the Laboratoire de Médicine Légale in Montreal. Here she bristles at the conservative attitudes of some of her Canadian colleagues.
Despite the cold weather, Tempe's workload quickly becomes heavy: the bones of a long-dead nun now up for sainthood have been moved and tampered with; a deadly house fire turns out to be arson; and a university teaching assistant disappears after joining a cult. Tempe must figure out where (and why) all the bodies are buried in the hard Canadian ground. Her investigations take her home to North Carolina, and to a strange colony living on an offshore island.
Unlike certain other writers who specialize in forensic pathology, Reichs doesn't revel in the horror of death or rub our noses in gore: she uses the science of death to reveal rather than to shock or startle. It definitely makes for easier reading--especially at mealtimes. --Dick Adler [via]
A Dedicated Manby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684192659 (0-684-19265-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Deja Deadby Kathleen J. ReichsISBN 0671011367 (0-671-01136-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deja Dead'Book summary:"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan, star of Kathy Reichs' electrifyingly authentic bestsellers.
Her life is devoted to justice -- for those she never even knew.
In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern -- and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her -- her best friend and her own daughter -- in mortal danger. . . .
Dropped Threads 2: More of What We Aren't Toldby Carol Shields, Marjorie May Anderson, Catherine ShieldsISBN 0679312064 (0-679-31206-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Eagles' Broodby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845213 (0-670-84521-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Companyby Peter C. Newman, John Geiger, Kevin FlemingISBN 0670829692 (0-670-82969-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire of the Bay: An Illustrated History of the Hudson's Bay Company'Book summary:A history of the world's most famous trading company based on Peter Newman's history. In 1838 Sir George Simpson, the governor of the HBC, was toasted at a dinner as the "Head of the most extended dominion in the known world - the Emperor of Russia, the Queen of England and the President of the United States excepted". It was an astonishing but appropriate tribute to a commercial enterprise of unique scope and character, with trading houses that once stretched from the Arctic Ocean to Hawaii. Yet the history of the HBC is less the story of a company than of a people - its self-proclaimed gentlemen-adventurers mapped a continent and built a nation. The exciting story of the company and the people is told in this book. [via]
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Falling Angelsby Barbara GowdyISBN 0671728105 (0-671-72810-5)
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Fatal Voyageby Kathy ReichsISBN 0671028375 (0-671-02837-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fatal Voyage'Book summary:When forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan joins the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team mobilized to investigate an airplane crash in North Carolina's Smoky Mountains, she literally stumbles on a body part that doesn't match up with the remains of any of the plane's passengers. The leg she grabs out of the jaws of a coyote feeding on the carnage scattered around the site belongs to an unidentified elderly man, and seems to have no connection with the disaster. But an abandoned hunting lodge near the crash site does, although before Tempe can figure out exactly how they're linked, she's pulled off the DMORT unit and forced to stand idly by as her professional reputation goes up in flames. When Andrew Ryan, a detective familiar to readers of Kathy Reichs's earlier books (Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions), appears on the scene, another mystery begins to unfold. There seems to be no trace of two men on the plane's manifest, Ryan's partner and his seatmate, a criminal who was being escorted back to Canada via Washington, D.C., the doomed flight's final destination, to stand trial for murder.
As usual, Reichs serves up a solid helping of forensic science as the DMORT operatives do their thing, and Tempe traces the remains of a man killed 40 years ago to a series of ritual murders of senior citizens, and further to those whose influence was responsible for her firing. Reichs keeps the narrative moving along despite the somewhat ponderous technical and scientific information; her pacing is brisk and her series heroine in fine form. Tempe's romantic life gets more interesting with every new adventure. A solid thriller that will please the best-selling author's regular readers and serve as a good introduction to new ones. --Jane Adams [via]
The Forest Loverby Susan VreelandISBN 0670032670 (0-670-03267-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Fort at River's Bendby Jack WhyteISBN 0613278313 (0-613-27831-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fort at River's Bend'Book summary:Merlyn Britannicus, leader of the Colony known as Camulod, is faced with the task of educating his younger charge, Arthur, future King of the Britons. Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt goes awry, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood companions Gwin Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr on a journey that will take then to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort--far from Camulod and the only place where Merlyn feels they will be safe. It is there that Merlyn will enlist the help of this close-knit group of friends to help Arthur learn the skills of a warrior and the tough lessons of justice, honor, and the responsibilities of leadership. Arthur is just a boy..but the day is not far off when he will have to claim the sword that is his birthright: Excalibur.[via]More editions of The Fort at River's Bend:
Forty Words For Sorrowby Giles BluntISBN 0679310576 (0-679-31057-6)
Hardcover, Random House Canada
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Franklin Fibsby Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda ClarkISBN 0590446479 (0-590-44647-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Franklin Fibs'Book summary:Bear can climb the highest tree, Hawk can fly over the berry patch without flapping his wings, and Beaver can chop down a tree with his teeth. "I can swallow 76 flies in the blink of an eye," Franklin fibs. . . . Then Franklin's friends ask him to prove it! [via]
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Franklin in the Darkby Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda ClarkISBN 0590445065 (0-590-44506-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Franklin Rides a Bikeby Paulette Bourgeois, Brenda ClarkISBN 0590693336 (0-590-69333-6)
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Furyby Salman RushdieISBN 0679783504 (0-679-78350-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fury'Book summary:life is fury. Fury-sexual, oedipal, political, magical, brutal- drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise-the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb." malik solanka, historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees london for new york. There's a fury within him, and he fears he has become dangerous to those he loves. He arrives in new york at a time of unprecedented plenty, in the highest hour of america's wealth and power, seeking to "erase" himself. Eat me, america, he prays, and give me peace.but fury is all around him. Cabdrivers spout invective. A serial killer is murdering women with a lump of concrete. The petty spats and bone-deep resentments of the metropolis engulf him. His own thoughts, emotions, and desires, meanwhile, are also running wild. A tall, green-eyed young blonde in a d'angelo voodoo baseball cap is in store for him. As is another woman, with whom he will fall in love and be drawn toward a different fury, whose roots lie on the far side of the world. Fury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force. It is also an astonishing portrait of new york. Not since the bombay of midnight's children have a time and place been so intensely and accurately captured in a novel. In his eighth novel, salman rushdie brilliantly entwines moments of anger and frenzy with those of humor, honesty, and intimacy. Fury is, above all, a masterly chronicle of the human condition [via]
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Gallows Viewby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684192667 (0-684-19266-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gallows View'Book summary:After moving his family from London, Chief Inspector Alan Banks is feeling all too at home in the picturesque market town of Eastvale. A crime wave seems to have followed him north. Teenage thugs are burglarizing the homes of elderly women, culminating in murder. And a Peeping Tom is on the loose, menacing the women of Eastvale. [via]
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God of Small Thingsby Arundhati RoyISBN 0679309411 (0-679-30941-1)
Softcover, Random House of Canada Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God of Small Things'Book summary:"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. " The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . . Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family--their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it. The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it. The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes--Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. [via]
The Golden Aquariansby Monica HughesISBN 0671505432 (0-671-50543-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Golden Spruceby John VaillantISBN 067697645X (0-676-97645-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Guardian of Isisby Monica HughesISBN 0689309023 (0-689-30902-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatreby Robertson Davies, Brenda Davies, Jennifer SurridgeISBN 0670880191 (0-670-88019-1)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre'Book summary:The following passage reveals Robertson Davies's great love of the theater, and it shows that these collected pieces, numbering 33, transcend mere criticism: "For as long as I can remember, playgoing has stood first among all pleasures with me, and although to most people it is simply a pastime, I think that I have brought qualities to it which raised it above that.... I sincerely believe that I have been a good playgoer, and that is something better, perhaps, than having been a well-known critic."
One's admiration for this literary master doubles when remembering that drama was Davies's academic field, and it constituted one of his three successful careers (he acted with the Old Vic in England). By 1962, Davies had begun to craft his playgoing notes into the Theatre Diary--snippets of which appear in this posthumously published collection. Each of these 33 pieces, introduced by the author and followed by a diary entry or two, demonstrates Davies's enormous and diverse erudition. Included are speeches, prologues to plays, articles about the theatre and opera, a discussion of folksong, a children's opera, a story set to music, and a preliminary sketch of a film script. Several personal essays shed light on his own ambitions as a playwright.
Many of these pieces were lectures, and they enjoy the immediacy and cadence of the spoken word. A spacious tone ensues; that is, complex ideas are delivered clearly, because they are intended for a listening audience. Surprisingly, this enhances the pleasure of reading them. Happy Alchemy may not appeal to the reader whose interest in theater and opera is only occasional but certainly will to any ardent Robertson Davies fan who delights in the turnings of a learned and sophisticated mind. --Hollis Giammatteo [via]
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In the Language of Loveby Diane SchoemperlenISBN 0670865176 (0-670-86517-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Language of Love'Book summary:The story of a young woman's life is told through the one hundred stimulus words from a classic word-association test and recounts her experiences of girlhood, motherhood, and marriage. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Invitation to the Gameby Monica HughesISBN 0671866923 (0-671-86692-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacyby W.P. KinsellaISBN 0618340807 (0-618-34080-7)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Isis Pedlarby Monica HughesISBN 0689309880 (0-689-30988-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Isobel Gunnby Audrey ThomasISBN 067088684X (0-670-88684-X)
Hardcover, Viking
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Jane Austen: A Lifeby Carol ShieldsISBN 0670894885 (0-670-89488-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Keeper of the Isis Lightby Monica HughesISBN 0689308477 (0-689-30847-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Kicking Tomorrowby Daniel RichlerISBN 0679411887 (0-679-41188-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Leaving and Other Storiesby Budge WilsonISBN 0590469339 (0-590-46933-9)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Little by Littleby Jean LittleISBN 0670816493 (0-670-81649-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Mine for Keepsby Jean LittleISBN 0670859672 (0-670-85967-2)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mine for Keeps'Book summary:First published in 1962, Mine for Keeps was Jean Little's very first book for children. It won the Little, Brown Children's Book Award and set the author on a path that she has followed now for nearly four decades as a writer for children. More importantly, Mine for Keeps is as relevant to today's readers as it was when first published. It's an extraordinarily sensitive novel focusing on 10-year-old Sally Copeland, who has cerebral palsy. Sally is returning home for the first time in several years, having been a long-term boarder in a special school for the children with disabilities. It's not easy for Sally, or for her family, to adjust to this new situation. But with the help of her little dog, Susie, Sally discovers within herself the power to stretch her physical limits and come to terms with her new classmates and teacher. Susie is also the key to helping Sally make new friends and especially important in Sally's relationship with Piet, a young immigrant who, like Sally, feels unable to adjust to his new home. Little has a no-nonsense approach to living with disabilities, and she eloquently and honestly explores Sally's handicap within the context of a thoughtful and provocative novel about coming to terms with being different. (Ages 10 to 14) --Jeffrey Canton [via]
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Monkey Beachby Eden RobinsonISBN 0618219056 (0-618-21905-6)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Most Beautiful House in the Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0670819816 (0-670-81981-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Most Beautiful House in the World'Book summary:The author provides an eloquent examination of the links between being and building, as he tells the story of the designing and building of his own house. 4 cassettes. [via]
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The New Baby Calf/With Teaching Guideby Barbara Reid, Edith Newlin ChaseISBN 059071404X (0-590-71404-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac: Facts, Rants, Anecdotes and Unsupported Assertions for Urban Residentsby Hal Niedzviecki, Darren S. Wershler-HenryISBN 0670043389 (0-670-04338-9)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Original Canadian City Dweller's Almanac: Facts, Rants, Anecdotes and Unsupported Assertions for Urban Residents'Book summary:Hal Niedzviecki, editor of the zine culture mag Broken Pencil, puts his trendy, super-slacker persona to good use with this hipster almanac. He and poet Darren Wershler-Henry have produced an urban manual that's part Canadian history, part cool primer, and part useful city guide. Included are lists of Canadian Seinfeld references, cool writers and bands, and "Great Moments of Urban Canadian Sexual Liberation." There's also a primer on ethnic food; diatribes on landlords, condos, and Starbucks; and a chapter called "Denizens" that helpfully identifies the various types of downtown lifeforms. The Almanac is at its best when it acts as a survival manual. The section on how to escape a poetry reading, complete with coach's diagrams, is hilarious. Other survival tips include instructions on how to choose a bar ("Look for Seediness, Regulars. Avoid Chains"), and a reprint from Moving Picture Views showing how to eat for free on movie sets. A calendar insert contains a wealth of Canadian history and celebrity birthdays, including obscure ones like Robbie Bachman, Randy's underrated brother, and Quebec sex bomb Mitsou.
Niedzviecki and Wershler-Henry allow plenty of space for their zine buddies to contribute sidebars and expert opinions and info. Candace from Maggott Zine lists her "Top Fredericton Hangout Spots of All Time," and Dottie and Rosie from the Winnipeg arts and culture periodical, Tart, offer a lesson on how to shop in dumpsters. Rural or suburban wannabes with hopes to blend seamlessly into their new urban environment are in luck. A reading of Niedzviecki and Wershler-Henry's Almanac will have even the most clueless neophyte eating Chinese food, buying records, and reading comics with Canada's ultra-hip scenesters. --Moe Berg [via]
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Our Lady of the Lost and Foundby Diane SchoemperlenISBN 0670899771 (0-670-89977-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Lady of the Lost and Found'Book summary:One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God. . . . You know. Mary." Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro.
As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves. [via]More editions of Our Lady of the Lost and Found:
Our Man Westonby Gordon KormanISBN 0590711237 (0-590-71123-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Book Service
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Past Reason Hatedby Peter RobinsonISBN 0684195291 (0-684-19529-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetryby Anne CarsonISBN 0679431780 (0-679-43178-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Postcardsby Annie ProulxISBN 068480087X (0-684-80087-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Postcards'Book summary:Reproduced as graphics that preface narrative sections, the postcards in this novel -- communications between the Blood family and their son Loyal, as well as other personal mail and advertising material -- progressively reveal the insecurity of the rural Bloods in the changing post-war world. Loyal has fled into exile after an accidental killing, but cannot find a haven of rest. The family patriarch, Mink, writes vitriolic letters to local agricultural agents when the real object of his ire is his absent son. Loyal's brother sends off for an artificial arm to replace the one he lost in an accident; his sister answers a mail order ad for a husband. Through the mail, Proulx inventively reveals the inchoate longings of a difficult existence in this winner of the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award. [via]
Sajo and the Beaver Peopleby Grey OwlISBN 0684922983 (0-684-92298-3)
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Sand Castle Contestby Robert Munsch, Michael MartchenkoISBN 0606338217 (0-606-33821-7)
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Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845221 (0-670-84522-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chronicles'Book summary:The story of The Saxon Shore, the fourth novel in Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, is largely that of Merlyn, who continues his struggle to preserve the refuge of Camulod and protect the infant king, Arthur. Merlyn, in Whyte's version, is a fascinating mix of pragmatism and naïveté, blending the observational skills of Sherlock Holmes with the oratorical gifts of Marc Antony. Because he thinks a bit more deeply than most around him, thinking things through and staying a step ahead, it's easy to see how he gains a bit of a reputation as a magician. He also has his failings, most particularly an over-confidence that leads him to believe he is just as right about matters he is ignorant of (such as leprosy) as he is about things he actually understands. It's also interesting to note that Merlyn's failings are in many ways the failings of his community. Preserving Roman ways has meant preserving Roman attitudes toward outsiders and barbarians, and on a trip to Eire and a later journey through the south of Britain, Merlyn learns just how out of touch Camulod has become with its new neighbours.
Thus the story leads us inexorably to a new generation that knows little or nothing of Roman culture. In this way, The Saxon Shore continues with the same strength as preceding volumes. Jack Whyte's most splendid achievement is the creation of an historical period so well grounded in fact that the legend becomes real and Arthur lives again. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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Scroll of Saqqaraby Pauline GedgeISBN 0670835498 (0-670-83549-8)
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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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Selected Poems, 1956-1968by Leonard CohenISBN 0670002348 (0-670-00234-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Milleniumby Michael AdamsISBN 0670871737 (0-670-87173-7)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Shadow Boxerby Steven HeightonISBN 0618139338 (0-618-13933-8)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shadow Boxer'Book summary:Steven Heighton's debut novel, The Shadow Boxer, is a contemporary portrait of the artist as a young man, northern Ontario-style. Hearkening back to the tales of innocents cast into the big, bad world, it traces the edification of one Sevigne Torrins--a young Hemingway type, a boxer from "the Soo," an aspiring writer, and a teetering alcoholic--through sundry misadventures: from the redneck steel town of Sault Ste. Marie to the Egyptian cities of the dead, from the soul-depleting Toronto literary scene to the bleak, wind-swept isles of Lake Superior.
Heighton populates Sev's world with some intriguingly flawed eccentrics: the untamed Una, who breaks Sev's heart; the songstress Mikaela, who rescues his lost soul; the writer friend Ray, who turns legend after vanishing without a trace; Sev's French-Canadian mother, Martine, who yearns for a more glamorous life; and his father, Sam Torrins, a drunk of an ex-seaman, lusty with life, wounded by his family's desertion. The Shadow Boxer shimmers with references to Great Books such as Hardy's Jude the Obscure and The Upanishads, even as its author, flexing his considerable literary muscles, stakes his own claim in the tradition. Heighton, who has published collections of stories (Flight Paths of the Emperor), essays (The Admen Move on Lhasa), and poetry (The Ecstasy of Skeptics), is consummate in his craft. His verbal virtuosity and erudition can at times bog the story down, but the scenes where Sev, otherwise hell-bent on self-destruction, nurses his father through his alcoholism, and those of his merciless winter on Rye Island, off whose shores lie the wreck and skeletons of the Edmund Fitzgerald, are simply riveting storytelling. --Diana Kuprel [via]
The Singing Stoneby O.R. MellingISBN 0670808172 (0-670-80817-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Son of the Circusby John IrvingISBN 0679434968 (0-679-43496-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Son of the Circus'Book summary:First Printing. A superb near mint condition first print copy in an unclipped and near fine dustjacket. Signed by the author John Irving-- with signature only--- on the half title page. The lightest of toning to the page edges top and bottom--only--a little dustiness--or would be "as new". Dustjacket has very very light rubbing to the front panel--or else also would be fine. A clean and tight copy without any interior markings--just a very collectable copy. From the award winning author of "Cider House Rules" and other great novels.Protected by an archival Brodart jacket covering. As always, will be shipped Priority mail at media mail pricing. [via]
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The Sorcererby Jack WhyteISBN 0613280806 (0-613-28080-6)
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Testamentby Nino RicciISBN 0618446672 (0-618-44667-2)
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The Twinkie Squadby Gordon KormanISBN 0590452495 (0-590-45249-5)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Two Moons in Augustby Martha BrooksISBN 0590459236 (0-590-45923-6)
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The Velocity of Honey and More Science of Everyday Lifeby Jay IngramISBN 0670893102 (0-670-89310-2)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the Westby John Ralston SaulISBN 0679748199 (0-679-74819-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Waifs and Straysby Charles De LintISBN 067003584X (0-670-03584-X)
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Warchildby Karin LowacheeISBN 0613529251 (0-613-52925-1)
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White Fangby Jack London, Philippe MunchISBN 0670884804 (0-670-88480-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Fang'Book summary:Another outstanding title in the acclaimed series described as "a CD-ROM between covers."
White Fang was written as the companion book to Jack London's classic 1903 runaway bestseller The Call of the Wild. Seen through the eyes of White Fang--who is half dog, half wolf--the story follows the creature as he is forced to endure a series of harsh environments that turn him from his youthful innocence to mad-dog cruelty. That is, until a young man comes along and offers kindness and friendship. But friendship is something that White Fang doesn't understand...yet. White Fang is more than great storytelling. It is a careful study of the effects of our environments in forming who we are. With fascinating details of the Klondike gold rush and North American Indian life, it is also a remarkable snapshot of its time. With striking illustrations and extended captions unique to the Whole Story series, this striking edition provides background information modern readers could otherwise access only through a broad range of supplemental research. This distinctive approach places White Fang--first published in 1906--within the context of its era, bringing it vividly to life. [via] -
The Whole Story : White Fangby Jack LondonISBN 0670884790 (0-670-88479-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whole Story : White Fang'Book summary:Another outstanding title in the acclaimed series described as "a CD-ROM between covers."
White Fang was written as the companion book to Jack London's classic 1903 runaway bestseller The Call of the Wild. Seen through the eyes of White Fang--who is half dog, half wolf--the story follows the creature as he is forced to endure a series of harsh environments that turn him from his youthful innocence to mad-dog cruelty. That is, until a young man comes along and offers kindness and friendship. But friendship is something that White Fang doesn't understand...yet. White Fang is more than great storytelling. It is a careful study of the effects of our environments in forming who we are. With fascinating details of the Klondike gold rush and North American Indian life, it is also a remarkable snapshot of its time. With striking illustrations and extended captions unique to the Whole Story series, this striking edition provides background information modern readers could otherwise access only through a broad range of supplemental research. This distinctive approach places White Fang--first published in 1906--within the context of its era, bringing it vividly to life. [via]More editions of The Whole Story : White Fang:
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0679603069 (0-679-60306-9)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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