Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world. So when she takes a job in a convenience store while at the university, they are delighted. For her part,...
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Murata, SayakaSommaire: - Auteur:Jefferson, MargoSommaire:
Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a...
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Auteur:Galgay, FrankSommaire:Bestselling author Frank Galgay offers up this collection of his personal favourites from a wide variety of Canadian writers. Spanning 160 years, Classic Christmas Stories includes heartwarming tales of Christmases from pastoral...
- Auteur:Selvadurai, ShyamSommaire:
Set in 1920s' Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo...
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Auteur:Innes, MirandaSommaire:Want to escape to a place where the sun always shines? Where passionate music, magic potions and the drama of Africa are cooled by the genius of Arabic culture? Miranda Innes and her partner Dan Pearce were lured into buying a beautiful...
- Auteur:Leed, PercySommaire:
On Cinco de Mayo, people celebrate Mexican culture. Easy text and full-color photographs give young readers an up-close look at this lively holiday.
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Auteur:McCormack, Derek, SethSommaire:What do the doors of Advent calendars conceal? Chocolates, sometimes, or toys. Sometimes there are illustrations of chocolates and toys. And holly. And snow. Things that make Christmas Christmas in Canada. Embark on a new Yuletide...
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Originally published in the 1876 Christmas edition of The Graphic, Christmas at Thompson Hall is a Victorian tale concerning the proper Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their journey from southern France to Thompson Hall to celebrate Christmas...
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"A final Christmas gift from Canada's beloved storyteller. Christmas has always been a special time for the Vinyl Cafe. Each year, Stuart McLean's Christmas tours brought laughter and community to every town and city he visited across...
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Chelsea's family is celebrating Chinese New Year! Chelsea gets to stay up late. She watches fireworks and a parade with a dragon! She and her family have a big feast. Find out the different ways people celebrate this special day!...
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Auteur:Leach, DavidSommaire:A fascinating, non-partisan exploration of an incendiary region
Say the word “Israel” today and it sparks images of walls and rockets and a bloody conflict without end. Yet for decades, the symbol of the...
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Auteur:Tuerff, KevinSommaire:A fully revised and updated paperback edition featuring over twenty colour photographs. When Kevin Tuerff and his partner boarded their flight from France to New York City on September 11, 2001, they had no idea that a few hours later...
- Auteur:Carriger, GailSommaire:
Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a...
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Auteur:Chinodya, ShimmerSommaire:Chairman of Fools explores the plight of Farai Chari, a supposedly successful writer, professor and self-acclaimed artist, living in an African culture in which tradition weighs heavy and middle class aspirations are crude. Farai yearns...
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Auteur:Alharthi, Jokha, Booth, MarilynSommaire:In the village of al-Awafi, in Oman, two families are joined by marriage: Mayya, the eldest of three sisters, marries Abdallah, son of a wealthy merchant, after suffering her first heartbreak. Abdallah's passionate love for his...
- Auteur:Traill, Catherine Parr StricklandSommaire:
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with...
- Auteur:Farrow, RonanSommaire:
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine...
- Auteur:Leamer, LaurenceSommaire:
For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered PrayersEsquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see. The blowback...
- Auteur:Myers, MikeSommaire:
Comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada. Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic...
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Auteur:Trollope, AnthonySommaire:Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.
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