The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised...
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Author: Damrosch, DavidSummary:Genre: Social science
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Author: Hunt, Jan.Summary:
The Natural Child is the instruction manual that should have come with your child. Derek Markham, ecoBrain The Natural Child makes a compelling case for a return to attachment parenting, a child-...
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Author: Rosenbaum, RichardSummary:
In 1995, Canadian novelist and critic Hal Niedviecki started publishing Broken Pencil, a magazine dedicated to the zine scene, the independent and alternative arts community that had been...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Short stories -
Author: Wolf, SherrySummary:
Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)...
Genre: History and geography, Social science -
Author: Wilcox, Alana; McBride, JasonSummary:
Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of...
Genre: Essays, Social science, Canadian nonfiction -
Author: Abu Toha, MosabSummary:
Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize. National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist. "Written from...
Genre: Poetry -
Author: Bushman, DavidSummary:
The first-ever detailed account of one of the most notorious cases of police corruption in New York State history, the 1999-2000 FBI investigation into the Schenectady Police Department, resulting...
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Author: Walcott, DerekSummary:
Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a...
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Author: Walcott, DerekSummary:
On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the...
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Author: James, DerekSummary:
Android phones are rapidly gaining market share, nudging the iPhone out of the top spot. Games are the most frequently downloaded apps in the Android market, and users are willing to pay for them...
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Author: Wall, DerekSummary:
Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough. But the response of politicians has been cowardly and inadequate, while...
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Author: Künsken, DerekSummary:
The Ultimate Heist. Belisarius is a Homo quantus, engineered with impossible insight. But his gift is also a curse—an uncontrollable, even suicidal drive to know, to understand. Genetically flawed...
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Author: Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
This fourth volume of Revolution takes listeners from William of Orange's accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, a time of the founding of the Bank of England and the stock exchange.
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Author: Beaulieu, Derek; Nichol, bpSummary:
Nights on Prose Mountain gathers all of beloved writer bpNichol's published fiction. Originally appearing between 1968 and 1983, and representing almost the entire arc of Nichol's...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Aird, CatherineSummary:
When a body is found in the center of a maze of yew trees, Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds that his investigation into the murder of a woman has more twists and turns that the...