A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends. Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and...
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Author: Svec, Henry AdamSummary:
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Author: Cadigan, PatSummary:
HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space' What hope for us amongst the stars' Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of...
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Author: Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:
Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve...
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Author: Dutton, Jane E., Spreitzer, Gretchen M.Summary:
Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people’s—and their own—capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading...
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Author: Edwardson, RyanSummary:
The Guess Who. Gordon Lightfoot. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Stompin' Tom Connors. Robert Charlebois. Anne Murray. Crowbar. Chilliwack. Carole Pope. Loverboy. Bryan Adams. The Barenaked Ladies. The...
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Author: Redding, Stan, Abagnale, Frank W.Summary:
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank...
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Author: ADAMS, JaneSummary:
To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery. She has alway been an enigma and over the past thirteen years, his imagination has fed on his last parting kiss goodbye before turning to leave.
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Author: Curtis, WayneSummary:
There is a dreamlike quality to many of the stories in this new collection from Wayne Curtis. In Wild Apples, he returns to familiar themes of love and longing, and the push-pull emotions which...
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Author: Mitchell, DavidSummary:
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in 21st-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for...
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Author: Cargill, C. RobertSummary:
In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure--from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust--noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the...
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Author: Tate, Mary Kate, Tate, NateSummary:
With little more than two backpacks, a camera and a tarp, Mandarin-speaking American brother and sister Nate and Mary Kate Tate traveled more than 9,700 miles throughout China to share the country...
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Author: Richards, David Adams, Paquin, Robert, Steenhout, Ivan, Raoult, Marie-Madeleine, Pana, OliviaSummary:
Somptueux roman dans la plus pure tradition des grandes sagas nord-américaines, Enquête dans la réserve nous plonge dans l’univers des Premières Nations. Dans la baie de Miramichi, par une belle...
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Author: Crais, RobertSummary:
A gripping novel that envelopes L.A. detectives Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets and murder.
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Author: Bowering, GeorgeSummary:
Bowering satirizes cowboy tales with the rollicking adventures of rangy, red-haired, hell-bent Caprice, who on her black stallion with only a bullwhip as a weapon, tracks her brother's...
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Author: Grisham, JohnSummary:
Just before committing suicide, a Mafia lawyer tells 11-year-old Mark Sway something that the police, the FBI and the Mafia want to know. With a one-dollar bill, Mark retains his own lawyer,...