Bulfinch's masterpiece of history and fable recounts the tales of Arthur and the Round Table and how the Arthurian legend has metamorphosed from medieval Welsh texts through French romances...
Search Results
-
Author: Bulfinch, ThomasSummary:
-
Author: King, ThomasSummary:
Two tales, set in a time “when animals and human beings still talked to each other,” display Thomas King’s cheeky humor and master storytelling skills. Freshly illustrated and reissued as an early...
-
Author: King, ThomasSummary:
From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle; Green Grass, Running Water and The Inconvenient Indian Thumps DreadfulWater's world is turned upside down when Nina...
-
Author: Kerber, JennySummary:
Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber...
-
Author: Sloniowski, Jeannette, Rose, MarilynSummary:
The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt,...
-
Author: Royal, PriscillaSummary:
It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land....
-
Author: Kruk, LaurieSummary:
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins,...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts -
Author: Meacham, JonSummary:
John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep...
-
Author: Proto, Neil ThomasSummary:
The Rights of My People reviews Liliuokalani's decades-long campaign for the dignity and sovereignty of Hawaii, particularly in the wake of the 1893 coup d'état, and the outright annexation in...
Genre: History and geography -
Author: King, StephenSummary:
A master storyteller at his best-the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when...
-
Author: Armstrong, Jeannette, Cariou, Warren, Eigenbrod, Renate, Hayden, Drew, Heath Justice, Daniel, Jeannotte, Marie-Hélène, King, Thomas, Lamy, Jonathan, LaRocque, Emma, Maracle, Lee, Martin, Keavy, McLeod, Neal, Pelletier, Jean-Pierre, Picard-Sioui, Louis-Karl, Sherman Alexie, Taylor, St-Amand, Isabelle, Vizenor, GeraldSummary:
Cette anthologie est une plongée dans la culture et dans l'imaginaire des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits. C'est aussi l'esquisse d'une pensée autochtone par...
-
Author: Royal, PriscillaSummary:
In the winter of 1282, snow and ice ravage East Anglia while Prioress Eleanor awaits the decision of her young maid, Gracia, found starving on the streets some years ago, whether to take vows or...
-
Author: Callender, KacenSummary:
Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love, and extraordinary power. With their signature "...
-
Author: Block, ThomasSummary:
In this disturbing, erudite and highly readable book by author, playwright and artist Tom Block, America is shown to be a surprising example of Machiavellian politics, utilizing all of the post-...
Genre: Political science -
Author: King, ThomasSummary:
Can a reality TV show solve a cold case? The crew of a true-crime reality TV show, Malice Aforethought, shows up in Chinook to do an episode about the death of Trudy Samuels. Trudy's death had...