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Series: The Munk DebatesNorth America’s Lost Decade?Paperback
Paul Krugman9781770892002
$14.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Feb 25, 2012
As stock markets gyrate, Europe lurches from crisis to crisis, and recovery in the United States slows, the future of the North American economy is more uncertain than ever. Can individual entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and governments create a new era of sustained economic growth? Or, will the ongoing financial crisis, political dysfunction in the United States, and the rise of emerging nations erode living standards in North America for the long term? In this edition of the Munk Debates -- Canada's premier international debate serie... + Read More
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Series: Thrifty GardeningPaperback
Marjorie Harris9780887842719
$19.95GARDENING
Mar 03, 2012
Bestselling author and gardening columnist Marjorie Harris offers a timely and entertaining guide for gardeners at every stage of life. Whether you're moving into your first apartment or condo, upgrading to a house, or downsizing to smaller digs, Harris shares the best tips on how to create a beautiful garden for any space — all on a budget The highly anticipated sequel to her popular book Thrifty: Living the Frugal Life with Style, Thrifty Gardening marries Harris's passion for gardening with her thrifty lifestyle savvy so that everyone can cr... + Read More
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Series: The Secret of the CrownHardcover
John Fraser CM9781770890350
$29.95HISTORY
Mar 24, 2012
Award-winning journalist, author, and royal authority John Fraser explores the endurance and allure of the Crown in Canada. With his trademark wit and artful agility, Fraser looks at the Crown’s evolution from the Age of Deference to the era of celebrity to the present popular revival. He examines the differences between tribal monarchy and constitutional monarchy, the key roles of the governor general and the lieutenant governor, and the media’s insatiable appetite for the Royal Family. Finally, he speculates on the future reign of Charles, Pr... + Read More
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Series: Tecumseh and BrockThe War of 1812Hardcover
James Laxer9780887842610
$29.95HISTORY
Jun 02, 2012
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war, by bringing to life two major contests: the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditiona... + Read More
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Series: Somewhere Over the SeaPaperback
Halfdan W. Freihow9781770891005
$14.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jun 02, 2012
In this deeply moving and elegantly written book, Halfdan W. Freihow takes Gabriel, his young autistic son, on a journey through the full spectrum of human experience. With great love, profound tenderness, and gentle wit, Freihow captures Gabriel's triumphs and disappointments, his joy and frustration, while struggling to help him make sense of a world that he himself does not, and cannot, fully comprehend. A powerful, honest, and achingly beautiful narrative, Somewhere Over the Sea describes a complex, loving relationship that is sometimes fra... + Read More
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Series: The UnmemntioablePaperback
Erín Moure9781770890046
$19.95POETRY
Feb 15, 2012
Shortlisted for the Kobzar Literary Award.The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is se... + Read More
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Series: TestamentPaperback
Dennis Lee9781770891111
$19.95POETRY
Mar 10, 2012
Testament is the summation of Dennis Lee’s decade-long exploration of the dilemma of contemporary existence. Incorporating and rethinking the work published in Un and Yesno, and featuring many completely new poems, this startling collection reminds us anew of the catastrophic reality we have made of our planet, while simultaneously insisting on a particular kind of hope for our future. Testament continues Lee’s radical and inventive use of language, shaping the familiar into the shockingly new. It is a landmark achievement, and a fitting end to... + Read More
Chaser is a book of poems that grows from the troubling premise that each of us lives in a state of pre-diagnosis. Our bodies are never under our control, and when illness strikes we must redraw the boundary between the well and the unwell, interacting with the world differently. In these poems, the experience of illness is applied to individuals, communities, economic systems, and travel between nations. In bracing, electric language and form, the book’s three threads — one following a group of patients and a character known as Invalid, one ex... + Read More
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Series: The New MeasuresPaperback
A.F. Moritz9781770891104
$19.95POETRY
Apr 07, 2012
Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award: Poetry and the League of Canadian Poets: Raymond Souster AwardThe follow up to The Sentinel, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, A. F. Moritz’s The New Measures is a bold collection of fiery, passionate, visionary, and fiercely singing new work. These poems make unique music, by turns tender and forceful, terrified and assured, grateful and enraged. They revel in pleasure, and the thirst for more pleasure. And they insist on the hope -- perhaps paradoxical, perhaps impossible, yet never ext... + Read More
The best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured each year with the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world's most prestigious and valuable literary awards. Since 2001 this annual prize has acted as a tremendous spur to interest in and recognition of poetry, focusing worldwide attention on the formidable talent of poets writing in English. The judges for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize are Heather McHugh, David O'Meara, and Fiona Sampson. And each year the editor of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology... + Read More
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Series: Kim's ConveniencePaperback
Ins Choi9781770892231
$14.95DRAMA
May 12, 2012
Winner of Best New Play and the Patron's Pick Award at Toronto's Fringe Festival, Kim's Convenience is the critically acclaimed, wildly popular, smash-hit debut by celebrated actor, playwright, and poet Ins Choi. Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. There, he spends his time serving an eclectic array of customers, catching petty thieves, and helpfully keeping the police apprised of illegally parked Japanese ... + Read More
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Series: Dr. Brinkley's TowerPaperback
Robert Hough9780887843198
$24.95FICTION
Feb 21, 2012
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Equal parts Mark Twain and Gabriel García Márquez, Robert Hough's wildly imaginative new novel takes us to 1931 and Corazón de la Fuente, a tiny Mexican border town where the only industry is a run-down brothel. Enter Dr. Romulus Brinkley and his gargantuan radio tower, built to broadcast his revolutionary goat-gland fertility operation. Fortunes in Corazón change overnight, but not all for the good. Word of the new prosperity spreads, ... + Read More
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Series: The Juliet StoriesPaperback
Carrie Snyder9781770890022
$22.95FICTION
Mar 03, 2012
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of this tumult, Juliet's family lives outside of the boundaries of ordinary life. They've escaped, and the ordinary rules don't apply. Threat is pervasive, danger is real, but the extremity of the situation also produces a ... + Read More
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Series: AblutionsPaperback
Patrick deWitt9781770892149
$18.95FICTION
Apr 21, 2012
Author of the bestseller and award-winning novel The Sisters Brothers.A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson`s. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to los... + Read More
From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most hilarious, and most heartbreaking. The stories told here are at once a cache, a repository, of a seven-year period in the author's life; and, too, a gymnasium, a place where she can flex her prodigious wit and her dazzling stash of literary tricks Deft with matters both low- and highbrow (here are stories about 80s... + Read More
Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation. Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America. In this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous works, some new. This time, Blais lets us into the consciousness of fifteen-year-old Mai, an unusually perceptive young woman whose uncensored observa... + Read More
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Series: InsidePaperback
Alix Ohlin9781770892064
$22.95FICTION
Jun 16, 2012
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book When Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward. At the same time, her troubled teen... + Read More
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Series: Signs and WondersPaperback
Alix Ohlin9781770892088
$18.95FICTION
Jun 16, 2012
A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick In this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life. In "You Are What You Like" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying old friend. In "Robbing the Cradle" Lisette does everything she can to give her husband a baby, committing an act of desperation. In "The Idea Man"... + Read More
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Series: People ParkPaperback
Pasha Malla9780887842160
$24.95FICTION
Jul 01, 2012
"Pasha Malla is an impressive young voice that gives hope for a future generation of new Canadian writing talent." — Globe and MailIt’s the Silver Jubilee of People Park, an urban experiment conceived by a radical mayor and zealously policed by the testosterone-powered New Fraternal League of Men. To celebrate, the insular island city has engaged the illustrationist Raven, who promises to deliver the most astonishing spectacle its residents have ever seen. As the entire island comes together for the event, we meet an unforgettable cross-section... + Read More
Ever wonder how to best dress your apple-shaped figure? Do you know the top twelve rules on how to properly (and discreetly) conduct an affair? The Book for Dangerous Women is a sly, elegant encyclopedia of practical wisdom by three women who know a bit about life and bring their myriad of experiences of bear on topics such as marriage, infidelity, motherhood, sex, fashion, friendship, work, and self-discovery. More than five hundred entries of safe advice show us how to get through life with a little grace and a lot of fun — from ... + Read More
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Series: The Deleted WorldPaperback
Tomas Transtromer9781770891982
$16.95POETRY
Dec 09, 2011
Tomas Tranströmer -- the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature -- can be clearly recognized not just as Sweden's most important poet, but as a writer of international stature whose work speaks to us now with undiminished clarity and resonance. Long celebrated as a master of the arresting, suggestive image, Tranströmer is a poet of the liminal: his verse is drawn again and again to thresholds of light and of water, the boundaries between man and nature, wakefulness and dream. A deeply spiritual but secular writer, his skepticism about ... + Read More
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Series: Waiting for the MonsoonPaperback
Threes Anna9780887842573
$24.95FICTION
Feb 14, 2012
India, 1995. Charlotte Bridgwater lives with her father, a former British general, and just one loyal servant in a stately old mansion in the town of Rampur. Money is scarce and the once grand estate is crumbling. In a desperate bid to generate income, Charlotte rents a room to Madan, an Indian tailor with an astonishing talent for making beautiful garments. Madan is unable to communicate verbally, but the two have an immediate and electrifying connection. And, as the extreme heat before the impending monsoon paralyzes the residents of Rampur, ... + Read More
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Series: Anansi Book Club EditionsUnder the Hawthorn TreeAnansi Book Club editionPaperback
Ai Mi9780887842917
$19.95FICTION
Feb 14, 2012
Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a "capitalist," is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings. When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region, she meets geology student Jianxin, nicknamed "Old Three," who... + Read More
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Series: Puppy LovePaperback
Frauke Scheunemann9781770890183
$18.95FICTION
Mar 24, 2012
Hercules is a dachshund, who was rescued from the animal shelter by the sweet and loving Caroline. Life for this little dog would be perfect if it weren't for Caroline's new boyfriend, Thomas. Hercules and his new friend, Mr. Beck -- a tomcat and a good judge of human nature -- devise a shrewd plot to get rid of Thomas and to find a new companion for Caroline. But when things don't work out with the men that make the dachshund’s short list -- no matter how many romantic moonlight strolls he gets her to take with them -- it comes down to just on... + Read More
A Guardian Book of the Year and Chapters/Indigo Best BookIn the foothills of a mountain range in northern Pakistan is a beautiful orchard. Swallows wheel and dive silently over the branches, and the scent of jasmine threads through the air. Pomegranates hang heavy, their skins darkening to a deep crimson. Neglected now, the trees are beginning to grow wild, their fruit left to spoil on the branches.Many miles away, a frail young man is flung out of prison gates. Looking up, scanning the horizon for swallows in flight, he stumbles and collapses ... + Read More
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Series: Grow UpPaperback
Ben Brooks9781770891012
$18.95FICTION
May 12, 2012
YouTube suicides, possible pregnancies, drug comedowns, and getting straight As -- meet Jasper: a seventeen-year-old with his hands full. Weekdays are packed with visits to the psychologist, mounting parental pressure to achieve in school, scouring the Internet for porn, and trying to figure out whether his stepfather murdered his ex-wife. Weekends are focused on finding the next party, the best drugs, and sex -- preferably with Georgia Treely -- but really with anyone he can get. Brilliantly encapsulating the nihilistic and disaffected voice o... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee NovelThe Wild Beasts of WuhanAn Ava Lee Novel: Book 3Paperback
Ian Hamilton9780887842535
$22.95FICTION
Feb 01, 2012
Ava Lee uncovers the secret world of art fraud in the third book in the wildly popular and bestselling Ava Lee series.Uncle and Ava are summoned by Wong Changxing, “The Emperor of Hubei” and one of the most powerful men in China, when he discovers that the Fauvist paintings he recently acquired are in fact forgeries.Ava uncovers a ring of fraudulent art dealers and follows their twisted trail to Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Dublin, London, and New York. But the job is further complicated by Wong’s second wife, the cunning and seductive May Ling,... + Read More
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Series: An Ava Lee NovelThe Red Pole of MacauAn Ava Lee Novel: Book 4Paperback
Ian Hamilton9780887842542
$19.95FICTION
Sep 01, 2012
"A terrific story . . . Hamilton has created a marvellous character in Ava Lee." — Margaret Cannon, Globe and MailIn The Red Pole of Macau, Ava’s half-brother Michael is desperate to pull out of a multi-million-dollar real estate deal in the territory of Macau. The developers are threatening to halt construction unless Michael and his business partner put up another $80 million; the bank is looking for repayment on their loan; and her father is prepared to sell everything to protect his first-born son.When Ava enlists Uncle for help, she discov... + Read More
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Series: Pigeon EnglishPaperback
Stephen Kelman9781770890312
$18.95FICTION
Mar 17, 2012
"Pigeon English is a triumph." -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and the 2011 Guardian First Book Award Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate in London, England. The second-best runner in his grade, Harri races through his new life in his personalized trainers -- the Adidas stripes drawn on with black marker -- blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. With equal f... + Read More
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Series: DarkMarketPaperback
Misha Glenny9781770891067
$18.95TRUE CRIME
May 12, 2012
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize" . . . an engrossing yarn . . . DarkMarket offers an eminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages." — Wall Street JournalDo you think your computer is secure? Don’t be so confident, says Misha Glenny, acclaimed journalist and author of the international bestseller McMafia. His explosive new book DarkMarket explores the rise of hackers and how ? through cyber crime, cyber warfare, and cyber industrial espionage ? they have supplanted traditional crime syndicates to become t... + Read More
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Series: The AntagonistPaperback
Lynn Coady9781770891043
$18.95FICTION
Jun 09, 2012
". . . by turns angry, funny, tender, and sad . . ." — Globe andMailThe hulking Gordon Rankin has spent his life cast as an enforcer, a goon — by his classmates, his coaches, and especially his own father, Gordon Senior, an unfortunate victim of small man syndrome. Rank duly accepts his role and spends the majority of his high school and university years implementing the violent commands of others. Until one day tragedy strikes, with only Rank to blame. With nobody to turn to, he disappears. But almost twenty years later Rank discovers that an ... + Read More
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Series: The O'BriensPaperback
Peter Behrens9781770890336
$18.95FICTION
Apr 28, 2012
"A major accomplishment." — New York TimesThe O’Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O’Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his two brothers and two sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the family and died in the South African war; their frail mother has remarried the abusive and lecherous Mick Heaney. Joe and his siblings escape the poverty and violence of the Pontiac, but as Joe travels the continent, building a business and a bright young family with ... + Read More
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Series: Easy to LikePaperback
Edward Riche9781770891050
$18.95FICTION
Jul 14, 2012
" . . . hilarious . . .laugh-out-loud funny . . . " — Maclean’sShortlisted for the BMO Winterset AwardFrom award-winning author Edward Riche comes a savagely funny satire about "C"-list screenwriter and wannabe vintner Elliot Johnson. Disillusioned by his floundering Los Angeles existence ? his writing career is at a low, his struggling vineyard is being investigated by the Feds, and his son, a former child star, is in prison ? Elliot does what any self-respecting wino would do: escape to France. But fate has other things in store. Stranded in ... + Read More
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Series: The Emperor of LiesPaperback
Steve Sem-Sandberg9781770890343
$19.95FICTION
Aug 18, 2012
Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction PrizeIn February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second-largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lódz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director ? and the elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto’s very existence. From one of Sweden’s most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors, The Emperor of Lies chronicles the tale of Rumkowski’s monarchical rule over a quarter-million Jews for the next... + Read More
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Series: Under a Cruel StarA Life in Prague 1941-1968Paperback
Heda Margolius Kovály9781847084767
$19.99BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Jan 05, 2012
The daughter of prosperous Jews, Heda Kovály found her world turned upside down with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. Deported to Lodz Ghetto in 1941 and then to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered, in 1944, Kovaly made a miraculous escape from a column of prisoners being marched to Bergen-Belsen in early 1945. On reuniting with her husband in Prague after the war, things started to look more hopeful. Rudolf Margolius became a deputy minister of foreign trade. But in 1952 he and 13 other government officials were tried and 11 ... + Read More
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Series: In An Antique LandPaperback
Amitav Ghosh9781847081940
$17.99TRAVEL
Jan 05, 2012
In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller’s tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten-year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.
Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlour, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson –- all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister. He could fall in with their patterns, but it would take him a while to carve out his own. In this vivid and compelling debut, Wainaina takes us through his school days, his fai... + Read More
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria –- a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was murdered there, and she didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to rediscover and come to terms with the country her father loved. She travelled from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog s... + Read More
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Series: Incoming!Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the MeteoritePaperback
Ted Nield9781847082640
$17.99SCIENCE
Feb 02, 2012
More than 470 million years ago, a stupendous collision in the Asteroid Belt bombarded the Earth with meteorites of all sizes. New research suggests that the resulting ecological disturbance may have been responsible for the single greatest increase in biological diversity since the origin of complex life. Introducing these fresh discoveries, Ted Nield challenges the orthodox view that meteorite strikes are bad news for life on Earth.Interpreted as omens of doom or objects of power, Meteorites have been the stuff of legend throughout human hist... + Read More
As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with a Great Writer and his house.' Great Writer's Household Tips covers all your household needs, indoors and outdoors, from pruning a rose bush with Pablo Neruda to mending a dripping tap with Jean-Paul Sartre. Throwing a tea-party? Irvine Welsh has the recipe for the perfect chocolate cake, though that's not all he's cooking. Brilliant, hilarious, and always pitch-perfect, this omnibus edition of Mark Crick's wonderful books of literary pastiche will inform and ente... + Read More
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Series: Machiavelli's LawnThe Great Writers' Garden CompanionHardcover
Mark Crick9781847081346
$18.95HUMOR
May 01, 2012
Twelve great authors offer their top tips on gardening, from Sylvia Plath's struggles with autumn bulbs, to J. D. Salinger's helpful hints on growing from seed. In Cormac McCarthy's hands a landowner's trip to the potting shed becomes a right of passage from which he will return transformed. Zola's striking miner finds life on the allotment more brutal and short than anything he imagined at the coal face. Carver's anti-hero plants up a neglected hanging basket in a doomed attempt to repair his relationship with his wife. And Wodehouse's hero, a... + Read More
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Series: Sartre's SinkHardcover
Mark Crick9781847080479
$18.95HUMOR
May 01, 2012
For too long DIY books have suffered the neglect of the literary establishment. Finally, here in one volume, are the essential DIY tips of the world's greatest writers. Dostoyevsky tells of a young man employed by an elderly lady to retile her bathroom; Caesar puts up a shelf for his rebellious tribe of adolescenti; the existentialist hero of the Sartre pastiche is both disgusted and nauseated to discover in a blocked sink the revelation of his own condition. We also learn how to repair a dripping tap under Conrad's eyes, replace a window pane ... + Read More
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Series: The Magazine of New WritingGranta 118Exit StrategiesPaperback
John Freeman9781905881550
$19.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Feb 15, 2012
You've said it, you've done it, you've married it, you've lived it, you've invaded it. What now? In this issue John Barth contemplates the end of writing fiction. Alice Munro explores the interior world of an elderly woman losing her memory. Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his family's escape from the Bosnian War, and the love and fate of Mek, their Irish setter. David Long writes about a man haunted by a sexual encounter decades ago. Claire Messud searches for her father's Beirut, long since gone, as he himself lies dying in a hospice in ... + Read More
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Series: The Magazine of New WritingGranta 119BritainPaperback
John Freeman9781905881567
$19.95LITERARY COLLECTIONS
May 15, 2012
It is a nation defined by tradition and built on expansion. Now it has more languages spoken within its capital than any other city in the world. What are the stories Britain is telling about itself today?
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Series: Sugar in the BloodA Family's Story of Slavery and EmpireHardcover
Andrea Stuart9781846270710
$34.95HISTORY
Aug 15, 2012
In the 1640s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first crop, the cane revolution was underway and would go on to transform the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing a thriving worldwide industry that bound together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers. As it grew, this sweet colonial trade fuelled the Enlightenment a... + Read More
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