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The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
HarperCollins |
November 3, 2016 |
128 pages
Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set 'In Britain's land beyond the seas' during the Age of Chivalry, The Lay of Aotrou... More Info
$17.50
Lucky Peach Issue 21: The Los Angeles Issue
December 13, 2016 |
144 pages
"Lucky Peach" is a quarterly journal of food and writing. Each issue focuses on a single theme, and explores that theme through essays, art, photography, and recipes. The theme for "Lucky Peach's" 21st issue is Los Angeles.
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$18.00
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?
December 1, 2016 |
128 pages
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady? is an upbeat look at aging and the impacts of Canada's increasingly aged population through the eyes of a ninety-year-old woman. Far from seeing older citizens as a burden and a strain on our public health care system, Lillian Zimmerman gracefully, and often... More Info
$21.00
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!
December 27, 2016 |
32 pages
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug. Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy... More Info
$24.00
Rad Families
Fernwood Publishing |
September 1, 2016 |
200 pages
Rad Families: A Celebration honours the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families. This is not an anthology of experts, or how-to articles on perfect parenting; it often doesn't even try to provide answers. Instead, the writers strive to be honest and... More Info
$18.00
About Canada
September 1, 2016 |
144 pages
In a public-private partnership, or P3, a private, for-profit corporation assumes control over the design, construction, financing and operation of public infrastructure and services. P3s have been used in Canada since the early 1990s, but they are now so common that they have become the standard... More Info
$21.95
The Elders Are Watching
Raincoast Book Dist Limited |
July 23, 2017 |
54 pages
Paintings of Pacific Northwest Indians and their view of the world by Canadian artist Roy Henry Vickers are accompanied by poems emphasizing the importance of caring for the environment.
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With illustrations by award-winning comic artist Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges portrays a suffering nation on...
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The Laughing Cure: Book Signing with author Dr. Brian King
Dr. Brian King is a psychologist and stand-up comedian whose humor therapy seminars are attended by more than ten thousand people each year. In The Laughing Cure, King combines wit with medical research to reveal the benefits of laughter and humor on physical and emotional health.
2017
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Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics, author Blair Rutherford in Discussion with Andriata Chironda and Lameck Zingano
In the early twentieth-first century, white-owned farms in Zimbabwe were subject to large-scale occupations by black urban dwellers in an increasingly violent struggle between national electoral politics, land reform, and contestations over democracy.
2017
20
Sep
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Manufacturing Urgency: Author Corinne Mason In Conversation with Inter Pares
Manufacturing Urgency: the Development Industry and Violence against Women investigates anti-violence policies in international development, demonstrating that strategies intended to end violence against women are constructed to serve ends other than the needs of women.
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