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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Vintage Books Canada |
December 27, 2011 |
240 pages
Karen Armstrong explains how to practise the religion of compassion that her last books have preached. In November 2009 Armstrong and TED launched The Charter of Compassion, which states that "We call upon all men and women to restore compassion to the centre of morality and religion...to cultivate... More Info
$16.00
Push
Vintage |
May 19, 1996 |
192 pages
Professor:
Prof. Chris Vanderwees
Course Codes:
ENGL 2701A
Semester:
Summer-2013
"Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire," directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul GRAND JURY PRIZE and AUDIENCE AWARD winner at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of... More Info
$23.00
Fall on Your Knees
Vintage Canada |
August 26, 1997 |
576 pages
“What a wild ride — I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough,” Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie... More Info
$22.00
The Birth House
Vintage Canada |
March 6, 2007 |
408 pages
Copy 2. Includes "special features".
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$22.00
Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
Vintage Canada |
January 11, 2011 |
368 pages
A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the... More Info
$22.00
Save the Humans
Vintage Books Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
304 pages
An impassioned and inspiring story from the creator of the award-winning documentary Sharkwater. Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snakes and chasing after alligators, Rob Stewart, the award-winning documentary filmmaker behind Sharkwater, charts his development into one of the... More Info
$21.00
Outside the Box
Vintage Books Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
304 pages
When Canadian journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she delighted in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when Marshall gave birth to a son, she began to see how that food culture was eroding, especially within young families. Like their North American counterparts, Italian... More Info
$19.95
Purple Hibiscus
Vintage Books Canada |
March 26, 2013 |
320 pages
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. When Nigeria... More Info
Straight Man
Vintage |
June 9, 1998 |
391 pages
The author of Nobody's Fool chronicles a singularly eventful week in the life of William Henry Devereaux, Jr., a once-promising novelist and now the middle-aged chairman of a university English department in hilarious disarray. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour.
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Makes me wanna holler
Vintage |
May 19, 1995 |
416 pages
Examining the complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an African-American journalist recalls his own troubled childhood, his rehabilitation while in prison, and his successful Washington Post career. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. The author remembers his... More Info
The Master and Margarita
Vintage Books |
May 19, 1995 |
372 pages
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the Hardcover edition.
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$19.95
Come, Thou Tortoise
Vintage Canada |
March 9, 2010 |
432 pages
A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery. Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked... More Info
Cutting for Stone
Vintage Canada |
January 26, 2010 |
688 pages
Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted... More Info
$23.00
In One Person
Vintage Books Canada |
January 29, 2013 |
448 pages
His most political novel sinceThe Cider House RulesandA Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving'sIn One Personis a story of unfulfilled love--tormented, funny and affecting--and an intimate, unforgettable portrait of the novel's bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott. John Irving's new novel... More Info
$18.00
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Vintage Books |
March 5, 2013 |
288 pages
These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.... More Info
$21.00
The Thieves of Bay Street
Vintage Books Canada |
March 5, 2013 |
320 pages
A newsmaking exposé about why Canada's financial industry is a haven for fraud. Beneath the veneer of stability that saw Canada's banking sector through the financial crash of 2008, investigative reporter Bruce Livesey has uncovered a rampant failure of epidemic proportions. Though no large... More Info
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Vintage |
October 31, 1995 |
717 pages
"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in... More Info
$22.00
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Vintage Canada |
September 28, 2010 |
336 pages
What do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common? They all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil supplies and steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as cheap oil. Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a... More Info
The Trouble with Islam Today
Vintage Canada |
February 12, 2010 |
272 pages
In this controversial and groundbreaking book, Irshad Manji exposes the disturbing cornerstones of Islam as it is widely practiced today: tribal insularity, deep-seated anti-Semitism, and an uncritical acceptance of the Quran. But The Trouble with Islam Today ranges further than criticism, offering... More Info
$17.95
Crude World
Vintage |
August 10, 2010 |
288 pages
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the social, political, and environmental impact of petroleum on the countries that produce it. Every unhappy oil-producing... More Info
$22.00
Why Men Lie
Vintage Books Canada |
February 5, 2013 |
384 pages
Why Men Lieis about Effie, the fascinating sister of the troubled priest at the heart ofThe Bishop's Man. Effie has had her fair share of lovers and husbands, including the Gillis cousins from Cape Breton, who have been a source of as much guilt as joy. She first married John, then ran away to... More Info
$18.00
The Man Within My Head
Vintage Books |
January 22, 2013 |
256 pages
Recounts the author's life-long obsession with Graham Greene's writings on the experiences of being an outsider, which informed both the author's travels and his private explorations of his relationship with his elusive father. By the author of Abandon.
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It's Fine By Me
Vintage Books |
November 1, 2012 |
224 pages
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little... More Info
Wild Coast
Vintage Books |
June 12, 2012 |
358 pages
Presents an introduction to the region, describing its jungles and swamps, diverse and unusual wildlife, dangerous towns, indigenous tribes, and difficult history with European conquerors.
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$16.95
Portuguese Irregular Verbs 4
Vintage Canada |
February 7, 2012 |
144 pages
Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of the highly regardedPortuguese Irregular Verbs(200 LTD copies sold!) and a pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival (and owner of a... More Info
$21.00
Home
Vintage Books Canada |
January 8, 2013 |
160 pages
Frank Money is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically... More Info
$22.95
When the Body Says No
Vintage Canada |
February 3, 2004 |
320 pages
Whitehots April/04.
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$22.95
No Logo
Vintage Canada |
December 4, 2000 |
512 pages
Taking aim at the brand bullies.
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$10.95
What Katy Did
Vintage |
August 1, 2012 |
256 pages
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out.' Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her... More Info
John A
Vintage Canada |
October 28, 2008 |
560 pages
The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers. The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A.
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The Table Comes First
Vintage Books |
August 21, 2012 |
317 pages
Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“Youstilleat meat?” With our top chefs as deities and finest restaurants as places of pilgrimage, we have made food the stuff of secular seeking and transcendence, finding... More Info
$19.95
The Table Comes First
Vintage Books Canada |
August 21, 2012 |
336 pages
Never before have we cared so much about food. With inimitable charm and learning, Adam Gopnik charts America's recent and rapid evolution from commendably aware eaters to manic, compulsive gastronomes. It is a journey that begins in eighteenth-century France and carries us to the kitchens of the... More Info
The question of Palestine
Vintage |
April 7, 1992 |
273 pages
Argues for the existence of Palestine, examining the efforts of the Palestine Liberation Organization to focus attention on the turmoil that has beset their country since the Six-Day War, and adds a new preface and epilogue on the intifada and other recent developments
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$22.00
Wayne Gretzky's Ghost
Vintage Books Canada |
November 6, 2012 |
400 pages
For nearly 40 years, Roy MacGregor has brought our national sport alive on the pages of Canada's newspapers and magazines, and now the best of this writing is available in a volume that's a must-read for any hockey fan. He covers a list of hockey legends--players like Borje Salming, Jean Beliveau,... More Info
When the Gods Changed
Vintage Books Canada |
September 25, 2012 |
320 pages
The May 2, 2011 federal election turned Canadian governance upside down and inside out. In his newest and possibly most controversial book, Peter C. Newman argues that the Harper majority will alter Canada so much that we may have to change the country's name. But the most lasting impact of the... More Info
$19.95
Empire of Illusion
Vintage Canada |
August 24, 2010 |
240 pages
Pulitzer prizewinner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can... More Info
$21.00
The Price of Civilization
Vintage Books Canada |
August 21, 2012 |
352 pages
For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But the bestselling author ofThe End of PovertyandCommon Wealthturns his attention to his own home, the United States, inThe Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for... More Info
$22.00
The Cat's Table
Vintage Books Canada |
June 12, 2012 |
288 pages
In the early 1950s in Ceylon an eleven-year-old boy is put alone aboard a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the insignificant "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's table as can be--with two other lone boys and a small group of strange fellow passengers: one appears to be a... More Info
$22.00
The Uninvited Guests
Vintage Canada |
April 17, 2012 |
272 pages
It's rural England, just after the turn of the last century. Charlotte married Edward Shift after the sudden death of her first husband, Horace Torrington. They live at Sterne, the home they are in danger of losing due to a financial crisis, with Charlotte's three children: Emerald, Clovis and... More Info
101 Letters to a Prime Minister
Vintage Books Canada |
October 30, 2012 |
448 pages
From the mailbox of the Prime Minister's Office to your bookshelf, a list of more than 100 books that every Canadian should read. This largely one-sided correspondence from the "loneliest book club in the world" is a compendium for bibliophiles and those who follow the Canadian political scene.... More Info
$21.00
This Crazy Time
Vintage |
June 19, 2012 |
384 pages
From one of the world's most controversial campaigners, This Crazy Time is the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research. Passionate, profound, inspiring and funny,... More Info
The Marriage Plot
Vintage Books Canada |
September 4, 2012 |
416 pages
The brilliant and satisfying new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides. It's the early 1980s--America is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on the cobble-streets of College Hill, the wised up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to... More Info
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Death of the Liberal Class
Vintage Canada |
August 30, 2011 |
256 pages
The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good,... More Info
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Vintage Books Canada |
July 31, 2012 |
240 pages
In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette publishedOranges,the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Orangesbecame an international bestseller, inspired an award-winning BBC adaptation, and was... More Info
Irma Voth
Vintage Canada |
March 27, 2012 |
272 pages
Miriam Toews' new novel brings us back to the beloved voice of her award-winning, #1 bestseller A Complicated Kindness, and to a Mennonite community in the Mexican desert. Original and brilliant, she is a master of storytelling at the height of her powers, who manages with trademark wry wit and a... More Info
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