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Flaubert's Parrot
Vintage Books |
December 11, 2013 |
190 pages
Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and with its enigmatic narrator, a retired English doctor, whose... More Info
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Restless
Vintage Books Canada |
May 29, 2007 |
336 pages
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigre living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy.
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Epitaph for a Spy
Vintage |
February 5, 2002 |
272 pages
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect–the American brother and sister, the expatriate... More Info
$18.95
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Vintage Canada |
August 26, 2008 |
128 pages
Not a story about me through their eyes then. Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out. Here then is a maze to begin, be in. (p. 20) Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje's... More Info
Burning the Days
Vintage |
September 29, 1998 |
400 pages
In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are... More Info
The Emperor's Children
Vintage |
June 26, 2007 |
478 pages
Three friends on the verge of their thirties--beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite; Danielle, a quiet TV producer; and Julius, a freelance writer--make their way through New York City, until Marina's idealistic cousin, Bootie, arrives to complicate their lives.
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The End of Growth
Vintage Canada |
September 3, 2013 |
320 pages
In an urgent follow-up to his bestselling Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What will it be like to live in a world where growth is over? Now updated with a new afterword. Economist and resource analyst Jeff... More Info
$16.95
The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Vintage Books Canada |
August 27, 2013 |
208 pages
From the award-winning author andGlobecolumnist Doug Saunders, a short, powerfully argued, debunking of the myth of the Muslim tide, which is being deployed to dangerous effect by numerous commentators and politicians in Canada, the United States and Europe. Even among people who would never... More Info
$22.95
Hold on to Your Kids
Vintage Books Canada |
August 13, 2013 |
320 pages
This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what... More Info
Champlain's Dream
Vintage Canada |
October 7, 2009 |
864 pages
In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner David Hackett Fischer magnificently brings to life the visionary adventurer who has straddled our history for 400 years. Champlain’s Dreamreveals, with rare immediacy and drama, the story of a remarkable man: a leader who... More Info
The Dream of Scipio
Vintage Canada |
May 13, 2003 |
400 pages
Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its centre, are the elements of this brilliantly ingenious novel, a follow-up to the international bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost. Now Ian Pears... More Info
Patrimony
Vintage |
June 3, 1996 |
240 pages
Patrimony, a true story, touches the emotions as strongly as anything Philip Roth has ever written. Roth watches as his eighty-six-year-old father—famous for his vigor, charm, and his repertoire of Newark recollections—battles with the brain tumor that will kill him. The son, full of love,... More Info
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An Exclusive Love
Vintage Canada |
January 31, 2012 |
192 pages
Two people who have grown old together decide to take their own lives. He is terminally ill; she doesn't want to be without him. One Sunday in autumn 1991, they carry out their plan. Vera and IstvÁn go to their deaths holding hands. It is the logical end of a love that shut out the entire rest of... More Info
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From Oslo to Iraq and the road map
Vintage |
August 9, 2005 |
352 pages
A collection of essays by the late journalist on the Middle East, published between 2000 and 2003, includes pieces on Clinton's negotiations on the "Law of Return" for Palestinians, the Bush administration's ill-advised allegiances to the Christian right and oil companies, and the writer's... More Info
Silent House
Vintage Canada |
July 2, 2013 |
352 pages
Never before published in English, Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar (formerly a fishing village, now a posh resort near Istanbul) the old widow Fatma awaits the... More Info
Sweet Tooth
Vintage Books Canada |
May 7, 2013 |
336 pages
Ian McEwan is back with a masterpiece to equal Atonement, entwining espionage and love in a thrilling new novel. Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge before taking a job with MI5 in London.... More Info
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Vintage Canada |
June 11, 2013 |
320 pages
With illustrations by award-winning comic artist Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges portrays a suffering nation on the cusp of widespread revolt and addresses Occupy Wall Street in his first book since the international protests began. In the tradition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hedges and Sacco travel... More Info
Pulse
Vintage Books Canada |
February 21, 2012 |
240 pages
From the 2011 winner of the Man Booker Prize, 14 stories that touch on longing and love, loss and friendship, and a great many passions in between. It's the strongest collection yet from Julian Barnes. From an imperial capital in the eighteenth century to Garibaldi's adventures in the nineteenth,... More Info
A Hologram for the King
Vintage Canada |
June 4, 2013 |
352 pages
A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian... More Info
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The End of Your Life Book Club
Vintage Canada |
June 4, 2013 |
352 pages
An inspiring memoir for fans of Joan Didion, Annie Lamott, and Mitch Albom, The End of Your Life Book Club is a beautiful celebration of literature and a profound testament to the ways we remember our loved ones. Mary Anne Schwalbe was a renowned educator who filled such august positions as... More Info
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Vintage Books Canada |
November 7, 2012 |
832 pages
A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world. Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new... More Info
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
$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
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The Birth House
Vintage Canada |
March 6, 2007 |
408 pages
Copy 2. Includes "special features".
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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
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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
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
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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
Makes me wanna holler
Vintage |
December 11, 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
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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The Master and Margarita
Vintage Books |
December 11, 1995 |
372 pages
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) From the Hardcover edition.
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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