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  • Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Patonby Harold Bloom

    Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00

    Set in South Africa before the adoption of apartheid, Alan Paton's classic novel presents a family and a nation struggling to embrace change and resist the harmful effects of violence, apathy, and inequality. This new edition gathers a range of essential critical commentary on the work and features an introduction by scholar Harold Bloom. Paton... more...

  • Rewriting Historyby Andreas Gaile

    Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 93.60

    Peter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History argues that taken together Carey’s novels make up a more...

  • Chronicles of a Midlife Crisisby Robyn Harding

    Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 15.00

    There are two sides to every breakup. Lucy had no clue that her husband of sixteen years was about to bolt. Now she's dealing with shock, loneliness, and girlfriends who alternately pity her and provoke her. She also-unbelievably-is apparently competing with her own teenage daughter for a new man's attention. Trent pictured freedom, self-discovery...and... more...

  • The Ivory Thoughtby Gerald Lynch; Shoshannah Ganz; Josephene Kealey

    University of Ottawa Press 2008; US$ 19.99

    If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918?2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as ?the world?s most Canadian poet? (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought:... more...

  • Mistletoe and Mayhemby Kate Kingsbury

    Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 14.00

    At the Pennyfoot Hotel, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more than ever. Cecily's dear friend Madeline arrives with her new baby and adds a kissing bough to the holiday decorations. But after a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the bough and turn up dead, the staff is convinced a serial killer is spending... more...

  • The Semiconducting Dictionary (Our Strindberg)by Natalee Caple

    ECW Press 2010; US$ 12.95

    A playful, feminist revisioning of a historical literary figure, this part poetry collection, part biography reimagines August Strindberg—the misanthropic, misogynistic, hotly debated master of modern theater and a contemporary of Ibsen—as a woman playwright living as a man. In mixing prose and poetry of various forms from different historical... more...

  • L' environnement traductionnelby André Clas; Safar Hayssam

    Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1992; US$ 26.25

    La traduction est vraiment l'outil indispensable du monde moderne et de la modernité. Mais on sait qu'elle demande du temps, beaucoup de temps, trop de temps parfois! Il s'agit alors de rationaliser le travail indispensable du traducteur, de créer un environnement qui lui permette de mieux faire face à sa tâche d'être... more...

  • A Studied Deathby Betsy Struthers

    Dundurn 1996; US$ 11.99

    While the students blame the lack of security on campus for Sophias murder, Rosalie investigates Sophias life in search of a motive. more...

  • The Self-Completing Treeby Dorothy Livesay

    Dundurn 1999; US$ 16.95

    This definitive collection from the Grand Dame of Canadian letters charts the fascinating domains of her own life and the universal struggles we all share. more...

  • In This Poem I Amby Robin Skelton; Harold Rhenisch

    Dundurn 2007; US$ 15.99

    Editor Harold Rhenisch brings together a collection that captures the grand style and thematic strength of poet Robin Skelton. more...