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On earth as it is

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: January 0001

Seller ID: 11025

ISBN: 067697399X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Under Major Domo Minor

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: January 2016

Seller ID: 65181

ISBN: 0062572709

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Help Me, Jacques Cousteau

By: Adamson, Gil

Price: $8.50

Publisher: House of Anansi Press: May 2010

Seller ID: 15282

ISBN: 0887847994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With her multiple-award-winning, bestselling, and critically acclaimed novel The Outlander, Gil Adamson established herself as one of North America's preeminent fiction writers. But ten years before The Outlander Adamson published another book of fiction with a small press, and writers, readers, and critics immediately sat up and took note. With this new updated edition, Adamson s fascinating portrait of a young woman s coming of age is ready for readers once again. Help Me, Jacques Cousteau presents the life and times of Hazel, who is born into an extraordinary family al...
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The Outlander

By: Adamson, Gil

Price: $10.95

Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc.: January 2008

Seller ID: 63798

ISBN: 0887848281

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

A history of forgetting

By: Adderson, Caroline

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Patrick Crean Editions: January 1999

Seller ID: 49881

ISBN: 1894433017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Losing It

By: Alan Cumyn

Price: $14.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: January 2001

Seller ID: 41538

ISBN: 0771024878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his family, marriage, career, sanity, and life are brought to the brink of ruin in the aftermath of a trip he makes with a student, the intense young poet Sienna Chu, who tweaks into florescence a long-harboured, secret sexual fetish. Then add to the mix the misadventures of his wife s mentally failing mother, a shy night prowler, and Sienna s explosi...
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The Next Rainy Day

By: Alexander, Philip David

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Dundurn: November 2005

Seller ID: 53327

ISBN: 1550025937

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Long-listed for the 2006 Re-Lit Award for Best Novel

Grant McRae has a loving wife, a healthy son, and a new career with the local police department. Bert Commerford has a pretty good life too, as the proud owner of Commerford & Sons Auto Service. But Bert's sons are polar opposites: Travis is a budding junior hockey star, and Russell is a thug loaded with resentment for Bert. When tragedy befalls the Commerfords, Bert finds himself too haunted by his murky past to stop his life from buckling. Russell leaves home and almost immediately finds disaster as his path intersect...
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Fifteen Dogs

By: Alexis, Andre

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Coach House Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 60945

ISBN: 1552453057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards

Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

" Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read ... A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." - Kirkus Reviews

"This might be the best set-up of the spring." - The Globe & Mail

"Andre Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." - Toronto Star View More...

Fifteen Dogs

By: Alexis, Andre

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Coach House Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 61453

ISBN: 1552453057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards
Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
" Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read ... A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." - Kirkus Reviews

"This might be the best set-up of the spring." - The Globe & Mail
"Andre Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." - Toronto Star View More...

Fifteen Dogs

By: Alexis, Andre

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Coach House Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 61491

ISBN: 1552453057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards
Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
" Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read ... A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." - Kirkus Reviews

"This might be the best set-up of the spring." - The Globe & Mail
"Andre Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." - Toronto Star View More...

Childhood

By: Alexis, Andre

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Emblem Editions: January 2000

Seller ID: 62815

ISBN: 0771006675

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, Andr Alexis's prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood - or perhaps the loss of childhood - of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the '50s and '60s, Thomas is abandoned to the care of his eccentric Trinidadian grandmother. Then, at ten, his mother, Katarina, reclaims him, taking him to Ottawa and to the once-splendid Victorian home of Henry Wing, a gentle conjurer whose love of science and the imagination becomes an important legacy. But is he Thomas's father? Moving and w...
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Fifteen Dogs

By: Alexis, Andre

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Coach House Books: April 2015

Seller ID: 28476

ISBN: 1552453057

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the 2015 Toronto Book Awards
Winner of the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
" Alexis] devises an inventive romp through the nature of humanity in this beautiful, entertaining read ... A clever exploration of our essence, communication, and how our societies are organized." - Kirkus Reviews

"This might be the best set-up of the spring." - The Globe & Mail
"Andre Alexis has established himself as one of our preeminent voices." - Toronto Star View More...

Ravenscraig

By: Altner, Sandi Krawchenko

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Franklin & Gallagher, LLC: December 2012

Seller ID: 34751

ISBN: 0988224917

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Romance, scandal, and tragedy grip the lives of two families and threaten to destroy them both in Ravenscraig, by Sandi Krawchenko Altner. Winner of the 2012 Carol Shields Book Award, Ravenscraig, pitches rich against poor in the height of the immigration boom a century ago. Rupert Willows buries his cruel past and schemes his way to wealth and power when he buys his opulent home, Ravenscraig Hall. Zev Zigman, a devout Jew, mounts a desperate struggle to bring his family out of czarist Russia. At the center is the feisty Maisie, who hides her Jewish roots to enter the world of "The English" as...
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The Miss Hereford stories

By: Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre: January 1994

Seller ID: 40391

ISBN: 1550541609

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Next Episode

By: Aquin, Hubert

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New Canadian Library: January 2001

Seller ID: 21189

ISBN: 0771034717

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

First published in l965, Hubert Aquin's Next Episode is a disturbing and yet deeply moving novel of dissent and distress. As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where he has been detained. Sheila Fischman's bold new translation captures the pulsating life of Aquin's complex exploration of the political realities of contemporary Quebec.
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Moral Disorder: And Other Stories

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Seal Books: September 2007

Seller ID: 38102

ISBN: 1400025044

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.
In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences -- the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and...
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The Robber Bride

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Emblem Editions: January 1998

Seller ID: 63055

ISBN: 0771008546

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride is inspired by "The Robber Bridegroom," a wonderfully grisly tale from the Brothers Grimm in which an evil groom lures three maidens into his lair and devours them, one by one.
But in her version, Atwood brilliantly recasts the monster as Zenia, a villainess of demonic proportions, and sets her loose in the lives of three friends, Tony, Charis, and Roz. All three "have lost men, spirit, money, and time to their old college acquaintance, Zenia. At various times, and in various emotional disguises, Zenia has insinuated her way into their lives and pr...
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Alias Grace (TV Tie-in)

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Emblem Editions: August 2017

Seller ID: 63806

ISBN: 0735253390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformer...
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The Year of the Flood

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $14.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: September 2009

Seller ID: 64032

ISBN: 0771008449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid's Tale.
Adam One, the kindly leader of God's Gardeners -- a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion -- has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have been spared: Ren, a young trapeze-dancer, locked inside a high-end sex club; and one of God's Gardeners, Toby, who is barricaded inside a luxurious spa. Have others s...
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The Handmaid's Tale

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Emblem Editions: September 2011

Seller ID: 64034

ISBN: 0771008791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent memories of life in the "time before" and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid's Tale<...
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Category: Canadian Fiction