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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

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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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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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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The Cure for Death By Lightning

By: Anderson-Dargatz, Gail

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Vintage Canada: January 1997

Seller ID: 62986

ISBN: 0394281802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother's scrapbook, under the recipe for my father's favourite oatcakes: Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar and soak for an hour more."
So begins Gail Anderson-Dargatz's extraordinary first novel, a seductive and thrilling book that captures the heart and imagination, as filled with the magic and mystery of life as it is with its lurking evils and gut-wrenching hardships. The Cure for Death by Lightning sold more than a staggering 100,000 c...
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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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Cat's Eye

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Doubleday: January 1989

Seller ID: 25147

ISBN: 0770423345

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Margaret Atwood follows her international best-seller The Handmaid's Tale with a breathtaking contemporary novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her own life.
Returning to the city of her youth for a retrospective of her art, controversial painter Elaine Risley is engulfed by vivid images of her past. Strongest of all is the figure of Cordelia, leader of the trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, and a woman--...
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Good Bones

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $6.95

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: September 1993

Seller ID: 61585

ISBN: 088910431X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

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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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Good Bones

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $10.50

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: January 1997

Seller ID: 40347

ISBN: 0771034636

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence.
Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things -- precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world which her readers recognize at once.
From the eBook edition.
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The Blind Assassin

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Seal: January 2001

Seller ID: 50808

ISBN: 0770428827

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious.
The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car ...
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Cat's Eye

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Mcclelland and Stewart: January 1988

Seller ID: 53378

ISBN: 0771008171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here, in Toronto, the city of her youth, she confronts the submerged layers of her past - her unconventional family, her eccentric and brilliant brother, the self-righteous Mrs. Smeath, and the two men Elaine later came to love in diverse and sometimes disastrous ways. But it is the enigmatic Cordelia, once her tormentor, then her best friend, whose elusive yet powerful presence in her life Elaine finally comes to understand. The realm of childhood and growing up, with its secrecies, cruelties, betrayal...
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The Blind Assassin

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Seal: January 2001

Seller ID: 60659

ISBN: 0770428827

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious.
The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car ...
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Category: Canadian Fiction