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Bernell MacDonald was born in O’Leary, PEI in 1948 and educated at UNB in Fredericton. Here he discovered his love of writing and became one of the celebrated “Windsor House Poets” headed by writer-in-residence, Alden Nowlan. Out of Kilter is MacDonald’s twelfth book of poetry and celebrates fifty years of writing, anthologizing his best-loved and most widely published poems.
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PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: THE JOURNEY PRIZE STORIES 32, ISBN 9780771050992. The 33rd edition of Canada's most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly celebrates the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy, Esi Edugyan, and Canisia Lubrin. #diversity.
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"In Flanders Fields," the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada's - and the world's - best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an artillery man, poet, and medical doctor, upon the death of a friend and fellow soldier during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. This is a faithful reissue of the Canadian first edition of McCrae's writings, originally...
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The national bestseller You Gotta Eat Here! showcases the great joints and legendary local restaurants that many of us have never heard of. You'll discover the most delicious, mouth-watering food in Canada and meet the colourful characters who have turned these places into neighbourhood institutions. And you'll visit some of the country's best eateries-from Charlene's in Cape Breton to Schwartz's in Montreal to Floyd's Diner in Victoria-so get ready...
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The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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Over two dozen of the very best mystery short stories from crime-fiction's maestro, Peter Robinson. Set in places as far flung as Inspector Alan Banks's turf in Yorkshire, Robinson's own neighbourhood in Toronto, and in Los Angeles and Florida, these stories also reach back in time: to 1873 to an utopian milltown in northern England in 1873, to Thomas Hardy country in 1939, and to a small Yorkshire town during the Second World War. 2020.
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"Short stories from an unholy marriage of Angela Carter, Sheila Heti, and H. P. Lovecraft. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies by constantly reinventing ways to engage with her obsessions and motifs, Camilla Grudova has built a universe that's highly imaginative, incredibly original, and absolutely discomfiting. The stories in The Doll's Alphabet are simultaneously childlike and naive, grotesque and very dark."--Provided...
17) Unless: a novel
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“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest...
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"All these worlds, and more, await you. . . . Only able to recall the memories of others, a ghost must solve the mystery of his own death. The zombie apocalypse is the gateway to a higher human consciousness. An amusement park of the future might turn you into the attraction. An engineer-turned-mercenary races to kill the saviour of mankind. After the sky falls, can anyone still hope?"--
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