In poems brilliantly textured and layered, Salgado Maranhao integrates socio-political thought with subjects abstractly metaphysical. Concrete collides with conceptual?butcher shops, sex, and machine
Praise for Paradise Lust "A pleasure. Wilensky-Lanford tackles her subject with an appealing mix of serious research and tongue-in-cheek humor. Neither too academic nor too whimsical, the storytelling
In this guide, Rick Steves focuses on some of the grandest sights in Europe. As always, he has a plan to help you have a meaningful cultural experience while you’re there?even with just a few hours in
GET D!RTYNext time you’re chattin’ with your khaverim (friends) and mishpukheh (family), bust out some Yiddish expressions that’ll liven up the conversation, including:‧ Cool slang‧ Funny insults‧
Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytell
TASTY TORTILLAS, DELICIOUS POSSIBILITIESStuff, wrap, roll, bake, fry?there’s no limit to what you can do with them. Tortillas to the Rescue goes way beyond the Mexican classics, showing you how to mak
Whether the subject of her fancy is the lowly, unassuming potato or the love life of that aphrodisiac mollusk the oyster, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher writes with a simplicity that belies the complexit
In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs
An eighty-ton whale became trapped in a lagoon near Mowat's home in Burgeo, Newfoundland, in 1967, and Mowat relates how some of the townspeople tried to shoot it with rifles, and how he tried to save
In My Maasai Life, growing readers follow a young Robin Wiszowaty as she travels to Kenya for the first time. Living with the Maasai people, Robin explores the land with her new family as they get wat
?Dissatisfaction with nature flows throughout Western civilization, as deep as its blood, as abiding as its bones. Convinced to the marrow that something is deeply wrong with nature, . . . the Western
STAY YOUNG WITH EFFECTIVE, EFFICIENT CORE STRENGTH TRAININGFrom swinging a golf club to carrying a bag of groceries, the core is everything. Balance, agility and youthful stature are just a few of the
With tenderness, sensitivity, and humor, Really and Truly explores the effect that dementia has on a young boy named Charlie and his family.Charlie is very close to his grandfather, who loves to tell
Since publishing the original edition of A Woman’s World in 1995, Travelers’ Tales has been the recognized leader in women’s travel literature, and with the launch of the annual series The Best Travel
With THE CRIME OF JULIAN WELLS, Thomas H. Cook, one of America's most acclaimed suspense writers, has written a novel in the grand tradition of the twisty, cerebral thriller. Like Eric Ambler's A COF
Dora: A Headcase is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud’s famous case study?retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play.Ida needs
It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler’s henchmen on his trail. He is carrying valuable cargo?the blueprint of the Fuhrer’
Carlos March is an entrepreneur with a passionate interest in nature, gardening and hunting.In this autobiographical book, he reviews the thirty-five year history of his garden at Altarejos, a model o
? Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction? Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize? Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award"Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity and nob
With irreverent and at times mordant humor, Most of Me chronicles Robyn Michele Levy's early, mysterious symptoms (a dragging left foot, a crash into ?downward dead dog” position on the yoga mat), the
With vivid and unflinching prose, Nicole Lundrigan has created a riveting and deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the depths and limits of love.When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken pran
Headaches are one of the most common medical complaints. Nearly everyone gets a one at some point in their lives and over 45 million Americans suffer with chronic headaches each year. Headache disorde
Hayder’s second novel after the hair-raising Birdman, The Treatment brings Detective Jack Caffery back to investigate the abduction of a little boy, a crime with disturbing parallels to Caffery's own
The short fiction of Thaisa Frank has captivated readers for two decades, and now many of those pieces are collected in one volume, along with several new stories. In the title story, a lonely mother
How have Americans changed, ten years after 9/11?In telling the stories of people with something undeniably in common, 50 Main Street inspires readers to focus on the fundamental similarities they exp
The ups and downs of life with the Totterings will keep you amused all year long. The Totterings' Diary 2013 is illustrated with Annie Tempest's best-selling Tottering-by-Gently cartoons and offers an
Award-winning author Nancy Huston follows her bestselling novel, Fault Lines, winner of the Prix Femina, with an intensely provocative story about a passionate yet emotionally-wounded woman’s sexual e
?Hayder . . . outdoes herself, flip-flopping the supernatural and the explainable like a cycle of poison and antidote that will remain with the reader long after the final page.”?Booklist (starred rev
?When I remember Russia, I ache with longing for the village of my birth, where the beloved grandparents magically produced candy in a handshake and told stories of long ago when God spoke to humans a
In this deeply moving and elegantly written book, Halfdan W. Freihow takes Gabriel, his young autistic son, on a journey through the full spectrum of human experience. With great love, profound tender
Vancouver's streetscapes and neighbourhoods have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras
GET D!RTY!Next time you’re in Hungary or just chattin’ in Hungarian with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:‧ cool slang‧
This Truth Never Fails is a playful yet well-grounded narrative of a year in the life of an unusual Zen master. Far from the silent and detached stereotype of Zen teachers, Rynick writes with disarmin
In the final book of a trilogy that began with her bestselling novel, The Secret River, Commonwealth Prize?winner Kate Grenville returns to the youngest daughter of the Thornhills and her quest to unc
Cry Wolf saved Andrea's life, or that's how she likes to tell it. Forever in search of spiritual fulfillment, Andrea has rejected everything from religion to eating disorders, in favor of "I'm-with-th
Boulders laugh, trees talk, and practically each patch of ground has meaning, in Atala Toy’s experience. Faeries, angels, ghosts, orbs, and spirits of place are just some of the life forms with which
Every valley has its battle, and every stream its song Walter ScottFor three hundred years the reivers' country of the Border was an enclave between England and Scotland with its own laws, its own eth
In Atrium, award-winning Palestinian-American poet Hala Alyan traces lines of global issues in personal spaces, with fervently original imagery, and a fierce passion and intense intimacy that echoes l
Matthew Battles does not write stories that move, develop or unfold. He creates worlds that hiss, snap, and rattle, and decorates them with objects that brood in black, glassine silence, or crumble in
Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock celebrity who died before his time and a vague new age version of Eastern religion. An altered state to be hoped
