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Leaving Home, Of the Fields, Lately, and Salt-Water Moon: Three Mercer Plays מאת David French Leaving Home tells the story of the Mercers, a Newfoundland family that has lost its way after emigrating. The sequel, Of the Fields, Lately, finds son Ben returning home to find his mother trying to sustain his father after a heart attack. Rounding out the trilogy is the pr...

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This Book is Broken: A Broken Social Scene Story מאת Stuart Berman This Book Is Broken is a lively oral history of Broken Social Scene, the Toronto cult indie-rock band that doubles as a collective, cottage industry, and self-described beautiful mess. Writer Stuart Berman has pieced together the band’s story through interviews with all 18 members...

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches מאת Gaetan Soucy Alone with their bullying father on a vast estate, a sister and brother speak a language and inhabit a universe of their own making. When the old man commits suicide, they are forced into contact with the villagers and their cloak of romance and superstition quickly falls away to reveal sh...

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My Life as a Dame: The Personal and Political Writings of Christina McCall מאת Christina McCall Considered by many to be the best political writer of her generation, Governor General’s Award-winning author and journalist Christina McCall was a pioneer for women in journalism and one of the most brilliant minds of her time. For the first time ever, McCall’s finest articles and essays h...

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Writing to Go: Top Ten Writing Tips from the Author of Grammar to Go מאת Rob Colter It may come as a shock to texters, but job recruiters, bosses, college admissions boards, and even complaint desks do not recognize u as a pronoun, kthxbai as an acceptable closing, or stream-of-consciousness as an effective technique. But, short of culling through numbingly ...

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Gargoyles: Stories מאת Bill Gaston In this remarkable collection, Bill Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle — the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. This marvelous, riotous, Rabelaisian world contains gargoyles that are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions ...

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Butterfly Mind: Revolution, Recovery, and One Reporter's Road to Understanding China מאת Patrick Brown In this politically astute and revelatory memoir, Patrick Brown weaves together three stories: the first is his 25-year education as a journalist and his parallel struggle with alcoholism; the second, the momentous situations he’s found himself in as a reporter; and the third is China, w...

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Pigeon: Poems מאת Karen Solie Launched to prominence with her first collection of poems, Karen Solie continued her upward trajectory with Modern and Normal. Now, with Pigeon, this singer of existential bewilderment takes another step forward. She finds an analog for the divine in a massive, new model trac...

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Gun Dogs: Poems מאת James Langer Many poets from Newfoundland sketch its wildly beautiful geography; others have opened windows onto its speech patterns and social customs. James Langer does what no other poet does: he combines all sides of Newfoundland at nearly every turn with the surety of a singer who cannot sound any...

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The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece מאת Eric Siblin

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Soap and Water and Common Sense: How to Stay Healthy in a Germ-Filled World מאת Bonnie Henry As a physician who has spent nearly two decades chasing bugs all over the world — from Ebola in Uganda, to polio in Pakistan, to SARS in Toronto — leading epidemiologist and public-health doctor Bonnie Henry offers three simple rules to help people avoid getting sick: clean your hands,...

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The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message מאת Rex Weyler Not all of the words attributed to Jesus were actually spoken by him, nor did he teach all of the doctrines taught as part of the Christian tradition. The canonical gospels mix fact and fiction, and many of Jesus' sayings were lost for 2,000 years. So what did Jesus, or Yeshua, as he was known ...

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The Order of Good Cheer מאת Bill Gaston A fascinating yet little-known figure in North American history, the French explorer and mapmaker Samuel de Champlain was the subject of a recent best-selling biography by historian David Hackett Fischer. The Order of Good Cheer, a highly readable novel by master storyteller Bill Ga...

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The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message מאת Rex Weyler Is it possible to reconcile Jesus, the Prince of Peace, with religious violence? From the Inquisition to the burning of women healers to modern pedophilia scandals, spiritual leaders and followers are deeply divided about how to reconcile the teachings of Jesus with the atrocities of church his...

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Mole: Poems מאת Patrick Warner Like the mole of the title, Patrick Warner’s poems accomplish great feats while disguised as pleasingly modest creatures of accident and stealth. But whereas moles mine the soil, Mole mines the rich depths of imagination, empathy, and insight. A Newfoundlander, Warner takes the ri...