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New Worlds of Literature: Writings from America's Many CulturesNew Worlds of Literature: Writings from America's Many Cultures
Best Price: $45.00
What I like about this book is the diversity it offers in terms of the authors published in the...
The Best American Short Stories 2005 (The Best American Series)The Best American Short Stories 2005 (The Best American Series)
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Chabon is much over-rated and he shows it with his taste for this selection. Always selected...
The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction Series)The Stone Angel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
Best Price: $8.11
I was required to read this book for a high school assignment and found it to be laborious read....
The Best American Short Stories 1999The Best American Short Stories 1999
Best Price: $3.50
It's probably not good for the anthology that the piece I most enjoyed was Amy Tan's...
The Cornish TrilogyThe Cornish Trilogy
Best Price: $13.85
Well, what exactly to say about this trilogy stretching to over eleven hundred pages? So many...


Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Best Price: $8.46
Stegner once again reveals his writing prowess, This time in a self-indulgent adventure to...
Plainwater: Essays and PoetryPlainwater: Essays and Poetry
Best Price: $8.59
Anne Carson comes from the genre of poetry, but in this book she has mixed that form with essays...
Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)
Best Price: $7.93
Nothing much happens in this novel, but, it stays with you after reading it. Glad I read it.
Memoirs of Montparnasse (New York Review Books Classics)Memoirs of Montparnasse (New York Review Books Classics)
Best Price: $6.04
It's good to see that John Glassco's hilarious if not always reliable memoir of his youthful...
City of Glass: Doug Coupland's VancouverCity of Glass: Doug Coupland's Vancouver
Best Price: $8.94
A humorous, personal portrait of a gorgeous and quirky city. Coupland's narration is funny and...


The Call of the Wild (Unabridged Classics in Audio)The Call of the Wild (Unabridged Classics in Audio)
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This is a powerful tale that presents the psychology of a dog's mind, as transparent to the...
The Best American Short Stories 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))The Best American Short Stories 2003 (The Best American Series (TM))
Best Price: $0.92
What has happened to literature? These stories are poorly written in my opinion. If these are...
We Are the Stories We TellWe Are the Stories We Tell
Best Price: $3.95
Welcome to a smorgasbord of contemporary women's fiction; a complilation of 24 short stories as...
Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada (Library of America)Francis Parkman : France and England in North America : Vol. 1: Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, The Old Regime in Canada (Library of America)
Best Price: $19.75
Without a doubt one of the most intriging and engaging historical books I've ever read. The...
Anne of Green Gables (Modern Library Classics)Anne of Green Gables (Modern Library Classics)
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“Matthew had taken the scrawny little hand awkwardly in his; then and there he decided...

World of Wonders (Penguin Classics)World of Wonders (Penguin Classics)
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The theme of the novel "World of Wonders" by Robertson Davies, is "search for...
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular TheoryBlues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
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Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive...
Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859. Anniversary edition. (Selected Letters of C. Darwin)Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859. Anniversary edition. (Selected Letters of C. Darwin)
Best Price: $13.95
Charles Darwin changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary...
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005
Best Price: $1.99
Writing With Intent from 2005 is an excellent book that I highly recommend. There are a few...
The Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction OriginalThe Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction Original
Best Price: $8.51
I've always enjoyed Spider Robinson's work. Here, we have a collection of columns published over...

The Manticore (Penguin Classics)The Manticore (Penguin Classics)
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This is the second installment in the Deptford Trilogy, and my first bit of advice is that you...
The Intimate Life of L.M. MontgomeryThe Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery
Best Price: $26.95
Dr. Irene Gammel's newest book, The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery. The Intimate Life is a...
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Best Price: $3.59
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in...
The American Adam (Phoenix Books)The American Adam (Phoenix Books)
Best Price: $14.40
In The American Adam, R.W.B. Lewis traces the Adamic myth through American discourse, thought,...
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, & Anne of AvonleaLucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables, & Anne of Avonlea
Best Price: $3.19
Two classics combined in one volume. This edition is optimzed for the Kindle. Lucy Maud...

Decreation: Poetry, Essays, OperaDecreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
Best Price: $6.40
Decreation is coy, playful, obscure, difficult & profound. In other words - it is...
The Spenser EncyclopediaThe Spenser Encyclopedia
Best Price: $47.60
Although this book by no means contains all of the scholarship on Spenser, it is nevertheless...
The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of BooksThe Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading Writing, and the World of Books
Best Price: $5.49
You don't need to be familiar with Robertson Davies' work to enjoy this set of insightful talks...
Land Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian WritingLand Sliding: Imagining Space, Presence, and Power in Canadian Writing
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Why have so many of this century's prominent political and literary critics wanted to find a...
Mordecai Richler Was Here: Selected WritingsMordecai Richler Was Here: Selected Writings
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A rich collection drawn from the nearly thirty books of Mordecai Richler, featuring his writings...

The Best American Short Stories, 1989 (Best American Short Stories)The Best American Short Stories, 1989 (Best American Short Stories)
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Waltzing Again: New & Selected Conversations with Margaret AtwoodWaltzing Again: New & Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
Best Price: $4.19
"I don't mind being 'interviewed' any more than I mind Viennese waltzing—that is,...
Under the VolcanoUnder the Volcano
UNDER THE VOLCANO is one of the darkest, moribund, disturbing books I have ever read. It also...
Celebrating Pluralism: Art, Education, and Cultural Diversity (Occasional Paper (Getty Education Institute for the Arts), 5)Celebrating Pluralism: Art, Education, and Cultural Diversity (Occasional Paper (Getty Education Institute for the Arts), 5)
Best Price: $2.97
"Educational trends will change and research agendas will shift, but art teachers in public...
Drew Hayden Taylor: Essays on His Works (Writers series)Drew Hayden Taylor: Essays on His Works (Writers series)
Best Price: $18.00
The offspring of an Ojibway mother and a white father whom he has never known, Drew Hayden...

Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Best Price: $5.43
The Stone Diaries is my favorite book, and I've read a lot of books.It's difficult to put this...
From Lowbrow to NobrowFrom Lowbrow to Nobrow
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From lowbrow to Nobrow is a great book in terms of content and style. The author describes...
The Best American Short Stories 1991 (Best American Short Stories)The Best American Short Stories 1991 (Best American Short Stories)
Best Price: $43.11
For Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson DaviesFor Your Eye Alone: The Letters of Robertson Davies
Best Price: $1.75
Robertson Davies was 82 years old when he died on 12-2-1995 from a leaky heart and terminal...
Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of PlaceLandscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place
Best Price: $12.94
Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place is an anthology of essays, memoirs, nature...

Conversations with Robertson Davies (Literary Conversations Series)Conversations with Robertson Davies (Literary Conversations Series)
Best Price: $13.00
For people who have loved reading Robertson Davies' books, this is an interesting and...
Masterpieces of American Indian LiteratureMasterpieces of American Indian Literature
Best Price: $5.15
The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate...
Please: A NovelPlease: A Novel
Best Price: $11.16
This book is phenomenal. Darbyshire debuts with strong writing and even stronger characters. ...
Shakespeare in the GardenShakespeare in the Garden
Best Price: $12.20
When you purchase a book online, one that you are buying for the photographs, you are taking a...
The Vanishing PointThe Vanishing Point
Best Price: $29.68
W.O. Mitchell worked for many years on this book, polishing what was to be his big, serious, and...

A Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of ReadingA Voice from the Attic: Essays on the Art of Reading
Best Price: $7.79
This book is great. Davies has provided a witty piece of literary criticism that informs the...
Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual PoliticsMargaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics
Best Price: $24.95
Sharon Rose Wilson's analysis of Atwood's sexual politics through fairy-tale patterns offers a...
The Complete Writings of Emily CarrThe Complete Writings of Emily Carr
Best Price: $25.66
Lovely stories of growing up in British Columbia, of the native Americans and her efforts to...
Moon LakeMoon Lake
Best Price: $14.78
Wayne Tefs' Moon Lake is more than a murder mystery. It is also a story of life in the Canadian...
Tracing IrisTracing Iris

Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential SchoolsMagic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential Schools
Best Price: $8.00
Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School is a survey of...
Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of EmersonAtlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson
Best Price: $23.00
In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and...
The Best American Short Stories 1992 (Best American Short Stories)The Best American Short Stories 1992 (Best American Short Stories)
Best Price: $5.35
Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms (Ad Feminam)Margaret Atwood: Vision and Forms (Ad Feminam)
Best Price: $8.00
On a recent flight I reached for Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin," only to find...
Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
Best Price: $5.59
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give...

Mohawk TrailMohawk Trail
Best Price: $4.83
Let me tell you something that I really can't stand. An instructor who assigns a book that you...
The Enamoured Knight (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)The Enamoured Knight (Dalkey Archive Scholarly Series)
Best Price: $6.00
This book got me to taking Cervantes down off the shelf and blowing the dust off the covers. I...
Stacey's Choice: Margaret Laurence's <I>The Fire-Dwellers</I> (Canadian Fiction Studies series)Stacey's Choice: Margaret Laurence's The Fire-Dwellers (Canadian Fiction Studies series)
Best Price: $12.11
Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes....
  
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