6 days ago by miaherrera

A list of our new Canadian titles and their prices are listed below the cut. Please feel free to request titles either in the comments below or via e-mail (contact@thebookcart.ca). Check out our catalog for a comprehensive list of all our titles: David Bergen, The Retreat Request In-Store Price: $21 ...

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17 days ago by The Book Psychic

Finding Home by Eric Wright 2007 The underlying plot is simple: middle-aged Will Prentice returns to England for his mother's funeral. Suffering from a mild, mid-life crises, he decides to stay on indefinitely, to revisit his roots, to discover who he is and where he belongs, Canada or England. His ...

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28 days ago by Brian

(ages 2 – 5) Little Bear closes his eyes and wishes and wishes and wishes for his dreams to come true. But when he opens his eyes, he’s still just Little Bear living in the Arctic tundra. Mother Bear tenderly shows him how many of his wishes do come true, from being able to swim with the playful bel ...

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30 days ago by Shonna

Finished November 16 The Last Woman by John Bemrose This is a novel set in cottage country in Ontario that encompasses not only a variety of relationships, but also native rights and the environment. Billy has been away from Pine Island, where he used to be band chief, for ten years. He left after t ...

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32 days ago by The Book Psychic

Generation A by Douglas Coupland 2009 Set in the near future, where honey bees are thought to be extinct, Coupland tells the story of five individuals from different parts of the world who are drawn together by an unprecedented event: a bee sting. The tale is presented alternately through the eyes o ...

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32 days ago by Nigel Beale

Block head? Listen here as#160; famed Canadian author of Life of Pi and self proclaimed political gadfly Yann Martel 1)#160;Absorbs a barrage of punishing jabs I#160;throw at him over his latest book What is Stephen Harper Reading? but 2) Punches back at a Prime Minister whom he considers to be a 'f ...

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34 days ago by Shonna

Finished November 14 Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell This novel had me glued to it until I finished it in one sitting. We follow Teodor Mykolayenko and his family from the spring of 1938 until the spring of 1939. The Mykolayenko's are immigrants from the Ukraine, who have settled in Alber ...

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36 days ago by The Book Psychic

The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre Linden MacIntyre, writer and broadcast journalist on The Fifth Estate, was the recipient of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for fiction, awarded on November 10th. The Bishop's Man tells the story of Father Duncan MacAskill and tackles the difficult subject of ab ...

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37 days ago by Dave

I wanted to like this book. I really really did. But try as I might, there were just too many obstacles to make this a novel that I would recommend to anyone. Where oh where to begin. Do I start with the writing style that jumps from present to past and back again without so much as a warning to the ...

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37 days ago by fictionophile

Linden MacIntyre is the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner! MacIntyre earns $50,000 for winning the Giller Prize. The 66-year-old MacIntyre is an award-winning writer and one of Canada’s foremost broadcast journalists, his novel “The Bishop’s Man” is a wise and moving novel that explores the guilty ...

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