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Number of Titles Found: 59
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| Title: A Cowherd in Paradise |
| Sub-title: From China to Canada |
| By (author): May Q. Wong |
| ISBN10-13: 1926972406 : 9781926972404 |
| In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada's head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family. The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902-1983) and Jiang Tew Thloo (1911-2002). Ah Dang was born into an impoverished family and sold as a child. In 1921, his adoptive father paid a five-hundred-dollar head tax to send Ah Dang to Canada. Eight years later, driven to create a family of his own, Ah Dang returned to China, where he chose Ah Thloo as his bride from a matchmaker's photo. As a child, Ah Thloo worked as a cowherd and from the age of six was responsible for her family's fortune--their water buffalo. Ah Thloo not only became a wife and mother, but also grew to be a courageous defender against invaders and a champion of the weak. Married for over half a century, the couple was forced to live apart for twenty-five years because of Canada's exclusionary immigration laws. In Canada, Ah Dang became a successful Montreal restaurateur; while in China, Ah Thloo struggled to survive through natural disasters, wars, and revolutions. A Cowherd in Paradise is the moving tale of one couple's search for love, family, and forgiveness. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 228x152x15mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - April 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Memoirs : Asian history : History of other lands : Canada |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 27 |
| Title: 1 of: 59 |
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| Title: A Ghost in Waterloo Station |
| By (author): Bert Almon |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142285 : 9781897142288 |
| The poems in A Ghost in Waterloo Station take the everyday world as their point of departure, but the place of arrival is never the shore you started from. Vivid invocations and meditations on childhood, art, and travel bring together places and people as likeable and unexpected as the wry poetic sensibility recommending them to our attention. Greece is a country where clarity / is inescapable unless it forces your lids shut. Swallows enter their nests high on the white stacked walls at Indian Lodge as if the ghost/ of a remorseful pickpocket/ were slipping a wallet/ back where it come from. There is much humour here, and warmth, combined with an awareness of loss and the weight of history--all delivered in a voice distinctive in its combination of narrative, whimsy, and psychological observation. |
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Pages: 128
Size: 215x139x9mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - August 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 10 |
| Title: 2 of: 59 |
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| Title: A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing |
| By (author): Cecelia Frey |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142366 : 9781897142363 |
| Jamey Popilowski dreams of becoming a rock star and Lilah Cellini dreams of Jamey. Together the young couple leave their childhood home of Terrabain Street and hit the open asphalt, kicking up a musical storm along the way. Entering their raw mix of carelessness and longing is Zeke, destiny in black leather. Zeke is the soundman, producer, preacher, but is he angel or devil? Lilah can't make up her mind; however, one thing is certain, he changes all their lives forever. While Jamey embraces the musician's lifestyle, along with its excesses, Lilah is confronted by choices that will ultimately lead her to her own goals. A Raw Mix of Carelessness and Longing follows the intertwined lives of friends and idols and articulates the fine balance between the love of making and performing music and the temptations that hide in the shadows. |
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Pages: 264
Size: 215x139x6mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - February 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Title: 3 of: 59 |
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| Title: Adrift on the Ark |
| Sub-title: Our Connection to the Natural World |
| By (author): Margaret Thompson |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142412 : 9781897142417 |
| Adrift on the Ark is a collection of personal essays by Margaret Thompson that offers a straightforward study of the complex relationship between human beings and the natural world. The essays look at a wide range of beings--from spiders to peacocks--and cover issues such as our irrational phobias, our fascination with zoos, and the myths and stories we have created around the other occupants of this earth. They also observe the joy animals bring to us as our pets and the altruistic relationship between caregivers and companions. With lively anecdotes and engaging portraits of the animals who have enriched Margaret's life, these entertaining and personal essays serve a double purpose: as a reminder of our place in the natural order and our intricate connections with animals; and as a warning about how much we stand to lose by ignoring our responsibilities for all life on earth. Meant to inspire and motivate, Adrift on the Ark is an enchanting reflection on the beneficial relationship between humans and other animals. |
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Pages: 216
Size: 177x152x13mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - August 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: The environment : Applied ecology : Conservation of the environment : Wildlife: general interest : Trees, wildflowers & plants |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Title: 4 of: 59 |
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| Title: Afterall |
| By (author): Lee Kvern |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142013 : 9781897142011 |
| At a dinner party, Beth -- thirty-six, single, and working as much overtime as she can get her hands on -- impulsively announces that she's going to spend a night on Vancouver's mean streets in commiseration of the homeless. Unexpectedly, her hosts' son Mason -- nine years old, small for his age, intense, intellectual and so shy he can't speak in company -- whispers in his mother's ear that he wants to go with her. Mason's parents, good limousine liberals that they are, reluctantly allow him to go. Disaster, of course, ensues.So begins this fast-paced, tightly wound, funny and quirky first novel from a fresh new voice in Canadian fiction. Follow Beth, well-meaning but ultimately misguided, through one night on the streets as she frantically searches for the boy she has lost, ruminates on the shopping cart as a status symbol, loses her shoes, meets a writer, knocks herself out cold, discovers romaine lettuce as a hair accessory, and maybe -- just maybe -- falls in love after all. |
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Pages: 128
Size: 196x133x12mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - February 2005 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Title: 5 of: 59 |
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| Title: Believing Cedric |
| By (author): Mark Lavorato |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142560 : 9781897142561 |
| "Believing Cedric is a marvelously strange novel that explores a marvelously normal phenomenon: everyone in our lives has a story. Mark Lavorato writes with great humanity, compassion and curiosity." --Todd Babiak, author of Toby: A Man Cedric Johnson is a middle-aged insurance broker with an unusual problem. He seems to be physically flashing back to pivotal moments from his past. It begins when his third-grade teacher notices a startling awareness in an otherwise unremarkable boy. Next, Cedric inhabits his fourteen-year-old body. He continues to travel through the life he's already lived, issuing warnings and searching for answers. But why should anyone believe him? Cedric's journeys through time bring him face to face with forgotten memories, heartbreaking loss, the possibilities of love, and the agony of a life of regret. Cedric incenses and inspires the people around him, and changes the landscapes of their lives. |
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Pages: 288
Size: 215x139x19mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - August 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 14 |
| Title: 6 of: 59 |
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| Title: Blue Duets |
| By (author): Kathleen Wall |
| ISBN10-13: 1897142447 : 9781897142448 |
| Lila, a talented pianist and wife to Rob, has decided she cannot passively follow a score someone else has written--in her musical career and her marriage. As she struggles in her role as daughter to a mother who is dying of cancer, Lila finds that Kevin, a violinist and Lila's musical partner, helps to keep her love of music in tune through trying times. Lila's husband Rob has his own demons to conquer. A cynical history professor, Rob has been accused of harassment by his own department head. With each chapter told from the point of view of one of the three major characters, Blue Duets is a meditation on life at middle age and the consequence of compromise. As the narrators' voices move from harmony to discord, we learn to appreciate the different perspectives in the story. Lila, puzzled yet rational, uses what she understands of art and music to pilot her present life struggles. Kevin is comic and transparent in his observations of Lila's existential dilemma. Rob's penchant for gourmet cooking disguises his inability to reflect. In Blue Duets, enjoy a novel about perspective and learning to trust one's intuition. |
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Pages: 256
Size: 215x139x19mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - September 2010 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 23 |
| Title: 7 of: 59 |
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| Title: Brilliant! |
| Sub-title: The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla |
| By (author): Electric Company Theatre |
| ISBN10-13: 097324819X : 9780973248197 |
| Chronicling the explosive career of a twentieth-century genius, Brilliant! is a story about the beginning of our technological age embodied in a man whose ideas, dreams and passions were too big for his own time. Visually stunning, the play has many comic, surreal and dramatic moments told in the inimitable style that has made the Electric Company a Canadian treasure.In February 1882, Tesla discovered the rotating magnetic field, a fundamental principle in physics and the basis of nearly all devices that use alternating current. His greatest achievement is the polyphase alternating current system, which today lights the entire globe. His alternating current induction motor is considered one of the ten greatest discoveries of all time. Among his other discoveries are the fluorescent light, the laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control, robotics, and vertical take-off aircraft. He is the father of radio and television, and registered over seven hundred patents worldwide. His vision included exploration of solar energy and the power of the sea. He foresaw interplanetary communications and satellites.Brilliant! explores the enigma of a man who had a vision of bettering the world for humanity, yet whose relationships with others were strained; whose inventions literally outshone his those of his mentor (and later, his rival) Thomas Edison, yet whose name lingers far below Edison's in history books; whose unconventional approach to problems made him a pioneer in many fields and earned millions of dollars for others, yet whose ultimately tragic life ended penniless. Who was Brilliant! |
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Pages: 80
Size: 215x139x6mm
Illustrations: b/w photos
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - November 2004 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Plays, playscripts : History of the Americas : Technology: general issues : Canada |
| List Price: 15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 8 of: 59 |
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| Title: Cadillac Couches |
| By (author): Sophie B. Watson |
| ISBN10-13: 1926972902 : 9781926972909 |
| Winner of the Gold Medal for Western Canadian Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Cadillac Couches is a picaresque road trip novel that journeys from prairie to big city and back again. A quixotic tale set in the late nineties and framed by the popular Edmonton Folk Music Festival, it follows two music-smitten twentysomething women as they search for love and purpose. Annie Jones is trying to put her big love, Sullivan, behind her and squash her demons of anxiety and compulsion. In a post-fest funk, she and her more worldly sidekick Isobel jump in Annie's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle and race across the country to Montreal where her real-life fantasy man, Hawksley Workman, is doing a gig. A year later Annie and Isobel end up back at the folk festival, this time in a much different position.A witty first novel, Cadillac Couches is a story about finding one's holy grail in life. The book comes with its own playlist. |
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Pages: 224
Size: 215x139x12mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - September 2012 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 24 |
| Title: 9 of: 59 |
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| Title: Catch Me When I Fall |
| By (author): Patricia Westerhof |
| ISBN10-13: 189714251X : 9781897142516 |
| Welcome to Poplar Grove, a farming community with three generations of Dutch-Canadians. Life in the New World has not become less complicated as the decades have passed, and now, a set of dying customs is about to collide with the ways of a new generation. The balance is shifting between people comfortable holding hymnals and cleaning cows' teats and those who are uneasy with traditional expectations. A young woman grapples with contradiction between the pious appearance of her best friend's family and the bits of reality she hears in her friend's confidences; a woman mourns the loss of her disabled son, but also wishes to end the ritual state of mourning; a girl finds herself stranded on the battlefield between her new-age brother and her Old World parents. These people are bound by time-worn expectations and the demands of an agricultural life. With humour and insight, author Patricia Westerhof examines a place where opposing ideologies mingle, and a community struggles to redefine who and what they are. |
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Pages: 160
Size: 215x139x10mm
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| Published: Brindle & Glass (CA) - March 2011 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Reprint under Consideration
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