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Careless at Work: Selected Canadian historical studies

by J.M.S. Careless

This sampling of the work of J.M.S. Careless in the area of Canadian historical studies was selected by the eminent scholar himself, and represents much of his finest work. The collection spans the years from...


Borges and Mathematics

by Guillermo Martínez & Andrea G. Labinger

Borges and Mathematics is a short book of essays that explores the scientific thinking of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). Around half of the book consists of two "lectures" focused on mathematics....


Early Voices: Portraits of Canada by Women Writers, 1639-1914

by Mary Alice Downie, Elizabeth Jane Errington & Barbara Robertson

This selection of writings by 29 Canadian women presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, and a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general to a fishermans wife in Labrador....


Sandspurs: Notes from a Coastal Columnist

by Mark Lane

Far from the myth of surf, sand, and orange juice, Mark Lane's snapshots of life in the Sunshine State are more likely to feature gargantuan insects than bikini-clad coeds.

Lane has spent nearly thirty years...


Charms Against Lightning

by James Arthur

James Arthur is among the most intriguing young poets writing today--a world traveler who composes poems entirely in his head


Charles Dickens Christmas Stories

by Charles Dickens

13 Christmas stories by Charles Dickens:

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Tree

What Christmas is as we Grow Older

The Poor Relation's Story

The Child's Story

The Schoolboy's Story

Nobody's Story

The Chimes

Mrs. Lirriper's...


Today's Best Military Writing

by Walter J. Boyne

Today's Best Military Writing is the first-ever collection of the finest articles on the military published in the past five years. Esteemed military historian and bestselling author Walter J. Boyne has gathered...


The Weight of Compassion: and Other Essays

by Eoin O'Brien

THERE ARE MANY facets to Samuel Beckett’s writing – humour, despair, love, poignancy, suffering – but for me there is one dominant characteristic, compassion, compassion for the human condition of existence.’...


Best Sex Writing 2006

by Felice Newman & Frederique Delacoste

Sometimes surprising, always stimulating — this book offers a snapshot of America’s complex sexual practices and mores as seen through Cleis’s unique lens. It is the best nonfiction sex journalism of the...


Best Sex Writing 2008

by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Captures the heart and soul of what’s happening behind the bedroom door, where lust, desire, gender, identity, sex work, and politics collide.

The best sex journalism of the year in one unforgettable book.

Do...


Summoning the Rains: Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers

by Hilda Twongyeirwe & Ellen Banda-Aaku

One of the greatest challenges faced by African women writers is finding the time and the space to write. In November 2011 the third FEMRITE African Women Writers Residency alleviated this challenge for 15 women...


Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

by Thomas Mallon

A delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry.

 

Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly...


Run With The Hunted

by Charles Bukowski

The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading...


Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes,' Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism. 'I...


Growing Girls

by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet...


A Plea for Eros

by Siri Hustvedt

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing,...


Hemingway on Hunting

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong zeal for hunting is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account of an African safari in “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” to passages about...


Hemingway on War

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century—from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for...


Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro

by Henry James, Rosella Mamoli Zorzi & Leon Edel

HENRY JAMES first came to Venice as a tourist and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters...


Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women

by Nancy Hawker

Young women drift through Prague wondering about unplanned pregnancies, a child's reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulnesslead to resolve to sin only 'just a little bit', drunken men banter over interminable...