The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Roger Mueller $27.99
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he...
Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables) by Elizabeth Waterston $2.95
This volume contains "Anne of The Island" and "Anne of Windy Willows". Anne is older now, and her friends are beginning to get married and move away; meanwhile her romance with Gilbert Blythe begins to blossom, and there are developments in her career as a schoolteacher.
Baree the Wolf-Dog by Patrick Lawlor $29.99
Baree was the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error - fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desperately seeks to join a pack of wolves, but they see him as a dog, and he is driven away.The wolves were treacherous, but Baree soon learns that humans can be much...
Vancouver: A Pictorial Celebration Including Vancouver Island, Victoria, and Whistler by Elan Penn $14.95
Vancouver is Canada’s gateway to the Pacific, and it attracts millions of visitors each year. See what draws them in, with this insider’s look at the city’s most awe-inspiring sights and fascinating history. Written by an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in the Pacific Northwest, and lushly illustrated with Elan Penn’s gorgeous photos, it showcases both well-preserved...
The Road Past Altamont by Joyce Marshall $12.00
First published in French in 1966, The Road Past Altamont pierces to the heart of a child's world, craeting a delicate, yet substantial network of impressions, emotions, and relationships. In her writing, Gabrielle Roy allowed "nothing extraneous or false to stand," according to the translator, Joyce Marshall. The literary style of Roy, whose fiction reflects her childhood on the Canadian...
Literary Atlas of Canada: This Is My Country, What's Yours? by Cbc Radio Canada $39.95
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)National Post Best Books (2006)A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to...
Les Sauvages Amiricains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by University of North Carolina Press $59.95
Algonquian and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the writings of John Smith and Samuel de Champlain, Gordon Sayre analyzes French and English accounts of Native Americans to reveal the rhetorical codes by which their cultures were represented and...
Viva la historieta: Mexican Comics, NAFTA, and the Politics of Globalization by University Press of Mississippi $30.00
¡Viva la historieta! critically examines the participation of Mexican comic books in the continuing debate over the character and consequences of globalization in Mexico. The focus of the book is on graphic narratives produced by and for Mexicans in the period following the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an economic accord that institutionalized the...
Culture in Transit: Translating the Literature of Quebec by Sherry Simon $18.95
The Call of the Wild (Unabridged Classics in Audio) by Patrick Lawlor $26.00
Buck lives a content life. Half St. Bernard, half Shepard, he is top dog on a California ranch. But the Gold Rush in the Klondike has produced an enormous demand for sled dogs so, when a Gardner at the ranch needs to pay a gambling debt, stealing and selling Buck is a quick way to do it.Having never been mistreated, Buck soon learns that man can be the cruelest animal. He is whipped, beaten and...