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  • The moon the watching witching moon

    Our light and companion

    by David Campbell,Callender ...
    Where did the moon first come from to fill our skies with its light, a satellite larger than any minor planet? How long ago (could it really be billions of years?) and how come it sticks so faithfully by the earth?No one knows fir sure. But - did you know? - by now there are some good guesses.And again, why should the moon mean so much to us, even now amid the contamination of street lights? ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bear Whispers to Me

    The Story of a Bear and a Boy

    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    by Ying-Tai Chang ...
    A reclusive young boy stumbles upon his father's diary. Filled with drawings, photos and anecdotes, the diary reveals an alpine world that his father once inhabited as a child: where tribes were fashioned by tree spirits; animals could be spoken to; fleas danced; and the moon and stars were guiding lights in darkling forests. His father's world was alive with birdsong and hidden spirits, serene ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sherlock Sam and the Stolen Script in Balestier

    by A.J. Low ...
    Series Book 7 - Sherlock Sam
    After getting in trouble with his parents over the mayhem in MacRitchie, Sherlock Sam was forced to disband the Supper Club. However, his arch-nemesis continues to taunt him.This time, the top-secret final script of Singapore’s most popular television series is stolen! Can Sherlock Sam, Watson and their friends resolve the dastardly plot twists in their way? Stay tuned to find out! ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Chilli Bean Paste Clan

    by Yan Ge ...
    Translated by Nicky Harman ...
    Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Crystal Wedding

    by Xiaobin Xu ...
    Translated by Nicky Harman ...
    Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Voyage of Pearl of the Seas

    by Ruth Finnegan ...
    An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried in the sand and sailing off to far-off fantastic lands in a stormy sea-driven adventure with their faithful - but accident-prone - dog Holly. There they learn much wisdom from a king who, like God, has many names'. After an incredible sacrifice of his dearest dream by the boy (now growing up) they ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Blood of Gutoku

    A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan

    by J. W. Traphagan ...
    Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire - he is done with university politics and is eager to start his new life in a sleepy village in northern Japan. What wasn't involved in his retirement plan is for a murder to occur just as he arrives in town. With Jack's passion for ethnography, he cannot help but get involved with the investigation, eager to discover not only who committed ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Masked Dolls

    by Chiung-Yu Shih ...
    Translated by Xinlin Wang, Poppy Toland ...
    An Australian woman, burdened by the original sin of her Caucasian ancestors, and a Taiwanese woman, haunted by the memories of 100 years of conflict in her homeland, meet as backpackers while travelling in South Korea. As they live and travel together, two women in flight, one from the East and the other from the West, struggle to find a way out of their personal dilemmas.* * *Shortly after the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wedding in Autumn and Other Stories

    by Chiung-Yu Shih ...
    Translated by Darryl Sterk ...
    Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all over mainland China are doomed to live out their days in exile in Taitung County, along the southeastern shore of the island of Taiwan.The three novellas in this collection tell stories of Chinese men who were forced to leave their loved ones behind and the aboriginal Amis locals they marry or adopt to ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • LIV

    by Roger Pulvers ...
    Liv Grimstad is riding on a suburban train in Sydney, Australia in 1975 when she takes notice of the old man sitting opposite her. Though his features are different, she recognizes that man by the piercing look in his cornflower-blue eyes.She is convinced it is Donald Meissner, the man who has haunted her memory since they both worked at the German Embassy in Tokyo during the war. He was the beast ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Cornbread Nation 7

    The Best of Southern Food Writing

    by Francis Lam, John T. Edge, John T. Edge, Sara Camp Milam, Sara Camp Milam, Daniel Patterson, Susan Orlean, Sara Roahen, Edward Lee, Eddie Huang0, Sara Wood1, Ida MaMusu2, Kathleen Purvis3, Argentina Ortega4, Nikki Metzgar5, Todd Kliman6, Robert F. Moss7, Rayna Green8, Burkhard Bilger9, Barry Estabrook0, Gabriel Thompson1, Besha Rodell2, Jane Black3, Bill Heavey4, Dan Baum5, Jonathan Miles6, Sue Nguyen7, Julia Reed8, Seán McKeithan9, Sarah Hepola0, Patricia Smith1, John Sullivan2, Amy Evans3, Ann Taylor Pittman4, Jack Pendarvis5, Jeffrey Steingarten6, Mary Louise Nosser7, Langston Hughes8, Jessica B. Harris9, Stephen A. Crockett Jr.0, Monique Truong1, Brett Anderson2, Courtney Balestier3, Joe St. Columbia4, Joe York5, Jake Adam York6, Robb Walsh7, Kevin Young8, Lolis Eric Elie9, Estate of Lucille Clifton0 ...
    Series series
    How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • The Ventriloquist's Daughter

    by Man-Chiu Lin ...
    Translated by Helen Wang ...
    After the tragic death of Liur’s mother, her father, a thwarted artist working as a doctor in the family hospital, is overcome with grief. He goes to study in America, leaving six-year-old Liur in the care of her grandparents, promising to return with a special doll for her.But instead of studying, her father travels to the Andes, where he meets a mysterious ventriloquist who takes him as a pupil ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD