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  • Unlucky Lucky Tales

    by Daniel Grandbois ...
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    Inventive, disconcerting, and hilarious, Daniel Grandbois’s present-day fables call to mind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as readily as they do Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, Rikki Ducornet's Butcher's Tales, and Woody Allen's most literary writings. Braced on the shoulders of the fabulists, fantasists, flash-fictionists, absurdists, surrealists, and satirists who came before him, Daniel ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Revised Poetry of Western Philosophy

    by Daniel Grandbois ...
    Series series Pitt Poetry Series
    Bertrand Russell finds himself in purgatory, tumbling through literal representations of the worlds of ideas he examined in his classic text, A History of Western Philosophy, gulping much-needed air, for example, from Empedocles' bucket. Mistaking his erection for a planted flag, he declares the place Platonopolis, attempts to calculate his Pythagorean number, kills God (though he later sees ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

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  • My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

    Forty New Fairy Tales

    Edited by Kate Bernheimer ...
    The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism.Neil Gaiman, “Orange”Aimee Bender, “The Color Master”Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover”Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans”These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Book of Marvels

    A Compendium of Everyday Things

    by Lorna Crozier ...
    In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a kind of a literary detective, Crozier brings her rapt attention to the everyday things she explores, uncovering the mystery that lies at their essence. She offers ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    1974-2004

    by Rita Dove ...
    **Finalist for the 2016 National Book AwardFinalist for the 2017 NAACP Image AwardThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.**Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Bertrand Russell's Best

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Bertrand Russell is regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest minds. Well-known for his profound knowledge and controversial approach to myriad of different issues and subjects such as sex, marriage, religion, education and politics, his prolific works also exhibit great intellectual wit and humour. First published in 1958, Bertrand Russell’s Best is a delightfully funny and entertaining ... Read more

    $38.46 CAD

  • Over the Anvil We Stretch

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Over The Anvil We Stretch contains swampy, powerful poems that are as exciting as the pocket knife you got for your birthday, the three legged frog on the lawn and the jar of marbles your mother kept in the kitchen. Mojgani's poems are the sound of the river and the stars burning above. He manages to capture the axe in the stump with blood still on the handle. Anis Mojgani has drawn a map of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • History in English Words

    by Owen Barfield ...
    "In our language alone, not to speak of its many companions, the past history of humanity is spread out in an imperishable map, just as the history of the mineral earth lies embedded in the layers of its outer crust.... Language has preserved for us the inner, living history of our soul. It reveals the evolution of consciousness" --Owen BarfieldFor more than three-quarters of a century, Owen ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • Bender

    New and Selected Poems

    by Dean Young ...
    "In Young's work, the big essential questions-mortality, identity, the meaning of life-aren't simply food for thought; they're grounds for entertainment."-Toronto Star"Surrealism seldom seems as much like real life as in Young's hilarious and cautionary poems."-BooklistBender gathers a generous selection of new work along with treasure from Dean Young's twelve volumes. Strongly influenced by ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Lucky Fish

    Poems

    by Aimee Nezhukumatathil ...
    Lucky Fish travels along a lush current — a confluence of leaping vocabulary and startling formal variety, with upwelling gratitude at its source: for love, motherhood, “new hope,” and the fluid and rich possibilities of words themselves. With an exuberant appetite for “my morning song, my scurry-step, my dew,” anchored in complicated human situations, this astounding young poet’s third collection ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Feather Room

    by Anis Mojgani ...
    Science birds Billy the Kid and lots of feathers surround The Feather Room Anis Mojgani's follow up to his Pushcart-nominated work Over the Anvil We Stretch. In The Feather Room Mojgani further explores storytelling in poetic form while traveling farther down the path of magic realism endowing his tales with a greater sense of fantasy and brightness. The work recounts loss and heartbreak while ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Joy of Reading

    A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works

    by Charles Van Doren ...
    "Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible."—Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to Salinger and Heinlein in 20th century America. Like a professor whose enthusiasm enwraps his students, Van Doren explains what's wonderful in the books ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD