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  • Brave New Weed

    Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis

    by Joe Dolce ...
    A journalist adventures into the fascinating frontiers of cannabis, shedding light on everything you didn't know about weed (and didn't think to ask).Since the 1930s, the United States has been waging a war on cannabis, using politics and propaganda to muddle our collective perception of this incredible plant. Yet in the past decade, our perspectives toward this complex herb have shifted, opening ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crooked Timber

    Studies in Film and Music

    by Joe Dolce ...
    Crooked Timber: Studies in Film and MusicSelected articles, reviews and short stories, published by Joe Dolce, 2006-2025, with a foreword by Academy Award winning director, Bruce Beresford."Re-reading dozens of Joe Dolce's witty and informative articles has tied me up for weeks (this was NOT an ordeal) while preparing this introduction to Crooked Timber... I look forward to more songs, more ... Read more

    $7.89 CAD

  • At the Noisy Café

    by Joe Dolce ...
    The eighty poems in At the Noisy Café, stone-skip across the Shakespearean elements of misconception, reason versus emotion, fate and the fantastical, idyllic setting, insult, separation, reconciliation and happy endings.Song of Nestor is a ninety-line Homeric epic that tells the little-known David-and-Goliath story of St Nestor and the Vandal-giant, Lyaeus. The startlingly original Cavafy ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • On Murray's Run

    Songs & Lyrics

    by Joe Dolce ...
    ‘Renowned songwriter Joe Dolce has long outgrown the pop lyric and moved into a risky domain where recitative, comedy, folk and slapstick build shelters for themselves among social commentary and the poetry of lists. He has a foot, or feet, in diverse realms serious and entertaining and has resolved that he will never record another song that has not been first published as a stand-alone poem. No ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

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  • Common Phrases

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    In day-to-day speech we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is. Did you know that the former host of Today, Jane Pauley, claims to have coined the term “bad hair day,” or that a CBS engineer named Charley Douglass invented the name and use of “canned laughter ... Read more

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  • Skywriting by Word of Mouth

    by John Lennon ...
    John Lennon wrote Skywriting by Word of Mouth, an impressive collection of writings and drawings, during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean, and always planned to have it published. The book's publication was a wish that seemed to end with Lennon's assassination in 1980 and the theft of the manuscript from the Lennons' home in 1982. When it was recovered and first published in 1986, Skywriting ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments

    Of Which We Could Remember Only 254

    by Tom Friedman ...
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  • Crossword Companion

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  • Anecdotal Evidence

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    In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the most generous of authors, sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time. In several of the poems she reimagines Shakespeare in unorthodox fashion; in ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • Who Said That First? The curious origins of common words and phrases

    by Max Cryer ...
    Many bright minds have come up with expressions we now take for granted as part of the English language, and which we use freely in vernacular speech. But the originators of many of our most useful second-hand remarks go uncredited. So who said it first? This collection sets out to credit as far as its possible to do so the people who actually created many familiar terms in common us. For example, ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD