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  • SuperRomance Celebrates 25 Years

    Three Incredible New Stories

    by Tara Taylor Quinn, Margot Early, Janice Macdonald ...
    A lot can happen, a lot can change, in 25 years.Best Friends by Tara Taylor QuinnJolene and Tina have been best friends for twenty-five years. Too bad Jolene's marriage isn't as solid as her friendship. But who better to talk to about your most intimate problems than your very best friend?Wade in the Water by Margot EarlyLily Moran is observing a tragic anniversary--her brother's death. She blames ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Game On!

    Never to Part and Never to Love

    by Tara C. MacDonald ...
    Game On! Two short stories set on Canada's East Coast.Never to Part features Ryan almost getting run over by Sam at a bar one night. They see each other again as Ryan's hockey team is hiring her marketing firm in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. What can these two confused overachievers do when love strikes?Never to Love brings us to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where James and Sarah bump heads in a ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • 7 Ate 9

    by Tara Lazar, Ross MacDonald ...
    Illustrated by Ross MacDonald ...
    Series series Private I
    6 has a problem.Everyone knows that 7 is always after him. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that's true, 6's days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. But the facts just don't add up.It's odd.Will Private I put two and two together and solve the problem . . . or is 6 next in line to be subtracted? ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The New Man, Masculinity and Marriage in the Victorian Novel

    by Tara MacDonald ...
    Series series Gender and Genre
    By tracing the rise of the New Man alongside novelistic changes in the representations of marriage, MacDonald shows how this figure encouraged Victorian writers to reassess masculine behaviour and to re-imagine the marriage plot in light of wider social changes. She finds examples in novels by Dickens, Anne Brontë, George Eliot and George Gissing. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Victorian Gaslighting

    Genealogy of an Injustice

    Edited by Diana Bellonby, Nora Gilbert, Tara MacDonald ...
    Series series SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gaslighting, a term derived from the haunting neo-Victorian play Gas Light (1938), which tells the story of a sadistic husband who manipulates his wife into believing she’s losing her mind. The ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Rediscovering Victorian Women Sensation Writers

    Edited by Anne-Marie Beller, Tara MacDonald ...
    Scholarly understanding of the Victorian literary field has changed dramatically in the past thirty years, due in large part to the extensive recovery of sensation fiction and a corresponding recognition of that genre’s importance in the literary debates, trends, and wider cultural practices of the period. Yet until very recently, work on sensationalism has focused on a narrow range of authors and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • 7 Ate 9

    by Tara Lazar, Ross MacDonald ...
    Illustrated by Ross MacDonald ...
    Series series Private I
    6 has a problem.Everyone knows that 7 is always after him. Word on the street is that 7 ate 9. If that's true, 6's days are numbered. Lucky for him, Private I is on the case. But the facts just don't add up.It's odd.Will Private I put two and two together and solve the problem . . . or is 6 next in line to be subtracted? ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Upper Case: Trouble in Capital City

    by Tara Lazar ...
    Illustrated by Ross MacDonald ...
    Series series Private I
    Just when Private I thinks all is calm-now that he's cracked the case of 7 Ate 9-Question Mark storms into the office.Mark is worried. All the uppercase letters are M-I-S-S-I-N-G! But that's absurd. This is CAPITAL City!Private I is the last letter standing. Will he solve his BIGGEST mystery yet, the UPPER CASE, before it's too late?!Filled with the same humor, wit, and quirkiness of the hit 7 Ate ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

    Edited by Deirdre David ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

    Edited by Andrew Mangham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Precocious Children and Childish Adults

    Age Inversion in Victorian Literature

    by Claudia Nelson ...
    Especially evident in Victorian-era writings is a rhetorical tendency to liken adults to children and children to adults. Claudia Nelson examines this literary phenomenon and explores the ways in which writers discussed the child-adult relationship during this period.Though far from ubiquitous, the terms “child-woman,” “child-man,” and “old-fashioned child” appear often enough in Victorian ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD