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  • Crazy About Lili

    by William Weintraub ...
    The author of City Unique takes us back to the wicked old Montreal of 1948 in this fine, funny novel, where an innocent seventeen-year-old McGill student fallsfor a famous stripper“Catcher in the Rye meets Guys and Dolls”? Maybe.Or how about “Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall comes to Mordecai Richler’s Montreal”? Close.But best of all is simply this: “William Weintraub — friend of Richler, Moore, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Getting Started

    A Memoir of the 1950s

    by William Weintraub ...
    With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian MooreGetting Started is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time.Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 1940s and found work at the Montreal Gazette, where he also found William ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

  • The Street

    by Mordecai Richler, William Weintraub ...
    In this beguiling collection of short stories and memoirs, first published in 1969, Mordecai Richler looks back on his childhood in Montreal, recapturing the lively panorama of St. Urbain Street: the refugees from Europe with their unexpected sophistication and snobbery; the catastrophic day when there was an article about St. Urbain Street in Time; Tansky’s Cigar and Soda with its “beat-up brown ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • America's Healthcare Transformation

    Strategies and Innovations

    by Susan A. Abookire, David W. Bates, Sarah Slight, Mark R. Chassin, Erin S. DuPree, Alberta T. Pedroja, William S. Weintraub, Sandra A. Weiss, Kasaiah Makam, Arthur "Tim" Garson, Jason Gorevic, Tine Hansen-Turton, Kenneth Patric, Janet J. Teske, Arnold Milstein, Elizabeth Malcolm, Steven R. Steinhubl, Ju Young Kim, Alicia D.H. Monroe, Nana Ekua Coleman, Julia D. Andrieni, Mauro Ferrari, Hanh H. Hoang, Philip Greenland, Kunal N. Karmali, Gary S. Kaplan, Henry H. Ting, Kasey R. Boehmer, Victor M. Montori, Thomas W. Feeley, Nikhil G. Thaker, James L. Field, Thomas H. Lee, Deirde Mylod, Sharyl Wojciechowski, Amir Rubin, Marc L. Boom ...
    A revolution in American medicine is in full swing, with the race from fee-for-service to fee-for-value at the front line in an epic battle that will transform healthcare delivery for decades to come. In America’s Healthcare Transformation, eminent physician leader Robert A. Phillips brings together key thought leaders and trail-blazing practitioners, who provide a wide-ranging exploration of the ... Read more

    $131.99 CAD

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  • St. Urbain's Horseman

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  • When She Was Queen

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