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Kanata Classics eBook Series

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  • Childhood

    Kanata Classics Edition

    by André Alexis ...
    Series series Kanata Classics
    **National BestsellerWinner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Trillium Award, and shortlisted for The Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Childhood is renowned and critically acclaimed author André Alexis' stunning first novel.**Originally published in 1998, Childhood introduced many readers to the virtuosic talents of André Alexis, one of Canada's most ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Days by Moonlight

    by Andre Alexis ...
    Gulliver’s Travels meets The Underground Railroad: a road trip through the countryside – and the psyche – by the author of Fifteen Dogs.Longlisted for the 2019 Giller PrizeBotanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But ... Read more

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  • Bookworm

    A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Alice in Wonderland to the Chronicles of Narnia.

    by Lucy Mangan ...
    When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows, into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the ... Read more

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  • The Night Piece

    Collected Short Fiction

    by André Alexis ...
    A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis's acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Wasps' Nest

    A Hercule Poirot Story

    Series series Hercule Poirot Short Stories
    Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun.In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits.A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be ... Read more

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  • The Journals of Sylvia Plath

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Journals of Sylvia Plath offers an intimate portrait of the author of the extraordinary poems for which Plath is so widely loved, but it is also characterized by a prose of vigorous immediacy which places it alongside The Bell Jar as a work of literature. These exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Plath for the last twelve years of her life - covering her marriage to Ted ... Read more

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  • Crazy Classroom Joke Book

    by John Byrne ...
    A school-themed joke book containing hundreds of jokes about teachers, school subjects, sports, dinners and lots more. Includes special features such as silly excuse notes, do-it-yourself school reports, report cards for the rich and famous, and ridiculous school tests. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Bonjour, Miss Seeton

    Series Book 21 - A Miss Seeton Mystery
    Inspired by a wildly successful screening of Henry V, Plummergen village school decides on a trip to ‘the vasty fields of France’. The children are to visit the historic chateau of the Comte de Balivernes, and former art teacher Miss Emily Seeton is delighted to be asked to accompany them.All goes so well that the charming Comte (definitely smitten by Miss S) and his daughter Louise are invited ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2

    From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith

    Edited by Philip Hensher ...
    Series Book 2 - The Penguin Book of the British Short Story
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  • Address Book

    hope lives here

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  • An Angel at My Table

    The Complete Autobiography

    by Janet Frame ...
    The autobiography of New Zealand's most significant writerNew Zealand's preeminent writer Janet Frame brings the skill of an extraordinary novelist and poet to these vivid and haunting recollections, gathered here for the first time in a single volume. From a childhood and adolescence spent in a poor but intellectually intense railway family, through life as a student, and years of incarceration ... Read more

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