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Conger is given a chance to be released from prison on the condition that he completes one job-he must travel back in time and kill a man who, if allowed to live, will later change the world. Philip K. Dick was an American science-fiction novelist...

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When Hank Morgan awakens after a knockout blow to the head, he is shocked to find himself transported from his native Connecticut into the medieval world of King Arthur's Court. What follows is a comedic adventure where Hank, utilizing his knowled...

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Penned by American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience examines the role of the individual's conscience in governmental rule. Thoreau argues that individual citizens must not simply be subject t...

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An aging lawyer hires a new copyist to help with his firm's workload, and at first he finds himself pleased with his new employee. Bartleby is quiet, efficient and he doesn't display any of the loud eccentricities of the firm's other two copyists,...

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When Bill Mason set off alone into the wilderness in his red canoe, many people went with him, if only in their imaginations. Now, James Raffan leads us into the heart of the vast landscape that was Bill Masons own brilliant imagination, on a biog...

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The Pinkerton Files is based on the new audio series starring Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan. It sets the real cases of Americas first private detective in a world of radical inventions driving a bitterly divided nation toward civil war. Age...

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The Pinkerton Files is based on the new audio series starring Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan. It sets the real cases of Americas first private detective in a world of radical inventions driving a bitterly divided nation toward civil war. Age...

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Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides the history of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground. This look at the band -- "e;The First Alternative Band"e; -- is based on the audiobook of the same name.

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Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of punk icon Iggy Pop. "e;The Godfather of Punk"e; looks at his career and is adapted from the audiobook of the same name.

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Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of David Bowie's career from his start as Davy Jones through the end of the millennium. This look at Bowie -- "e;Shape-shifter, Actor, Artist, Gay Icon"e;...

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Alan Cross is the preeminent chronicler of popular music. Here he provides a history of alt-rock cult figure Jonathan Richman. "e;Boston's Anti-hippie Punk Pioneer"e; is adapted from the audiobook of the same name.

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From martinis to margaritas to Manhattans, everyone is mixing it up these days. And the guide they're flipping over-and through-is the classic Mulligan's Bar Guide. For almost two decades, Mulligan's has been the bestselling drink bible. This comp...

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Published to wide acclaim, this beautiful meditation on the fate of grassland birds has been praised for its profound wisdom and lyrical grace. Herriot, in a narrative that is at once intimate and informative, argues for the essential nature of th...

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A Yale-educated professor of biology and a GG finalist for Silence of the Songbirds, Bridget Stutchbury roams forests studying the social lives and sexual antics of birds, sharing with us the curious reasons for their strange behaviour, bright col...

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In "e;Littleman"e; by Tish Cohen, the eponymous Littleman, having completed his daily errands on a snowy Sunday afternoon in Toronto, is prevented from returning to his attic apartment by a particularly menacing mound of snow. But for his ...

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In the final book of J. Fitzgerald McCurdy's bestselling Serpent's Egg Trilogy, 11-year-old Miranda, Nicholas and their friends are once again plunged into another world deep beneath Canada's capital city. Hate the Demon has hatched a plot to dest...

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Fresher, faster, easier, yummier! New takes on our favourite dinners, from one of North America's most trusted cooks and culinary trend watchers. When it comes to making dinner, we are creatures of habit. Research proves what we've known all along...

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One morning, prolific and bestselling crime novelist Howard Engel awoke to discover he had lost the ability to read. He had experienced a stroke that left him with the rare condition known as alexia sine agraphia-he could write, but as soon as he ...

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We like beer in Canada. We really, really like it. And it's not just a fly-by-night, sordid little affair. We're in it long term. We spend something like $8 billion a year on beer. From barley growers to label designers, more than 170,000 Canadian...

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From lotteries, opinion polls and insurance to worries about murder rates, natural disasters and terrorism, probability plays a major part in our everyday lives-a part that is frequently and needlessly misunderstood. Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, a math p...

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In the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylees father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated, and the family was forced to leave. The family...

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If the brain is the theatre, consciousness is the play. But who or what controls what we watch and how we watch it? In Theatre of the Mind Jay Ingram, whose past scientific investigations include the properties of honey on toast and the complexiti...

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Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukrainian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of fields of wheat, wealth and security, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada, free fro...

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Published to widespread critical acclaim, Riel: A Life of Revolution proved that an intimate and revealing portrait of one of our most enduring-and most isunderstood-legends could be an almost instant national bestseller. 'Who is Louis Riel?' Magg...

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Tumblehome: a term to describe the way the side of a canoe arcs inward toward the center, toward home. James Raffan has always followed his own arc in life. Like his mentor and friend Bill Mason, Raffan has taken his love of the wilderness and int...

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Whether you're stepping into the hack for the first time, looking to improve your delivery or better understand strategy, Curl To Win will help take your game to the next level. Renowned for his ability to blend the mental and physical aspects of ...

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What's worse: finding out your dad's not your real dad or finding out your real dad's an anonymous sperm donor? Sixteen-year-old Cassidy has just been told by her father that she was conceived "e;under exceptional circumstances."e; Struggl...

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Things are proceeding normally during the annual Spring Break in the town of Wellington (major industries: donuts, grapes and toy boats). Chunks of ice as big as bulldozers flow down the river and Madame Galosh, owner of the Galosh Boot Manufactur...

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In the fictional republic of Costaguana instability and revolution are the norm. When Charles Gould's silver mine becomes a catalyst for violence, he fears his wealth will be taken by his enemies. Charging Nostromo-said to be incorruptible-with th...

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Written as a sequel to her groundbreaking memoir Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie's Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush candidly explores the communities that developed along Lake Ontario in the 1850s. Based on her experiences of living i...

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