1.
Series:
A War Guest in Canada
Paperback
W.A.B. Douglas
9781771123686
$24.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 12, 2023
During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London. Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some letters did not get through. Occasionally his godmother and host, Mavis Fry, would add comments and write her own more detailed letters. Also includ...
+ Read More
2.
Series: Laurier Poetry
A Possible Trust
The Poetry of Ronna Bloom
Paperback
Ronna Bloom
9781771125956
$21.99
POETRY
Sep 12, 2023
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
3.
Series:
Quiet Rebels
A History of Ontario Women Lawyers
Hardcover
Mary Jane Mossman
9781771125925
$59.99
HISTORY
Nov 28, 2023
“It’s a girl!” As the Ontario press announced, Canada’s first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers up to 1957, and how their experiences continue to shape gender issues in the contemporary legal profession. Author Mary Jane Mossman tells the stories of all 187 Ontario women lawyers 1897-1957, revealing the legal profession’s gendered patterns. As a small handful at the Law School, (sometimes the only woman), they were often ignored, and they faced...
+ Read More
4.
Series:
The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition
Paperback
Claire Squires
9781771125987
$42.99
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
Sep 26, 2023
When violence breaks out at the stands of far-right publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beatrice Deft is provoked into action. An alienated Australian high school teacher who finds herself at the centre of the global book industry, Beatrice encounters a cast of characters including the very hot Caspian Schorle (German police officer), Kurt Weidenfeld (left-wing German publisher), and White Storm (a neo-Nazi publishing organisation).Such is the premise of The Frankfurt Kabuff, a comic erotic thriller about the publishing industry or...
+ Read More
5.
Series:
Plotting the Reading Experience
Theory/Practice/Politics
Paperback
Paulette M. Rothbauer
9781771121736
$39.99
LITERARY CRITICISM
Nov 15, 2023
This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers' relationships with diverse textual and digital forms. This edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing, thinking, and conceptualizing the...
+ Read More