1.
Series:
A Migrant Heart
Electronic book text, EPUB
Denis Sampson
9781927535486
$8.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 15, 2014
A Migrant Heart is about departures and arrivals, uprooting and attachment, resettling and returning. Denis Sampson left Ireland as a student, leaving behind the farming countryside of his childhood, the city of Dublin where he was educated, and the history and culture of his native country. He arrived in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal and discovered he was not the only one in search of a new life; and then that search became his life. He also discovered many different ways to return to Ireland, until slowly, what was painfully forced apart ...
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2.
Series:
Sons and Fathers
Electronic book text, EPUB
Daniel Goodwin
9781927535523
$8.95
FICTION
Sep 19, 2014
When an early-morning phone call from a former childhood friend threatens to derail the political fortunes of a popular PM, his director of communications must dig deep into the past to salvage the present. Part political and literary coming-of-age story, part lyrical meditation on friendship, family, and mortality, Sons and Fathers traces the fortunes of three men who develop their respective ability for manipulating words and people in the long shadows cast by their accomplished fathers. Filled with insights about the nature of politics, jour...
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3.
Series:
The Bells of Memory
A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem
Electronic book text, EPUB
Issa J. Boullata
9781927535400
$7.95
HISTORY
Apr 05, 2014
The distinguished Arabic scholar, author, and translator Issa J. Boullata grew up in a Palestinian family in the Jerusalem of the 1930s and 1940s, when Palestine was under the British Mandate. His memoir, The Bells of Memory, is delightful in its reflections on an idyllic youth and detailed in its recollections of family members, classmates and teachers, remembered scents and foods, the pleasures of reading, and his early experience of the working world. This is a love letter to a Jerusalem that was changed immeasurably by Al-Nakba, the Palesti...
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4.
Series:
A Second Chance
Electronic book text, EPUB
Felicia Mihali
9781927535448
$8.95
FICTION
Apr 26, 2014
Adam is happily married when he has a stroke at the age of fifty, and his behaviour changes to that of a ten-year-old. What are his secrets? Are there any he should be sharing? His wife would like to know. A Second Chance reveals its secrets slowly. We can see how changed Adam is, but we also sense that we don’t know the whole story. The wife is loving, but there is a puzzling edge to her account of her days with Adam. It’s only as we come to the devastating conclusion that we learn what happened before Adam suffered his stroke. A novel about d...
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Series:
The Prostate
Everything You Need to Know About the Man Gland
Electronic book text, EPUB
Yosh Taguchi
9781927535363
$9.95
MEDICAL
Mar 21, 2014
The mere mention of the prostate gland is enough to make men cringe. Long a taboo subject, the walnut-sized man gland can cause mental anguish, emotional aggravation, bitterness, and anger. The prostate often affects everything from sexual performance to male ego-strength. When it is working well, the man’s world is good, but when it is affected by change or disease, the male universe often collapses upon itself. In The Prostate, Dr. Taguchi tackles the most common prostate problems, treatments, and questions in down-to-earth language. If there...
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