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The Blind Assassin: A Novel

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 2000

Seller ID: 2266860

ISBN: 0771008635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket spine a bit faded. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 521, [3] pp. 8vo. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize, Time's best novel of the year 2000, and one of Time's top 100 novels since 1923. Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five ...
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The Testaments (Barnes & Noble Book Club Exclusive Edition)

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 2019

Seller ID: 2295088

ISBN: 0385545592

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 2019 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 431 pp. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and unce...
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Him With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1984

Seller ID: 2291699

ISBN: 006015179X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket spine ends lightly stained, top edge lightly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Stories by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist deal with a divorced woman and her lovers, a bankrupt musicologist, an eccentric young man, a boy and his father, and family relationships.
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Doctor Luke of the Labrador

By: Duncan, Norman

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1904

Seller ID: 2203554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Pencil name on verso of front free endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. 327, [4] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Canadian author telling the story of a physician's travels along the coastal region of Labrador.
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998

Seller ID: 2201638

ISBN: 0771066856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. 399 pp. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Canadian author known for her short fiction. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed...
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Thirty Acres (New Canadian Library)

By: Ringuet; Sirois, Antoine (afterword)

Price: $4.00

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1989

Seller ID: 2269966

ISBN: 0771099959

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Lightly rubbed. 1989 Mass Market Paperback. One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres traces the course of one man’s life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebec’s traditional rural one.
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The Electrical Field

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1998

Seller ID: 2282388

ISBN: 0676971261

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First edition. A fine copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Author's first novel. When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war.
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One Hundred Million Hearts

By: Sakamoto, Kerri

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2003

Seller ID: 2282389

ISBN: 0676975119

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life in Toronto. When Masao dies, Miyo discovers he harbored a secret life, including a previous wife and child. Miyo travels to Tokyo to meet Hana, her half-sister (who is obsessed with their father's war history) and is shocked to learn he was a member of the Special Attack Forces-a kamikaze. But if these pilots' ...
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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

By: Service, Robert W. [William]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1916

Seller ID: 2291072

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A few faint spots on boards, some purple rubbed away from cloud design (very common with this edition). 1916 Hard Cover. 192 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, green, black, and white image on front board, soldier vignette on spine, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Charles L. Wrenn, with captioned tissue guards. A collection of poetry by the well-known writer famous for his works about the Yukon Territory, this compilation includes a number of poems about World War I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, so...
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