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O Canada Crosswords Book 26
$18.9575 All New Crosswords! Over 275,000 O Canada Crossword books sold in 25 years!
Hungry for some brain gym? O Canada Crosswords Book 26 is sure to hit the spot. No flash in the pan, the latest collection in this long-running series offers a smorgasbord of 75 crosswords jam-packed with thousands of clues. Author Gwen Sjogren has whipped up witty wordplay, tasty themes and a buffet of all things Canadian to satisfy your crossword cravings. Themed puzzles include:
- Geography – Home Turf and Beachy Keen
- Natural World – Talk to the Animals and Whale of a Time 1
- Punishment – Dog-and-Punny Show and If the Shoe Fits
- Olympics – Golden and Canadian Competitors’ Achievements
- Uniquely Canadian – Colourful Quebec and Frosty Fun
Sjogren forks over new themes including astronauts, name play and classical music classics. And solvers who relish a challenge can feast on 25 non-themed Canada Cornucopia crosswords, some of which have no three-letter answers or fill-in-the-blank clues—or both!
For crossword connoisseurs, O Canada Crosswords Book 26 serves up a full plate of crossword fun for your palate.
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O Canada Crosswords Book 5
$14.95Author Kathleen Hamilton combines world references with clues reflecting a distinct Canadian cultural identity. Spellings are Canadian too, and the words are derived from our history, geography and pop culture. Books 2 through 5 have giant weekend-size puzzles for even more crossword fun.
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O Canada Crosswords Book 6
$9.95* Which Canadian heavyweight boxer fought Muhammad Ali? * What Canadian ocean liner sank in 1914, losing more passengers than the Titanic? * Can you name the highest peak in Canada? * Which Saskatchewan town has the “world’s largest grasshopper”? * Who was the first Canadian woman to climb Mt. Everest?Drawing on Canadian geography, culture, history, politics and even national pastimes like hockey, Kathleen Hamilton creates puzzles that celebrate Canadian identity. With their recognizable folk-art covers and uniquely Canadian content, Hamilton’s O Canada Crosswords books have garnered a devoted fan base of crossword aficionados from coast to coast.This long-anticipated Book 6 contains fifty over-sized puzzles that use Canadian spellings, a sprinkling of common French words and a Canadian point of view–and they promise to inform and delight, adding to your knowledge about our country while providing hours of enjoyment.
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O Canada Crosswords Book 7
$14.95Drawing on Canadian geography, culture, history, politics and even national pastimes like hockey, Kathleen Hamilton creates puzzles that celebrate Canadian identity. With their recognizable folkart covers and uniquely Canadian content, Hamilton’s O Canada Crosswords books have garnered a devoted fan base of crossword aficionados from coast to coast.This long-anticipated Book 7 contains 50 puzzles that use Canadian spellings, a sprinkling of common French words and a Canadian point of view–and they promise to inform and delight, adding to your knowledge about our country while providing hours of enjoyment.
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O Canada Crosswords Book 8
$14.95A puzzle a day keeps the boredom away! And these are no ordinary puzzles. These 75 cleverly themed crosswords include themes like “Prefix-ation,” “Prime Mini$ter$” and “Let it Snow.” Many of the clues use tricky wordplay and are all about Canada: Child of Chibougamau? (enfant). Saturday night live group? (NHL). With Canadian spellings, Canadian perspectives and Canadian topics, the fact that you wear a toque to go to Timmy’s and pay GST on pretty much everything makes you uniquely qualified to solve these puzzles. Drawing on the trademarks of Canadian identity, O Canada Crosswords Book 8 is for every Canadian. Sharpen your pencils and get ready for a good time!
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O Canada Crosswords Book 9
$14.95Macleod and Olson’s puzzles are ingrained with accents of Canadian culture, and are infused with humour:House party (NDP) Liberal-minded guy (DION)Lame excuse (BUM LEG)Pet peeve (FLEA)”I really enjoyed the humour and challenge of these (O Canada 8) puzzles. Please tell me you plan to publish more.”-Brenda, B.C.Following on the heels of the bestselling O Canada Crosswords 8,, this new volume offers 75 more Canadian-flavoured puzzles. These cleverly themed crosswords include titles like “Cheep Talk,” “O Canada” and “Phooey!” featuring tricky wordplay and other tests of your ability to “think outside the box.”With Canadian spellings, Canadian perspectives and Canadian topics, Olson and Macleod’s puzzles make you, the Canadian crossword solver, feel right at home.
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Obelisk
$4.95Obelisk
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Obit
$14.95Arthur Ellis Award-winning author Anne Emery returns with a second installment in the Collins-Burke mystery series that is “as outstanding as her first.” — Library JournalDeclan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he’s put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a coded indictment of Burke’s own life — and an announcement of his impending death. Halifax lawyer Monty Collins investigates the obit with its allusions to Burke’s IRA past. Collins gets no help from Burke, who — good soldier to the end — keeps the silence of the grave.But Burke’s denial becomes harder to maintain following a burst of gunfire at a family wedding. The shooting brings another old soldier back onto the field: Leo Killeen, the commanding officer of Burke’s former battalion in Dublin. But he also has secrets to protect. When a body is found in a rundown Brooklyn flat, Collins wonders just how far Killeen will go to keep those secrets under wraps.From the farms of Ireland to the tenements of New York City, Monty is confronted by a cast of enigmatic characters, including the owner of a nightclub frequented by the New York mob; a sultry chanteuse; and Burke’s hotheaded son Francis, whose resentment and dubious activities set the family on a road to destruction. Monty isn’t the only one who is surprised when he reaches the end of the road. Burke too must now confront the suspicion that he has been manipulated all along by an unseen hand. About the Collins-Burke MysteriesThis multi-award-winning series is centred around two main characters who have been described as endearingly flawed: Monty Collins, a criminal defence lawyer who has seen and heard it all, and Father Brennan Burke, a worldly, hard-drinking Irish-born priest. The priest and the lawyer solve mysteries together, but sometimes find themselves at cross-purposes, with secrets they cannot share: secrets of the confessional, and matters covered by solicitor-client confidentiality. The books are notable for their wit and humour, and their depiction of the darker side of human nature ― characteristics that are sometimes combined in the same person, be it a lawyer, a witness on the stand, or an Irish ballad singer who doubles as a guerrilla fighter in the Troubles in war-torn Belfast. In addition to their memorable characters, the books have been credited with a strong sense of place and culture, meticulous research, crisp and authentic dialogue, and intriguing plots. The novels are set in Nova Scotia, Ireland, England, Italy, New York, and Germany. The series begins with Sign of the Cross (2006) and continues to the most recent installment, Postmark Berlin (2020).
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Oblique Litanies
$12.00These conversational observations and reminiscences are a eulogy, diverse personal reflections written after the sudden death of a loved one. The tragedy itself is not discussed; the book strives to convey the range of feelings attending bereavement as a collateral text, as they are so often concealed or projected in life — the reassessment; the impulsive humour; how at the time all choices seem inopportune; how social and ethical questions reduce to minute details of one’s life; and, especially, the difficulty of dealing directly with the loss.
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Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
$21.95What if there is no ‘space,’ only a permanent, slow-motion mystic takeover, an implausibly careening awning? Nothing is utopian. Everything wants to be. Soft Architects face the reaching middle.
If architecture is the language of concrete and steel, then Soft Architecture needs a vocabulary of ?esh, air, fabric and colour. It’s about civic surface and natural history. It’s about social space, clothing, urban geography, visual art and the intersection of all these.
This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays – many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries – on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.
Soft Architecture exists at the crossroads of poetry, theory, urban geography and cultural criticism, some place where the quotidian and the metaphysical marry and invert. And it makes for one of the most intriguing books you’ll ever read.
Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture was originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004. This revised edition features an introduction by Petra Blaisse and new material.
‘We say, on almost every page and with utmost reverence, Holy shit. … Ever since, we have wanted to think like Robertson, write like her, maybe even be her.’
– Village Voice
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Occasionally Petty
$24.95Like lyrics from a rock and roll album, this debut collection of poetry unfolds page-by-page to reveal a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Michelle Lietz grew up listening to the songs of Tom Petty. When the news of his passing was announced, the poet felt a piece of her past break away. Her beautiful poetry takes lyrics from Petty’s songs to launch her exploration on themes of nostalgia, adolescence, and the poet’s mixed Yaqui, European and Middle Eastern identity.
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Occupations
$18.95The poems in Chris Jennings’s long-awaited debut poetry collection are linked at their core by a preoccupation with the ways objects or moments become charged with meaning. Narrative occupies the territory of memory, making the most ordinary things–a classified ad, the odds and ends of an estate auction, graffiti, an antique lancet, a vegetable stand–touchstones and reliquaries of other lives. Sometimes reserved, sometimes exploring what a poet can do with excess, Jennings moves fluidly between objective detachment, quiet intimacy and the tone of a cynic in a sentimental mood.
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Ocean
$19.95The ocean has never had a biographer quite like Sue Goyette. Living in the port city of Halifax, Goyette’s days are bounded
by the substantial fact of the North Atlantic, both by its physical presence and by its metaphoric connotations. And like
many of life’s overwhelming facts, our awareness of the ocean’s importance and impact waxes and wanes as the ocean
sometimes lurks in the background, sometimes imposes itself upon us, yet always, steadily, is. This collection is not your
standard “Oh, Ocean!” versifying. Goyette plunges in and swims well outside the buoys to craft a sort of alternate,
apocryphal account of our relationship with the ocean. In these linked poems, Goyette’s offbeat cast of archetypes (fog
merchants, lifeguards, poets, carpenters, mothers, daughters) pronounce absurd explanations to both common and uncommon
occurrences in a tone that is part cautionary tale, part creation myth and part urban legend: how fog was responsible for
marriages, and for in-laws; why running, suburbs and chairs were invented; what happens when you smoke the exhaust from a
pride of children pretending to be lions. All the while, the anthropomorphized ocean nibbles hungrily at the shoreline of
our understanding, refusing to explain its moods and winning every staring contest. “I wrote these poems,” comments
Goyette, “because I know very little about the ocean and yet rely on it like a mirror, a compass.” In Ocean, Goyette
demonstrates how a spirited, playful and richly mythopoetic engagement with the world can actually strengthen our grasp on
its bigger truths.
Winner of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award and finalist for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Oceanleaving
$20.00In oceanleaving, Daze Jefferies? counter-history of rural trans and sex worker resistance evokes the ebb and flow of intergenerational love at the margins. Guided by archival relationships, dreaming, and regard, her lyric, visual, and prose poems are fierce in their address of colonial and sexual violence, gendered labour, and cultural loss in Atlantic Canada. With/holding and recasting the intimate presence of a watermother, a grandmother, a brothel mother, and a trans mother, oceanleaving offers a sensuous kinship between tenacious women and the sea.
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Octaves of Narcissus
$6.95Inspired in part by classical literature and Scripture, Elizabeth Harper’s poems are literate, charged, and demanding in their emotional and intellectual range. Octaves of Narcissus is her first collection of poetry since Games Like Passacaglia.
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October
$14.95On October 10, 1970, at 6:30 pm, Quebec’s Minister of Labour, Pierre Laporte, was kidnapped outside of his Saint-Lambert home by the Chenier Cell of a terrorist group known as the FLQ. One week later, he was found dead in the trunk of a car.
Shortlisted for the QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Award, October is a collection of poetry set in the quiet Montreal suburb of Saint Lambert, where the clash between the “two solitudes” came to a head in 1970 with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Pierre Laporte by the FLQ. For the narrator, growing up in those days meant living through one of the darkest episodes in Canadian history, a time when army tanks, bombings and other random acts of violence became l’ordre du jour.
October spans three decades of Quebec life, chronicling one woman’s attempt to forge some kind of reconciliation between the “warring” cultures, to find the common ground of the French and the English. It is a personal, unabashed look at her own marriage to a French Quebecer which finds her straddling two worlds, two cultures, two very different mentalities. From start to end, echoes of the October Crisis are carefully woven into the text, a constant reminder that the fractious past is never very far behind.