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Secret of the Azure Stone
$19.95Although evil terror nearly brought Uthgar to his demise, Owen was able to save his friend from death, reconcile with his long-lost sister Elsa and free the town from the Evil King. With his family reunited, the Dwarf King wishes to share a secret known only by very few humans or dwarves. However, with this knowledge also comes a new quest and new challenges to ensure humans and dwarves can finally live in peace. As Owen and his friends seek ancient pieces of a hidden, mystical artifact for Stephanie, the young hero worries about his mother and her new position of Queen, begins to question his own self-worth and faces internal anger the likes of which he has never felt in his short life. In the final instalment of “The Blue Knight” series, can Owen overcome his personal insecurities and find the true meaning of the Azure stone, or will he be overcome by pressure of saving everyone he loves from a stronger terror than he has ever known?
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Secret Portland, Oregon
$16.95Portland, the secret gem of the West Coast, is almost too good to be true. Imagine a city where a bookstore occupies an entire city block. A city where brewing beer has been elevated to an art form; a city containing both the world’s smallest dedicated park and largest forested city wilderness. No sales tax, old-fashioned gas stations, the only volcano within city limits, and a world-renowned transit system. You would have to be imagining Portland, and you wouldn’t be dreaming. Secret Portland is the only guide that takes the time to explore the city’s scores of lesser-known treasures — the secrets that make it a place worth dreaming about. Leading you to the spots that only locals know, Secret Portland is readable, quirky, and intimate, exposing little-known histories and legends, the best ethnic eateries, chicest cheap hotels, and locally favoured nightspots.
Don’t miss the opportunity to watch the weather machine in Pioneer Courthouse Square, choose a favourite blossom at the International Rose Test Garden, ride the only three-door elevator west of the Mississippi, or embark on an epic pub-crawl to the city’s celebrated microbreweries. Let Secret Portland show you a side of the city you’ll never forget.
Secret Portland is the latest in the acclaimed and award-winning Secret Guides series. To date, we’ve unlocked the secrets to New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Providence and Newport, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Montréal.
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Secret Providence & Newport
$16.95Secret™ Providence & Newport is a new travel book that reveals the best-kept secrets of two cities steeped in American history. Providence’s consuming passion is food. One of the most prestigious training grounds for American chefs — Johnson and Wales — is in Downcity (Providence’s term for downtown). After a succulent dinner at one of the city’s charming little restaurants, visit the garden where Edgar Allan Poe courted and won the heart of Sarah Whitman, or find hidden places to have a picnic and enjoy the flowers.
Newport’s past and present are quite different from those of Providence. A great colonial seaport, it was a major stop on the northern tip of the deadly — but profitable — Triangle Trade. During the Revolution, the city was occupied by the British, who left a set of vaulted brick barracks that most Newporters don’t even know exist. But for all its fascinating colonial history, Newport carved its niche as the summer home of Gilded Age society. Few people have seen the views from the rooftop of a Bellevue Avenue palace but you might be able to with the help of this guide.
Secret™ Providence/Newport is one of a unique series of in-depth guidebooks that take you off the tired track of mainstream tourism. This guide is a gem for anyone eager to discover the unconventional.
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Secret Toronto
$16.95Secret™ Toronto has been completely revised and updated for 2002. Part of ECW Press’s Secret™ series, Secret™ Toronto is a unique alternative to conventional guides for one of North America’s most popular tourist destinations. Secret™ Toronto takes you underground, inside, backstage, and through concealed doorways to find Toronto’s best kept secrets; from little-known museums, to overlooked neighborhood treasures, to tucked-away green places, to exotic ethnic cuisines, to cultural surprises and activities for the adventurous traveler. Secret™ Toronto captures the essence of the city as it has never been captured before. New and exciting features cover such intriguing topics as Secret Salsa (including a Latin dance studio that doubles as a driving school during the day), Secret Planespotting (aviation addicts who loiter near the airport watching planes come and go), Secret After Hours (where dancing continues when the bars are closed), Secret Fantasies (an S&M bed-and-breakfast where you can rent a private dungeon for the night — continental breakfast included!), and lots of new restaurants.
Whether you’ve never stepped foot in Toronto “the Good” or have called T.O. your home for life, you’ll be sure to find something extraordinary to tickle your fancy in ECW’s completely revised and updated Secret™ Toronto.
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Secret Vancouver
$16.95Revised and expanded for the 2010 Olympics.
It’s been said that Vancouver is a little superficial. Observers point to her great bones, pretty face, and fine outerwear of mountains, gardens, trees and water. But there’s more to this Pacific coast city than good looks.
Vancouver has character, warmth, brains and style — even some spunk. Consider funky, former-industrial Yaletown, where restaurants and tasting bars serve locally sourced and seasonal cuisine in an ultra-chic atmosphere, at prices so modest they’ll shock the knowing American. Or visit the dramatic Museum of Anthropology, with its historic aboriginal totem poles still standing tall in the Great Hall.
This revised and expanded edition of Secret Vancouver, just in time for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, includes even more secret sites, restaurants, bars, patios, bookstores, yoga classes, and other off-the-beaten-path finds. Where can you get good wireless internet? Where can you relax with a drink and the best ocean views?
Whether you are a long-time local or casual vacationer, let Secret Vancouver introduce you to the sights, sensations and stories you’d never think to look for.
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Secrets And Lies
$14.95The short stories and artwork included in this collection focus on the distorted and rearranged truths that we tell ourselves and others. What emerges from these pages is that loneliness is often the catalyst for how we reject or construct reality. In these stories, different considerations of loneliness are explored, and we get a sense of the solitude each one of us knows. Compelling and evocative, the insightful writing that comprises this Fiction Annual captures the power that secrets and lies have in both the creation and destruction of the lives we build. By virtue of the mechanisms we rely on to elude, deflect and deny, we can find ourselves very alone in a world of our own design.
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Secrets in the Water
$22.00Emma Galway’s suicide has haunted the Meredith Island for fifty years.
Back on the island to lay her grandmother to rest, Kate can’t avoid reflecting on the death of her aunt. Learning that her late mother had believed Emma was murdered and had conducted her own investigation, she decides to track down her aunt’s killer. With the help of her neighbour, impetuous and hedonistic sculptor Siobhan Fitzgerald, Kate picks up where her mother had left off. When the two women become the subject of threatening notes and violent incidents, it’s clear that one of their fellow islanders is warning them off. As they begin to look into Emma’s connection to the Sutherlands, a prominent Meredith Island family, another islander dies under suspicious circumstances, forcing Kate and Siobhan to confront the likelihood that Emma’s killer is still on the island.
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Secrets Men Keep, The
$19.95The Secrets Men Keep is about the secrets men keep, and the comic possibilities that arise from our shifting sense of what it means to be a man. Taking an off-kilter approach to revealing the intricacies of modern relationships–relationships that can be at times funny, sensual, or tense–it’s about the lies that men tell themselves and others to keep their dreams and identities afloat.
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Secrets of Weather & Hope
$14.00Cumulus
These are the carriers.
Their large, mild bodies make us think
of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous
temperament. They too are susceptible
to time, but more graceful than us.
Unafraid, they will let go
when they must. They breathe
more deeply and know something
of sadness. Their bodies are sympathetic.
Rain is what they know best and least.Sue Sinclair’s poems speak from that precise place where our perception of the world and our capacity for language meet and embrace, where our sense of experience goes to get sharpened and refreshed. That experience might involve the inner lives of clouds, the flourishing and passing of a tulip, the evocative scent of wolf willow, or the intricate arts of Bach and Virginia Woolf. These poems are deft, musical, and quick in the moment, alive to the sensuous surface and the meditative depth, their antennae fully extended.
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Section Lines
$12.95Carefully edited for balance and inclusiveness, Section Lines is an ideal introduction to the literature of Manitoba. Includes George Amabile, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Lois Braun, Patrick Friesen, Margaret Laurence, Dorothy Livesay, Carol Shields, W.D. Valgardson and Armin Wiebe.
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Secure Parent, Secure Child
$25.00This book continues the ideas set forth in It’s Attachment, A New Way of Understanding Yourself and Your Relationships published by Guernica Editions. The last chapter in the book focused on how one’s adult attachment influences his/her parenting of children. This book will expand on the topic, exploring the 4 categories of adult attachment and how each category influences one’s parenting. The book will help a parent determine his or her Adult Attachment, understand the challenges for parenting based on their particular attachment and then offer guidelines on how to change parenting patterns, again based on the category of attachment of the parent.
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See Bob Run & Wild Abandon
$16.95Bob is on the road. Bob is on the run. But from what, or whom, is she running? Follow Bob as she hops from car to car telling her story to unsuspecting drivers as she tries to put her life in the rear-view mirror. Will she make it to her destination? And what will she find when she gets there? Find out in the critically adored See Bob Run.
In Wild Abandon we are introduced to Steve, a man alone in the world. Steve is acerbic, opinionated, and desperate to figure himself out. As he recounts his life story, we follow Steve out the door of his strict Catholic home, through diners and bars and parks as we hear the tales that made the man. Wild Abandon is a story about running away, and about how to find your way home again.
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See What I’m Saying?
$18.95In See What I’m Saying? wood engraver Jim Westergard puts his artistic talents-and his wicked sense of humour-into play with equal effect, offering a series of visual interpretations of some of the more quirky words and phrases that pepper the English language.
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See You Later Maybe Never
$19.95Her name is Vanessa and she’s pissed off with getting old. Forced out of her high fashion job in Toronto, Vanessa freewheels into the rapid destruction of her long and comfortable marriage which in turn sends her on a comical retreat to a holistic campus on a far-flung island. There she grapples with being a single, childless woman closing in on sixty who only now realizes that she never finished breaking up with the wild bass player she met in Victoria decades earlier. Forced to confront her past, we see Vanessa as a twelve-year-old playing with crayfish in the ravine while her parents’ marriage breaks up and she secretly crushes on the only kid of colour at school, and again as a young teacher in training smitten with one of her students. Then, when she’s sixty, Vanessa dates a black man, but has no clue how to be about it, while her ex, in his stained windbreaker and soiled sneakers, is happy to find his match in a Melissa McCarthy double who wears T-shirts with smutty slogans. And finally we meet Vanessa’s Aunt Marion who, at 103, still has tricks to make her life more interesting. Intelligent and funny, timeless and tragic, See You Later Maybe Never gets to the heart of what it means to be seen as old in a strange new world.
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Seed Catalogue
$12.95Seed Catalogue’s first publication in 1977 changed the shape of prairie writing when Robert Kroetsch claimed a personal mythology and language grounded in the prairies. A seminal work of prairie literature, it began a new era in Canadian writing and new excitement for the possibilities of poetry in the West.”No other book of recent poetry, and few in fiction, sets out with more wit and precision the connections of place and poetry.”–The Globe and Mail
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Seeds
$18.95Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question is the legitimacy of patenting genetically modified food crops. The play takes us back to the seminal moment when a single farmer stood up to international agribusiness and almost won. Large ensemble cast.