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Best Seat in the House
$18.95For 15 years, Tom Stephen had the unique distinction of being both drummer and manager of the Jeff Healey Band. The dual role was fraught with conflicts of interest. One minute, he was leading the debauched life of a rock musician; the next, he was disciplining the band for the havoc they caused.
But few knew or understood Jeff Healey — a national icon and one of the world’s best blues guitarists — better. Funny and loyal, with a luminous mind and staggering talent, Healey was also provincial, stubborn, obnoxious, and antagonistic. This book explores both sides with honesty, clarity, and humor and reveals what life for the band was really like: Jeff challenging ZZ Top to a bowling competition — and winning; Bill Clinton inviting the band to the White House, and enjoying a special audience with Queen Elizabeth II. To say nothing of the legendary guitarist’s interactions with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Keith Richards, and more…
Tom Stephen was there for it all. He believes that young fans deserve to experience Healey’s brilliance — to understand the complicated man behind those timeless sounds. Best Seat in the House offers an authentic perspective that fans won’t find elsewhere.
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Best Served Cold
$16.95Revenge has never been so sweet.
A critical and commercial hit, Revenge was followed fanatically for each of its four seasons. Consistently the #1 show in its timeslot, Revenge was ABC’s biggest primetime hit since Lost, and the first series to match the kind of success Lost had in the coveted 18-49 demographic.
A fast-paced and complicated character-driven show with many plot twists and unanswered questions, fans will welcome insight and analysis into Emily Thorne’s master plan in this intelligent but playful companion to the series. Erin Balser’s exploration of themes, characters, the show’s soapy and literary inspirations, and real-world events for the entire first season make this the must-have book for everyone who is watching Revenge.
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Bestiary, The
$17.00Cooley conducts a chorus of “clucks & barks & muffled cries” to unconstrained cacophony. Bursting with a remarkable and encompassing cast of spiders and fish, crows and bears, rats, chickens, and cows, The Bestiary gives free rein to very human feelings and the way they grow, stunt, and stampede out on the prairie landscape. Amid hushed and howling moments, the natural bends uncanny while the extraordinary roots into the organic under Cooley’s careful eye.
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Bethune 2nd Edition
$17.95Rod Langley’s Bethune chronicles the medical and political career of Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China in 1939. He remains an esteemed figure in China today, for his selfless contributions to the Communist Party of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), when he trained rural peasants to serve as army medics and set up much-needed base hospitals that ultimately saved thousands of lives.
In the 1920s, Bethune had contracted tuberculosis while in private practice in Detroit and experienced first-hand the limitations of treatment options at the time – as well as the politics within the medical profession that prevented advances in combatting the disease. By demanding that he receive an unproven new treatment, Bethune overcame the illness, and thereafter dedicated himself to revolutionizing respiratory medicine.
A social visionary as well, upon relocating from Detroit to Montreal, Bethune became an outspoken proponent for a national medical plan, despite the prevailing anti-Communist sentiment in Canada. He remained steadfastly committed to the common good, and joined the Communist Party of Canada in 1935. His political convictions took him to Spain, where he supported anti-fascist resistance during the civil war, and ultimately to China, where he came to embody the “barefoot doctor” movement later upheld by Mao Zedong.
Bethune is a study of how one man’s vision may shape the world.
Cast of 3 women and 6 men.
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Better Medicine
$19.95Donner Prize-winning author Dr. David Gratzer (Code Blue, ECW Press) edits and introduces this collection of twelve essays on health care reform in Canada, advocating an open-minded approach to such concepts as privatization, two-tier health care, and user fees. Gratzer has assembled a stellar list of authors who invite Canadians to question their confidence in government-managed public health. Contributors include Order of Canada member and University of Toronto professor Michael Bliss, who argues that our current problems are the result of increasingly aggressive government measures to control patients and health-care providers. Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente offers vignettes that address the day-to-day problems of health care: queue jumping, excessive waits, provider burnout, aging equipment, and the politicization of health administration. And, Vancouver-based health analyst Cynthia Ramsey places Canada’s health care system in an international context. Her findings are unsettling. Other contributors include McGill Economist and National Post contributor William Watson, former Quebec Medical Association president Dr. Edwin Coffey, former Ontario Medical Association president Dr. William Orovan, and Urban Futures Institute executive Director David Baxter. All Canadians concerned about the state of health care in Canada should read this informative and intelligent collection.
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Bettina
$14.95Bettina’s end seems near. As she feels her days draw to a close, her mind travels back to her first love, a young French scholar who introduced her to Guillaume de Lorris’ 13th-century masterpiece on courtly love, Le Roman de la Rose. In the Roman, a dreamer enters a garden, where Eros is holding court. The dreamer discovers a perfect rosebud, and yearns to pluck it, but is dissuaded by the protestations of the others in the garden. Thereafter, he meditates on the unattainability of earthly love—to pluck the rose is to destroy it.
Bettina knows all about earthly love. Bettina is a long-distance bus who grew devoted to a young medieval literature scholar on the Paris-Lyon run, when he traveled home from school on her every Friday night. She remembers the night he met the girl, and how he began to tell the girl Le Roman, as only he could. When it became clear that her scholar would not have time to finish his story before the end of the journey, Bettina broke down by the side of the road. The consequences were swift; Bettina was removed from service and never saw her scholar again. She had sacrificed herself so that her scholar could complete the story and be happy with another. Even years later, Bettina’s devotion to her scholar remained perfect.
Spencer and Phoebe are star-crossed lovers. They have abandoned their separate lives in Red Deer and Montreal to restore Bettina, who has fallen into disrepair. They start the Bettina Line, crisscrossing the continent with a few select passengers at a time. Bettina carries them lovingly, longingly, grateful for a last chance to make the love between two people into something perfect. But as the miles pass, and things turn more complicated between Phoebe and Spencer, Bettina reflects on the lessons of love she first learned from her scholar. Bettina is an unusual, quirky love story. A romance with wheels.
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Betty
$14.95Content to juggle the demands of her career and family life, Betty’s charm comes from being what her co-creator Gerry Rasmussen calls “a working class hero whose spirit cannot be broken by the endless series of outrages that make up modern life.”
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Between Books / Entre deux livres
$14.95Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work? In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue gives a tantalizing glimpse of the contour of time shaped by inspiration rather than the movement of the clock. Moving from the philosophical to the personal, she provides a view of how each of her novels has come into existence — the personal context in which each came to be and the social context in which each was received.
LaRue uses two important words in her approach to this “between-time” of creative possibility. The first, “meander,” from the Greek name for Maiandros, has come to signify “wandering at random.” Like Northrop Frye, she distinguishes between “Kairos,” the mysterious, unpredictable moment when the creative impulse is released, and “chronos,” or passing time. This ephemeral moment, as explained by LaRue, is of time but not in it. Given this paradox, it should come as no surprise that LaRue’s between-time of writing creatively has no name. Mortality brings time and its passage unceasingly to mind. Yet, the mental action of moving freely through meandering associations during the time between works becomes the criterion for thinking creatively.
Une fois une œuvre achevée, quand et comment écrivains et artistes abordent-ils leur prochaine création? Dans cet ouvrage passionnant, Monique LaRue nous donne un avant-goût alléchant des contours du temps tracés, dans ce cas, par notre imaginaire et non par les aiguilles de l’horloge. Naviguant entre la philosophie et l’expérience personnelle, elle nous livre un aperçu de la genèse de chacun de ses livres — tant les circonstances personnelles dans lesquelles chacun a vu le jour que le contexte social qui les a accueillis.
Deux mots clés émergent de la démarche de LaRue dans son exploration de cet « entre deux temps » du potentiel créatif. Le premier, « méandre », provenant du terme grec « Maiandros » qui veut dire « errer au hasard ». À l’instar de Northrop Frye, elle distingue entre « Kairos », le moment mystérieux et imprévisible où l’élan créateur est libéré, et « Chronos », le temps qui passe. Pour Larue, ce moment éphémère, surgit du temps sans toutefois en faire partie. De par ce paradoxe, il n’est guère surprenant de constater que l’« entre-temps » de l’écriture créative dont traite LaRue est innommé, Notre mortalité nous renvoie inlassablement au temps. Pourtant, la pensée créative exige une activité mentale qui évolue librement, serpentant, au cours de ce temps entre deux œuvres, au gré des aléas des associations méandres.
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Between Breaths
$17.95Dr. Jon Lien is a risk-taker and respected researcher, working for over twenty years in the dangerous waters off Newfoundland to rescue massive humpback whales and save the fishing gear in which they’re trapped. With his head down in freezing waters and armed only with a snorkel and knife, Lien saves the lives of over five hundred animals and earns the hard-won respect of Newfoundland’s fishermen. But his toughest battle comes at the end, as his body is slowly conquered by a relentlessly progressing paralysis and dementia.
Between Breaths moves backward in time, from Lien’s final moments to his very first whale intervention. As his life becomes further and further confined, his mind stretches back in memories of release and salvation. Based on a true story, Robert Chafe crafts a raw portrayal Newfoundland’s “Whale Man” in this beautiful and poignant play about the parts of ourselves we hold on to after everything else has gone.
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Between Clay and Dust
$19.95Ustad Ramzi was once the greatest wrestler in the land, famed for his strength and unmatched technique. Young apprentices flocked to his akhara to learn his craft, fans adored him, and rival wrestling clans feared his resolve that would never admit defeat. The courtesan Gohar Jan was just as renowned. Celebrated throughout the country for her beauty and the power of her singing, her kotha was thronged by nobles, rich men, and infatuated admirers.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s latest novel presents these extraordinary characters in the twilight of their lives. Their skills are no longer what they once were, new challengers to their eminence have risen, and the adoring crowds and followers are long gone. An immense catastrophe has laid waste to the country; its new inheritors have no time for the old ways. Stripped of their resources and their old powers, Ustad Ramzi and Gohar Jan must face their greatest challenge yet.
Powerful and haunting, Between Clay and Dust is a triumph of storytelling and a poignant exploration of love, honour, redemption, and the strength that great souls find to go on when all is lost.
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Between Dusk and Night
$19.00Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation to other creatures and to the earth itself.
There are many journeys encompassed in the pages of this mature and well-crafted first collection; literal travels to different parts of the world, to Europe and Africa, are the outward manifestation of the inward quest, the asking of the old but still essential questions: What is real? What is true? What is honourable? What is right? Yet these questions are new in that the poet is deeply concerned with the need to find a new paradigm, a new way to relate to the earth at this time of ever-heightening environmental crisis. And this seeking for how to be in and of the earth is paralleled by a personal search for intimacy with her fellow humans.
Throughout the collection, McGiffin never forgets that we are also animals, that we are as vulnerable at twilight, in “the wolfish light,” as any other creature struggling to complete its brief sojourn on earth.
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Between Europe And America
$25.00Does Canadian fiction owe more to European or American influences? Or, has Canadian fiction outgrown its earlier debts and developed its own, distinctly Canadian, features? T.D. MacLulich demonstrates how Canadian fiction writers were initially European-centred; then at the turn of the century, U.S. writing became the dominant model. MacLulich argues that with Raymond Knister’s White Narcissus, a separate and unique Canadian tradition commenced. In the course of the discussion, MacLulich analyzes such writers as Morley Callaghan, Robertson Davies, Ethel Wilson, Margaret Laurence, and Alice Munro.
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Between Families and the Sky
$17.95A father’s untimely death, a gothic grandfather who falls in love with his son’s beautiful widow, a mysterious girl, a rogue golfer, and the watchful eyes of two young people trying to overcome the quirky gravity of their own families — these are the unlikely elements in this lyrical, funny, romantic novel.
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Between the Bell Struck and the Silence
$20.00<p>How does the rain sleep and where does the silence go? In her latest book of poetry, <em>Between the Bell Struck and the Silence</em>, Governor-General-Award-winning Pamela Porter contemplates the mysteries of existence. Porter skillfully reimagines familiar emotions: joy, loss, and healing are made new through descriptions of the flight of music, the spirits that dance between dusk and dawn, the blessings of coyotes and chickadees. Themes of Christian theology and the life and work of Van Gogh are woven throughout this rich tapestry of philosophical exploration and the healing powers of art.</p><br><p><em>Between the Bell Struck and the Silence</em> is a profound offering that delves into the essence of what it means to be an artist and to experience the striking state of being alive, with all of its joys and sorrows. With this introspective collection, Porter invites a generous appreciation for the world and life itself.</p>
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Between the Cracks She Fell
$22.95If you loved The Girl On The Train, you will love this. Take one summer, an abandoned old school and an idyllic beach town. Meet Joscelyn who living off the grid, having lost her home, her boyfriend and her job. She clashes with a gang of street kids, befriends a disfellowshipped Jehovah’s Witness and a runaway housewife who is living in her car with an enormous dog. The tension and violence escalates as the street gang kills one of their own, and it is not until Joss solves all the pieces of the puzzle, can she gather up the pieces of her own life and move forward. A thrilling suspense story, filled with unexpected twists and turns. A fast-paced, ‘can’t-put-this-book-down read’ that will keep you enthralled from the first page. “Lisa de Nikolits’s new novel about those who’ve slipped through the cracks will capture your heart. A must-read.” Canadian Living Magazine. A thriller/suspense story, an exploration of faith, power, crime and social isolation.
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Between the Head and the Hands
$24.95The candid story of a young man abandoned by his family and religion and left searching for identity in an unfamiliar world
When Michael Dawouk is disowned by his Muslim family for being gay, he turns his back on the religion and culture he grew up with. He is forced out onto the street, only to be taken in by a former high school teacher who offers him room and board in exchange for sex.
Michael is soon left with nothing to believe in, until he meets Wyatt, a successful Texan businessman who takes him under his wing. But what Michael can’t see is that his mentor is just as lost as he is. Searching for the connection and belonging he lost when he left home, Michael immerses himself in temporary pleasures — nights of danger, intrigue, and meaningless sex — until he begins to crave a kinder form of love.