Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve...
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Author: Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:
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Author: Winston-Macauley, MarnieSummary:
"The Jewish mother feels her job isn't done even after death. You're never too dead to be a Jewish mother." –Mallory Lewis, daughter of Shari Lewis * What do Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Barbra...
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Author: Winston-Macauley, MarnieSummary:
"To me, the Jews are funnier than any other group. Why? Because they have had more trouble. And trouble is often the heart of humor." — Steve Allen (who is not Jewish) from A Little Joy, A Little...
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Author: Lane, AmySummary:
In a perfect moment of cold November sunshine, pudgy accountant Kit Allen realizes Jesse, his new office assistant, is everything he's ever dreamed about in a man. Feeling supremely unworthy and...
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Author: McAllister, RowanSummary:
Lord James Warren, Viscount Sudbury, lives a quiet, safe and predictable life alone on his estate in Suffolk, only traveling to London once a year to visit family and satisfy his more forbidden...
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Author: Dunbar, HeleneSummary:
Five years after an unspeakable tragedy, Gordie Allen is living with his half-brother Kevin, the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track...
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Author: Schraff, AnneSummary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-...
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"A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a...
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Author: Dunbar, HeleneSummary:
Five years after an unspeakable tragedy, Gordie Allen is living with his half-brother Kevin, the only person who can protect Gordie at school and keep him focused on getting his life back on track...
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Author: Bockris, VictorSummary:
Personal encounters with one of the most influential and iconic figures of the Beat Generation During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery...
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Author: Bockris, VictorSummary:
The "poet laureate of the New York underground scene" chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expression Once dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg,...
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Author: Parker, JeffSummary:
Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion is a collection of found poems composed of the words of professional athletes. The content of post-game interviews and sports chatter is so often meaningless, if not...
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Author: Novak, Luka, Charney, UrškaSummary:
The first novel by renowned Slovene publisher, politician, and TV personality Luka Novak is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art. With echoes of Thomas Pynchon...
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Author: Ruiz, MiguelSummary:
Presents advice on how to gain personal freedom by following the wisdom of the Toltecs.
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Author: Smutylo, AllenSummary:
Over the last forty years, Canadian adventurer, writer, and artist Allen Smutylo has experienced some of the wildest and most captivating waters imaginable in all corners of the globe. The stories...