Literary Collections, Essays
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Contrarian Commentary
Honesty, Wry Humour and Clarity on Canadian Living by Mel Fisher
How did bananas come to be? Who is the most useless member of society? What do language fads tell us about the history of human development? What would space aliens say about our well-kept lawns? These short pieces and essays provide...
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Mosaic through East-Facing Glass
A Collection of Personal Essays by Marg Heidebrecht
2020. Yeah, that. Everything stopped except Marg Heidebrecht's habit of writing for ninety minutes a day. Four years, forty essays later, the author of In the Shade: Friendship, Loss, and the Bruce Trail provides us with this new collection....
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Stuffed Animals
A Collection of Microfiction by Wayne Johnston
Stuffed Animals is a collection of haunting, sparsely wrought micro fiction. Each story invites the reader in and then delights and torments them with surprises and plot twists. Whether you are in the mood for black humour, spine-tingling horror,...
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Tales From the Word Guy
What Your English Teacher Never Taught You by Jonathan Berkowitz
Tales from the Word Guy is a collection of essays adapted from the author’s segments on CBC Radio One’s North by Northwest. Jonathan Berkowitz takes the reader on a delightful journey through the history, idiosyncrasies, and sheer pleasures of...
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Questionable Commentary
Late-Onset Contemplations from an East Coast Septuagenarian by William J. Kilfoil
This book is the result of a compilation of discursive newspaper articles from Canada's East Coast - a collection which considers a few thin slices of life in Nova Scotia over a couple of years, served up with bits of humor, nostalgia and some...
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On Breaking One's Pencil
And Other Vagrant Thoughts: Essays from a Curious Mind by Robert T. Sorrells
The book is divided into six major parts: PLACES, WRITING ADVICE, CHURCH MATTERS, PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ESSAYS, ESSAYS, and ALL IN THE FAMILY. It closes with the traditional -30- that used to tell newspapermen working on stories that the story was...
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Gramarye: The Glamour of Grammar
by Anna Jean Mallinson
The essays in Gramarye were born out of the author’s fascination with idiom, syntax, and the parts and particles of speech in English. They draw on instances from poetry, in which language always finds its most characteristic and striking embodiment.
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Social Studies
Collected Essays, 1974-2013 by Jon Peirce
Just let me turn down that armadillo steak I'm cooking for dinner; then I'll be right with you. Such an easy recipe. You should try it. You just soak your 'dillo meat in a pint of bourbon in which you've been soaking a cup of cactus needles...
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