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  • No Great Mischief

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Island

    The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    Alistair MacLeod has been hailed internationally as a master of the short story. Now MacLeod’s collected stories, including two never before published, are gathered together for the first time in Island. These sixteen superbly crafted stories, most of them firmly based in Cape Breton even if its people stray elsewhere, depict men and women living out their lives against the haunting landscape that ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Complete Stories of Morley Callaghan

    Volume One

    by Morley Callaghan ...
    Series Book 1 - Exile Classics series
    Eighty-five stories by one of Canada's greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan's short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section providing the year of publication for each story, a question-and-answer section, and comprehensive ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Island

    Kanata Classics Edition

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    Series series Kanata Classics
    Part of the inaugural Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Kate Beaton, Island is a collection of stories that captures the soul of the east coast and proves Alistair MacLeod is a master of the craft.A book-besotted patriarch releases his only son from the obligations of the sea. A father provokes his young son to violence when he reluctantly sells the family horse. A passionate girl ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Remembrance

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    From the internationally celebrated author of No Great Mischief comes a moving short story of three generations of men from a single family whose lives are forever altered by the long shadow of war.In the early morning hours of November 11, David MacDonald, a veteran of the Second World War, stands outside his Cape Breton home, preparing to attend what will likely be his last Remembrance Day ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Lost Salt Gift of Blood

    by Alistair MacLeod, Joyce Carol Oates ...
    The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • To Every Thing There Is a Season

    A Cape Breton Christmas Story

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories

    by Alistair MacLeod, Jane Urquhart ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island. In a voice at once elegiac and life-affirming, MacLeod describes a vital present inhabited by the unquiet spirits of a Highland past, invoking memory and myth to celebrate the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • NEVER DIE WONDERING

    ALISTAIR MACLEOD STORY

    by ALISTAIR MACLEOD ...
    This book is an incredible Australian story of an ordinary man who has lived an extraordinary life, who has overcome seemly insurmountable obstacles to succeed in living his dreams and accomplishing his ambitions.Alistair Macleod’s memoirs, is a true story of a man who decided to live life to the full. You will been chanted as you follow his adventurous life of travel and living from the city to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Son of a Highlander

    by Alistair MacLeod ...
    Son of a Highlander is the true story of the author, a third-generation Australian of Scottish Highland descent discovering his ancestral history over eight generations, from father to son. This is a search for authenticity of a verbal story handed down over a two-hundred-year period, along with a 1797 penny and a collection of photos and correspondence that are one hundred years old, which were ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • NEVER DIE WONDERING II

    A Sailing Odyssey

    by ALISTAIR MACLEOD ...
    In the first book Never Die Wondering - Alistair Macleod story, you learned how the author was forced to leave his beloved cattle property in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, due to the worst drought in living memory.What happened next?Undaunted, Alistair continued his adventurous life exploring countries throughout the world with the likes of Papua New Guinea that is regarded by many travellers ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Universal Human Rights

    Moral Order in a Divided World

    by Kenneth Henley, Alistair Macleod, Rex Martin, David Duquette, Lucinda Peach, William Nelson, Jonathan Schonsheck, Larry May, Helen Stacy, Suzy Kim, Stephen Nathanson ...
    Series series Philosophy and the Global Context
    Universal Human Rights brings new clarity to the important and highly contested concept universal human rights. The Charter of the United Nations commits nearly all nations of the world to promote, to realize and take action to achieve human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, yet this formal consensus masks an underlying confusion about the philosophical basis and practical implications of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD