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“john megre shields”

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  • The Journal of An Uncultured Fool

    by John Megre Shields ...
    A young wanderer on the threshold of adulthood scribbles events involved in his personal perspective progression via exposure to multifarious novel external environments. Travelling from the lows to the highs of the natural and economical worlds, a wider lens through which to view the vicissitudes of existence is acquired. ... Read more

    $7.34 CAD

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  • Wintering

    The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

    by Katherine May ...
    **THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness

    funny, personal and meditative essays about happiness from a national treasure 

    by Bill Bailey ...
    WHAT MAKES US HAPPY? BILL BAILEY PLAYS CRAZY GOLF AND HUGS TREES TO FIND OUT.'A warm, funny read, full of personal anecdotes and love letters to things that bring Bill Bailey pleasure' Sunday Mirror**'Very thoughtful and written in a delightfully humorous and accessible way... Guaranteed to make [you] smile' Daily ExpressIs there a knack to being happy? From paddle-boarding down the Thames in a Sa ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Birds Art Life

    by Kyo Maclear ...
    A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant.For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each of these artists took time away from their work to become observers of natural phenomena. In 2012, Kyo ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Guest Cat

    by Takashi Hiraide ...
    Translated by Eric Selland ...
    A wonderful sui generis novel about a visiting cat who brings joy into a couple’s life in TokyoA bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Small Pleasures

    by The School of Life, Alain de Botton ...
    Series series The School of Life Library
    **"... A book reminding us of all the small moments we overlook when they happen."- Emma Gannon, Ctr Alt Delete podcast52 overlooked small pleasures, from flirtation and figs to cyprus trees and the pleasant exhaustion that follows an especially productive day.**We exhaust ourselves and the planet in the search for very large pleasures, while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

    by Denis Thériault ...
    Translated by Liedewy Hawke ...
    *Selected for Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 Book Club*'Quirky and charming' GuardianFor readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and youngSecretly steaming open envelopes and reading the letters inside, Bilodo has found an escape from his lonely and routine life as a postman. When one day he comes acr... ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Ride In The Neon Sun

    A Gaijin in Japan

    by Josie Dew ...
    It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities of the calendar, the indecipherable postal system, not to mention the alien alphabet, language and culture, have all to be confronted before the disorientated traveller can feel at ease. Trying to ride a bicycle through the streets of one of the most congested cities in the world would seem to compound your problems. For ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It

    A John Murray Original

    by Jessie Greengrass ...
    WINNER OF THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016'Greengrass is undoubtedly that rare thing, a genuinely new and assured voice in prose. Her work is precise, properly moving, quirky and heartfelt' A. L. KennedyThe twelve stories in this startling collection range over centuries and across the world.There are stories about those ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Winter

    by Karl Ove Knausgaard ...
    Series Book 2 - The Seasons Series
    The second volume in Knaugsaard's autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to unborn daughter.In Winter, the second installment in this quartet, we rejoin Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mystical Miles The 2nd Dimension of Running

    by Paul Vorwerk ...
    the philosophy of running … the running of philosophy; the joy and life of running ... the running of joy and life: it's all in the book mystical miles the 2nd dimension of running. through stories of the author's running and racing distances from 1 km to 100 miles, the book explores the sweat, chafe, blisters and exhaustion; the challenges and achievements of running - its 1st dimension. Always ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rewilding the Urban Soul

    searching for the wild in the city

    by Claire Dunn ...
    We’re a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD