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“lawrence mathews”

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  • Elle

    by Douglas Glover, Lawrence Mathews ...
    A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General’s Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Owning the Future

    Power and Property in an Age of Crisis

    by Mathew Lawrence, Adrienne Buller ...
    A radical manifesto for the transformation of post-pandemic politicsThe question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times. During the pandemic this issue has only become more divisive. Since March 2020 we have witnessed the extraordinary growth of asset manager capitalism and the explosive concentration of wealth within the hands of the already super-rich. This new oligarchy controls ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Planet on Fire

    A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown

    by Mathew Lawrence, Laurie Laybourn-Langton ...
    A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdownIn the age of environmental breakdown, breakdown, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency. We urgently need an alternative to bring about the rapid transformation of our social and economic systems. As we rebuild our lives in the wake of Covid-19 and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education

    Reclaiming Our Civic Purpose

    by William V. Flores, Katrina S. Rogers, Jonathan R. Alger, Terrence Bensel, Noël Bezette-Flores, Harry C. Boyte, Amanda Buberger, Martín Carcasson0, Rev. Monsignor Franklyn M. Casale1, Sean Creighton2, Waded Cruzado3, Rassoul Dastmozd4, Sean Decatur5, Kevin Drumm6, Abraham Goldberg7, Azuri Gonzalez8, Windy Y. Lawrence9, Otto Lee0, John Locke1, David Mathews2, James Mullen3, Eduardo Ochoa4, Adam Weinberg5, David Wilson6 ...
    In the most recent Democracy Index, the Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded the United States from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy.” Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education takes a hard look at the state of American democracy today through the lens of one of the nation’s most important actors: colleges and universities. Democracy is more than voting: it ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Over Our Heads is a novel that weaves together the histories of two very different half-sisters who return home to deal with the aftermath that occurs when the grandmother who raised them dies. Emma, a punk band singer and poet turned pet psychic, and Rachel, an actuary with an interest in astronomy, both carry the remnants of childhoods overshadowed by issues of bullying, abandonment, alienation ... Read more

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  • Blue Sonoma

    by Jane Munro ...
    Winner 2015 Griffin Poetry PrizeIn Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called "the gifts reserved for age." A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his "battered blue Sonoma" is an evocation of numerous other crossings: between empirical reportage and meditative apprehension, dreaming and ... Read more

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  • Just Gone

    by William Kowalski ...
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    Mother Anqelique runs a shelter for homeless mothers and their children in a run-down inner-city area, where drug addiction, prostitution and random acts of violence are facts of life. One day, newly orphaned Jamal and his sister Chantay arrive at the shelter, hungry and scared. As Angelique tries to find a new home for them, she develops a fascination with seven-year-old Jamal, who seems to ... Read more

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  • Chloe Sparrow

    by Lesley Crewe ...
    Chloe Sparrow is a twenty-five-year-old TV producer with a hit show on her hands. The Single Guy is a popular new reality series, where dozens of women are trying to woo bachelor veterinarian Austin Hawke. As the filming gets underway, though, accident-prone Chloe finds herself in one predicament after another: a wayward puck hits her in the face during a hockey game, she sprains her ankle at a ... Read more

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  • Accusation

    by Catherine Bush ...
    While in Copenhagen, Sara Wheeler, a Toronto journalist, happens upon Cirkus Mirak, a touring Ethiopian children’s circus. She later meets and is convinced to drive the circus founder, Raymond Renaud, through the night from Toronto to Montreal. Such chance beginnings lead to later fateful encounters, as renowned novelist Catherine Bush artfully confronts the destructive power of allegations. With ... Read more

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  • Giving Up

    by Mike Steeves ...
    At times funny, at other times sad, and more than often a mixture of the two, Giving Up by Mike Steeves is a deeply felt account of what goes on in the inner sanctum of the modern couple's apartment.In grappling with the line between what happened and what might have happened, Steeves gives voice to the anguish of a generation of people who grew up with great expectations, and are now settling ... Read more

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  • Do You Think This Is Strange?

    by Aaron Cully Drake ...
    Shortlisted for the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2016 Leacock Medal for Humour WritingWinner of an Independent Publishers Book Award (IPPY)Freddy has problems. Some of them are because he's autistic. Most of them are because he's a teenager.When he’s seven years old, Freddy's mother walks him to the train station, sits him on a bench, kisses his forehead, and disappears from ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD