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  • Roots of Empathy

    Changing the World, Child by Child

    by Mary Gordon ...
    Roots of Empathy -- an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon -- has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.Now, as The New York Times reports that “empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Men and Angels

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    With her husband abroad, an art historian employs a devout but difficult nanny, unsettling her domestic life as well as her view of motherhood—and of herselfWhen Anne Foster's husband accepts a yearlong teaching job in France, she decides to resume her own career in art history, which includes cataloging the work of a compelling and long-neglected painter, Caroline Watson. To care for her children ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stories of Mary Gordon

    by Mary Gordon ...
    The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early Temporary Shelter series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age; it is their ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Company of Women

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    Mary Gordon's extraordinary novel about a young Catholic woman who pursues father figures—only to wrestle to break free of themFelicitas Maria Taylor was brought up in a cocoon, raised by five devoutly religious women. The death of her father while she was still a baby has caused her to seek out the extreme in men, and that is what she finds in Father Cyprian, a priest whom Felicitas visits during ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Side

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    A darkly gripping portrait of an Irish-American familyA multi-generational novel set over the course of a day, The Other Side centers on the journey of Vincent and Ellen MacNamara. Married for sixty-six years, the two have seen their share of hardships: emigration from Ireland to America; the bitter disappointments handed down to their children and grandchildren; and, most recently, setbacks to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Liar's Wife

    Four Novellas

    by Mary Gordon ...
    The award-winning author at her storytelling best: four compelling novellas of Americans in Europe and Europeans in America.In these absorbing and exquisitely made novellas of relationships at home and abroad, both historical and contemporary, we meet the ferocious Simone Weil during her final days as a transplant to New York City; a vulnerable American grad student who escapes to Italy after her ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Modern Dairy Goats -Goat Keeping

    by Mary Gordon ...
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping dairy goats, with information on selection, breeding, housing, necessary equipment, and many other related aspects. Written in simple, plain language and profusely illustrated, this detailed handbook is highly recommended for prospective farmers, and would make for a useful addition to collections of agricultural literature. Contents include: ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Temporary Shelter

    Short Stories

    by Mary Gordon ...
    A book of profound and candid stories by one of America's best novelistsTemporary Shelter is a collection of twenty expertly crafted short stories by Mary Gordon. The characters here are of diverse ages, classes, and nationalities, yet all are alike in their desperate need of safe harbor. A crippled girl must contend not only with disability, but also with her toxic mother and aunts, who block her ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rest of Life

    Three Novellas

    by Mary Gordon ...
    Three masterful tales of women in the grips of complicated and dangerous lovesThe Rest of Life is comprised of three spellbinding novellas about women in love. In Immaculate Man, an agnostic New York divorcée finds herself in thrall to an unexpected passion for a Catholic priest—who is also desired by a former superior—and who becomes unmoored by the affair. Living at Home is set in London, and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Love of My Youth

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    From the acclaimed author of Pearl and Final Payments comes a beautifully choreographed novel about first lovers meeting again after more than thirty years and reimmersing themselves in their shared past.Miranda and Adam, high-school sweethearts now in their late fifties, arrive by chance at the same time in Rome, a city where they once spent a summer deeply in love, living together blissfully. At ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • There Your Heart Lies

    A Novel

    by Mary Gordon ...
    At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her during those years with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

    by Zelda Fitzgerald ...
    This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald’s work—including her only published novel, Save Me the Waltz—puts the jazz-age heroine in an illuminating literary perspective.Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband F. Scott ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD