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  • Peelin Orange

    Collected Poems

    by Mervyn Morris ...
    Peelin Orange is the definitive Collected Poems by one of Jamaica's leading voices, the current Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. These poems explore the everyday, the erotic, love and the melancholy and comedy of being. Often drawing upon Creole dialect, Morris explores his Jamaican heritage with trademark musicality. Each poem offers a pared-down shard of concentrated feeling and social observation. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miss Lou

    Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture

    by Mervyn Morris ...
    Series Book 6 - Caribbean Lives Series
    The career of Louise Bennett ('Miss Lou') is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards national and international acclaim. It draws on a variety of sources, including interviews, archives, academic theses, documentary projects, recorded performances and Louise ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and the Jamaican Culture

    by Mervyn Morris ...
    Louise Bennett Coverley, ‘Miss Lou’, has for decades represented the ‘face’ of Jamaican culture, the essence of what it is to be Jamaican. As a poet, performer, storyteller, singer, actress, writer, broadcaster, folklore scholar and children’s television show host, she won hearts and souls for Jamaica with her humorous yet compelling performances worldwide.       It is Miss Lou, more than any ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature

    by Lorna Down, Thelma Baker, Thelma Baker, Edward Baugh, Victor Chang, Carolyn Cooper, Norval Edwards, Brian Heap, Kelly Baker Josephs, Mark McWatt, Mervyn Morris0, Sharon Phillips1, Velma Pollard2, Sandra Robinson3, Samuel Soyer4, Aisha Spencer5, Maureen Warner-Lewis6, David Williams7, Ann-Marie Wilmot8 ...
    Spanning three generations of teacher-writers, Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature speaks to the emergence of a distinct body of teaching styles, approaches, methods and philosophy for teaching literature. Each generation enriched by the others has extended the field of literature teaching.With its collection of eighteen interviews and its insightful theoretical discussions on creative ways ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Dead Yard

    A Story of Modern Jamaica

    by Ian Thomson ...
    Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Decision Book: 50 Models for Strategic Thinking

    by Mikael Krogerus, Roman Tschäppeler ...
    Translated by Jenny Piening ...
    A short, sharp guide to tackling life’s biggest challenges: understanding ourselves and making the right choices.Every day offers moments of decision, from what to eat for lunch to how to settle a dispute with a colleague. Still larger questions loom: How can I motivate my team? How can I work more efficiently? What is the long tail anyway?Whether you’re a newly minted MBA, a chronic second ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Meandering Thoughts Through a Warped Mind

    by Colin Bryant ...

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  • My Double Life

    Sexty Yeers of Farquharson Around with Don Harn

    by Don Harron ...
    After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson) plus one book by his drag-queen character, Charlie's rich city cousin Valerie Rosedale, Don Harron now presents the story of his 77-year stint in the entertainment business.The actor's colourful career includes such highlights as making money in 1935 as a 10-year-old cartoonist doing mother-and-son banquets; winning an ACTRA ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Poems

    by Christopher Reid ...
    Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are poems ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Great Unrecorded History

    A New Life of E. M. Forster

    by Wendy Moffat ...
    A revelatory look at the intimate life of the great English author—and how it shaped his most beloved works."A well-written, intelligent and perceptive biography. . . . [Moffat] uses the sources for our knowledge of Forster's sexuality, including letters and diaries, without reducing the mystery and sheer individuality of Forster, without making his sexuality explain everything." ―Colm Tóibín, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Berryman's Sonnets

    by John Berryman ...
    A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomedJohn Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself when, in his thirties, he found he was suddenly compelled to write sonnets. It was an unusual choice—even an unpopular one—for a poet in a midcentury American literary scene that was less interested in forms. But it was ... Read more

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  • The Idealist: Your Guide to the INFP Personality Type

    by Jaroslaw Jankowski ...
    Discover a compendium of knowledge on the idealist – INFP personality type! As you explore this book, you will find the answer to a number of crucial questions:* How do idealists think and what do they feel? How do they make decisions? How do they solve problems? What makes them anxious? What do they fear? What irritates them?* Which personality types are they happy to encounter on their road ... Read more

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