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  • Fast Few Cookies Recipes Cookbook

    Nourishing Treats For Every Occasion

    by VIOLETA J. TERRY ...
    "Introducing 'Fast Few Cookies Recipes Cookbook' – a delightful collection of quick and easy cookie recipes designed for both novice and seasoned bakers alike. Perfect for those with a sweet tooth and a busy schedule, this cookbook offers a treasure trove of delicious treats that can be whipped up in a flash.From classic chocolate chip cookies to inventive twists like peanut butter pretzel bites, ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 41

    Histories of Science and Childhoods

    Edited by Andrea Graus, Violeta Ruiz, Elisabeth M. Yang ...
    Series Book 41 - Osiris
    Converges the fields of childhood studies and the histories of science, medicine, and technology, foregrounding and investigating the entangled histories of the "child" and childhood and science.Building on the premise that neither childhood nor science are natural, essential, or universalizable entities, this Osiris volume examines the interrelation of these two categories, tracing back to the ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Kingdom of This World

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba’s most celebrated authors, Henri ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Sing and I Sing

    The Ella Jenkins Story

    by Linda Elovitz Marshall, Rita Abdul-Kareem ...
    Illustrated by Violeta Encarnación ...
    A rhythmic and soaring nonfiction picture book biography about the life, music, and activism of children’s folk singer Ella Jenkins, featuring an epigraph she wrote!Little Ella Jenkins grew up listening to music. At home, her mother hummed; on the streets of Chicago, Ella jumped rope to rhythmic call and response, call and response. But growing up in the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were in effect, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Shadow Six

    by Kelly Smith ...
    Illustrated by Violeta Encarnación ...
    Series series The Shadow Six
    When a forbidden soulshadow marks her as an imperfect child, a girl goes on the run to find answers about her forgotten past in this fast-paced and atmospheric first book in an illustrated middle grade fantasy series perfect for fans of Impossible Creatures and The Golden Compass.Twelve-year-old Myrtle Rainwater is perfect. At least, that’s what her merit book tells her. And on Greycloak Island, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Lost Steps

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mundane Genomics

    DNA after the Hype

    Edited by Violeta Argudo-Portal, Vincenzo Pavone, Mauro Turrini, Ayo Wahlberg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically analyses the ongoing, often silent, expansion of genomics throughout society. Genomics has undeniably become an integral part of everyday life for many, albeit in ever-stratified ways, and this routinization process has come with interesting and often unpredicted consequences, interacting with national cultures, regulations, healthcare systems, patients, families, and more. ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Hard Work Day

    by Alan Arkin ...
    Illustrated by Violeta Encarnación, Georgia Berg ...
    From beloved actor Alan Arkin comes a new edition of his classic picture book, updated and reissued with irresistible new art.Tony is repeatedly denied the opportunity to participate as the rest of his family fixes up their new home—they all say he's too young! And so, off he goes to a nearby hillside and builds a house of his own! He lays a stone floor, chops down trees to make log walls and a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dinosaurs to Dragons

    The Lore and Science of Mythical Creatures

    by Elizabeth Shreeve ...
    Illustrated by Violeta Encarnación ...
    An imaginative nonfiction middle grade exploration of mythology, paleontology, and early civilizations through legendary creatures from across the globe and the fossils that might have inspired their origins that “will draw in the most reluctant readers” (School Library Journal, starred review).What if we lived in a world with fire-breathing dragons? Or enigmatic, alluring mermaids? How about ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Alejo Carpentier in Context

    Edited by Anke Birkenmaier ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Alejo Carpentier in Context examines one of the greatest novelists of Latin American literature in the 20th century. The Cuban Carpentier was one of the regions firmest supporters of the Cuban Revolution yet was revealed later to have hidden important details of his biography. A polymath of encyclopedic knowledge, contributions to this book showcase his influence, not only as a novelist but also ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Explosion in a Cathedral

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cyprus and its Conflicts

    Representations, Materialities, and Cultures

    Edited by Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier ...
    The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics—including ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD