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    A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, who is one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families ... Read more

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    Like many smallish and inelegant towns that dot the coastlines and crossroads of this country, Shean’s postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do “what’s best” for a town like Shean sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended consequences. When a global corporation plans a daring scheme to exploit the ... Read more

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    "I brushed the crumbs off of the fish and back onto the counter, threw the smelts in the frying pan while I got the eggs out of the fridge and cracked one."The Smeltdog Man is the story of how a Cape Bretoner marshalled his accidental invention, a marijuana-induced, munchie-inspired Smeltdog, into the most successful fast food franchise in Canada. As president of his newly formed Good Karma ... Read more

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  • Tinker and Blue

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    Frank Macdonald’s reputation for colourful characters, subtle satire and social conscience is omnipresent in the hilarious adventures of Cape Breton pals Tinker and Blue in late-’60s San Francisco. At age 19 and 20, respectively, Tinker Dempsey and his oldest friend Blue figured it was time they followed generations of Cape Bretoners and crossed the Canso Causeway, if for no other reason than to ... Read more

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  • The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts

    Classic Fairy Tales of Enchanted Animals, Dragons, Talking Creatures, and Transformative Wonder

    The Fantastical World of Magical Beasts gathers fairy tale, literary fantasy, folklore, and children's fiction into a capacious bestiary of enchanted animals and uncanny transformations. Its range extends from courtly wonder tales and Grimm-inflected folk narratives to Victorian dreamscapes, moral fables, comic inventions, and proto-modern fantasies. Talking creatures, shape-shifters, dragons, and ... Read more

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  • The Magical World of Fantastic Creatures - Boxed Set

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    The Magical World of Fantastic Creatures - Boxed Set' stands as a testament to the enduring allure of mythical beings and the narrative traditions that explore their enigmatic realms. Spanning a broad spectrum of literary styles, this collection harmonizes the whimsical, the profound, and the allegorical, uniting opulent fairy tales by Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen with the nuanced ... Read more

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  • Populism and World Politics

    Exploring Inter- and Transnational Dimensions

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Populism has fundamentally altered many aspects of world politics. As President Donald J. Trump’s recent threats to U.S. allies and his imposition of wide-ranging tariffs have made all too clear, “populist” leaders can have a major impact not just on domestic but also foreign policy.The first edition of Populism and Word Politics was the first book-length treatment of populism from an ... Read more

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  • Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated)

    Illustrated Victorian and International Tales of Yuletide Wonder

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    Down the Chimney gathers more than a hundred Christmas narratives into an unusually capacious map of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century holiday literature. Fairy tale, domestic sketch, moral fable, realist vignette, comic anecdote, supernatural tale, and children's fantasy converge around winter's rituals of generosity, memory, hospitality, and renewal. Illustrated and transnational in scope, ... Read more

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  • 20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......

    This volume contains the following 20 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Anonymous: “Beowulf” Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh” Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan” Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Master and Margarita” Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars” Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “Tarzan of the Apes” Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in ... Read more

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  • Classics for Christmas (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (400+ Titles in One Illustrated Edition)

    Classics for Christmas gathers a rich seasonal treasury of fiction, poetry, fairy tale, moral reflection, and festive fantasy, situating Christmas within a broad literary tradition of wonder, charity, memory, and renewal. Its range extends from domestic realism and comic anecdote to lyric meditation, folklore, and spiritual allegory, with tales of transformation, childhood enchantment, winter ... Read more

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