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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Softcover Book by Simon Winchester

"A New York Times Notable Book

The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history.

The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, was stunned to discover that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. But their surprise would pale in comparison to what they were about to discover when the committee insisted on honoring him. For Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman “is the linguistic detective story of the decade.” (William Safire, New York Times Magazine)"

The Professor and the Madman Book

The Rebel an Essay on Man in Revolt Softcover Book by Albert Camus

“Camus, with this book, belongs to the admirable lineage which began with Montaigne. His essay may be called the logbook of the intellectual's pilgrimage to paradise on earth, the biography of that European rebellion which was born with the French Revolution-in a deeper sense its autobiography."

MANES SPERBER, in THE NEW YORK TIMES

"THE REBEL is a piece of reasoning in the great tradition of French logic. There is no trace of sentimentality, of rhet-oric, or of cant. The argument is vitalized by controlled passion and a literary style studded with flashing phrases and arresting aphorisms. But what, above all, is so exhilarating about Camus's essay is that here is the voice of a man of unshakable decency."

CHARLES J. ROLO, in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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The Rebel an Essay on Man in Revolt Book

Selected Poems William Carlos Williams Book

"With the publication of this book, Charles Tomlinson's edition of Williams's Selected Poems, New Directions has introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition.

Opening with Professor Tomlinson's superbly clear and helpful introduction this selection reflects the most up-to-date Williams scholarship. In addition to including many more pieces, Tomlinson has organized the whole in chronological order.

"It isn't what he [the poet] says that counts as a work of art," Williams maintained, "it's what he makes, with such intensity of purpose that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.""

Selected Poems William Carlos Williams Book

A Handful Of Time Softcover Book by Kit Pearson

"Grade 5-8 An important summer in the life of 12-year-old Patricia Potter involves a trip back in time for her to observe her mother, Ruth, in her mother's twelfth year. While her parents, both successful career people in Toronto, work out a separation, Patricia is sent off to her aunt's lake cottage in Alberta. Raised by fashionable and undemonstrative parents, Patricia feels out of place in the company of her rough-and-tumble cousins. Her escape comes when she discovers an old watch engraved to her grandmother, Patricia. When she winds up the watch she becomes an invisible observer to the happenings that took place in her mother's family 35 years ago. Patricia goes back and forth in time, observing her mother's unhappy childhood, and she decides to give her mother another chance, knowing what she does about the past. Although the novel is about two generations of mother-daughter relationships, all readers see of the grown-up mothers, Ruth and Nan, is from the perspective of a child. Hence, both appear as wooden and flat characters. Although the watch device is a handy one to allow the girl a glimpse of the past, there is not much explanation as to how or why the watch possesses this power. Science fiction fans may be disappointed, but the book will show adolescents how relationships in the present are often locked into patterns of the past, and that a discovery of one's family often reveals much about oneself."

A Handful Of Time Book

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems Softcover Book by Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. "These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple, clear and colloquial, yet dense with meaning and wider significance. Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Now a selection of the best of his early works is available in this volume, originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval. Included are many moving and expressive poems: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting In the Seed," "A Time to Talk," "The Hill Wife," "The Exposed Nest," "The Sound of Trees" and more. All are reprinted here complete and unabridged. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Road Not Taken."

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems Book

Forager's Cocktails: Botanical Mixology with Fresh, Natural Ingredients Hardcover Book by Amy Zavatto

"From farmers’ markets to speakeasies, delectable drinks made from foraged and grown ingredients are the latest trend to hit mixology. Full of mouth-watering color photos, this handy guide to imbibing the great outdoors offers 40 inspiring recipes, divided into seasons, as well as tips on how best to forage and preserve the freshest and tastiest berries, herbs, flowers, and more. Forager’s Cocktails is a luscious toolkit for getting the most from backyards, parks, and woodlands and crafting tasty, one-of-a-kind cocktails. Raise your glass to making the most of nature’s bounty!"

Forager's Cocktails: Botanical Mixology Book

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The Road Softcover Book by Cormac McCarthy

"WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son’s fight to survive that “only adds to McCarthy’s stature as a living master. It’s gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful” (San Francisco Chronicle).

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."

The Road Book

The Good Housekeeping Cookbook: 1,275 Recipes from America's Favorite Test Kitchen 125th Anniversary Hardcover Book by Susan Westmoreland

"Filled with 1,275 delicious recipes and plenty of full-color photos, this handy kitchen reference also offers dependable information on cooking techniques, tools, ingredients, food handling, nutrition, canning, freezing, holiday celebrations and much more"

The Good Housekeeping Cookbook

Maxims by La Rochefoucauld Translated with an Introduction by L.W. Tancock

"Of all the French epigrammatic writers, La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) is at once the most widely known and the most distinguished. Voltaire said: “One of the works that most largely contributed to form the taste of the [French] nation, and to diffuse a spirit of justice and precision, is the collection of maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld; though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book—that ‘self-love is the motive of everything’—yet, this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking.” And Lord Chesterfield, in his letters to his son: “Till you come to know mankind by your own experience, I know no thing nor no man that can in the meantime bring you so well acquainted with them as La Rochefoucauld: his little book of Maxims, which I would advise you to look into, for some moments at least, every day of your life, is, I fear, too like and too exact a picture of human nature. I own it seems to degrade it, but yet my experience does not convince me that it degrades it unjustly.”"

Maxims Book

The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most Book by Elizabeth Baird

"More than twenty-five years of cooking expertise perfected in the unique Canadian Living Test Kitchen and printed in the food pages of Canadian Living magazine are distilled in this magnificent and completely new cookbook. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen guarantee — “Tested till perfect” — has assured a loyal following among cooks who know that Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipes guarantee success. Beautifully produced with a 2-colour interior and 2 eight-page photo inserts, the book contains more than 350 recipes, including regional specialties, dishes from our heritage communities, and fresh takes on modern classics such as sushi, chocolate fondue and pasta. Experienced cooks will enjoy the challenge of new inspirations such as Thai curries, pot stickers, grilled quail and chocolate confections. With an emphasis on eating for health, as well as nutritional analyses and advice, tips on cookware, food shopping and storage, and much more, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook has everything any home cook will need. It is a guarantee of good food and an investment in good taste and good health."

The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook

Wonder Woman: Warbringer DC Icons Hardcover Book by Leigh Bardugo

"The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.
 
She will become one of the world's greatest heroes: WONDER WOMAN. But first she is Diana, Princess of the Amazons. And her fight is just beginning. . . .
 
Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mere mortal. Even worse, Alia Keralis is no ordinary girl and with this single brave act, Diana may have doomed the world.
 
Alia just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn't know she is being hunted. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.
 
Together, Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. If they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war."

Wonder Woman: Warbringer Book

Barbara Frum A Daughter's Memoir Softcover by Linda Frum

"The death of Barbara Frum stunned and sorrowed Canadians. After a heroic - and very private - 18-year battle with leukemia, she left behind a country that loved, and respected her. As an interviewer for CBC Radio's As It Happens and CBC TV's The Journal, she was able to go one-on-one with anyone. Now her daughter, Linda, shows us the woman behind the microphone. This is the story of a family and how they not only coped with Barbara's fatal disease, but made the best of it, living every day to its fullest. The lessons learned from Barbara Frum will inspire and move all those who have missed her so much."

Barbara Frum A Daughter's Memoir Book

I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash Hardcover Book (Missing Sleeve) by Ogden Nash

"Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry". Ogden Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972."

I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash Book

Slimming Meals That Heal: Lose Weight Without Dieting, Using Anti-inflammatory Superfoods by Julie Daniluk RHN

"With her debut bestselling health book and cookbook, Meals That Heal Inflammation, nutritionist Julie Daniluk created the definitive guide to understanding inflammation and its link to chronic disease. With Slimming Meals That Heal, Julie highlights the all-important relationship between inflammation, allergies, and weight gain—and offers up over 120 new recipes. All too often, diets fail because they are a self-imposed temporary food prison that people can’t wait to escape. Slimming Meals That Heal will shatter the need to count calories and will conquer cravings by offering the Live-It, a delicious new way of eating that reduces the inflammation that looms in the background of anyone who struggles with their weight. Julie’s clients who have followed the SMTH anti-inflammatory plan have lost 25, 45, and even 100 pounds. Slimming Meals That Heal deepens the reader’s understanding of how food can hurt or heal. The book includes information on cleansing the organs, the specific power of superfoods, and techniques that directly reduce cravings. Julie has devised a 5-step plan on how to boost metabolism and balance hormones, leading to holistic weight balance. And just as with Julie’s first book, Slimming Meals That Heal is bursting with easy, tasty, phenomenally healthy, slimming recipes for every meal of the day, from Superfood Quinoa Porridge to Ginger Honey Salmon Soup, and from World’s Healthiest Gluten-Free Lasagna to the Best No-Bake Apple Crumble Ever. Once you try the Live-It, you’ll leave dieting behind forever as you embrace Julie’s exuberant, healthful approach to eating!"

Slimming Meals That Heal Book

The Last Lion: Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 Hardcover Book (Missing Sleeve) by William Manchester

"This is volume one of William Manchester's fantastic 3 volume biography of one of the 20th century's most famous historic figures. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during World War 2 and one of the heroes of the war. In this book, Manchester looks at the early years of Churchill's life from his birth to his first posting overseas with the army in South Africa. His time as first sea lord during the First World War and the beginning of of the build up to the 2nd World War."

The Last Lion: Winston Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-32 Book

Cooking With Friends Hardcover Book by Jack Wilson, Amy Lyles. Bishop

"The book includes recipes inspired by the sitcom Friends and includes photos of the cast members.It was published by Rutledge Hill Press and has 134 pages.The cookbook contains dishes such as Monica's lasagna, "Joey Burgers," and Chandler's cinnamon toast."

Cooking With Friends Book

Korea the Untold Story of the War Hardcover Book (Missing Sleeve) by Joseph C Goulden

Korea the Untold Story of the War Book

Tibet Through the Red Box Hardcover Book by Peter Sis 

"Tibet Through the Red Box is a children's book written and illustrated by Peter Sís, designed by art director, Lilian Rosenstreich, and published by the Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint Frances Foster Books in 1998. It was adapted into a play by David Henry Hwang in 2004. The book is an illustrated memoir based on the author's childhood recollections of his father's experiences as a documentary filmmaker in China and Tibet during the early 1950s, as well as Sís's response to reading the diary his father kept in the titular red box for the first time, more than forty years later.

It received the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Special Citation, the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1999."

Tibet Through the Red Box

Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952 Hardcover Book (Missing Sleeve) by Stephen E. Ambrose

"Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater and Eisenhower's magnificent leadership as Allied Supreme Commander. Ambrose's recounting of Eisenhower's presidency, the first of the Cold War, brings to life a man and a country struggling with issues as diverse as civil rights, atomic weapons, communism, and a new global role. Along the way, Ambrose follows the 34th President's relations with the people closest to him, most of all Mamie, his son John, and Kay Summersby, as well as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Harry Truman, Nixon, Dulles, Khrushchev, Joe McCarthy, and indeed, all the American and world leaders of his time. This superb interpretation of Eisenhower's life confirms Stephen Ambrose's position as one of our finest historians."

Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect Book

I Saw Esau The Schoolchild's Pocket Book Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

""Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

That’s what children chant when they are being teased; it’s what their parents chanted, and their grandparents and their great-grandparents before them. Collected in this invaluable book are the wit and wisdom of generations of schoolchildren — more than one hundred and seventy rhymes ranging from insults and riddles to tongue twisters, jeers, and jump-rope rhymes. With Iona Opie’s introduction and detailed notes and Maurice Sendak’s remarkable pictures — vignettes, sequences, and full-page paintings both wickedly funny and comically sad — here is a book that deserves a place among the classic texts of childhood."

I Saw Esau Book

The Profession of Arms Hardcover Book (Missing Sleeve) by Sir John Winthrop Hackett

"What is the military profession? How did it come into being and how has it developed? What role does the professional man-at-arms play in a world where superpowers confront each other with weapons of mass destruction? This book ranges across 4,000 years of military history to trace the development and relevance of the profession of arms today."

The Profession of Arms Book

The Future of the Novel: Essays on the Art of Fiction Softcover Book by Henry James

"This volume takes its title from a long-buried essay of Henry James's which appeared in 1900 and which is reprinted now for the first time. He wrote it for one of those "universal anthologies" which our fathers used to purchase from itinerant salesmen as "educational sets," designed to make the entire family aware of the world's literary heritage from Babylon to the Mississippi. The particular anthology for which James wrote his essay was a scholarly compendium; and yet his thoughtful pages appear to have been inserted as an after-thought and, incongruously enough, as preface to a volume containing German drama: the text of the Oberammergau Passion Play, Hauptmann The Weavers, Freytag The Journalists. Thus isolated, it has gathered dust for five decades, while the future of the novel of which he wrote was acting itself out.

The American novelist obviously had nothing to do with the strange position accorded his essay in this bulky set of volumes; but the choice of subject was probably his, or at least, if suggested to him, was one he found highly congenial. Not that he was addicted to prophesy; on the contrary, he was usually concerned with the immediate and the predictable. But now the century was turning; a whole new block of time lay before the novel, and James clearly could not forego this occasion to act as oracle for the novel form--that form which had been the high altar of his life, the center of his devotions. And so he wrote his measured and vigorous essay, with all the weight and authority of his thirty-five years of fiction- writing."

The Future of the Novel Book

Our Turn (Signed Copy) by Kirstine Stewart

"What comes after you "lean in?" In Our Turn, Kirstine Stewart, Chief Strategy Officer of Diply GoViral--and recently named to Canadian Business's Power 50 of 2016 list because she "helps women discover their leadership potential"--draws on her own extensive experience to answer that question in smart and practical ways.

Canada's own Kirstine Stewart has joined the ranks of other stand-out new technology leaders such as Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, but she has come to that position by a very different route. She got her first job when she applied for a position as a "girl Friday" at a film distribution house. Having worked her way up from the bottom--under women and men, leaders good and bad--she believes it's time we leaped past the question of how women might create change in the working world and exploit the fact that profound change is already under way. The digital revolution, and the wave of millennials who are entering the work force with very different expectations than the generations who preceded them, have created a new reality that demands a new style of leader with attributes and perspectives that make women the natural front-runners. The opportunity is there. The question Stewart tackles in Our Turn is how do we seize it. Stewart's own track in the world has been exceptional, and littered with firsts, including being the first woman and the youngest person ever to head the CBC. Not only does she illuminate the broad strokes of the way forward for women, and her own principles of leadership, she digs down into the nitty-gritty of how she has managed to excel and to lead while staying true to who she is as a person. Whether you're the CEO or the administrative assistant, there is something for you in Our Turn.

Our Turn (Signed Copy) Book

The Handmaid's Tale Softcover Book by Margaret Atwood 

"In this seminal work of speculative fiction,  the Booker Prize-winning author asks: In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Soon to be a10-episode TV series produced by MGM Television, starring  Elizabeth Moss (Madmen), Samira Wiley (Orange is the New Black),  Joseph Fiennes, and Max Minghella

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now.... Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, andliterary tour de force."