Biblioasis: 218 books

"Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold."—Jonathan EvisonPeter Bayle—heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover—is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets a morphine-injecting reverend, a reviled...

Fail Better uses the sport of baseball as the entry point for a philosophical examination of the beneficial lessons that failure can offer humanity. Unlike many philosophers, Kingwell's style is open and readily understandable. He has a gift for explaining difficult concepts in a way that any...

The National Hockey League is celebrating its hundredth anniversary in 2017–2018—but Bob Duff’s The First Season reveals how close the league came to folding in its very first year. Set against the turmoil of the Great War and born out of a ruse to rid the league of reviled Toronto owner Eddie...

No collectors item yet exists of this kind for the Leafs Bob Duff is well-connected in the world of sports reporting & will be able to help secure good coverage for the book Our press has already received dozens of calls from sports collectors and Maple Leaf fans who are interested in purchasing this title. When it comes to the Leafs, Duff is a known and respected author.

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013: Top 100/Editors' Pick “A gorgeous debut.”-JOSEPH BOYDEN, author of Through Black Spruce and The Orenda At the hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, Bryce is learning to predict the worst. Racing heart: infection, probably malaria. He’ll send Iris for saline....

On April 10th, 1815, Indonesia’s Mount Tambora erupted. Th e resulting build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered weather pat-terns and led, in 1816, to a year without summer. Instead, there were June snowstorms, food shortages, epidemics, inventions, and the proliferation of new cults and religious...

In the Cote-des-Neiges region of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities. Two recent arrivals, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from Haiti, must choose as adults whether to be united by childhood friendship, or...

A sensitive writer flees the clatter of London for a sleepy French city. After settling in at quiet hotel, he spies a ghostly, solitary young woman weeping in a walled garden, her features hidden from view. Compelled to see the woman's face, he ventures forward.... Originally published on Christmas in 1931, "One Who Saw" is regarded as A.M. Burrage's masterpiece.

Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.) Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register display Attractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placement Similar...

It’s 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom’s dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who’s run off with the minister from the church where the pet store used...

Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize. Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015 One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015 Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015 In the stories of Confidence,...

A RADIO FRANCE-CULTURE/TÉLÉRAMA BEST WORK OF FICTION BY THE WINNER OF THE 2013 CAMÕES PRIZE AND THE WINNER OF THE 2014 NEUSTADT PRIZE “Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa.""-Doris Lessing “By meshing the richness of African beliefs . . . into the Western...

The poems in this collection originated as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing" and metamorphosed into poetic responses to quotations and epigraphs on a variety of subjects.

While engrossed in an ancient account of the sinister death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog - oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. Seth's newly illustrated version of M.R. James' classic Christmas ghost story is a spooky holiday delight.