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Driving off the Map

Sharon MacFarlane

Driving off the Map

A bartender who discovers magic on a winter night, a pair of losers taking a baking class, and a middle-aged woman who goes on a wild limo ride with the ghost of John Diefenbaker. These are a few of the amazing array of characters who live in, or near, Sharon MacFarlane’s fictional village of Palliser, a community struggling to survive in an age of rural depopulation. Whether its a terrifying drive on a frozen river («Ice Road») or a cancelled trip («We Didn’t Go to Len’s This Summer»), each of...

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Sharon MacFarlane

I Am Not Most Places

Richard Cumyn

I Am Not Most Places

Kingston writer Richard Cumyn’s second book of short stories is a remarkable collection of fiction about the curse of modernity–displacement. In striking scenes Cumyn subtly explores our own sense of abandonment and loneliness in the face of change, movement and loss. Cumyn’s prose is sparse and direct, the violence supressed beneath the surface casual and foreboding. His characters are at once familiar and eerily distinct, their relationships a tender blend of heartbreak and affection....

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Richard Cumyn

Bambi. Metsalugu

Felix Salten

Bambi. Metsalugu

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Felix Salten

Eeslinahk

Charles Perrault

Eeslinahk

Kaunis prantsuse muinasjutt printsessist eeslinahas. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.

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Charles Perrault

Sherlock Holmesi lood I. Nelja märk

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmesi lood I. Nelja märk

Arthur Conan Doyle´i kunagi oma lõbuks kirjutatud lood on tänapäeval klassikaks saanud. Tema kangelased Sherlock Holmes ja doktor Watson on paljudele lugejatele sedavõrd omaseks saanud, et Holmesi nimele tuleb veel praegugi kirju, kus talt palutakse abi. Käesolevas raamatus kuuled Holmesi kuulsat juhtumit «Nelja märk». Loeb Tambet Tuisk.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Printsess herneteral

Hans Christian Andersen

Printsess herneteral

Prints soovis abielluda ainult tõelise printsessiga. Ühel õhtul koputas lossi uksele märg ja räsitud tüdruk, kes väitis et on printsess. Kuninganna pani ta magama kahekümnle madratsile ja hanesulgedest padjale, mille alla asetas ühe hernetera. Kui kuninganna hommikul kuulis et tüdruk pole silmatäitki maganud, sest tal olevat midagi väga kõva madratsite all olnud, oligi tõeline printsess leitud. Loeb Liisa Pajusaar.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Deadly Sin

James Hawkins

Deadly Sin

Emotions run high when Queen Elizabeth II attempts to heal the schism between Christians and Muslims by attending a London mosque for Friday prayers. David Bliss, newly returned to duty while he tries to find a publisher for his novel, has the task of protecting the royal couple, but is caught off guard when an attack comes from an unexpected quarter. Meanwhile, Bliss’s aging friend Daphne Lovelace needs help. Her elderly neighbours have died and apparently left their house to the family from...

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James Hawkins

The Space Between

JP Rodriguez

The Space Between

Two wrongs may not make a right, but what about three? JP Rodriguez’s debut novel is an examination of what it means to live a modern life and the price of inaction in a world where chances at redemption and happiness are all too few. Watched over by the majestic mountains of the Canadian west, the narrator came early to understand that every action creates a reaction, and what goes up comes downusually hard. So he’s spent his life in an emotional straitjacket, living comfortably on the surface...

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JP Rodriguez

The Milky Way

Louise Dupré

The Milky Way

Short-listed for the 2002 Governor General's Award for Translation (French to English) Confident, hardworking, and practical, architect Anne Martin is living the good life in Montreal. Yet one day, high up in her apartment overlooking the city and the river, at the heart of her perfectly controlled universe, Anne witnesses a scene that causes a crack to appear in her life, a crack that slowly widens and eventually threatens her very existence. At this time of lost certainty, Anne's...

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Louise Dupré

Dorian Gray portree

Oscar Wilde

Dorian Gray portree

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Oscar Wilde

Kaksteist kuud

Slaavi Muinasjutt

Kaksteist kuud

Elas kord lesk, kellel oli kaks tütart, üks tema enda tütar Helen ja teine tema uue mehe tütar Marouckla. Naine armastas oma tütart, aga vaest kasutütart ei sallinud. Abiks ei tulnud ka see, et võõraslaps oli palju ilusam kui tema oma.

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Slaavi Muinasjutt

Õnneseen Hans

Братья Гримм

Õnneseen Hans

Mõni inimene sünnib, õnnesärk seljas: kõik, mida ta teeb või teha püüab, kukub hästi välja – kõik, mis talle osaks langeb, toob kasu – kõik tema haned on luiged – kõik tema kaardid on trumpässad – pilluta teda kuidas tahes, alati maandub ta nagu kass jalule ja läheb veel suurema kiiruga edasi. Maailm ei pruugi teda alati nõnda kõrgelt hinnata nagu ta ise, aga mis temal maailmast?

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Братья Гримм

Kakuke

Vene muinasjutt

Kakuke

Elasid kord mees ja naine. Ühel päeval ütles mees naisele: „Vanamemm, mine kraabi jahukoti ja -püti põhja. Äkki saad nii palju jahu, et teha üks kakuke.“ Naine läks ja kraapis jahupütti ning keeras teistpidi ka jahukoti ning saigi paar peotäit jahu. Ta segas jahu hapukoorega ja vormis taignast kakukese – väikese ümmarguse kukli. Siis küpsetas ta selle ahjus ära ja jättis aknalauale jahtuma. Vene muinasjutt

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Vene muinasjutt

Faking

James King

Faking

Thomas Wainewright – Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon – is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to have been one of the first recorded serial killers. James King takes on this spectral character in his first novel, Faking, and examines a number of serious questions. Was Wainewright a faker? It’s historical «fact» that he forged sketches, paintings, letters and banknotes – but, more importantly, did he...

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James King

The Father Pat Stories

Patrick Gossage

The Father Pat Stories

Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life. His thoughts reach back to his boyhood rejection of the boisterous ways of his father, just home from the war, to the memorable evening when he first prayed, eyes open, floating in a silent magic space with stars drenching the sky above and mirror lake below him. Even now, the canoe remains his own vehicle for understanding solitude. The...

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Patrick Gossage

The House of Ontario

Royce MacGillivray

The House of Ontario

"Beneath the deadly dull history of Ontario lies a myriad of fascinating, but little-known stories. Did you know: Sir John A. Macdonald was born in an Ontario town, not in Scotland? Karl Marx was once a visitor to Toronto? The famous poet W.B. Yeats graced the town of Captainstone, Ontario, with a visit in 1933? There was an active volcano in Ontario in 1886? "The book is accompanied by an important caveat: All of these stories are fictitious. "'The book is rather hard to...

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Royce MacGillivray

Kuldne lind

Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Kuldne lind

hel kuningal oli imekaunis aed ja aias seisis puu, mis kandis kuldseid õunu. Õunad loeti alati üle, ent just siis, kui nad hakkasid juba valmis saama, selgus, et igal ööl oli üks õun kadunud.

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Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Kaarnakivi

Juhan Jaik

Kaarnakivi

Valimik tondi- ja loomajutte.

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Juhan Jaik

Väike mees

Johannes Wilhelm Wolf

Väike mees

Saksa muinasjutt

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Johannes Wilhelm Wolf

Isekas hiiglane (uus versioon)

Oscar Wilde

Isekas hiiglane (uus versioon)

Oscar Wilde'i muinasjutt

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Oscar Wilde

Võlur ja sultani poeg

Aafrika muinasjutt

Võlur ja sultani poeg

Aafrika muinasjutt

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Aafrika muinasjutt

Vankumatu tinasõdur

Ганс Андерсен

Vankumatu tinasõdur

Muinasjutt

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Ганс Андерсен

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

Roxane Ward

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

What does it take to squeeze into a second skin you think you want? And when you find you can't breathe, who's going to help you peel it off? In a celebrity-obsessed culture, when media images of women (and women themselves) appear to be driven by unreasonable expectations and demands, how does a 29-year-old woman fill that perfect little black dress? These questions are posed and answered in Roxane Ward's debut novel, Fits Like a Rubber Dress , a hybrid of satire, social...

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Roxane Ward

Atmospheres Apollinaire

Mark Frutkin

Atmospheres Apollinaire

Short-listed for the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, Ottawa-Carleton Book Award and Trillium Book Award Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets, painters, writers, and composers from across Europe, the city relied on one man to move among them all-Guillaume Apollinaire. His contemporaries called him brilliant, mad, whimsical. He was the bastard son of an Italian cavalry...

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Mark Frutkin

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