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The Clarinet Polka: A Novel

Keith Maillard

Told with such humour and suspense that it’s hard to put down...A rare achievement, an unstintingly honest, hilarious, and dreadful delight.”  Globe and MailGreer Pentland is having a challenging year. Her teenaged son, Sam, is on trial for the murder of two senior citizens, a crime allegedly committed while he was sleepwalking. Greer is also battling breast cancer, a disease that has left her with a litany of physical side effects and deep anger toward the incompetence of the medical profession.Yet, in the face of all these obstacles, Greer’s story is full of hope and delicious dark humour. Her indelible strength is fuelled by her unconditional love for her son and the moral support she receives from her 88-year-old aunt, a chain-smoking, vodka-swilling, vitamin-popping senior whose continual commentary on the morbid news of the day is wickedly funny and provocative. This novel about one courageous woman’s fight to survive in a post-millennium culture gone mad is heroic, heart stopping, and affecting.The Barking Dog, the fifth novel from Cordelia Strube, Canada’s pre-eminent writer of urban fiction, is an unforgettable portrait of modern life in these media-saturated, apocalyptic times.

The Barking Dog: A Novel

Strube, Cordelia

The Great Family Cookout: 300 Down-Home Dishes that Taste Great Outdoors

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Gregg R. Gillespie

Outdoor Cooking

Perfect Preserves: Jelly-Making, Bottling, Pickling, Smoking, Curing, Potting, Freezing, and Salting

hilaire-walden

Canning & Preserving

Winner of the 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize and of the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean) When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-night vigil that brings together elements of the African diaspora in one epic sweep. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of Bimshire in 1952, The Polished Hoe unravels over the course of 24 hours but spans the lifetime of one woman and the collective experience of a society informed by slavery. As the novel opens, Mary Mathilda is giving confession to Sargeant, a police officer she has known all her life. The man she claims to have murdered is Mr. Belfeels, the village plantation owner for whom she has worked for more than thirty years. Mary has also been Mr. Belfeels' mistress for most of that time and is the mother of his only son, Wilbeforce, a successful doctor. What transpires through Mary's words and recollections is a deep meditation about the power of memory and the indomitable strength of the human spirit. Infused with Joycean overtones, this is a literary masterpiece that evokes the sensuality of the tropics and the tragic richness of Island culture.

The polished hoe: A novel

CLARKE, Austin

Salt Fish Girl

Lai, Larissa

The Big Grill: Outdoor Entertaining at its Best

Kirk, Paul

Each chapter of this book deals with a particular aspect of golf and includes tips from a well-known professional golfer and an example of a hole on a world famous golf course where the relevant tips might prove particularly beneficial. For example, the chapter on putting features tips from Nick Faldo and the featured hole is the notoriously tricky 12th at Augusta national, home of the Masters. The chapter on links golf includes tips from Tiger Woods and features the 14th at St Andrews. With contributions from Severiano Ballesteros, Tom Watson, Sam Snead, Greg Norman, Ernie Els and others, as well as Faldo and Woods, this guide should be of interest to all golfers wishing to improve their game. The book covers all the fundamentals of technique, set up, swing, driving and putting, as well as more advanced techniques such as shaping shots, playing in the wind and so on. The mental game, strategy and course management are also included as is a chapter devoted to the ladies' game.

The Best Golf Tips Ever: Guaranteed Shot-Savers from the World's Top Pros

Sports & Outdoors

Wright,Nick

Golf

In this much-anticipated memoir, Metcalf takes us on a personal journey through his life and those influences that inform his own literary aesthetic. Here is a fascinating story peopled with the likes of Alice Munro, Norman Levine, Ernest Hemingway, John Newlove, Hugh Hood, Keath Fraser, Irving Layton, Mavis Gallant, and many other literary luminaries. By turns humorous and iconoclastic and brimming with intelligence and brio, this highly readable memoir provides much-needed perspective on the art of editing, literary values, and the current state of Canadian literary publishing.

An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir

Metcalf, John

History & Criticism

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