No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a co...
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"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective can...
"The year is now 1954 and the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford sees new faces join Father Brown's team of sleuths. The dashing Chief Inspector Sullivan is back and proves a pleasant distraction for Mrs Devine, Father Brown's lively new Parish Secretary, while plucky new hous...
"Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In bet...
"You can collect the entire library of Scholastic Storybook Treasures and read along on screen with your favorite classic children's stories, brought vividly to life on DVD" -cover.
The adventure continues for Kwai Chang Caine, a Shoalin priest trained in the wisdom and warfare of China's ancients, following life's path in the American west of the later 1800s.
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that sh...
Marc Côté, aumônier de rue et curé depuis plus de 25 ans, hérite d'un domaine sur une vaste propriété dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent. Il décide d'y amener les itinérants qui vivent dans son église pour l'été afin que ceux-ci profitent de vacances salvatrices loin de la vil...
"Louise appeared to have had it all; a job with prospects in the city, a good marriage, and a loving relationship with her stepdaughter. Struggling to come to terms with her inability to conceive a child and lack of purposeful direction, she demanded in a final desperate bid that...
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
Elie, a young convalescent woman, land on a North Seas island during spring thaw and tries to become integrated into the community. Elie feels at the same time disgust and attraction for these men who practice seal hunt. In this foreign region, life takes and gives itself accord...
When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, a science fiction and fantasy author in an era that dismissed "genre" literature as unserious, and a westerner living far from...
"A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home ... Harlem, 1926. After the tense summer that resulted in the death of murderer Theodore Gilbert, twen...
"The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category...
Marc Côté, aumônier de rue et curé depuis plus de 25 ans, hérite d'un domaine sur une vaste propriété dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent. Il décide d'y amener les itinérants qui vivent dans son église pour l'été afin que ceux-ci profitent de vacances salvatrices loin de la vil...
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, "Broad strokes" offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of fifteen...
What is art? What is its function? What is the importance of using colour? What is the meaning of using different materials? These are just some of the questions Achille Bonito Oliva directed to 65 of the greatest and most controversial artists of our time, such as Andy Warhol an...
The brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time. No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloi...
"A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home... Harlem, 1926. After the tense summer that resulted in the death of murderer Theodore Gilbert, twent...