Canadian Literature
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 NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaHow I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions |
As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and … | Alex Wood | 292 | 2021 | View |
 In Pursuit of JusticeJust Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op and the Fair Trade Movement |
This is the story of Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-op, Canada’s first fair trade coffee roaster. This book describes its successes and its failures and details how a small group of people … | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 144 | 2014 | View |
 The Quebec Anthology1830-1990 |
The Quebec Anthology: 1830-1990 provides a complete overview of the Quebec short story from its beginnings to the 1990s and offers a unique opportunity for English readers to discover the essence … | Matt Cohen | 427 | 1997 | View |
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From "The Legend of Rose Latulipe" 1837From: The Quebec Anthology |
The novel is a work of fantasy and folklore, a blend of the surreal and the macabre that relates the story of Charles Amand, a native of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli who becomes obsessed by the desire to … | Philippe Aubert de Gaspé | 7 | 1997 | $0.42 Add |
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From IntroductionFrom: In Pursuit of Justice |
- | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! PrologueThe Fight of My Life |
Alex Wood introduces readers to his journey, his family, and notes that he’s been battling addiction since childhood. In three years, he quit 14 different addictions, each covered … | Alex Wood | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From "The Three Devils, or, All’s Well That Ends Well" 1867From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Les trois diables," translated by Wayne Grady as "The Three Devils," first appeared in Contes populaires and was one of Stevens’s more successful stories. It is typical … | Paul Stevens | 14 | 1997 | $0.84 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 1I Shook Up the World |
In the first chapter of the Cocaine segment of the memoir, Wood talks about his experience relapsing onto cocaine at a Montreal strip club. Wood talks about his past dreams, his first gig at Yuk … | Alex Wood | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From The BeginningsFrom: In Pursuit of Justice |
- | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From "The Roussis’ Fire" 1872From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Le Feu des Roussi," translated here by Yves Brunelle as "The Roussis’ Fire," first appeared in two instalments in the journal L ‘Opinion publique in 1872 under … | Narcisse-Henri-Edouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice | 16 | 1997 | $0.96 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2Miley |
After feeling like a "grown up" after the Just for Laughs gig, Wood describes how he was "a boy again within weeks." Addiction and debt begins to interfere with his gigs and … | Alex Wood | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From From Coffee to Chocolate and BeyondThe Founders From: In Pursuit of Justice |
- | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
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From "Yellow-Wolf, Malecite Chieftain of Old" 1893From: The Quebec Anthology |
After de Gaspé’s death in 1871, one of his sons, Alfred-Patrice, found a manuscript of stories among his father’s papers. This was published in 1893 as Divers. Jane Brierley, … | Philippe Aubert de Gaspé | 15 | 1997 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3Withdrawal |
Beginning the Alcohol segment in the throes of withdrawal, Wood takes readers through his transition to heavy drinking and the health issues he’s been encountering. He describes his … | Alex Wood | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From Understanding Fair TradeFrom: In Pursuit of Justice |
- | Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From "La Gothe and Her Husband" 1895From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Le mari de la Gothe," translated here by Patricia Sillers as "La Gothe and Her Husband," first appeared in Fleurs champêtres. Closer in character to the gothic tales of … | Robertine Barry | 11 | 1997 | $0.66 Add |
