The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro
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An Earthling's Guide to Outer Space: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Black Holes, Dwarf Planets, Aliens, and More
by Bob McDonald
Tags: gift hardcover science
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic
by Adam Shoalts
Tags: adventure canada hardcover non-fiction outdoors trekking
Source: A Portrait of Coffee Growers
by Steve McCurry
Tags: africa art culture food hardcover photography signed
Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road
by Kate Harris
Tags: softcover adventure travel non-fiction autobiography
Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
by Adam Shoalts
Tags: adventure canadian outdoors canada autobiography
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive Edition
by Betty Edwards
Tags: art how-to
Road to Seeing
by Dan Winters
Tags: photography hardcover memoir
Designing for Touch
by Josh Clark
Tags: abookapart web user-experience softcover html design
Going Responsive
by Karen McGrane
Tags: abookapart contentstrategy design softcover web
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems
by Lea Verou
Tags: design css development softcover web oreilly
Green Arrow: Year One
by Andy Diggle
Tags: comic
Waterfalls of Nova Scotia: A Guide
by Benoit LaLonde
Tags: atlanticcanada canada canadian maritimes novascotia outdoors reference softcover
Genesis
by Sebastião Salgado
Tags: photography hardcover south-american environment
The Dark and Other Love Stories
by Deborah Willis
Tags: canada ebook shortstories
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
by Rob Walker
Tags: to-read hardcover how-to ideas inspiration
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
Tags: american fiction ebook american-south
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
Tags: psychology softcover self-help
The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce, #10)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: british fiction hardcover mystery
The Real World of Technology
by Ursula Martius Franklin
Tags: cbc computers criticism ideas lecture technology to-read
The Lonely Hearts Hotel
by Heather O'Neill
Tags: canadian ebook to-read
A History of Wales
by John Davies
Tags: british history penguin softcover culture historical
Mary Cyr
by David Adams Richards
Tags: to-read canadian fiction hardcover
Tent Dwellers
by Albert Bigelow Paine
Tags: to-read adventure atlanticcanada canada historical maritimes non-fiction novascotia outdoors softcover
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: british hardcover mystery
The Voynich Manuscript
by Unknown
Tags: art essays hardcover historical illustrated
Crimes Against My Brother
by David Adams Richards
Tags: hardcover fiction canadian maritimes miramachi to-read
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: hardcover mystery
Daydreams of Angels
by Heather O'Neill
Tags: canada ebook montreal
JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
Tags: javascript oreilly softcover development web
Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography
by David Levi Strauss
Tags: photography essays criticism art
The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
by Jeff Goins
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Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act
by Dan Rubinstein
Tags: culture ebook philosophy walking
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tags: british softcover mystery adventure
Magna Carta
by David Arscott Carpenter
Tags: to-read government historical softcover history politics
Principles To Live By
by David Adams Richards
Tags: to-read atlanticcanada newbrunswick canada maritimes miramachi fiction canadian
Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
by Ethan Marcotte
Tags: abookapart design development html layout softcover web
You Don't Know JS: Scope and Closures (You Don't Know JS, #2)
by Kyle Simpson
Tags: development ebook internet javascript oreilly web
You Don't Know JS: Up & Going
by Kyle Simpson
Tags: development ebook internet javascript oreilly technology web
Walking (Annotated)
by Henry David Thoreau
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The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
by Heather O'Neill
Tags: canadian fiction ebook montreal
A Philosophy of Walking
by Frédéric Gros
Tags: walking philosophy ebook
Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness
by Marc Barasch
Tags: hardcover psychology
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
Tags: american fiction humour
River of the Brokenhearted
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian hardcover miramachi newbrunswick
The Friends of Meager Fortune
by David Adams Richards
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From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected By Michael Ondaatje
by Michael Ondaatje
Tags: canadian softcover anthology
The Web Designer's Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad apps with Web Standards
by Kristofer Layon
Tags: softcover web design ios
Fresh & Frugal: Easy and Affordable Recipes for Market-Fresh Local Food
by Craig Flinn
Tags: canadian softcover cooking recipes maritimes atlanticcanada novascotia
Jamie Oliver's Meals in Minutes: A Revolutionary Approach to Cooking Good Food Fast
by Jamie Oliver
Tags: cooking hardcover
The Professional Chef
by Culinary Institute of America
Tags: hardcover cooking cuisine technique gift
JavaScript Web Applications
by Alex MacCaw
Tags: softcover oreilly web design development javascript applications
Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis
by Geoffrey Batchen
Tags: photography essays criticism softcover to-read
This Must Be the Place
by Pieter Hugo
Tags: photography africa hardcover
The Deception of Livvy Higgs
by Donna Morrissey
Tags: hardcover canadian newfoundland fiction halifax to-read
Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images
by Catherine Zuromskis
Tags: hardcover photography criticism to-read
Time Now for the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange
by Stuart McLean
Tags: hardcover canadian shortstories radio cbc fiction
Photography Today
by Mark Durden
Tags: hardcover photography art
The Pale King
by David Foster Wallace
Tags: american hardcover fiction to-read
Kilimanjaro: A Photographic Journey to the Roof of Africa
by Michel Moushabeck
Tags: hardcover africa travelling trekking mountain tanzania photography
The Circle
by Dave Eggers
Tags: fiction hardcover american technology
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)
by Alan Bradley
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Just Enough Research
by Erika Hall
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The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia de Luce, #6.5)
by Alan Bradley
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Firestone and the Warlord
by T. Christian Miller
Tags: africa colonialism war corporate ebook
Here Far Away
by Pentti Sammallahti
Tags: photography hardcover blackandwhite
World Press Photo 2012
by World Press Photo Foundation
Tags: photography anthology world-press photojournalism
Why People Photograph
by Robert Adams
Tags: photography softcover essays
Nights Below Station Street
by David Adams Richards
Tags: softcover canadian fiction maritimes atlanticcanada canada newbrunswick miramachi
Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace
by David Adams Richards
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The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900
by Max Kozloff
Tags: photography hardcover history portraiture
Playing the Inside Out / Le Jeu Des Apparences
by David Adams Richards
Tags: softcover canadian lecture maritimes atlanticcanada canada
Questions Without Answers: The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII
by David Friend
Tags: hardcover photography history worldevents photojournalism anthology
Adaptive Web Design: Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement
by Aaron Gustafson
Tags: softcover web design adaptivedesign ebook
The Elements Of Content Strategy
by Erin Kissane
Tags: softcover web design contentstrategy abookapart ebook
Photographs not taken: A collection of photographers' essays
by Will Steacy
Tags: softcover essays photojournalism photography
Design Is a Job
by Mike Monteiro
Tags: softcover web design abookapart ebook
Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web
by Tim Kadlec
Tags: softcover web design development
Content Strategy for Mobile
by Karen McGrane
Tags: softcover web design abookapart contentstrategy
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce, #6)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: hardcover mystery
Across the Ravaged Land
by Nick Brandt
Tags: hardcover photography africa wildlife
Understanding a Photograph
by John Berger
Tags: hardcover photography essays artists
Mobile First
by Luke Wroblewski
Tags: web design mobile abookapart ebook
Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005
by Phil Baines
Tags: softcover history books design penguin
Sass for Web Designers
by Dan Cederholm
Tags: abookapart web design softcover css
Designing for Emotion
by Aarron Walter
Tags: softcover web design abookapart ebook
The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews
Tags: canadian hardcover fiction
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles
Tags: photography art philosophy
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
Tags: softcover fiction american
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
Tags: hardcover fiction canadian
Paddle Your Own Canoe
by Gary McGuffin
Tags: outdoors adventure how-to hardcover
Photography Changes Everything
by Marvin Heiferman
Tags: softcover essays photography culture
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: hardcover mystery
HTML5 for Web Designers
by Jeremy Keith
Tags: abookapart softcover web design
Comfort Food Cookbook
by Johanna Burkhard
Tags: food how-to canadian softcover
Programming HTML5 Applications
by Zachary Kessin
Tags: softcover oreilly web development applications html5
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design
by Robert Hoekman Jr.
Tags: web design how-to
Masterpieces of Canadian Art from the National Gallery of Canada
by David G. Burnett
Tags: hardcover art canadian
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
Tags: fiction softcover british
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce, #4)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: hardcover mystery
Colville
by David G. Burnett
Tags: paperback art reference biography canadian
Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian fiction hardcover
A Description of the Blazing World
by Michael Murphy
Tags: fiction softcover toronto canadian
Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design
by Khoi Vinh
Tags: softcover web design typography layout
Hand Me Down World
by Lloyd Jones
Tags: fiction hardcover
Sally Mann: The Flesh and the Spirit
by Sally Mann
Tags: photography retrospective american
A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: canadian mystery hardcover
The Nature of Photographs: A Primer
by Stephen Shore
Tags: photography reference
Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web That Works for Everyone
by Todd Parker
Tags: web design softcover development html css
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
Tags: fiction hardcover american future love
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte
Tags: hardcover american design illustrated
The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture
by Terry O'Reilly
Tags: hardcover canadian advertising marketing culture
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce, #2)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: mystery softcover american
Rework
by Jason Fried
Tags: hardcover work technology
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Tags: fiction softcover american
The Darkroom Cookbook
by Steve G. Anchell
Tags: photography darkroom reference softcover
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier
Tags: science hardcover computers technology philosophy
God Is.: My Search for Faith in a Secular World
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian hardcover religion philosophy
Designing with Web Standards
by Jeffrey Zeldman
Tags: web-design softcover philosophy technology
New World Monkeys
by Nancy Mauro
Tags: hardcover fiction american
Vanishing and Other Stories
by Deborah Willis
Tags: fiction canadian shortstories
The Selected Works of T S Spivet
by Reif Larsen
Tags: hardcover american cartography geography travel
It Feels So Good When I Stop
by Joe Pernice
Tags: hardcover american fiction
Buying Cigarettes for the Dog: Stories
by Stuart Ross
Tags: softcover canadian fiction shortstories
Nothing to be Frightened Of
by Julian Barnes
Tags: softcover
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by Alan Bradley
Tags: hardcover mystery
A Taste of Canada: A Culinary Journey
by Rose Murray
Tags: canadian softcover food
Wildlife, Forests, And Forestry: Principles Of Managing Forests For Biological Diversity
by Malcolm L. Hunter Jr.
Tags: hardcover science forestry
Trees in Canada
by John Laird Farrar
Tags: outdoors reference hardcover
Summer Delights: Growing and Cooking Fresh Herbs
by Noel Richardson
Tags: food how-to canadian softcover
The Order of Good Cheer
by Bill Gaston
Tags: hardcover fiction historical canadian
Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
Tags: american fiction softcover gift
Exploring Prince George: A Guide to North Central B.C. Outdoors
by Mike Nash
Tags: outdoors canadian softcover adventure
Welcome Home: Travels In Smalltown Canada
by Stuart McLean
Tags: canadian humour shortstories
The Recipe Encyclopedia: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Cooking
by Whitecap Books
Tags: food softcover how-to
A New Anthology Of Canadian Literature In English
by Donna Bennett
Tags: canadian anthology softcover
PHOTOart: Photography in the 21st Century
by Uta Grosenick
Tags: photography compilation contemporary hardcover
My Remarkable Uncle
by Stephen Leacock
Tags: canadian softcover humour
The Photographer's Master Printing Course (Mitchell Beazley Photography)
by Tim Rudman
Tags: photography how-to softcover
Gargoyles
by Bill Gaston
Tags: shortstories canadian
Arthur and the Grail
by Hubert Lampo
Tags: history british hardcover
20th-Century Poetry & Poetics
by Gary Geddes
Tags: poetry softcover anthology
The Camera
by Ansel Adams
Tags: photography how-to softcover
Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads
by Richard Bertinet
Tags: hardcover food how-to
No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Tags: american softcover shortstories fiction
Alex Colville: Return
by Tom Smart
Tags: art canadian hardcover
The Beatles: A Private View
by Robert Freeman
Tags: photography music hardcover
HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide
by Chuck Musciano
Tags: web design reference softcover
The Bay of Love and Sorrows
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian hardcover
A Field Guide To Animal Tracks
by Olaus Johan Murie
Tags: outdoors reference softcover wildlife
Welsh Teatime Recipes
by A.R. Quinton
Tags: food how-to softcover
The Fire-Dwellers
by Margaret Laurence
Tags: canadian softcover
Some Great Thing
by Colin McAdam
Tags: canadian hardcover
Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod
by Alistair MacLeod
Tags: canadian softcover
The Cure for Death by Lightning
by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Tags: canadian softcover
Eastern Forests (Audubon Society Nature Guide)
by Ann Sutton
Tags: outdoors reference softcover
The Flavours of Canada: A Celebration of the Finest Regional Foods
by Anita Stewart
Tags: food how-to canadian softcover
Typographic Systems of Design: Frameworks for Type Beyond the Grid (Graphic Design Book on Typography Layouts and Fundamentals)
by Kimberly Elam
Tags: design typography reference
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
by Kenneth J. Harvey
Tags: canadian softcover mystery
A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction
by Jack Hodgins
Tags: canadian how-to
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada
by Will Ferguson
Tags: canadian humour hardcover
Mercy Among the Children
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian hardcover
Saints of Big Harbour
by Lynn Coady
Tags: canadian softcover
The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories
by Sinclair Ross
Tags: canadian softcover shortstories
A Boy of Good Breeding
by Miriam Toews
Tags: canadian humour softcover
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
by Stephen Leacock
Tags: canadian humour shortstories softcover
Garden in the Wind
by Gabrielle Roy
Tags: canadian softcover
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
by Jack Hodgins
Tags: canadian softcover
Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
by Stephen Leacock
Tags: canadian humour softcover
The Custodian of Paradise
by Wayne Johnston
Tags: canadian hardcover
The Calligrapher's Bible: 100 Complete Alphabets and How to Draw Them
by David Harris
Tags: how-to art hardcover
The Other Side of the Bridge
by Mary Lawson
Tags: canadian hardcover signed
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tags: american softcover
Summer of My Amazing Luck
by Miriam Toews
Tags: canadian humour softcover
A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
Tags: canadian softcover
Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke
Tags: politics government softcover
Literary Lapses
by Stephen Leacock
Tags: canadian humour shortstories softcover
Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About
by Mil Millington
Tags: british softcover humour
As for Me and My House
by Sinclair Ross
Tags: canadian softcover
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
by Brian Moore
Tags: canadian softcover
Jamie's Kitchen
by Jamie Oliver
Tags: food how-to hardcover
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
by David Adams Richards
Tags: softcover canadian fiction maritimes atlanticcanada canada newbrunswick miramachi
Crust and Crumb: Master Formulas for Serious Bread Bakers
by Peter Reinhart
Tags: food how-to softcover
The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst
Tags: design typography softcover canadian
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Tags: american softcover
Let Me be the One
by Elisabeth Harvor
Tags: canadian softcover
Home from the Vinyl Cafe: A Year of Stories
by Stuart McLean
Tags: canadian humour softcover
Rebar Modern Food Cookbook
by Audrey Alsterberg
Tags: food how-to canadian softcover
A Field Guide to the Ecology of Eastern Forests: North America
by John C. Kricher
Tags: outdoors reference softcover forestry
Road To The Stilt House
by David Adams Richards
Tags: canadian softcover signed
The Cashier
by Gabrielle Roy
Tags: canadian softcover
Hope in the Desperate Hour
by David Adams Richards
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The Lost Highway
by David Adams Richards
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The Coming of Winter
by David Adams Richards
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Lives of Short Duration
by David Adams Richards
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Blood Ties
by David Adams Richards
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Spit Delaney's Island: Selected Stories (New Canadian Library)
by Jack Hodgins
Tags: canadian softcover shortstories
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
Tags: american shortstories softcover
Coke Machine Glow
by Gordon Downie
Tags: canadian poetry softcover
The Photographer's Eye
by John Szarkowski
Tags: photography history softcover
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
by David Gourley
Tags: internet softcover reference
Recollections: Three Decades of Photographs
by Arthur Ollman
Tags: photography art blackandwhite hardcover signed
MTIV Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer
by Hillman Curtis
Tags: design web softcover how-to
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America
by David McWilliams Ludlum
Tags: outdoors reference softcover
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms
by Gary Lincoff
Tags: outdoors reference softcover
Strange Heaven
by Lynn Coady
Tags: canadian softcover
All Times Have Been Modern
by Elisabeth Harvor
Tags: canadian signed hardcover
Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground
by Curt Cloninger
Tags: web design how-to softcover
On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
by Nick Brandt
Tags: photography blackandwhite hardcover adventure
Designing with Web Standards
by Jeffrey Zeldman
Tags: web design how-to
Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design
by Andy Clarke
Tags: web design softcover
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
by Mordecai Richler
Tags: canadian softcover
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
by Eric A. Meyer
Tags: web design how-to reference softcover
A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
by Roger Tory Peterson
Tags: outdoors reference softcover
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan
Tags: web design reference softcover
The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites
by Douglas K. van Duyne
Tags: softcover design web
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
Tags: british fiction softcover
Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction
by John C. Polkinghorne
Tags: softcover science
The Tin Flute
by Gabrielle Roy
Tags: canadian softcover
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
by Seth
Tags: canadian softcover illustrated
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America
by Roger Tory Peterson
Tags: outdoors reference
D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself: A Design Handbook
by Ellen Lupton
Tags: design reference
Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Tags: british softcover drama
The Gourmet Slow Cooker: Simple and Sophisticated Meals from Around the World
by Lynn Alley
Tags: food how-to softcover
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
Tags: canadian fiction softcover romance
The Children of Men
by P.D. James
Tags: british sci-fi softcover
Bulletproof Ajax
by Jeremy Keith
Tags: design web softcover how-to
Why I Hate Canadians
by Will Ferguson
Tags: canadian humour softcover
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis
Tags: psychology softcover
Elliott Erwitt: Snaps
by Murray Sayle
Tags: photography blackandwhite softcover anthology
Web Standards Creativity: Innovations in Web Design with Xhtml, Css, and Dom Scripting
by Cameron Adams
Tags: web design how-to
Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
by Samir Okasha
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
by Heather O'Neill
Tags: canadian softcover
The Art of Looking Sideways
by Alan Fletcher
Tags: hardcover ideas inspiration trivia
Inferno
by James Nachtwey
Tags: photography war photojournalism
Eleanor Rigby
by Douglas Coupland
Tags: canadian hardcover
Jamie's Dinners: The Essential Family Cookbook
by Jamie Oliver
Tags: hardcover food how-to
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Tags: softcover american fiction
You Shall Know Our Velocity!
by Dave Eggers
Tags: american softcover adventure
Souvenir of Canada
by Douglas Coupland
Tags: canadian softcover photography
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
Tags: softcover american
Nine Stories
by J.D. Salinger
Tags: american fiction softcover shortstories gift
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
Tags: british hardcover
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
Tags: british softcover criticism essays culture
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Tags: british mystery softcover
The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web
by Dave Shea
Tags: design softcover web css web-design
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tags: american softcover fiction