Search Results: Titles starting with F from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

In Fables, which 'stands on a higher level of literary achievement...that almost attains to poetry,' the author demonstrated his mastery of a form of social criticism and satire that dates back to Aesop.

A collection of four stories: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; The Time I Heard The Private Donald J Rainkin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton; Manners of Dying; The Mirror Machine. 232 pages.

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In this book, the author intersperses tales of his own intriguing fairy encounters [among them, a mysterious musical interlude in an Irish valley ] with succinct yet interesting introductions to fairy lore. 134 pages.

This volume is the first book-length, i-dept study of contemporary Canadian art photography, it examines the work of morth 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. The author argues that Canadian photographers exhibit an ambivalent preoccupation with gruesome subjects such as death, bondage, and entrapment, as well as a fascination with 'elsewhere' and duality, subverting the documentary tradition and other stylistic idioms for their own distinctive and often transcendent ends. Notes, Bibliography, Photographic Works, Index, 324 pages.

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'Far from home offers an intimate glimpse into lives of three families on the Oregon,Colorado, New Mexico, and North Dakota frontiers. That intimacy shatters any lingering nostalgia for the frontier as a landscape of assured economic success or family stability. This is a stunning contribution both to family history and to the history of the United States frontiers.'\ - Annette Kolodny, author of The Lay of the land and The Land Before Her, and dean of humanities, University of Arizona

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A magnificent and tender tale of love and war on the Italian front in WWI, this novel is among the most enduring works of fiction produced in this century.

A magnificent and tender tale of love and war on the Italian front in WWI, this novel is among the most enduring works of fiction produced in this century.

Vintage penguin. Jannat Houston cover

This book is like having one-on-one lessons with an experienced chef in your own kitchen. Step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions will guide you through each recipe, from organizing the ingredients to the final flourish of the finished dish. Index, 224 pages.

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First published anonymously in 1907, this book was an immediately acclaimed for its courage in flouting the conventions of Victorian autobiography and is still a moving account of self-discovery. Edited with an introduction by Peter Abbs.270 pages.

Narrated by four children from different generations of the same family, this is a tale of a present haunted by the past. From California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, its stories unwind back through the years until, reaching WWII, the devastating secret at the heart of the family's history is finally revealed.

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. All 84 men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cl, drowns.

Worn reading copy. Fontana Books. 859. More photos on request.

The author set out across Turkey, in the extremes of winter, to 'trace the astonishing history of a cone-shaped hat. He soon saw the fez as the key by which Turkey, beset by contradictions, might be understood. 296 pages.

At a moment of rising geopolitical chaos, the imperative of mutual understanding between nations and faith communities has never been more urgent, the danger of action based on min-understanding never great. Informed by Armstrong's sweeping erudition and personal commitment to promotion of compassion, this book makes vividly clear that religion is not the problem.