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  • A Bad Girl's Book of Animals

    by Wong May ...
    Wong May’s poems are concerned with the ultimate loneliness, the inarticulateness and the inability to communicate fully that are the marks of human life. “My poems,” says Wong May, “are about wordlessness rather than words. I feel that we must recognize our ultimate wordlessness.”What is most impressive about Wong May’s poems is her mastery of the implicit, her marvelously effective elliptical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Cowherd in Paradise

    One Family's Struggle Against Canada's Chinese Exclusion Laws

    by May Q. Wong ...
    “Wong's description of the enforced polarization of one nuclear family, set asunder by a Canadian law excluding ethnic Chinese immigrants—no matter if they are wife, daughter, or son—should be required reading for anyone who cares about citizenship and human rights.” —Jan Wong, author of Red China BluesIn 1979, Wong Guey Dang and Jiang Tew Thloo celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • A Cowherd in Paradise

    From China to Canada

    by May Q. Wong ...
    In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family.The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • City in Colour

    Rediscovered Stories of Victoria's Multicultural Past

    by May Q. Wong ...
    A timely, intriguing collection of the overlooked stories of Victoria’s pioneers, trailblazers, and community builders who were also diverse people of colour.Often described as “more English than the English,” the city of Victoria has a much more ethnically diverse background than historical record and current literature reveal. Significant contributions were made by many people of colour with ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Hong Kong English

    Exploring Lexicogrammar and Discourse from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective

    by May Wong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of ‘Hong Kong English’. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track the ways in which the English language in Hong Kong has been adapted by its users. She also analyses the emergence of new forms ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Multimodal Communication

    A social semiotic approach to text and image in print and digital media

    by May Wong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of the different social functions realised by these texts as semiotic artefacts. Framed within the media environment of the city of Hong Kong, the study demonstrates the importance of social context to meaning making and social semiotic multimodal ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • Everything Rustles

    by Jane Silcott ...
    Finalist, Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Winner, CNFC Readers' Choice Award for "Threshold"In this debut collection of personal essays, Silcott looks at the tangle of midlife, the long look back, the shorter look forward, and the moments right now that shimmer and rustle around her. Here is love, grief, uncertainty, longing, joy, desire, fury, and fear. Also wandering bears, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Pilgrimage

    by Diana Davidson ...
    Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis and missionary settlement of Lac St. Anne, Canada. A young woman of mixed-blood named Mahkesîs is carrying the child of the married Englishman who manages the Hudson Bay Company trading post. She is forced to reveal her devastating secret to her Cree grandmother. As an unmarried Catholic girl, Mahkesîs waits for a miracle in the very place ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

    A Home Child Story

    by Mary Pettit ...
    Sixteen-year-old Mary Janeway, a home child, is desperate to escape from her rural home child placement and flees to London, Ontario, to find a domestic position. When conditions become unbearable, she moves on, vowing never to relinquish her freedom again.After she arrives in Hamilton as a young bride, she quickly adapts to the urban conveniences and the marvels of new inventions that include ... Read more

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  • No Pain Like This Body

    by Harold Sonny Ladoo ...
    Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Peony: A Novel of China

    A Novel of China

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning author’s perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century ChinaIn 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth century, assimilation has begun taking its toll on their small enclave. When Peony and the family’s son, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory Wall

    Stories

    by Anthony Doerr ...
    In the wise and beautiful second collection of literary short stories from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize–winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review).Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new ... Read more

    $14.99 USD