Recent Arrivals from Werdz Quality Used Books

Canada: Allan W. Waddy, 2020. Soft cover. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY ALLAN WADDY on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; appears unread; Guilty Knowledge is a real life look into true-crime files investigated by the author, Allan W. Waddy and his wife and business partner Gloria. During their 26 year career as licenced private investigators, they… Read more about this item

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY BRUCE C. DANIELS on title page; INSCRIPTION FROM BRUCE on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to corners; otherwise very minimal wear; The Connecticut Town examines the process by which the local communities of the colony of Connecticut grew from small Puritan villages to the well-developed… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Crown, 2022. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; two very small dot stains on inside edge; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Cain employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir as her previous book "Quiet" to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and how embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of… Read more about this item

Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIPTION FROM JOHN GODDARD on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; This book shows what can happen in Canada when native people try to assert land rights in an area rich in natural resources. If the story were not so well documented, it would be hard… Read more about this item

Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; previous owner's name on ffep; very slight wear to dust jacket at spine; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Using a rich array of archival and quantitative sources, and oral testimony from former students across Canada, Axelrod explores the characteristics and significance of university life… Read more about this item

London, UK: Random House, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS on title page; previous owner made several penned notes about book on title page and facing page; very light wear to upper edge and some light scratches to dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; America, 1959. With two young children she adores, loving parents back… Read more about this item

Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2012. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and "mainstream" societies. In this book, Fujiwara examines the roles of Japanese, Ukrainian, and Scottish… Read more about this item

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017. Soft cover. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY MICHAEL MOLLOY and PETER DUSCHINSKY on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Running on Empty presents gripping first-hand accounts of the government officials tasked with selecting refugees from eight different countries, receiving and matching them with sponsors, and helping churches, civic organizations, and groups… Read more about this item

Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Includes a letter from Victor Carl Friesen; Clean, tight, unmarked; very small dent in the dust jacket at front spine edge; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Contrary to the cold, austere, stoic image many people have of Henry David Thoreau, the author believes that sensuousness accounts… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; previous owner's stamp on half-title page; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; In this book, Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War,… Read more about this item

New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY JACQUELINE WINSPEAR on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; slight wear to upper spine edge of dust jacket; otherwise absolute minimal wear; The Care and Management of Lies paints a poignant picture of love and friendship strained by the pain of separation and… Read more about this item

Canada: Bluebullseye LLC, 2018. Soft cover. Very Good. SIGNED BY ROXI on half title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; single very light crease to spine; otherwise absolute minimal wear; Based on true events from the life of Adam Baumann. Awakening in a makeshift hospital with a shattered left leg, Adam was catapulted into a series of captures and narrow… Read more about this item

Canada: Coach House Books, 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Playful, innovative and subversive, The Blue Books collects Brossard's first three novels, written in the early 70s and in their original English translations, making available once again these groundbreaking works of Canadian feminism and postmodernism. Includes: A Book - A novel… Read more about this item

Ocean Shores, WA: Veronika Press, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. SIGNED BY RONI BISSETT on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to upper back corner at spine; small crease to upper front edge of cover; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; appears unread; (A light-hearted common-sense approach to daily living) "Roni Bissett has condensed years of experience and wisdom… Read more about this item

Saskatoon, SK: Purich Publishing, 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. Presentation plate and inscription from Grand Chief Ron Evans on ffep; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; This collection of essays examines the creation of four urban reserves, two of which were created amidst considerable acrimony and two of which were created in political harmony between… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2013. Soft cover. As New. As New; Poems for All the Annettes stands as one of the essential documents of the great Al Purdy's career. So many beloved poems are here - "At Roblin Lake," "At the Quinte Hotel" - but also so many undiscovered treasures. It is at once the perfect… Read more about this item

Winnipeg, MB: Sunnyhills Press, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. INSCRIPTION FROM DONN on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Contained herein are historically significant observations and tales from the Saskatchewan back roads as viewed by an adolescent who keeps his ear to the ground, his eye on the sky, and his nose into the wind.… Read more about this item

Winnipeg, MB: Turnstone Press, 2020. Soft cover. As New. As New; In poems that contemplate human experience, Sarah Klassen charts the paths we travel in search of the tree of life. This quest for the nexus of spiritual fulfilment takes readers from the steps of ruined cities to perilous migrations, school playgrounds, and into dream. It laments injustice,… Read more about this item

Saint-Boniface, MB: Plaines, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. INSCRIPTION FROM LARENT POLIQUIN on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Le poeme se marche la vie en poche. Volute velours offre sa monnaie échange amoureux a la beauté gravée dans les ruines de moments pléniers. Des parcelles d'instant quie vous ouvrent leur porte et qui… Read more about this item

New York, NY: New Page Books, 2010. Soft cover. Near Fine. INCLUDES UNOPENED CD; Clean, tight, unmarked; bookstore stamp on ffep; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Have you been told that Nostradamus, the famous 16th century "Prophet of Provence," was some kind of mystical magician or doctor skilled in astrology? If so Peter Lemesurier's revelation that he… Read more about this item