| August 30, 2011 |
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Easy Writer 4th edition: A High School Reference
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Easy Writer 4th edition: A High School reference is sow in stock. This book is for TanenbaumCHAT Wallenberg Campus grades 9 and 10. It costs $31.95.
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| August 21, 2011 |
| Extended Hours |
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We will have extended hours for the week of August 22nd:
Monday 10am - 7pm
Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 7pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm
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| August 13, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
North Toronto Christian School (formerly Yorkland School)
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bais Chomesh High School
Bayview Glen
Bnos Bais Yaakov
Branksome Hall
City Academy
Country Day School
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bathurst Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
TanenbaumCHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
TanenbaumCHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Toronto Montessori School
Toronto Prep School
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Upper Canada College
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| August 11, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Bnos Bais Yaakov
Toronto Montessori School
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bais Chomesh High School
Bayview Glen
Branksome Hall
City Academy
Country Day School
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Toronto Prep School
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Upper Canada College
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| August 10, 2011 |
| Bookclubs |
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Critics' Choice (Elaine Newton)
-Major Pettigrew's Last Stan
-The Paris Wife
-The Tiger's Wife
Heather Cassel Book Club
-The Imperfectionists
-The Beauty of Humanity Movement
-The Free World
-The Tiger's Wife
Living Literature (Cathy Tile)
-Room
-The Gift of Rain
-Great House
-The Paris Wife
-The Tiger's Wife
The Crimson Reading Series (Bookclub-in-a-box, Marilyn Herbert)
-The Beauty of Humanity Movement
-Nikolski
-Great House
-To The End of The Land
-The Finkler Question
-Being Polite to Hitler
Treasures in Jewish Literature (Prosserman Centre)
-The Girl from Foreign
-The Finkler Question
-A Thread of Grace
-36 Arguments for the Existence of God
-Great House
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| August 7, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Toronto Prep School
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bais Chomesh High School
Bayview Glen
Branksome Hall
City Academy
Country Day School
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Upper Canada College
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| August 6, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Upper Canada College
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bais Chomesh High School
Bayview Glen
Branksome Hall
City Academy
Country Day School
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| August 5, 2011 |
| Bookclubs |
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We have the books for the following 2011-2012 book clubs:
Critics' Choice (Elaine Newton)
Heather Cassel Book Club
Living Literature (Cathy Tile)
The Crimson Reading Series (Bookclub-in-a-box, Marilyn Herbert)
Treasures in Jewish Literature (Prosserman Centre)
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| August 5, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
City Academy
Country Day School
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bais Chomesh High School
Bayview Glen
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| July 25, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Bais Chomesh High School
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Bayview Glen
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| July 16, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
| We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Bayview Glen
Metropolitan Preparatory Academy
Robbins Hebrew Academy Bayview Campus (Formerly USDS)
Yeshivat Or Chaim (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Ulpanot Orot (Bnei Akiva Schools)
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
Havergal College
Hawthorn School
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
St. Thomas of Villanova
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| July 8, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Havergal College
De La Salle College 'Oaklands'
St. Thomas of Villanova
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
Hawthorn School
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| July 7, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Tiferes Bais Yaakov
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
Hawthorn School
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| July 7, 2011 |
| Bookclubs |
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We have the books for the following 2011-2012 book clubs:
Heather Cassel Book Club
Living Literature (Cathy Tile)
Treasures in Jewish Literature (Prosserman Centre)
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| July 5, 2011 |
| Bookclubs |
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We have the books for the following 2011-2012 book clubs:
Living Literature (Cathy Tile)
Treasures in Jewish Literature (Prosserman Centre)
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| June 28, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Ner Israel Yeshiva
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Branksome Hall
Crestwood Preparatory College
Hawthorn School
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
St. Clements School
St. Michael's College School
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| June 26, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Associated Hebrew Day Schools
Branksome Hall
Hawthorn School
St. Michael's College School
Crestwood Preparatory College
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
St. Clements School
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| June 21, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
St Clements School
Crestwood Preparatory College
Northmount School
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| June 19, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Crestwood Preparatory College
Or Haemet Sephardic School
Peoples Christian Academy
Tanenbaum CHAT - Kimel Centre (CHAR)
Tanenbaum CHAT - Wallenberg Campus (CHAT)
Northmount School
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| June 12, 2011 |
| 2011-2012 School Booklists |
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We have the 2011-2012 textbook lists for the following schools:
Northmount School
Town Centre Private High School (TCMPH)
Please contact us for information or to reserve used textbooks.
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| April 11, 2011 |
| New in Paperback |
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The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
- 1962, Jackson Mississippi. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny is a black maid with a sharp tongue who can't hold on to a job. Skeeter is a white woman starting to figure out that the world may not be as civilized a place as the had thought.
The Long Road, by Andrea Levy
- The author of Small Island is back with a story of slavery in Jamaica. Well, plotted, beautifully written, with Levy's characteristic sense of humour.
Under Heaven, by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Gavriel Kay's latest, set in 8th century China, is an epic tale of honour, love, and war. Kay's characters are magnificently crafted and his attention to detail, as always, carries the day.
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| January 23, 2011 |
| Second Semester Booklists |
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We have the second semester books for:
Metropolitan Preperatory Academy
Toronto Preperatory Academy
Town Centre Montessori Private High-School
We also have the semestered booklists for:
Blyth Academy
City Academy
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| January 4, 2011 |
| My Favourite adult fiction book of 2010 - Room, by Emma Donoghue |
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Emma Donogue says that she took her inspiration for Room from the horrific story of
Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman whose father kept her imprisoned in his basement for 24 years. Whatever the book's impetus, Donoghue has managed to create a story that is realistic, powerful, and disturbing.
The story is told from the point-of-view of Jack, a 5-year old boy who was born in an 11 x 11 foot room, the son of his captive mother and her abductor. Jack has never left Room and his entire life, his every perception, is defined by what can be shaped and attained in it's space. I don't want to write a spoiler so I will only say that the book can be divided into two parts: Jack's life within Room and his life after he has managed to escape.
The first part of the book, inside of Room, is very cleverly conceived. Ma (as Jack refers to his mother) has had to be creative in her explanations of the world. Jack perceives everything within Room as being real and everything else as being TV, or made up. The pages spent exploring the way Jack thinks are unceasingly fascinating. Every minute aspect of life, and there is no concept too large or too small to escape this truth, is defined by the space in which Jack lives. He has no frame of reference for travelling more than 11 feet in any direction. When something leaves Room - toilet waste, for example - he has no way of understanding where it has gone. Ma explains that toilet waste is carried through pipes to the sea, but the sea is an abstract concept. For that matter, so are pipes. Jack, having never met a human being other than his mother and his captor, has no way of distinguishing the reality of a TV newscaster from that of Dora the Explorer.
The second part of the book deals with what happens after Jack and his mother have escaped from Room. Jack's mother has every reason to want to escape. Her view of the world encompasses so much more than what is inside Room. Jack, however, has never known anything different. What Ma, and we as readers, find disturbing is just life for Jack. It's the only truth he's ever known. When Jack leaves Room he is forced to come to terms with the world on a scope he has a hard time comprehending. His eyes don't work properly, nor do his legs. He has no basis for normal interaction with the people he meets and, far worse, they have no basis for understanding him.
Room is well written and well conceived. It is believable and disturbing. You won't be comfortable with everything you read, but I think that's part of what makes this book so good.
Honourable mention: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
Honourable mention: Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Honourable mention: Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
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| January 2, 2011 |
| My favourite young adult book of 2010 - Mockingjay: book 3 of The Hunger Games. |
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Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games trilogy is brought to a riveting conclusion in Mockingjay. What began as a promising sci-fi adventure in book 1 (The Hunger Games), and developed into a thought-provoking dystopia in book 2 (Catching Fire), has blossomed into a exhilarating tale of morality and what it means
to be human in book 3 (Mockingjay.) All the while maintaining the pace and excitement of a good adventure
story.
The concept of a futuristic dystopia is hardly new, nor is the idea of taking a regular average person and testing her with extraordinary pressures and circumstances. What sets this book apart is the detail and consistency of the world Collins has envisioned, and the depth and passion of her characters. The events and circumstances faced by the characters in Mockingjay systematically wear them down, both physically and mentally. The heroes are pushed harder and harder until the only options are to succeed or to be shattered completely.
The world of Mockingjay is completely believable. More importantly, so are the characters. Add an unrelenting array of moral issues and the result is a truly memorable book.
Honourable mention: Clockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare
Honourable mention: Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld.
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