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Product Description: A collection of quotations from Canadaâs greatest literary theorist. "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say ⦠that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of a circumference." Northrop Frye came to that conclusion after a detailed study of the imaginative achievements of Canadaâs writers from the earliest period to 1965, when that sentence from his study first appeared in print...read more
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9781459719583 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, April 8, 2014, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: A collection of quotations from Canadaâs greatest literary theorist.
Product Description: Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable. All of them have been reported to John Robert Colombo, Canadaâs Master Gatherer of the Arcane, by men and women from various parts of the country, and theyâre published here in the words of the informants themselves, the witnesses to these wonders...read more
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9781554889761 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 27, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal.
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9781554889235 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, June 27, 2011, cover price $19.99
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9781554884490, titled "The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings" | Dundurn Pr Ltd, August 30, 2009, cover price $29.99
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9781550028447, titled "The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories" | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 30, 2008, cover price $29.99
Product Description: This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them. Are there ghosts here? Yes. Are there strange coincidences here? Yes. Are there strange creatures of the forest here? Yes...read more
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9781550027358 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 30, 2007, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: This is a chilling collection of 50 accounts of truly unusual events and experiences that are told by the people who experienced them.
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9781552466124 | Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, August 30, 2006, cover price $125.00
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9781550025767 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 30, 2005, cover price $22.99
Product Description: Q: What do they call a witty man in Canada? A: A tourist. Master anthologist John Robert Colombo continues his collecting of comedic Canadiana with this companion volume to the popular The Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes. Colombo sees the funny side of everything Canadianâour culture, our politics and even our beloved hockey...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780143014904 | Penguin Group Canada, December 30, 2004, cover price $11.50 | About this edition: Q: What do they call a witty man in Canada?
Product Description: When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing â or sensing â the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have you ever had a premonition that some odd event would occur, and then witnessed it actually occurring? Did you ever experience a sense of déjà vu or a moment of pure bliss? Extraordinary Experiences: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada is a collection of over seventy short yet curiously gripping accounts of experiences and events that may be regarded as abnormal or paranormal...read more
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9780888821089 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, October 25, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: When did you last have a psychic experience?
Product Description: A recent poll conducted by Ipsos Reid for the Comedy Network showed that 99 per cent of Canadians believe laughter is good for the health. That only confirms what we suspected all along - The Penguin Book of Jokes is the ultimate feel-good book of the year! There has long been a rumour going around that Canadians aren't funny...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780141006635 | Penguin Global, September 30, 2004, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A recent poll conducted by Ipsos Reid for the Comedy Network showed that 99 per cent of Canadians believe laughter is good for the health.
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9781550024968 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, March 18, 2004, cover price $19.99
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9780888822321 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, June 1, 2001, cover price $22.99
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9780888822222 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $12.99
Product Description: We can’t escape them; aliens are everywhere. They sell us soft drinks and star in their own sitcoms. But to the many people who believe they have been abducted aboard strange crafts, aliens are a very serious reality. Stories of these encounters, taken from investigators’ files, have been vividly depicted in television specials and motion pictures...read more
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9780888822109 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, August 1, 1999, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: We can’t escape them; aliens are everywhere.
Product Description: Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province. It turns out that, far from being a humdrum part of the planet in which to live and work, Ontario is a province that is alive with ghosts and spirits, mysterious disappearances, and peculiar happenings enough to make your hair stand on end, turn your blood cold, and send shivers up and down your spine! John Robert Colombo has been collecting materials for this book since 1967...read more
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9780888822055 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, May 1, 1999, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Mysteries of Ontario brings together, for the first time, some five hundred accounts of strange events and eerie experiences, each keyed to one of 250 places in the province.
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9780771576164 | Macmillan of Canada, November 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Book by
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9780762400478 | Running Pr Book Pub, February 1, 1998, cover price $4.95
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9780771574214 | Macmillan of Canada, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.95
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9780771573880 | Macmillan of Canada, November 1, 1996, cover price $16.95
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9780888821850 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, May 1, 1996, cover price $18.99
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9780771573644 | Macmillan of Canada, April 1, 1996, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Here is a book to thrill and chill you! It brings together sixty-nine stories of haunted houses, ghosts, poltergeists, apparitions, and other eerie events and experiences. What is amazing is that all the stories are true - they actually happened - and they happened in Ontario! Did Sir John A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780888821768 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, May 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Here is a book to thrill and chill you!
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9780771590153 | Macmillan of Canada, March 1, 1995, cover price $14.95
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9780771590207 | Macmillan of Canada, November 1, 1993, cover price $14.95
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