Author: John Mighton
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: potential, human, multiplying, ignorance
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-04-20
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0676979629
ISBN-13: 9780676979626

A revolutionary call for a new understanding of how people learn.The End of Ignorance conceives of a world in which no child is left behind – a world based on the assumption that each child has the potential to be successful in every subject. John Mighton argues that by recognizing the barriers that we have experienced in our own educational development, by identifying the moment that we became disenchanted with a certain subject and forever closed ourselves off to it, we will be able to eliminate these same barriers from standing in the way of our children. A passionate examination of our p

Author: Lori Lansens
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: girls
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676977960
ISBN-13: 9780676977967

Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: statement
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0394281993
ISBN-13: 9780394281995

Author: Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: widow, story
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0307397181
ISBN-13: 9780307397188

“One day when she looked at the portrait, she considered how blessed she had been in life. She contemplated her good fortune in finding an upright man like Akbar Ahmad as her life partner and felt grateful for his bounteous legacy, which released her from all financial cares. Akbar Ahmad looked back at her, his face cast in an expression of long suffering. Mona’s eyes welled up with tears.”–from The Story of a WidowAfter the death of her husband Akbar Ahmad, Mona finds herself settling ambivalently into a new life. But the calm rhythm of her days–gardening, cooking, time with her nei

Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: reserve
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-02-12
List price: $30.81
ISBN-10: 0676979726
ISBN-13: 9780676979725

In this compelling novel – a cross between Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Aviator – the acclaimed modern master takes us to riveting new territory.Part love story, part murder mystery, Russell Banks’s The Reserve is as gripping as it is beautifully written, set in a pre-WWII world of class, politics, art, love and madness.Vanessa Cole is a stunningly beautiful and wild heiress, her parents’ adopted only daughter. Twice-married, she has been scandalously linked to rich and famous men. On the night of July 4, 1936, inside the Cole family’s remote Adirondack Mountain enclave, known a

Author: Joan Barfoot
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: lines, exit
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 030739705X
ISBN-13: 9780307397058

The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any reader who has had occasion to visit such a place — or to live in one. Running the show (or so she thinks) is priggish administrator Annabelle Walker, charged with keeping the residents happy, or at least as happy as is required to k

Author: John Vaillant
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Keywords: madness, greed, myth, story, spruce, true, golden
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0676976468
ISBN-13: 9780676976465